July 3, 2012

Next Up in Kinect-Style Motion Sensing: Ultrasound?


July 2, 2012

Smartphone scanner developed at UW helps dieters count calories


July 1, 2012

Fredrik Ryden in IEEE Potentials Student Magazine

The recent issue of IEEE Potentials features an excellent article written by UW EE PhD student, Fredrik Ryden. The article titled, “Tech to the Future: Making a “Kinection” with Haptic Interaction” describes how Microsoft Kinect’s RGB-D camera has “opened new opportunities for applications that previously used a combination of regular video cameras and expensive cameras.”…


June 6, 2012

Xiaoyong Li Receives Chinese Thousand Talents Award

UW EE alumnus Dr. Xiaoyong Li has received the Thousand Young Talents Award from the Chinese Thousand Talents Program, which is the most prestigious Chinese National Program for recruiting global experts, and is akin to the US NSF CAREER Award. The program provides top salaries and attractive funding to elite researchers who are expected to…


June 5, 2012

Affiliate Professor Jacob Rosen named 2012 Health Care Hero


June 4, 2012

Ubicomp lab’s SoundWave in the News

Ubicomp lab‘s SoundWave project has been in the press quite a bit lately. Below is our current list of related news stories. Next Up in Kinect-Style Motion Sensing: Ultrasound? Popular Mechanics – May 25, 2012 Microsoft devices turn the body into a wireless computer controller Washington Post – May 21, 2012 Gesture Control System Uses…


June 3, 2012

Ubicomp lab’s Humantenna in the News

Ubicomp lab‘s Humantenna project has been in the press quite a bit lately. Below is our current list of related news stories. Microsoft devices turn the body into a wireless computer controller Washington Post – May 21, 2012 ACM User Conference Seeks the Magic in User Interfaces PCWorld – May 7, 2012 Cool Microsoft Research…


June 2, 2012

Portable diagnostics designed to be shaken, not stirred


June 1, 2012

Eric Larson Wins CoE Student Innovator Award

Graduate student Eric Larson has been honored with the “Student Innovator: Research” award as part of the UW College of Engineering’s 2012 Community of Innovators Awards. Eric is pursuing his PhD under Assistant Professor Shwetak Patel, working on healthcare and sustainability via the integration digital signal processing, sensing, and ubiquitous computing. He also collaborates closely…


May 8, 2012

American Sign Language Goes Mobile



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