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Last week I entered the aSister project into the Google 10^100 project. I really enjoyed working on this project and saw how it could make a difference in the lives of some people.

I created a website to add more information about the project http://www.asister.org. I have posted the video I submitted for the project. I am hoping to be able to build out the website some more in the next few weeks.

After I got back from CHI and a small vacation I walked right into the end of the semester and graduation so finding time to post has been difficult until now.

I thought the student design competition poster session went well but unfortunately our team did not make it to the final round. It was really sad because we put so much work into this project. I did get a lot of comments from people after the one minute presentation of our project at the final round saying they thought our project belonged in the finals.

We submitted our project as a note to UbiComp 2008. I won't know anything about the status of our paper until June.

I spent a lot of time working as an Student Volunteer so I didn't get to see many of the things I wanted to see. I have the papers on a DVD from the conference so I'll go through and read those later.

Right now my current concentrations are on finishing up my capstone, presenting on May 22nd and job hunting. For more on my capstone status please see my capstone blog, http://www.jamiemcatee.com/blog/index.php/capstone.

I am excited to be leaving for CHI on Thursday but I have a lot of preparation to do before then. My team is pretty much ready to go. We have our poster printed and we are working on some additional items. We are also submitting our project to the Ubiquitous Computing conference in Korea this year. That paper is due Friday but we finished up the first draft that is 90% where we want it to be.

I have to get a large amount of writing done for a class project and paper that I am working on with some friends. The deadline is before I get back from Italy so I want to make sure I have contributed as much as I can to this project.

It has been a rough last couple of weeks with a bunch of user testing and setting up for a user test going on but things are starting to settle a little now. I feel better about being able to get enough done that I won't feel like I had to work at CHI. I did this last year and it was really difficult.

I am looking forward to meeting the other teams in the Student Design Competition. It should be exciting.

Indiana University is really putting together a strong showing at CHI in Florence. Tonight we learned of the acceptances of papers by the following IU authors.

alt.chi
Shaowen Bardzell and Jeff Bardzell
Tyler Pace

Research Landscapes
Shaowen Bardzell, Tyler Pace and Jeff Bardzell

Work in Progress
Richie Hazelwood, Kevin Makice, Kay Connelly and Youn-Kyung Lim
Shaowen Bardzell and Shruti Bhandari
Shruti Bhandari and Youn-Kyung Lim

Research Competition
Will Odom
Kayce Reed

This in addition to the design competition finalists and the full paper acceptances below.

Kristin Hanks, Dave Roedl, Will Odom and Eli Blevis
Erik Stolterman and Markus Jakobson

Go IU!