Awards
UbiComp (and Pervasive) have collectively offered three different categories of awards over the years:
- Outstanding Student Award, awarded to an outstanding student researcher, dedicated in honor of the late Gaetano Borriello (formerly the Best Student Paper award)
- 10-year Impact Awards, recognizing the impact of work published at UbiComp and Pervasive
- Best Paper Awards were awarded from 2007 to 2016, with a switch to the process of awarding being handed to IMWUT starting in 2017 as Distinguished Paper Awards
Awards are decided upon by committees consisting of Steering Committee members and other members recruited by the awards committee chairs. Conflicts of interest are handled by having conflicted members not participate in reviewing conflicted papers or students and in the final decisions of awards.
UbiComp 2021
10-year Impact Awards for 2021
- PreHeat: Controlling Home Heating Using Occupancy Prediction
by James Scott, A.J. Bernheim Brush, John Krumm, Brian Meyers, Michael Hazas, Stephen Hodges, and Nicolas Villar. - Understanding My Data, Myself: Supporting Self-reflection with Ubicomp Technologies
by Ian Li, Anind K. Dey, and Jodi Forlizzi.
Award selection committee: Rajesh Balan (chair), Sarah Clinch, Chandra Narayanaswam, Yvonne Rogers, Yuanchun Shi, Koji Yatanii
10-year Impact Awards for 2020
- EmotionSense: a Mobile Phones Based Adaptive Platform for Experimental Social Psychology Research
by Kiran K. Rachuri, Mirco Musolesi, Cecilia Mascolo, Peter J. Rentfrow, Chris Longworth, and Andrius Aucinas.
Award selection committee: Rajesh Balan (chair), Sarah Clinch, Chandra Narayanaswam, Yvonne Rogers, Yuanchun Shi, Koji Yatanii
Gaetano Borriello Outstanding Student Award
Award selection committee: Koji Yatani (chair), Cecilia Mascolo, Nadir Weibel, Flora Salim, Robert Harle
- Winner: Nivedita Arora, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Finalists: Shkurta Gashi, Hyeokhyen Kwon
UbiComp 2020
10-year Impact Awards
We decided to postpone the process due to the impact by COVID-19, and will run the selection process for UbiComp 2021
Gaetano Borriello Outstanding Student Award
Award selection committee: Cecilia Mascolo (chair), Tanzeem Choudhury, Robert Harle, Youngki Lee and Koji Yatani
- Winner: Haojian Jin, Carnegie Mellon University
- Finalists: Woohyeok Choi, Bashima Islam, and Vikram Iyer
UbiComp 2019
10-year Impact Awards
Award selection committee: Gregory Abowd (chair), Rajesh Balan, AJ Brush, Andreas Bulling, Adrian Friday, and Judy Kay
- Ubicomp 10 Year Impact Award
- SwimMaster: a wearable assistant for swimmer
by Marc Bächlin, Kilian Förster, and Gerhard Tröster - Recognizing daily activities with RFID-based sensors
by Michael Buettner, Richa Prasad, Matthai Philipose, and David Wetherall
- SwimMaster: a wearable assistant for swimmer
- Pervasive 10 Year Impact Award
- Adding GPS-Control to Traditional Thermostats: An Exploration of Potential Energy Savings and Design Challenges
by Manu Gupta, Stephen S. Intille, and Kent Larson
- Adding GPS-Control to Traditional Thermostats: An Exploration of Potential Energy Savings and Design Challenges
Gaetano Borriello Outstanding Student Award
Award selection committee: Julie Kientz (chair), Judy Kay, Cecilia Mascolo, Kenji Mase, James Scott, and Koji Yatani
- Winner: Zhanna Sarsenbayeva, University of Melbourne
- Finalists: Kasthuri Jayarajah, Akhil Mathur, Koya Narumi, and Julian Steil
UbiComp 2018
10-year Impact Awards
- UbiComp 2008
Flowers or a Robot Army? Encouraging Awareness & Activity with Personal, Mobile Displays
Sunny Consolvo, Predrag Klasnja, David W. McDonald, Daniel Avrahami, Jon Froehlich, Louis LeGrand, Ryan Libby, Keith Mosher, James A. Landay - UbiComp 2008
Pedestrian Localisation for Indoor Environments
Oliver Woodman, Robert Harle - Pervasive 2008
Detecting Human Movement by Differential Air Pressure Sensing in HVAC System Ductwork: An Exploration in Infrastructure Mediated Sensing
Shwetak Patel, Matt Reynolds, Gregory Abowd
Gaetano Borriello Outstanding Student Award
- Winner: Alex Mariakakis, University of Washington
- Finalists: Yomna Abdelrahman, Jean Costa, Rúben Gouveia, and Edward Wang
