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Five SI teams to compete in international CHI Design Competition
(Jan 2009) School of Information students have continued a string of impressive showings in the annual international CHI Design Competition by placing five teams among the 12 who will compete in Boston on April 9.
The competition is sponsored by the Special Interest Group in Computer-Human Interaction, a program of the Association for Computing Machinery. Last year, the SI team placed second, which was also the third consecutive year of a top-three finish for SI. This year's challenge is to support the idea of using or consuming local resources rather than global resources, in a sustainable and environmentally efficient manner.
The competition provides an opportunity for students from a variety of design backgrounds (HCI, industrial design, product design, visual design, etc.) to participate in CHI and demonstrate their problem solving and design skills in an international competition against their peers. Conference attendees, in turn, receive fresh perspectives on how design teams from different disciplines and different parts of the world can approach a common design problem. Attendees also get to meet future professionals and provide competition participants with an opportunity to network with experienced HCI and design professionals.
The SI teams have four faculty advisors: Associate Professor Mark Ackerman, Assistant Professor Michael McQuaid, Assistant Professor Mark Newman, and Professor Paul Resnick. The latest projects to be presented and the team members are:
LocalBuy
Wentao Wang
Li Li
Nan Chen
Jenica Baty
The aim of the project is promoting and encouraging the availability of local food, particularly in the Ann Arbor area. This system or service provides a broader platform for local customers to acquaint themselves with local farmers, choose their favorite food with complete nutrition facts, and purchase directly from local sustainable food resources.
MIFresh
Maureen Hanratty
Geoff Ho
Yang Jiang
Xiao Wei
Ongoing studies attribute declining health and malnutrition among Detroit residents to the accessibility to fresh fruits and vegetables. Fast food and convenience stores have become the primary food source for many Detroit residents, who do not have the monetary or transportation means to shop at larger retail stores, supermarkets, grocery stores, and farmers markets. In response, MIFresh hopes to revitalize the "food deserts" within Detroit neighborhoods.
Want Knot
Jared Bauer
Liz Blankenship
Leanna Gingras
Mark Goetz
The team is working on a system that helps businesses work with each other on resources for waste and reuse to optimize their production process and to educate themselves about the many issues and options surrounding industrial waste.
TreasureHunter
Sanghyuk Koh
Amy Kuo
Debra Lauterbach
Noah Liebman
Andrea McVittie
The project aims to increase the reuse of locally available consumer goods by addressing problems that keep people from shopping at thrift stores. TreasureHunter helps consumers find and share used goods at thrift stores in their local area. It works by enlisting frequent thrift store shoppers to help find requested items for those who lack the time or inclination to search for the items themselves. TreasureHunter is an online community that is also accessible from mobile phones so that it can be used while at a thrift store.
eXtend
Annie Fang
Sergio Mendez-Baiges
Rahan Khozein
Eunice Shin
eXtend is an online system that efficiently provides a great approach to extending the life cycle of IT equipment by promoting the reuse of electronics. The system uses a cascading approach in which the reusable IT equipment is transferred from high computing-intensive labs in higher education institutions to lower computing-intensive labs. From there, equipment is transferred to administrative sites within the institution and finally to the local community. eXtend promotes decreased consumption of new equipment, which leads to a decrease in the generation of local e-waste.
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