HYBRID ECOLOGIES IN THE NEWS

• Bantam Tools
  Kevin Tian appears in Bantam Tools PR material talking MyPart air quality sensor.
  Bantam Tools introduces their latest Desktop PCB Milling Machine
• Crowdflower
  Hybrid Ecologies member Sarah Sterman wins CrowdFlower’s AI for Everyone Challenge
  The LiterAIry project receives $25,000 to crowdsource human judgments of style in literature, in order to train machine learning models that can understand and help visualize written style.
• Forbes
  Adobe Looks To The Future With AI And Maker Programs For Everyone
  Adobe is looking to the future with maker design programs and AI. Meet Ellustrate, the brain child of Mira Dontcheva, an Adobe programs in development that is like an electrical engineer and illustrator in one.
• Microsoft Research Blog
  Hybrid Ecologies member Cesar Torres is awarded a Microsoft Research Dissertation Grant for his thesis work on hybrid aesthetics.
  The Microsoft Research Dissertation Grant program offers financial support to selected doctoral students from groups that are under-represented in the field of computing in the form of grants to complete their dissertations.
• Hybrid Ecologies
  Tomás Vega Galvez wins Lemelson-MIT Prize!
  Hybrid Ecologies member Tomás Vega Galvez wins the Lemelson-MIT Prize for WheelSense, an open-source smart add-on system for wheelchairs!
• Othermachine Blog
  Build a Portable, Low Cost, Open Source Air Particle Counter
  UC Berkeley student builds a low-cost, open source air particle counter for less than $100.
• Hackaday
  A Portable, Accurate, Low-Cost, Open Source Air Particle Counter
  If you live in a city with poor air quality you may be aware that particulates are one of the chief contributors to the problem. Tiny particles of soot from combustion, less than 10μm across, hence commonly referred to as PM10. These are hazardous because they can accumulate deep in the lungs, wherein all kinds of nasties can be caused.
• Adafruit Industries
  How to Make a Powerful Air Quality Wearable #WearableWednesday #Wearabletech #CitizenScience
  As part of my exciting tech life, I was helping my hackerspace with a grant the other night and suggested doing a wearable air quality sensor workshop to tie in with city data. Well, don’t yo…
• Make: DIY Projects and Ideas for Makers
  Light Up Your Body with Temporary Tattoo Circuits
  With conductive ink, electroluminescent panels, LEDS, and more, temporary tattoos get an electrifying upgrade.
• East Bay Express
  Living Room Light Exchange Salon Series: Where Tech and Art Converge
  At the latest Living Room Light Exchange, some forty intellectual types sat on a sprawling rug inside an artist's live-work space in West Oakland. The...

EVENTS

New work to appear in ACM DIS2018

ACM CHI2018

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  MatchSticks: Woodworking through Improvisational Digital Fabrication . Rundong Tian, Sarah Sterman, Jeremy Warner, Ethan Chiou, and Eric Paulos . In Proceedings of CHI 2018.
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  AlterWear: Battery-Free Wearable Displays for Opportunistic Interactions . Christine Dierk, Molly Nicholas, and Eric Paulos . In Proceedings of CHI 2018.
  
  
  

ACM TEI 2018

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  HäirIÖ: Human Hair as Interactive Material . Christine Dierk, Sarah Sterman, Molly Nicholas, and Eric Paulos . In Proceedings of TEI 2018.
  
  
  

ACM CHI 2017 • 2 Papers • BEST PAPER AWARD

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  Illumination Aesthetics: Light as a Creative Material within Computational Design . Cesar Torres, Jasper OLeary, Molly Nicholas, and Eric Paulos . In Proceedings of CHI 2017.
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  AlterNail: Ambient, Batteryless, Stateful, Dynamic Displays at your Fingertips . Christine Dierk, Tomás Vega Galvez, and Eric Paulos . In Proceedings of CHI 2017.
  
  
  

HCOMP 2016

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  Crowdclass: Designing classification-based citizen science learning modules . Doris Lee, Joanne Lo, Moonhyok Kim, and Eric Paulos . In Proceedings of HCOMP 2016.
  
  
  

ACM UIST 2016

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  Aesthetic Electronics: Designing, Sketching, and Fabricating Circuits through Digital Exploration . Joanne Lo, Cesar Torres, Isabel Yang, Jasper OLeary, Mira Dontcheva, Wilmot Li, Danny Kaufman, and Eric Paulos . In Proceedings of UIST 2016.
  
  
  

ACM DIS 2016 • 3 Papers • TWO BEST PAPER NOMINATION AWARDS

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  ProxyPrint: Supporting Crafting Practice through Physical Computational Proxies . Cesar Torres, Wilmot Li, and Eric Paulos . In Proceedings of DIS 2016.
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  Skintillates: Designing and Creating Epidermal Interactions . Joanne Lo, Doris Lee, David Bui, and Eric Paulos . In Proceedings of DIS 2016.
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  Biosignals as Social Cues: Ambiguity and emotional interpretation in social displays of skin conductance . Noura Howell, Laura Devendorf, Rundong Tian, Tomás Vega Galvez, Nan-Wei Gong, Ivan Poupyrev, Eric Paulos, and Kimiko Ryokai . In Proceedings of DIS 2016.
  
  
  

ACM DIS 2016 • 2 Demos

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  LiveObjects: Leveraging Theatricality for an Expressive Internet of Things . Cesar Torres, Jasper OLeary, and Eric Paulos . In Proceedings of DIS Companion 2016.
  
  
  
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  Skintillates: Designing and Creating Epidermal Interactions . Joanne Lo, Doris Lee, David Bui, and Eric Paulos . In Proceedings of DIS 2016.
  
  
  

ACM SIGCHI 2016 • 2 Papers • ONE BEST PAPER AWARD

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  I Don’t Want to Wear a Screen: Probing Perceptions of and Possibilities for Dynamic Displays on Clothing . Laura Devendorf, Joanne Lo, Noura Howell, Doris Lee, Nan-Wei Gong, Mustafa Karagozler, Shiho Fukuhara, Ivan Poupyrev, Eric Paulos, and Kimiko Ryokai . In Proceedings of CHI 2016.
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  MyPart: Personal, Portable, Accurate Airborne Particle Counting . Rundong Tian, Sarah Sterman, Ethan Chiou, Christine Dierk, Chris Myers, and Eric Paulos . In Proceedings of CHI 2016.