Once again, scholars representing Cornell Information Science – from both the Ithaca and New York Tech campuses – have a stack of accepted papers at this year's ACM International Joint Conference of Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, better known as UbiComp 2016.

Among them is "EmotionCheck...", winner of the Best Paper Award, which is among five papers chosen from 481 submissions. When the conference begins on September 12, co-author and Info Sci PhD Jean Costa will be on-hand in Heidelberg, Germany, to present this award-winning paper.

Also, Info Sci's Tanzeem Choudhury, along with two coauthors, Jonathan Lester and Gaetano Borriello, picked up UbiComp's 10-year Impact Award for their paper from 2006, "A Practical Approach to Recognizing Physical Activities."

Congratulations to members of our Info Sci community whose research will be featured at UbiComp 2016:

Papers

EmotionCheck: Leveraging Bodily Signals and False Feedback to Regulate our Emotions - Best Paper Award

Authors: Jean Costa, Alexander T. Adams, Malte F. Jung, Francois Guimbretiere, and Tanzeem Choudhury (all of Cornell University)

Assessing Mental Health Issues on College Campuses: Preliminary Findings from a Pilot Study 

Authors: Vincent W. S. Tseng, Saeed Abdullah, Michael Merrill, Min Hane Aung, Franziska Wittleder and Tanzeem Choudhury (all of Cornell University)

Cognitive Rhythms: Unobtrusive and Continuous Sensing of Alertness Using a Mobile Phone 

Authors: Saeed Abdullah (Cornell University), Elizabeth Murnane (Cornell University), Mark Matthews (Cornell University), Matthew Kay (University of Washington), Julie Kientz (University of Washington), Geri Gay (Cornell University), and Tanzeem Choudhury (Cornell University)

CrossCheck: Toward Passive Sensing and Detection of Mental Health Changes in People with Schizophrenia

Authors: Rui Wang (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Min S. H. Aung (Cornell University), Saeed Abdullah (Cornell University), Rachel Brian (Dartmouth), Andrew T. Campbell (Dartmouth), Tanzeem Choudhury (Cornell University), Marta Hauser (Dartmouth), John Kane (The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research), Michael Merrill (Cornell University), Emily A. Scherer (Dartmouth), Vincent W. S. Tseng (Cornell University), and Dror Ben-Zeev (Dartmouth)

CueSee: Exploring Visual Cues for People with Low Vision to Facilitate a Visual Search Task

Authors: Yuhang Zhao, Sarit Szpiro, Jonathan Knighten, Shiri Azenkot (all of Cornell University)

Finding a Store, Searching for a Product: A Study of Daily Challenges of Low Vision People

Authors: Sarit F.A Szpiro, Yuhang Zhao, and Shiri Azenkot (all of Cornell University)

Playing with Your Data: Towards Personal Informatics Driven Games

Authors: Elizabeth Murnane, Mark Matthews, Geri Gay, and Dan Cosley (all of Cornell University)

Shining (Blue) Light on Creative Ability

Authors: Saeed Abdullah (Cornell University), Mary Czerwinski (Microsoft), Gloria Mark (University of Cal Irvine), and Paul Johns (Microsoft)

Workshops

Mental Health and Well-being: Sensing and Intervention

Organizers: Saeed Abdullah (Cornell University), Varun Mishra (Dartmouth), Andrew Campbell (Dartmouth), Gregory Abowd (Georgia Tech), and Tanzeem Choudhury (Cornell University)