News Related to the Sketch Recognition Lab
Lab Director: Dr. Tracy Hammond  | 2018-06-18 Hammond recognized for transformational teaching style by students: Dr. Tracy Hammond, professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University, was recently awarded the Aggies Celebrate Teaching! |  | Link PDF |
| | 2018-05-21 Three faculty members in the College of Engineering receive Aggies Celebrate Teaching awards: Dr. Tracy Hammond, professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, was nominated by Vijay Rajanna, a graduate student in the department. |  | Link PDF |
| | 2018-04-12 Helping hands: Students develop system to serve speech-impaired: Six students from the department were selected to participate in the eighth annual Rice 360º Global Health Technologies Design Competition held at Rice University in March. At the competition, they presented their project, CommBo, a web-based speech-generating picture communication board that alleviates the major pain points of AAC users. |  | Link PDF |
| | 2018-03-15 In CyberHealthGIS REU, Students Connect Public Health Problems With GIS Analysis: In CyberHealthGIS REU, Students Connect Public Health Problems With GIS Analysis |  | Link PDF |
| | 2017-12-11 Rajanna excels in Three Minute Thesis competition: Rajanna excels in Three Minute Thesis competition |  | Link PDF |
| | 2017-11-14 Computer science student places first at CHI Play 2017 with project rooted in NSF-funded research: Computer science student places first at CHI Play 2017 with project rooted in NSF-funded research |  | Link PDF |
| | 2017-10-03 Texas A&M professors receive NSF grant on job recruitment of STEM graduates: Texas A&M professors receive NSF grant on job recruitment of STEM graduates |  | Link PDF |
 | 2017-06-15 Congratulations to Jung In Koh on his MS thesis defense: MS Thesis title: Developing a Hand Gesture Recognition System for Mapping Symbolic Hand Gestures to Analogous Emoji in Computer-Mediated Communication |  | Link PDF |
| | 2017-06-05 Congratulations to Seth Polelsey on his MS thesis defense: MS Thesis title: Identifying Outcomes of Care from Medical Records to Improve Doctor-Patient Communication |  | Link PDF |
| | 2017-03-02 Congratulations to Aqib Bhat on his MS thesis defense: MS Thesis title: Sketchography - Automatic Grading of Map Sketches for Geography Education |  | Link PDF |
| | 2017-03-03 Congratulations to Jorge I. Herrera-Camara on his MS thesis defense: MS Thesis title: Flow2code - From Hand-drawn Flowchart to Code Execution |  | Link PDF |
| | 2017-03-06 Congratulations to Nahum Villanueva Luna on his MS thesis defense: MS Thesis title: ARCaching: Using Augmented Reality on Mobile Devices to Improve Geocacher Experience |  | Link PDF |
| | 2016-12-09 Congratulations to Josh Cherian on his MS thesis defense: MS Thesis title: Recognition of Everyday Activities through Wearable Sensors and Machine Learning |  | Link PDF |
 | 2016-11-30 TAMU researchers create social network to prevent cyberbullying: TAMU researchers create social network to prevent cyberbullying |  | Link PDF |
 | 2016-11-29 A&M group seeks new avenues for anti-cyberbullying research: A&M group seeks new avenues for anti-cyberbullying research |  | Link PDF |
| | 2016-11-02 Computer science and engineering students attend 2016 Grace Hopper Conference: Computer science and engineering students attend 2016 Grace Hopper Conference |  | Link PDF |
| | 2016-10-25 Hammond receives NSF grant to support anti-cyberbullying project: Hammond receives NSF grant to support anti-cyberbullying project |  | Link PDF |
| | 2016-09-30 Computer science and engineering participates in 2016 ACM Tapia conference: Computer science and engineering participates in 2016 ACM Tapia conference |  | Link PDF |
| | 2016-06-10 Congratulations to Siddhartha Karthik Copesetty on his MS thesis defense: MS Thesis title: Labeling by Example |  | Link PDF |
| | 2016-06-10 Congratulations to Stephanie Valentine on her PhD defense: PhD Thesis title: Design, Deployment, Identity, & Conformity: An Analysis of Children's Online Social Networks |  | Link PDF |
| | 2016-06-10 Congratulations to Swarna Keshavabhotla on her MS thesis defense : Ms Thesis title: PerSketchTivity: Recognition and Progressive Learning Analysis |  | Link PDF |
| | 2016-03-31 Nelligan receives honorable mention for CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award: Trevor Nelligan, a junior in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University, was named honorable mention in the 2016 Computing Research Association’s (CRA) Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Awards. |  | Link PDF |
