The 49th Annual ACM Southeast Conference was held at Kennesaw State University in Kennesaw, Georgia on March 24-26th, 2011. The conference presented a best poster award for student posters authored by graduate and undergraduate students without faculty co-authors. Amy Eubanks, a senior Computer Science and Mathematics major at Elon won the best poster award.
Her poster titled “Catching Fireflies: A Persuasive Augmented Reality Game for Android Phones” explained the development of a unique game using persuasive technology to draw people outdoors. Amy did this work as part of her honor’s thesis in Computer Science with faculty mentor, Joel Hollingsworth.