PhD student Jun Gong wins first place in ASSETS 2007 Student Research Competition
Jun Gong, a Ph.D. student in the College of Computer and Information Science won first place in the ASSETS 2007 Student Research Competition. The ACM Student Research Competition is run by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and sponsored by Microsoft Research. In the first round of this competition, students submit short paper to an ACM conference their field. Selected students receive a travel stipend to attend the conference where they present a poster on their work. Winning students receive cash prizes and are invited compete in the Student Research Competition Grand Finals.
The ASSETS conference is about Computers and Accessibility. Jun's paper, "Semantically and Syntactically Improved Predictive Disambiguation Text Entry Methods," proposed a new method for text entry on keypads with very few buttons, that utilizes the semantic and syntactical information in the preceding texts to help disambiguate the user desired words. His simulations and experiments showed encouraging results suggesting potential applicability of this method to practical usages for motor or visual impaired users.
The ACM conferences that are participating in the current Student Research competition are: CHI 08 (Computer Human Interaction), SC 07 (Super Computing), ASSETS (Computers and Accessibility), OOOPSLA 2007 (Object-Oriented Programming), MobiCom 2007 (Mobile Computing and Networking), The Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing, 2007, and SIGGRAPH (Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques) 2007.