| | 2016-03-04 Congratulations to Hong-Hoe (Ayden) Kim on his PhD defense: PhD thesis title: A Fine Motor Skill Classifying Framework to Support Children's Self-regulation Skills and School Readiness |  | Link PDF |
| | 2016-03-03 Congratulations to Purnendu Kaul on his MS thesis defense: MS thesis title: Gaze Assisted Classification of On-Screen Tasks (by Difficulty Level) and User Activities (Reading, Writing/Typing, Image-Gazing) |  | Link PDF |
| | 2016-03-03 Congratulations to Shalini Priya Ashok Kumar on her MS thesis defense: MS thesis title: Evaluation of Conceptual Sketches on Stylus-based Devices |  | Link PDF |
| | 2016-02-29 Congratulations to Folami Alamudun on his PhD defense: PhD thesis title: Analysis of Visuo-cognitive Behavior in Screening Mammography |  | Link PDF |
| | 2015-07-09 SRL Graduate Students Also Awarded 5 Times in Medicine, Education, and CS at 2015 TAMU Student Research Week!: The 2015 Student Research Week (SRW) at Texas A&M University began on March 24 and ended with an awards ceremony on March 27. Many students of the Sketch Recognition Lab, directed by Dr. Tracy Hammond, participated. SRL students won 10 awards; 5 awards went to undergraduates (see prior post) and 5 went to graduate researchers. This post describes the graduate awards. |  | Link PDF |
| | 2015-07-09 SRL Undergraduate Students Win 5 Awards at TAMU Student Research Week 2015: The 2015 Student Research Week (SRW) at Texas A&M University marked its 18th poster and presentation extravaganza over the days of March 24th through March 27th. The Sketch Recognition Lab, directed by Dr. Tracy Hammond won 10 awards at the annual event; five of these awards were awarded to undergraduates taking capstone or senior research credits. |  | Link PDF |
| | 2015-05-12 Congratulations to the SRW 2015 CSE student winners: Nineteen students from the Sketch Recognition Lab, directed by CSE Associate Professor Dr. Tracy Anne Hammond, in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering received ten awards for their research comprised of a myriad of projects from digitizing sketch-based neuropsychology tests to putting an end to online child bullying. TheStudent Research Week 2015* awards and closing ceremony were held on March 20 in Texas A&M University's Memorial Student Center. More than 175 people and Miss Rev (Reveille VIII) were in attendance for the awards and refreshments. SRW is an opportunity for students to present their research and for the community to learn about the research going on at Texas A&M. |  | Link PDF |
| | 2015-04-03 Dr. Hammond Presents at 2015 Esri Developer Summit: On Thursday, March 12, the Director of the Sketch Recognition Lab, Dr. Tracy Hammond, presented GeoTrooper at the 2015 Esri Developer Summit, held in Palms Beach, Florida, in a presentation titled “Wearable Haptic Navigation Systems for Soldiers and Motorcyclists.” |  | Link PDF |
| | 2015-03-31 Two Summer Research Experience for Teachers (RET) Opportunities with the Sketch Recognition Lab: Two Research Experience for Teachers (RET) will be available for summer 2015 in the Sketch Recognition Lab, mentored by lab director Dr. Tracy Hammond. The two teachers will contribute to the ongoing NSF EEC project 1129525, titled “Collaborative Research: Enabling Instructors to Teach Statics Actively,” (PIs Tracy Hammond, Julie Linsey, Erin McTigue, Matthew Green) working with the Mechanix software project in the Computer Science Department at Texas A&M University. Mechanix is a sketch recognition system that automatically corrects students hand-drawn homework assignments for trusses and free body diagrams. The Mechanix software for testing as well as a video tutorial can be downloaded from http://sketchmechanix.com. Applications are dues April 1, 2015. |  | Link PDF |
| | 2015-03-30 Sketch Recognition Lab Presents to Texas A&M Computing Society: On Tuesday, February 24, 2015, Sketch Recognition Lab members Raniero Lara-Garduno, Seth Polsley, Larry Powell, Paul Taele, and David Turner were on hand to present and discuss several of the lab's latest on-going research projects in front of a room-filled audience of students from the Texas A&M Computing Society (TACS), the representative undergraduate student organization for the Department of Computer Science & Engineering. The Sketch Recognition Lab, directed by Dr.Tracy Hammond, was invited by TACS to present to the undergraduate students as part of a series of guest talks and workshops to improve and broaden students' understanding of opportunities that exist in the computing field. |  | Link PDF |
| | 2015-03-12 Vijay Rajanna's Reflections of the 2015 Tapia Conference: The 2015 Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing Conference was held over February 18 – 21 in snowy Boston, MA. Several students from the Sketch Recognition Lab, directed by Dr. Tracy Hammond, attended. |  | Link PDF |
