Section: Highlights of the Year

Highlights of the Year

Awards

Michel Beaudouin-Lafon received the ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Service Award, which “goes to individuals who have contributed to the growth and success of SIGCHI in a variety of capacities. This award is for extended services to the community at large over a number of years” (http://www.sigchi.org/about/awards/2015-sigchi-awards ).

Jérémie Garcia received the “Prix Jeune Chercheur Science et Musique”, a best thesis award organized by IRISA (Rennes) and sponsored by the Association Française d'Informatique Musicale for his thesis “”Le papier interactif pour la composition musicale”, supervised by Wendy Mackay, Theophannis Tsandilas and Carlos Agon (IRCAM) (http://jsm.irisa.fr/index.php/prix-jc .

Nolwenn Maudet received the “Prix Spécial du Jury du premier concours EDUCNUM Opération Vie privée”, organized by CNIL (national commission for informatics and freedom), for her project Data Fiction with Thomas Thibault. This online game is designed to help teenagers better understand how their personal data can be exposed online and how to protect it.

ExSitu received three paper awards. One paper, Webstrates [18] received a best paper award at UIST 2015. Two other papers, Color Portraits [17] and SketchSliders [20] , received Honorable Mention awards at CHI 2015 (at most 5% of CHI submissions receive an Honorable Mention).

Best Paper Award:

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