UbiComp 2017
10-year Impact Awards
- Pervasive 2007
Inference Attacks on Location Tracks
John Krumm - UbiComp 2007
Locating Family Values: A Field Trial of the Whereabouts Clock
Barry A. T. Brown, Alex S. Taylor, Shahram Izadi, Abigail Sellen, Joseph Kaye, Rachel Eardley - UbiComp 2007
At the Flick of a Switch: Detecting and Classifying Unique Electrical Events on the Residential Power Line
Shwetak N. Patel, Thomas Robertson, Julie A. Kientz, Matthew S. Reynolds, Gregory D. Abowd
UbiComp 2016
Gaetano Borriello Best Student Paper Award
- PrefMiner: Mining User’s Preferences for Intelligent Mobile Notification Management
Abhinav Mehrotra, Robert Hendley, Mirco Musolesi
Best Paper Awards
- Discovering Different Kinds of Smartphone Users Through Their Application Usage Behaviors
Sha Zhao, Julian Ramos, Jianrong Tao, Ziwen Jiang, Shijian Li, Zhaohui Wu, Gang Pan, Anind K. Dey - WiFinger: Talk to Your Smart Devices with Finger-grained Gesture
Hong Li, Wei Yang, Jianxin Wang, Yang Xu, Liusheng Huang - EmotionCheck: Leveraging Bodily Signals and False Feedback to Regulate our Emotions
Jean Costa, Alexander T. Adams, Malte F. Jung, Francois Guimbretiere, Tanzeem Choudhury - HemaApp: Noninvasive Blood Screening of Hemoglobin using Smartphone Cameras
Edward J. Wang, William Li, Doug Hawkins, Terry Gernsheimer, Colette Norby-Slycord, Shwetak Patel
10-year Impact Awards
- Pervasive 2006
A Practical Approach To Recognizing Physical Activities
Jonathan Lester, Tanzeem Choudhury, Gaetano Borriello - UbiComp 2006
Sensecam: A Retrospective Memory Aid
Steve Hodges, Lyndsay Williams, Emma Berry, Shahram Izadi, James Srinivasan, Alex Butler, Gavin Smyth, Narinder Kapur, Ken Wood
UbiComp 2015
Gaetano Borriello Best Student Paper Award*
- Enhancing Mobile Apps to Use Sensor Hubs without Programmer Effort
Haichen Shen, Aruna Balasubramanian, Anthony Lamarca, David Wetherall
Best Paper Awards
- From Computational Thinking to Computational Making
Jennifer Rode, Anne Weibert, Andrea Marshall, Konstantin Aal, Thomas von Rekowski, Houda El mimouni, Jennifer Booker - DeepEar: Robust Smartphone Audio Sensing in Unconstrained Acoustic Environments Using Deep Learning
Nicholas Lane, Petko Georgiev, Lorena Qendro - When Attention is not Scarce - Detecting Boredom from Mobile Phone Usage
Martin Pielot, Tilman Dingler, Jose San Pedro, Nuria Oliver
10-year Impact Awards
- Pervasive 2005
Place Lab: Device Positioning Using Radio Beacons in the Wild
Anthony LaMarca, Yatin Chawathe, Sunny Consolvo, Jeffrey Hightower, Ian Smith, James Scott, Tim Sohn, James Howard, Jeff Hughes, Fred Potter, Jason Tabert, Pauline Powledge, Gaetano Borriello, Bill Schilit - UbiComp 2005
Learning and Recognizing the Places We Go
Jeffrey Hightower, Sunny Consolvo, Anthony LaMarca, Ian Smith, Jeff Hughes
UbiComp 2014
Best Paper Awards
- Secure Bootstrapping of Cloud-Managed Ubiquitous Displays
Mohit Sethi, Elena Oat, Mario Di Francesco, Tuomas Aura - The Architecture of Innovation: Tracking Face-to-Face Interactions with Ubicomp Technologies
Chloe Brown, Christos Efstratiou, Ilias Leontiadis, Daniele Quercia, Cecilia Mascolo, James Scott, Peter Key - Money Walks: A Human-Centric Study on the Economics of Personal Mobile Data
Jacopo Staiano, Nuria Oliver, Bruno Lepri, Rodrigo de Oliveira, Michele Caraviello, Nicu Sebe - Intruders Versus Intrusiveness: Teens' and Parents' Perspectives on Home-Entryway Surveillance
Blase Ur, Jaeyeon Jung, Stuart Schechter
10-year Impact Award
- Pervasive 2004
Activity Recognition from User-Annotated Acceleration Data
Ling Bao, Stephen S. Intille - Ubicomp 2004
Activity Recognition in the Home Using Simple and Ubiquitous Sensors
Emmanuel Munguia Tapia, Stephen S. Intille, Kent Larson - Ubicomp 2004
Particle Filters for Location Estimation in Ubiquitous Computing: A Case Study
Jeffrey Hightower, Gaetano Borriello
UbiComp 2013
Best Paper Awards
- Exploring Capturable Everyday Memory for Autobiographical Authentication
Sauvik Das, Eiji Hayashi, Jason I Hong - Instant Inkjet Circuits: Lab-based Inkjet Printing to Support Rapid Prototyping of UbiComp Devices