| | 2015-03-08 Raniero Lara-Garduno - First Place in Graduate Poster Contest at 2015 Tapia Conference: The Sketch Recognition Lab, as well as the Lab Director Dr. Tracy Hammond, happily congratulates Raniero Lara-Garduno for being awarded first place in the Graduate Poster Contest at the 2015 Tapia Conference! |  | Link PDF |
| | 2015-03-06 Dr. Tracy Hammond's GeoTrooper on Daily Planet: The first time that a person goes anywhere, it can be disorienting. Think about a family going on vacation to a new, foreign country - all the streets are different, all the landmarks are unfamiliar, and their hotel is somewhere in the middle of the unknown jumble of language and landscapes. Ultimately, this is the issue which Dr. Hammond, the director of the Sketch Recognition Lab, and her team at Texas A&M University solved with GeoTrooper – only it’s intended for a much more imperative situation. |  | Link PDF |
| | 2015-02-25 Paul Taele and Laura Barreto - Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference: On Tuesday, January 27, two members of the Sketch Recognition Lab, directed by Dr. Tracy Hammond, PhD student Paul Taele and an undergraduate sophomore Laura Barreto presented their paper, “Maestoso: An Intelligent Educational Sketching Tool for Learning Music Theory” authored by Taele, Barreto, and Hammond, at the 2015 Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference (IAAI) in Austin, Texas. Taele and Barreto also received travel support from the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). |  | Link PDF |
 | 2015-01-29 College Station making more public data available online: College Station data on everything from potholes to shuttle transit routes to where crimes are committed will be made more accessible to the public in the next several years. But it doesn't surprise Tracy Hammond, an associate professor at the A&M Department of Computer Science and Engineering, that College Station is one of the first smaller cities to take on such an initative. She said the data will give her students another resource to build on, helping them immensely. "You have a huge university here," she said. "We have the brain power of a much larger city. I'm not surprised we're on the forefront." |  | Link PDF |
 | 2015-01-16 KidGab on mission to end cyber bullying: The children’s social networking website known as KidGab was created by Texas A&M University Computer Science and Engineering Ph.D. student, Stephanie Valentine, who works in the Sketch Recognition Lab led by CSE associate professor, Dr. Tracy Hammond. KidGab is built for children who are not old enough to join websites such as Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. The goal of the site is to help children understand social media and put an end to cyber bullying. |  | Link PDF |
| | 2015-01-14 KidGab on mission to end cyber bullying: The children’s social networking website KidGab was created by Texas A&M University computer science and engineering Ph.D. student, Stephanie Valentine, who works in the Sketch Recognition Lab led by Dr. Tracy Hammond, associate professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. |  | Link PDF |
 | 2015-01-13 GeoTrooper, Dr. Hammond, and SRL Featured on Discovery Channel Daily Planet Canada: Geo Trooper: All about improving your sense of direction, this vest is designed to save lives for both soldiers on the battlefield and commuters battling traffic by allowing for heads-up, hands-free navigation. (video starts after 2 commercials) |  | Link PDF |
| | 2014-12-11 CSE Capstone Students Use Machine Learning and Haptics to Further Technology: On Wednesday, December 10, the Computer Science and Engineering senior capstone design course presented their semester projects to classmates and industry representatives alike in the Harvey R. Bright Building at Texas A&M University. Each of the five senior design teams was mentored by members of Dr. Tracy Hammond’s Sketch Recognition Lab. The projects included iErgonomics, VR, InMotion, C.A.N.E., and CourseSketch. |  | Link PDF |
| | 2014-11-29 GIS Day 2014 - Esri Director of Software Products Clint Brown Visits the SRL: Clint Brown, the Director of Product Engineering for Esri, a company that is a leading innovator in developing geographic information systems (GIS), visited Dr. Tracy Hammond's Sketch Recognition Lab on Tuesday, November 18, during the three-day Texas A&M University GIS Day 2014 event organized by Dr. Daniel Goldberg, Assistant Professor of Geography. |  | Link PDF |
