CHI 2014: One of a CHInd

This is the 12th year of the CHI Student Design Competition (SDC). This year’s conference theme “One of a CHInd” focuses our SDC design challenge on the one of a kind diversity that is made up of the individual selves that create our community. The growing design domain of the Quantified Self has been made possible through the integration of low-cost sensing technologies with proliferating applications available through mobile and internet technologies. There is a context of sensory-rich data from biometric, health, neo-analog, DIY culture and geophysical sensing that expands our ability to augment or shift our perspectives and our knowledge. Self-tracking, self-management and self-awareness are activities that promote agency and transformation of our own growing accumulation of bodydata. How can we transform this overwhelming incoming bodydata into self-knowledge?

Student Design Competition Winners

• First Place.
  Beam: A Mobile Application to Improve Happiness and Mental Health
  Joyce Sakata, Mengdi Zhang, Shi Pu, Jianqi Xing, Kritika Versha
• Second Place.
  Sisyphorest: Maintenance Goal Support by Responding to Trends
  William Saunders, Filip Krynicki, Valerie Sugarman
• Third Place. (tied)
  InnoMotion: A Web-based Rehabilitation System Helping Patients Recover and Gain Self-Awareness of Their Body Away from the Clinic
  Luxi Chen, Miranda Kiang, Kruthi Sabnis Krishna, Ni Yan, Anna S. Muth
• Third Place. (tied)
  NeckGraffe: A Postural Awareness System
  Rushil Khurana, Elena Marinelli, Tulika Saraf, Shan Li