Yoshihiro Kawahara, Steve Hodges, Benjamin S. Cook, Cheng Zhang, Gregory D. Abowd - There's No Such Thing as Gaining a Pound: Reconsidering the Bathroom Scale User Interface
Matthew Kay, Dan Morris, mc schraefel, Julie A. Kientz - It Takes a Network to Get Dinner: Designing Location-based Systems to Address Local Food Needs
Lynn Dombrowski, Jed R. Brubaker, Sen H. Hirano, Melissa Mazmanian, Gillian R. Hayes - MACH: My Automated Conversation coacH
Mohammed (Ehsan) Hoque, Matthieu Courgeon, Jean-Claude Martin, Bilge Mutlu, Rosalind W Picard
10-year Impact Award
- Ubicomp 2003
Inferring High-Level Behavior from Low-Level Sensors
Donald J. Patterson, Lin Liao, Dieter Fox, Henry Kautz
Pervasive 2012
Best Paper Awards
- Interactive Environment-aware Handheld Projectors for Pervasive Computing Spaces
David Molyneaux, Shahram Izadi, David Kim, Otmar Hilliges, Steve Hodges, Xiang Cao, Alex Butler, Hans Gellersen
10-year Impact Award
- Pervasive 2002
Building Applications for Ubiquitous Computing Environments
Christopher K. Hess, Manuel Roman, Roy H. Campbell
CCC Sustainability Award (one-time)
- Accounting for Energy-Reliant Services within Everyday Life at Home
Oliver Bates, Adrian K. Clear, Adrian Friday, Mike Hazas, Janine Morley
UbiComp 2012
Best Paper Awards
- Lullaby: A Capture & Access System for Understanding the Sleep Environment
Matthew Kay, Eun Kyoung Choe, Jesse Shepherd, Ben Greenstein, Nathaniel Watson, Sunny Consolvo, Julie Kientz - An Ultra-Low-Power Human Body Motion Sensor Using Static Electric Field Sensing
Gabe Cohn, Sidhant Gupta, Tien-Jui Lee, Dan Morris, Joshua Smith, Matthew Reynolds, Desney Tan, Shwetak Patel - Automatically Characterizing Places with Opportunistic CrowdSensing using Smartphones
Yohan Chon, Nicholas D. Lane, Fan Li, Hojung Cha, Feng Zhao
10-year Impact Award
- Ubicomp 2002
The Personal Server: Changing the Way We Think about Ubiquitous Computing
Roy Want, Trevor Pering, Gunner Danneels, Muthu Kumar, Murali Sundar, John Light
Pervasive 2011
Best Paper Award
- Learning Time-Based Presence Probabilities
John Krumm, A.J. Brush
UbiComp 2011
Best Paper Awards
- Nurturing Natural Sensors
Stacey Kuznetsov, William Odom, James Pierce, Eric Paulos - Haptic Reassurance in the Pitch Black for an Immersive Theatre Experience
Janet van der Linden, Yvonne Rogers, Maria Oshodi, Adam Spiers, David McGoran, Rafael Cronin, Paul ODowd
10-year Impact Award*
- UbiComp 2001
Privacy by Design - Principles of Privacy-Aware Ubiquitous Systems
Marc Langheinrich
Pervasive 2010
Best Paper Award
- Common Sense Community: Scaffolding Mobile Sensing and Analysis for Novice Users
Wesley Willett, Paul M. Aoki, Neil Kumar, Sushmita Subramanian, Allison Woodruff
UbiComp 2010
Best Paper Award
- ElectriSense: Single-Point Sensing Using EMI for Electrical Event Detection and Classification in the Home
Sidhant Gupta, Matthew S. Reynolds, Shwetak Patel
Pervasive 2009
Best Paper Award
- Enabling Pervasive Collaboration with Platform Composition
Trevor Pering, Roy Want, Barbara Rosario, Shivani Sud, Kent Lyons
UbiComp 2009
Best Paper Award
- Recognizing Stereotypical Motor Movements in the Laboratory and Classroom: A Case Study with Children on the Autism Spectrum
Fahd Albinali, Matthew S. Goodwin, Stephen S. Intille
Pervasive 2008
Best Paper Award
- Detecting Human Movement by Differential Air Pressure Sensing in HVAC System Ductwork: An Exploration in Infrastructure Mediated Sensing
Shwetak Patel, Matt Reynolds, Gregory Abowd
UbiComp 2008
Best Paper Award
- Pedestrian Localisation for Indoor Environments
Oliver Woodman and Rob Harle
Pervasive 2007
Best Paper Award
- Shake Well Before Use: Authentication Based on Accelerometer Data
Rene Mayrhofer and Hans Gellersen
UbiComp 2007
Best Paper Award*
- At the Flick of a Switch: Detecting and Classifying Unique Electrical Events on the Residential Power Line
Shwetak N. Patel, Thomas Robertson, Julie A. Kientz, Matthew S. Reynolds, and Gregory D. Abowd
Pervasive 2006
Best Paper Award
- Displays in the Wild: Understanding the Dynamics and Evolution of a Display Ecology
Elaine M. Huang, Elizabeth D. Mynatt, Jay P. Trimble
Pervasive 2005
Best Paper Award*
- Parasitic Mobility for Pervasive Sensor Networks
Mathew Laibowitz, Joseph Paradiso