| | 2014-11-20 SRL Project Presentations at the Farewell to Zachry Engineering Center: On Friday, November 14, after 42 years serving as the home to Texas A&M engineering courses, distinguished guests, pioneer donors, and current and former students gathered on the lawn of the Zachry Engineering Center to say goodbye to the building. The Sketch Recognition Lab (SRL), directed by Dr. Tracy Hammond, was one of eight labs from the Dwight Look College of Engineering chosen to present recent research to event attendees. |  | Link PDF |
| | 2014-11-13 Folami Alamudun - The 21st Institute on Teaching and Mentoring in Atlanta, GA: On October 30, over 1000 invited minority doctoral students, new faculty members, and leaders in education attended the 21st Annual Institute on Teaching and Mentoring in Atlanta, Georgia. One of these invited doctoral students was the Sketch Recognition Lab's own Folami Alamudun. Alamudun is a Computer Science & Engineering PhD student at the TAMU Sketch Recognition Lab, directed by Dr. Tracy Hammond. He also serves as the Vice President of the Computer Science and Engineering Graduate Student Association. |  | Link PDF |
| | 2014-11-06 Stephanie Valentine - KidGab with the Girl Scouts of Central Texas: Stephanie Valentine, a Computer Science & Engineering PhD student at the TAMU Sketch Recognition Lab, conducts research pertaining to her passion for bringing awareness to and educating youth on social media safe practices. Valentine is the president and founder of Wired Youth Inc., a nonprofit started in June of 2014 aimed to “foster an understanding among children and families of the permanent, public, and context-free nature of internet communications.” Valentine's co-founders include her sister Catherine Miller and Dr. Tracy Hammond who serves as the Director of the Sketch Recognition Lab at TAMU, Valentine's graduate advisor, as well as the vice-president and treasurer of Wired Youth, Inc. |  | Link PDF |
| | 2014-11-03 Interface preps kids for social media: Student project works to reduce cyber bullying: After growing tired of waiting for someone to make a move, computer science graduate student Stephanie Valentine said she decided to take action against cyber bullying. Valentine started two initiatives to combat cyber bullying — a non-profit organization called “Wired Youth” and a children’s social networking website called “KidGab.” She credits her background in computer science, thorough research and personal experience as the catalysts to her work. |  | Link PDF |
| | 2014-10-30 TAMUHack hosts successful first hackathon: TAMUHack, a new student run organization in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University, hosted its very first hackathon Oct. 24-25. The event, which was named after the organization, included almost 400 students from all over the country, including many who had never before participated in a hackathon. |  | Link PDF |
 | 2014-10-28 TEES awards $1.5 million in seed grants to interdisciplinary research teams: A cross-university team reviewed 47 submitted proposals and selected 10 for funding. The funded research projects are:Collaboration for Healthy Active Living” PI: Dr. Tracy Hammond, Computer Science and Engineering. Co-PIs: Dr. Samuel Towne, Dr. Yan Hong and Dr. Marcia Ory, TAMHSC; Dr. Daniel Goldberg, Department of Geography; and Dr. Samuel Forjuoh, Scott and White Health, Temple. Research Focus:The Collaboration for Healthy Active Living will develop, test and deploy new techniques and strategies that exploit this new ecosystem of data, services, and sensors to improve public and individual health. The core mission is to engineer technologies and techniques for data collection and analyses, facilitate new forms of health research and analyses, and enable novel lines of health interventions, monitoring, and promotion for targeted populations of at-risk individuals. |  | Link PDF |
| | 2014-10-26 28 hours. Create anything: Participants design technological projects at TAMUHack competition: More than 500 participants flocked to Rudder Tower Friday to participate in TAMUHack, which gave contestants 28 hours for a deceptively simple task — create anything, and win prizes ranging from T-shirts to iPads and computers. Tracy Hammond, faculty sponsor for TAMUHack, said a hackathon is a unique, beneficial experience. “The nice thing about a hackathon as opposed to, say, a programming contest, is that there is no direct problem they are trying to solve,” Hammond said. “They get to be creative and think of their own problem. And a lot of times the students who work on these problems are recruited by different industry people who are participating in the hackathon.” |  | Link PDF |
| | 2014-10-22 Texas A&M to host national hackathon competition Friday: Rudder Tower will be filled with students from Texas, California, New York, Canada and Mexico for the first official Texas A&M Hackathon. Five hundred participants will occupy Rudder Tower for 48 hours starting Friday to create novel products ranging from “hardware hacks” to new apps. The event has garnered support across the tech industry, as students from around the nation converge on what TAMUhack’s founders hope is the first of many premier hack events. |  | Link PDF |
| | 2014-10-07 Same problems, new solutions: Research coalition gathers minds from across campus to tackle health issues: From motorcycle jackets that give direction to apps that get people up and moving, a new iniative at A&M creates a research forum on campus to promote well-being. The Coalition for Healthy Active Living, CHAL, pools research experience from across campus to address a variety of health problems. Participating researchers have backgrounds as varied as community health to computer science. |  | Link PDF |
| | 2014-10-03 CSE students take first at national hackathons: TAMUHack is a new student run organization in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University that attends and hosts hackathons. The co-founders of the organization are Robert Timm, Eleni Mijalis, Christopher Nolan, and Rafa Moreno and Dr. Tracy Hammond is their faculty advisor. TAMUHack is a way for students to learn more about hackathons across the country and to get practical programming experience. While formal computer science classes provide a basis for programming, TAMUHack provides students with opportunities to turn their innovative ideas into realities. |  | Link PDF |
| | 2014-10-02 CSE students take first at national hackathons: Ten Texas A&M University Computer Science and Engineering students, who are also part of TAMUHack, made their mark last month while participating in the GeauxHack and PennApps X: Health events. TAMUHack is a new student run organization in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University that attends and hosts hackathons. The co-founders of the organization are Robert Timm, Eleni Mijalis, Christopher Nolan and Rafa Moreno and Dr. Tracy Hammond is their faculty advisor. |  | Link PDF |
| | 2014-10-01 Hammond speaker at Evolution of the Warfighter event in Washington D.C.: Dr. Tracy Anne Hammond, associate professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, was one of four speakers at Evolution of the Warfighter, Technology Version, an event designed to showcase the relationship between government funded research and general innovations. About 150 congressional staff members were at the event that was held in Washington, D.C. |  | Link PDF |
| | 2014-01-14 David Turner named 2014 CRA Undergraduate Research Finalist: David Turner, computer engineering senior in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University, is a Finalist in the Computing Research Association's Outstanding Undergraduate Research Awards for 2014. |  | Link PDF |
| | 2013-12-19 Dr. Tracy Hammond and Manoj Prasad interviewed by KBTX-TV News: On the morning of Wednesday, December 11, 2013 local CBS affiliate KBTX-TV News visited the Department of Computer Science and Engineering's Sketch Recognition Lab (SRL) to learn more about the lab's latest state-of-the-art research projects. News reporter David Norris spent some time with Associate Professor and Lab Director Tracy Hammond and her doctoral researcher Manoj Prasad on recent research ventures that have been or will be published in some of the top peer-reviewed conferences in the world. |  | Link PDF |
| | 2013-12-11 Texas A&M Team Puts the Vibe on Navigation Technology: A Texas A&M University professor and her team of graduate and undergraduate students have created what may be the latest in navigational technology. |  | Link PDF |
| | 2014-09-30 Hammond receives NSF grant to create software sketching tools: Dr. Tracy A. Hammond, associate professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University, received a grant from the NSF Division of Information & Intelligent Systems' Cyberlearning and Future Learning Technologies office to investigate how spatial reasoning and sketching are linked and to develop software sketching tools. Dr. Erin M. McTigue, assistant professor in the Department of Teaching, Learning, and Culture at Texas A&M is co-principal investigator on the project as is Dr. Jeffrey Liew, associate professor in the Department of Educational Psychology at Texas A&M. |  | Link PDF |
| | 2014-09-25 CSE Industrial Affiliates Fall Recruiting Event: The student CSE Research Poster Competition was also part of the CSE-only Career Fair and was conducted in two sessions giving participating students the chance to listen to additional presentations. Both undergraduate and graduate students presented their research, which was judged by the IAP members. CSE doctoral student Folami Alamudun won the IAP poster competition with his work titled "Fractal Analysis of Radiologists’ Visual Scanning Pattern in Screening Mammography". To read more about his research for this project click here. Folami is part of the Sketch Recognition Lab and works with SRL Director, Dr. Tracy Hammond. |  | Link PDF |
| | 2014-09-25 Hammond helping to establish Texas A&M University Coalition for Healthy Active Living: Dr. Tracy Anne Hammond, a researcher with the Texas A&M Experiment Station (TEES), associate professor and Charles H. Barclay Jr. '45 College of Engineering Faculty Fellow in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and director of the Sketch Recognition Lab in the Dwight Look College of Engineering at Texas A&M University and other university collaborators are establishing the Texas A&M University Coalition for Healthy Active Living (TAMU-CHAL). |  | Link PDF |
| | 2014-09-23 Texas A&M University Coalition for Healthy Active Living: a multidisciplinary approach to health: Technology that creatively and intelligently understands and responds to human behavior and the environment can improve health. That is the reason Dr. Tracy Anne Hammond, associate professor and Charles H. Barclay Jr. '45 College of Engineering Faculty Fellow in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and director of the Sketch Recognition Lab in the Dwight Look College of Engineering at Texas A&M University, is establishing with other university collaborators the Texas A&M University Coalition for Healthy Active Living (TAMU-CHAL). |  | Link PDF |
| | 2014-09-18 Alamudun receives award for best graduate research at ORNL: Folami Alamudun, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University, received the award for best graduate research presentation during his internship at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Alamudun, who is also a member of the Sketch Recognition Lab, was a research intern at ORNL and participated in the lab's Research Alliance in Math and Science (RAMS) program. |  | Link PDF |
| | 2014-09-11 CSE graduate student boot camp and orientation: The Department of Computer Science and Engineering has welcomed 89 incoming Ph.D. and masters students this fall semester. To kick off the semester, SRL graduate student Stephanie Valentine organized the inaugural Graduate Student Boot Camp presented by the CSEGSA. Dr. Tracy Hammond welcomed over 70 new students at the start of the inaugural event. |  | Link PDF |
| | 2014-06-17 Hammond, Prasad and Taele participate in ACM SIGCHI 2014: Dr. Tracy A. Hammond, associate professor and director of the Sketch Recognition Lab in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University, Dr. Manoj Prasad, and Doctoral Candidate Paul Taele participated in CHI 2014. The ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI) conference is known as the foremost conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. CHI 2014 was held at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre in Toronto, Canada, from April 26 to May 1. At the conference, Hammond presented the full paper: "HaptiMoto: Turn-by-turn Haptic Route Guidance interface for Motorcyclists," written by Dr. Manoj Prasad, Paul Taele, Dr. Daniel Goldberg (assistant professor of geography at Texas A&M), and Dr. Tracy A. Hammond. |  | Link PDF |
| | 2014-06-16 CSE REU Summer 2014 Program: SRL hosts five REU students during the summer of 2014: Laura Barreto from Vassar, Emily Berk from Arizona State, Nicholas Hanemann from TAMU, Andrew King from TAMU, and Trevor Nelligan from TAMU. |  | Link PDF |
| | 2013-06-06 Computer Science and Engineering students earn honorable mention from CRA: Sketch Recognition Lab Junior, David Turner, earns CRA Honorable Mention for the Undergraduate Researcher Award. CRA cited Turner for his work on "Mechanix - Free Body Diagram and Truss Analysis Sketch Workbook," a Sketch Recognition Lab (SRL) team project. |  | Link PDF |
| | 2013-05-24 GeoTrooper acknowledged in Paris: The Sketch Recognition Lab (SRL) at Texas A&M University was nominated for best case study at the recent ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2013) in Paris, France, for the paper, "Multimodal Location-Aware System for Paratrooper Team Coordination." |  | Link PDF |
 | 2014-05-23 A&M team developing lightweight 'smart vest' as navigation guide: The Houston Chronicle interviews Dr. Tracy Hammond about her research one wearable haptic vests for automatic Motorcycle navigation. |  | Link PDF |
| | 2014-05-21 Dr. Tracy Hammond demonstrates smart vest in Gävle: During a recent visit to Gävle, Sweden, Texas A&M Associate Professor Dr. Tracy Anne Hammond met with representatives of industry and academia to cultivate interest in her team's smart vest research project as well as other ongoing investigations. The smart vest, a lightweight haptic navigation vest, was a collaborative, interdisciplinary effort involving recent Texas A&M graduate Dr. Manoj Prasad and Dr. Daniel W. Goldberg, assistant professor of geography. |  | Link PDF |
| | 2014-05-20 CSE students win recognition at Engineering Project Showcase: SRL Capstone project "Spiral" wins first place for best computer science capstone project at the Texas A&M University Engineering Project Showcase, held on April 25 in Reed Arena on campus. sDANs won first computer engineering capstone project. More than 150 student engineering teams composed of over 600 undergraduates exhibited their projects from Senior Capstone Design courses. Spiral team members are Ruiz Akpan, Stephen Chen and Stephen Ten Eyck, under the supervision of the CSE Sketch Recognition Lab Director Dr. Tracy Hammond and Teaching Assistant Paul Teale. Here is the listing of the winning projects: CPSC - Spiral; CECN - sDANS; BMEN - High-Throughput Histological Analysis (AutoHistoBot); BMEN - Personal Lung Fluid Analyzer; MEEN - Downhole Electronic Board Protection; ECEN - Biological Analysis with MicroFluidics; ENTC- Metrology Lab Manual; CVEN - Relief Route - US Highway 83; AERO - Asteria: Human Crewed Asteroid Rendezvous Project; AERO - SkyRanger by SkyAg. |  | Link PDF |
| | 2013-05-03 More than 500 undergraduates participate in first Texas A&M Engineering Project Showcase: The first-place Capstone award ($750) was given to the “Kamistry: Discovering Chemistry Through a New Dimension” team (pictured). The team members were Bryant Poffenberger (computer science and engineering), Andy Hampton (computer science and engineering) and Connor Taylor (computer science and engineering). Faculty mentors were Dr. Tracy Hammond and Paul Taele (teaching assistant) from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. |  | Link PDF |
| | 2013-05-02 Computer science students recognized for their volunteer service: SRL PhD Manoj Prasad received the President's Volunteer Service Award directly from the desk of President Barrack Obama in a ceremony April 19 on campus. |  | Link PDF |
| | 2013-04-26 NSF awards graduate fellowships to Texas A&M engineering students: SRL REU and PHD Stephanie Valentine earns the NSF GRFP. Additionally REU Kiley Sobel wins the NSF GRFP. Both receive 3 years of full funding to be used over 5 years. |  | Link PDF |
 | 2014-04-23 Glöm kartor & GPS – nu visar jackan vägen: Forget maps and GPS. Dr. Tracy Hammond's smart jacket shows the way by vibrating. On Tuesday she visited Gävle. |  | Link PDF |
 | 2014-04-22 Mc-jackan visar vägen: Tracy Hammond, a professor at Texas A&M University, has created a smart jacket to allow motorcyclists to navigate only through touch. She is a world-leading researchers in smart technology that can facilitate our everyday life. Future Position X has invited Tracy Hammond to Gävle to get the chance to share her latest research and foster collaboration. |  | Link PDF |
| | 2014-04-17 CSE students present MECHANIX project: Raniero Lara-Garduño, a computer engineering Ph.D. student, and Larry Powell, a senior in computer science, both students in the Sketch Recognition Lab in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE), were 2nd place winners in two graduate student categories at Student Research Week 2014. They presented their poster, "Enhancing Mechanix - Interface and Algorithms," in Engineering/Architecture and in the Sigma Xi Award for Interdisciplinary Research categories. |  | Link PDF |
| | 2013-04-12 Computer science students win big in Student Research Week: Dr. Hammond's capstone students took home five awards at SRW. Additionally, SRL PhD students Manoj Prasad and Stephanie Valentine took home three first place awards. |  | Link PDF |
| | 2014-04-08 Spiral takes 2nd at 2014 SRW: Student Research Week 2014 was held March 24—28 at Texas A&M University. CSE senior capstone design students Ruiz Akpan, Stephen Chen, and Stephen Ten Eyck took second place in the poster competition's Mathematics/Statistics/Computer Science category with their senior capstone (taught by Dr. Tracy Hammond) project called Spiral. |  | Link PDF |
| | 2014-03-10 WIPTTE 2014 starts March 12: The Workshop on the Impact of Pen and Touch Technology in Education (WIPTTE), coordinated by the Sketch Recognition Lab and the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) at Texas A&M University, will be hosted on the Texas A&M Campus March 12-15, 2014. |  | Link PDF |
| | 2014-02-27 CSE attends Tapia Conference: CSE Interim Department Head Dr. Nancy N. Amato and Associate Professor Dr. Tracy Hammond spoke on undergraduate "survival skills" at the CRA-W/CDC Undergraduate Career Mentoring Workshop. Some of the topics covered during the workshop were finding technical internships, learning to network, resume writing, and getting into graduate school. Many SRL students attended the conference. |  | Link PDF |
| | 2014-01-31 Dr. Tracy Hammond presents Sketching at Teacher Summit: Associate Professor Dr. Tracy Hammond, director of the Sketch Recognition Lab in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M, is hosting a workshop session entitled, "Interactive Sketching with Intelligent Educational Applications." "Sketching plays an important part in the learning process for a variety of subjects ranging from science to language," said Dr. Hammond. |  | Link PDF |
| | 2013-01-11 Computer science graduate student awarded dissertation fellowship: Manoj Prasad, a Ph.D. student in the Sketch Recognition Lab in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M has received the Texas A&M University 2012-2013 Dissertation Fellowship from the Office of Graduate Studies. |  | Link PDF |
 | 2012-09-05 Dr. Tracy Hammond: A Passion for Teaching: Associate Professor Tracy Hammond's passion and enthusiasm for teaching are, in a word, "infectious." |  | Link PDF |
| | 2012-09-05 Research@Texas A&M: Helping Ensure Men and Women in Uniform Return Safely Home: Associate Professor Tracy Hammond and her graduate students in the Dwight Look College of Engineering developed the GeoTrooper system to aid paratroopers in the field, working in collaboration with the 18th Airborne Corps of the U.S. Army. The interactive Android phone application works in conjunction with a haptic vest with the goal to improve the movements and safety of paratroopers. |  | Link PDF |
 | 2012-08-07 Rise of the Markerbots: The Sketch Recognition Lab's Mechanix project is highlighted in New Scientist Magazine Issue 2876 |  | Link PDF |
| | 2012-07-13 Sketch Recognition Lab researchers honored at IAAI in Toronto: Researchers in the Sketch Recognition Lab in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University will be honored at the 24th Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI) in Toronto July 22-26. The researchers received the IAAI Innovation Award for the paper, "Mechanix: A Sketch-Based Tutoring System for Statics Course." |  | Link PDF |
| | 2012-06-15 DCC'12 held at Texas A&M: The Fifth International Conference on Design Computing and Cognition Design Computing and Cognition Logo(DCC'12) was held June 5-9 in College Station at Texas A&M University. DDC'12 attracted more than 100 researchers from institutions such as Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Carnegie Mellon University, University of California, Berkeley, and Georgia Tech. Dr. Tracy Hammond was the local chair. |  | Link PDF |
| | 2012-06-01 Computer science Ph.D. student awarded DoD scholarship for 2012-2013: Danielle Cummings, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, has accepted a scholarship from the U.S. Department of Defense Information Assurance Scholarship Program (DoD-IASP) for 2012-2013. She is the only awardee from Texas A&M University. |  | Link PDF |
| | 2012-04-30 Texas A&M Engineering honors faculty: Dr. M. Katherine Banks, vice chancellor and dean of engineering, recognized 38 faculty members in the Dwight Look College of Engineering for their teaching, service and contributions to Texas A&M Engineering. Dr. Tracy Hammond was awarded the Texas A&M Engineering Charles H. Barclay, Jr. Faculty Fellow |  | Link PDF |
| | 2012-03-30 Computer science graduate students awarded NSF EAPSI Fellowships: Two SRL PhD students, Danielle Cummings and Paul Taele, graduate students in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University, have been awarded NSF East Asia and Pacific Summer Institute (EAPSI) fellowships for 2012. |  | Link PDF |
| | 2010-08-09 B-CS residents react to S.M.U.T.: S.M.U.T., or the Subversive Manifesto for Underground Technology, is a set of transgressive academic talks academic and industry researchers every First Friday at 7pm at the Stafford. S.M.U.T. is founded and organized by Dr. Tracy Hammond and Cody Marx Bailey. The new downtown Bryan event had a good showing with between 60 to 70 people throughout the night. |  | Link PDF |
 | 2003-07-21 MIT's Tablet Tech Gets a Look-See from Microsoft:: Microsoft has taken an interest in sketch interpretation software being developed by a group from MIT's engineering department, including from left to right, Michael Oltmans, Prof. Randall Davis, Christine Alvarado, Metin Sezgin, and Tracy Hammond. |  | Link PDF |
