The finalists of the IXDA Student Competion have been announced with 2 of 5 of the projects coming from the CIID/DKDS Interaction Design Pilot Year: Kevin Cannon/Tobias Toft’s Nokia project (Future Mobile Interfaces) and Adam Little’s thesis (Get Together). Eilidh Dickson was awarded an honourable mention for her thesis (Life is an Act of Balance).

‘The competition had over 40 entries, representing university programs in Australia, China, Columbia, Denmark, India, the Netherlands, South Korea, Taiwan, and the United States. Of those many entries, five have earned a full scholarship to Interaction10, as well as the opportunity to compete for the Grand Prize: a Dell Tablet Laptop. The Runner-up will receive a Dell Mini Netbook.

IxDA community members who will be attending the conference, will have the opportunity to meet these talented students at Interaction10, and see their work first-hand. The finalists will be presenting posters of the work described below, as well as describing the work they will be doing on-site, just before the conference begins, in a live design challenge. Conference attendees will be invited to vote on both pieces of work and contribute to who will be selected for competition winner and runner up.’

Read more here:
http://interaction.ixda.org/student-competition/the-finalists/