UbiComp Awards

10-year Impact Awards

• StudentLife: assessing mental health, academic performance and behavioral trends of college students using smartphones
  Rui Wang, Fanglin Chen, Zhenyu Chen, Tianxing Li, Gabriella Harari, Stefanie Tignor, Xia Zhou, Dror Ben-Zeev, Andrew T. Campbell
• InterruptMe: designing intelligent prompting mechanisms for pervasive applications
  Veljko Pejovic, Mirco Musolesi
  Runner-up

Gaetano Borriello Outstanding Student Award

Committee chair: Adrian Friday · Members: Mark Billinghurst, Flora Salim

10-year Impact Awards

• 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
• MACH: My Automated Conversation Coach
  Mohammed (Ehsan) Hoque, Matthieu Courgeon, Jean-Claude Martin, Bilge Mutlu, Rosalind W. Picard

Gaetano Borriello Outstanding Student Award

Committee chair: Koji Yatani · Members: Lena Mamykina, Hans Gellersen, Marc Langheinrich, Flora Salim

10-year Impact Awards: UbiComp

Committee chair: Kristof van Laerhoven · Members: Rajesh Balan, Silvia Santini

• What next, ubicomp?: celebrating an intellectual disappearing act
  Gregory Abowd
• StressSense: detecting stress in unconstrained acoustic environments using smartphones
  Hong Lu, Denise Frauendorfer, Mashfiqui Rabbi, Marianne Schmid Mast, Gokul T. Chittaranjan, Andrew T. Campbell, Daniel Gatica-Perez, Tanzeem Choudhury

10-year Impact Awards: Pervasive

• .NET Gadgeteer: A Platform for Custom Devices
  Nicolas Villar, James Scott, Steve Hodges, Kerry Hammil, Colin Miller

Gaetano Borriello Outstanding Student Award

Committee chair: Flora Salim · Members: Anind Dey, Cecilia Mascolo, Uichin Lee, Monica Tentori

10-year Impact Awards for 2021

Committee chair: Rajesh Balan · Members: Sarah Clinch, Chandra Narayanaswam, Yvonne Rogers, Yuanchun Shi, Koji Yatani

• PreHeat: Controlling Home Heating Using Occupancy Prediction
  James Scott, A.J. Bernheim Brush, John Krumm, Brian Meyers, Michael Hazas, Stephen Hodges, Nicolas Villar
• Understanding My Data, Myself: Supporting Self-reflection with Ubicomp Technologies
  Ian Li, Anind K. Dey, Jodi Forlizzi

10-year Impact Awards for 2020

• EmotionSense: a Mobile Phones Based Adaptive Platform for Experimental Social Psychology Research
  Kiran K. Rachuri, Mirco Musolesi, Cecilia Mascolo, Peter J. Rentfrow, Chris Longworth, Andrius Aucinas

10-year Impact Awards

Postponed due to COVID-19.

Gaetano Borriello Outstanding Student Award

Committee chair: Cecilia Mascolo · Members: Tanzeem Choudhury, Robert Harle, Youngki Lee, Koji Yatani

10-year Impact Awards: UbiComp

Committee chair: Gregory Abowd · Members: Rajesh Balan, AJ Brush, Andreas Bulling, Adrian Friday, Judy Kay

• SwimMaster: a wearable assistant for swimmer
  Marc Bächlin, Kilian Förster, Gerhard Tröster
• Recognizing daily activities with RFID-based sensors
  Michael Buettner, Richa Prasad, Matthai Philipose, David Wetherall

10-year Impact Awards: Pervasive

• Adding GPS-Control to Traditional Thermostats: An Exploration of Potential Energy Savings and Design Challenges
  Manu Gupta, Stephen S. Intille, Kent Larson

Gaetano Borriello Outstanding Student Award

Committee chair: Julie Kientz · Members: Judy Kay, Cecilia Mascolo, Kenji Mase, James Scott, Koji Yatani

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
• Pedestrian Localisation for Indoor Environments
  Oliver Woodman, Robert Harle

10-year Impact Awards: 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

10-year Impact Awards: Pervasive 2007

• Inference Attacks on Location Tracks
  John Krumm

10-year Impact Awards: 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
• 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

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

• A Practical Approach To Recognizing Physical Activities
  Jonathan Lester, Tanzeem Choudhury, Gaetano Borriello
  Pervasive 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 2006

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

• 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
  Pervasive 2005
• Learning and Recognizing the Places We Go
  Jeffrey Hightower, Sunny Consolvo, Anthony LaMarca, Ian Smith, Jeff Hughes
  UbiComp 2005

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 Awards

• Activity Recognition from User-Annotated Acceleration Data
  Ling Bao, Stephen S. Intille
  Pervasive 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 2004

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

• Inferring High-Level Behavior from Low-Level Sensors
  Donald J. Patterson, Lin Liao, Dieter Fox, Henry Kautz
  UbiComp 2003

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

• Building Applications for Ubiquitous Computing Environments
  Christopher K. Hess, Manuel Roman, Roy H. Campbell
  Pervasive 2002

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

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

• The Personal Server: Changing the Way We Think about Ubiquitous Computing
  Roy Want, Trevor Pering, Gunner Danneels, Muthu Kumar, Murali Sundar, John Light
  UbiComp 2002

Best Paper Award

• Learning Time-Based Presence Probabilities
  John Krumm, A.J. Brush

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 O'Dowd

10-year Impact Award

• Privacy by Design - Principles of Privacy-Aware Ubiquitous Systems
  Marc Langheinrich
  UbiComp 2001

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

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

Best Paper Award

• Enabling Pervasive Collaboration with Platform Composition
  Trevor Pering, Roy Want, Barbara Rosario, Shivani Sud, Kent Lyons

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

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

Best Paper Award

• Pedestrian Localisation for Indoor Environments
  Oliver Woodman, Rob Harle

Best Paper Award

• Shake Well Before Use: Authentication Based on Accelerometer Data
  Rene Mayrhofer, Hans Gellersen

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, Gregory D. Abowd

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

Best Paper Award

First year with this award.

• Parasitic Mobility for Pervasive Sensor Networks
  Mathew Laibowitz, Joseph Paradiso