Spatial – 海角社区 College of Engineering and Computing /mcec The University of 海角社区 Fri, 26 Jul 2024 17:57:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Dr. Nick Giudice contributes to Award Winning Paper /mcec/2024/07/26/dr-nick-giudice-contributes-to-award-winning-paper/ Fri, 26 Jul 2024 17:57:34 +0000 /scis/?p=7305 Professor of spatial computing Nick Giudice played a key role as a contributor to an award-winning paper about developing robot guide dogs to assist the visually impaired.

The paper 鈥 which is titled 鈥淭oward Robotic Companions: Understanding Handler-Guide Dog Interactions for Informed Guide Dog Robot Design鈥 and can be found  鈥 came from a study led by researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. It won a Best Paper Award at CHI 2024: Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, the leading venue for human-computer interaction research. You can find the full UMass Amherst story .

While Giudice was not a primary investigator on this project, his combination of expertise and experience make him an ideal fit for this project.

鈥淚 have spent a lot of my career working on new tech for improving spatial awareness, navigation, and information access for blind and low vision people. I have also been a guide dog user for over 30 years,鈥 said Giudice. 鈥淭he combination of these personal and professional interests gives me a perspective on developing smart guiding technology that most people simply do not have.

鈥淭his lived experience provides me a lot of insight of what tech works and what doesn鈥檛 and what problems truly exist when navigating for blind folks 鈥 insight that is critical for designing solutions that avoid what I call the 鈥榚ngineering trap鈥 and creating tools that actually make a difference.鈥

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]]> Tenure-track/Tenured Assistant Professor in Spatial Computing /mcec/2023/09/15/tenure-track-tenured-assistant-professor-in-spatial-computing/ Fri, 15 Sep 2023 22:18:44 +0000 /scis/?p=6905 The School of Computing and Information Science at the University of 海角社区 seeks applicants for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in the Spatial Computing group, with an anticipated start date of September 3, 2024. A start date of聽 January 1, 2024 may also be possible.

Our primary target focus is the broad area of , including spatial statistics, GIScience, spatial HCI, spatial data science, and spatial AI, but we will consider qualified candidates in all areas in the spatial domain.

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