{"id":802,"date":"2014-07-01T09:02:45","date_gmt":"2014-07-01T09:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=802"},"modified":"2014-07-02T09:35:57","modified_gmt":"2014-07-02T09:35:57","slug":"goldsmiths-phd-student-wins-best-student-paper-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=802","title":{"rendered":"Goldsmiths PhD student wins Best Student Paper award"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"karsten\"Goldsmiths\u00a0Department of Computing PhD student Karsten Seipp has won the Best Student Paper award at WEBIST 2014<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The 10th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies (WEBIST) took place in Barcelona on 3-5 April 2014, bringing together researchers, engineers and practitioners interested in the technological advances and business applications of web-based information systems.<\/p>\n

Karsten Seipp was awarded ‘Best Paper First-authored by a Student’ for his paper The One Hand Wonder – a framework for enhancing one-handed website operation on touchscreen smartphones<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, co-authored with Goldsmiths tutor Kate Devlin<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The conference website states: \u201cThe papers receiving these awards were selected from a set of outstanding papers, based on the quantitative and qualitative classifications as well as comments provided by the program committee reviewers, their final classification as full paper and their oral presentation at the conference.\u201d<\/p>\n

As a winner, Karsten receives a signed and stamped official award certificate, an invitation for an extended version publication in a book or a journal, one year free membership of INSTICC<\/a> and a free registration for next year\u2019s conference.<\/p>\n