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PhD student James Spann wins Best Paper Award at the 2021 ACM Spatial User Interaction (SUI) conference

November 11, 2021

spann_jamesSecond-year URCS PhD student, James Spann, and collaborators from Carnegie Mellon University (Vivian Shen and Prof. Chris Harrison) win the Best Paper Award at the 2021 ACM Spatial User Interaction (SUI) conference for their paper, FarOut Touch: Extending the Range of ad hoc Touch Sensing with Depth Cameras, which focuses on extending the sensing range of current state of the art touch-sensing devices.  

Congratulations, James, for building collaborations and achieving excellence, while also taking courses and fulfilling RA/TA responsibilities.  

A video teaser of what the project is about: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsxHwRtwPJo