Awards

• 2008 – First Place – UCSB Transliteracies Project’s Bluesky Innovation Challenge: Social Computing in 2020
• 2009 – Grand Prize – Philidelphia GameX Steampunk Art Contest
• 2010 – Award of Excellence – iDMAa Student Showcase
• 2011 – First Place: Inventiveness – TEI 2011 Superhero Student Design Challenge
• 2011 – Grand Prize – SFU Grad Studies 40th Anniversary Contest
• 2014 – SFU School of Interactive Arts + Technology Graduate Research Award

Press

• 2008 – SIAT Film Makers Win the 48 Hour Quick Flix Challenge, Taking Home 1st + 2nd Place
• 2008 – SFU FILM MAKERS WIN WEEKEND FILM CHALLENGE
• 2008 – SFU Annual Report: Does Art Trump Science in the Digital Age?
• 2008 – Social Computing in 2020 Competition Winners
• 2009 – Fashioning Technology: The Reading Glove
• 2009 – UIST: Laban Gestures for Expressive Keyboarding
• 2010 – SIAT Achieves Success at IDMAa Digital Media & Art Conference
• 2010 – SIAT Graduate Students win Award of Excellence at IDMAa
• 2011 – SIAT Team Wins TEI Student Design Challenge
• 2011 – TEI 2011: Calling all superheroes to the design challenge.
• 2011 – Fashioning Technology:Captain Chronomek
• 2011 – Vimeo: TEI2011 Superhero Fashion Show
• 2011 – Amanda Williams and TAG: TEI 2011 Games and Narrative Session Recap
• 2011 – Madeline Ashbey Blogs on GRAND and The Reading Glove
• 2011 – The Vancouver Observer: Technology and Art Captivate at Mini Maker Faire
• 2011 – SIAT Students Represent SFU at Vancouver Mini Maker Faire
• 2011 – The Express Vancouver: Maker Profiles
• 2012 – O’Reilly Radar Interviews Karen about The Reading Glove
• 2012 – Ecouterre picked up the Reading Glove Story
• 2012 – Many other blogs also started spreading the O’Reilly interview, including:
  • The Browser
  • Ubergizmo
  • Gizmo Watch
  • Design Launches
  • Fresh Infos
  • Women 2.0
  • Scoop-It
  • Media Creole
  • Tech Geer
  • Smart Bitches, Trashy Books
  • Tech News.AM
  • Steampunk News
  • Shezcrafti
  • The Geek Improvement Podcast
  • Writing without Paper
  • Broadcast Dialogue – The Voice of Broadcasting in Canada has a brief mention of the Reading Glove.
• 2012 – Article in ASUs State Press about the Powered by Fiction Exhibit
• 2013 – Steampunk as Design Fiction featured on SIAT Website
• 2014 – Quantified Toilets: One of the teams in our Critical Making Hackathon at CHI in 2014 produced a fantastic bit of tactical media that got a lot of coverage.
  • The Atlantic: What a Toilet Hoax Can Tell Us About The Future of Surveillance
  • Wired UK: Urine Analysis Hoax Prompts Health Privacy Debate
  • Gizmodo: Your Behavior at this Toilet is Being Recorded for Analysis
  • The Daily Dot: The Story Behind these Pee Testing Toilets
  • Yahoo Japan: Or non shi or “public toilet for data collection”
  • PCtipp.CH: Quantified Toilets: Wenn das WC alles über uns weiss
  • Engaget.de: Quantified Toilets: Überwachungs-Stunt auf CHI-Konferenz
  • Washington Post: What was fake on the Internet this week: banana selfies, watermelon Viagra and burritos for hamsters
  • Mashable: What a Fake Toilet Company Tells Us About Our Fading Privacy