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We’re excited to announce the shortlist of entries for the 2015 Interaction Awards. Seventy nine projects from 15 countries have been elevated for consideration by our legion of international peer reviewers and our esteemed Jury who added additional projects for consideration. Many thanks to all who shared their stories and submitted their work. Congratulations to those who have been selected!

The shortlisted entries will have the opportunity to further refine and resubmit their projects for final Jury consideration at CIID in November and publishing on the Interaction Awards website. All shortlisted project entries will be shared publicly and eligible for People’s Choice leading up to Interaction15.

Please congratulate the 2015 Interaction Awards Shortlist, across six categories:

CONNECTING
Facilitating communication between people and communities

100 Years of Design
Second Story, part of SapientNitro, US, Professional
Design & Development: Second Story, part of SapientNitro, Client: AIGA

GreatSchools Local
GreatSchools, US, Professional
Gretchen Anderson, Adriana Berrio, Stephen Lowe, Michael Hicks, Ines Baumgartner, Sam Oliveri, Candice Santomauro

I See U See
Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design, DK, Student
Shamik Ray

Interference
Kollision, DK, Professional
Kollision

Live Language
Weissensee Kunsthochschule Berlin (The Berlin Weissensee School of Art), DE, Student
Ying Sun, Binbin Zhu

MSNBC Digital Eco-system
SapientNitro, US, Professional
Worldwide Chief Creative Officer: Gaston Legorburu, Creative Director: Christian Waitzinger, Experience Design Lead: Christina White, Visual Design Lead: Gunnar Kiene, Experience Designer: Cass Crockatt,  Art Director: Jack Butcher, Strategy Lead: Justin Barkhuizen, Social Strategy: Stevie Dove, Content Strategy Lead: Marc Chelius

Project Pacific
Citrix, US, Professional
Elizabeth Thapliyal, Ryan Kasper

Sentiment News
Yahoo, TW, Professional
Kaba, Waiting, Camille, Cerjary, Melora

Skype in the classroom
Made by Many, GB, Professional
Made by Many, Skype, Microsoft

Talk2Me
Nottingham Trent University, GB, Student
Chia-Ming Chang

The Coffee Connector
Tellart, US, Professional
Tellart, The Secret Little Agency, OctoPD

The Nike SB App
R/GA, US, Professional
Brian Tobin – Senior iOS Developer; Devin Heatley, Albert Patton  – Copywriter; Jesse Green, Lauren Manning, Marc Maleh – Data Visualization; Guy Helson, Mark Voelpel – Digital Studio; Hoshi Ludwig – Associate Creative Director; Jake Hall – Technical Lead, Nike Tech; John Agnew, Mark Whiteley, Brian Aster, Eric Swisher – Nike SB Team; Lambert Torres – Technical Lead; Leena Patankar – Nike QA; Michael Grater, Samira Sultana – Quality Assurance; Nauman Hafiz – Technical Director; Nick Parisi – Executive Producer; Patricia Choi, Wes Harris – Group Technology Director / VP, Managing Director; Patrick McInerney, Rasmus Wangelin, Young Seo – Visual Design; Pedro Mancheno, Nicolas Viegas  – iOS Developer; Ron Forrester, Rochelle Shibahara, Christopher Rollo – Nike Tech; Sammi Needham – Group Executive Creative Director; Tim Farr – Senior Producer; Dana Hong – Senior Producer; Tim McElreath – Senior Java Engineer; Xavier Gallego – Associate Creative Director

Voting Doors
Tellart, US, Professional
Tellart, David Rose, Gensler

Weaver
Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle, DE, Student
Paul Kirsten, Felix Herbst, Alexander Schulze

Wells Fargo Community Mural – West Hollywood
Wells Fargo Community Mural Team, US, Professional
Wells Fargo Strategic Store Formats, Community Mural Team (Design, Research, Project Management): Beth Currie, Wayne Edwards, Alanna Tameta, Melanie Tobin, Julian Balderas, Hana Cerkez, Anne Marie Lapitan, Jon Perkins, Megan Bayley, Devin Gumm, Charmian Liang, Julian Torres, Kelly Riggio, Matt Stewart); Community Partners: ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives at the USC Libraries, Los Angeles Public Library Photograph Collection; Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society; June Mazer Lesbian Archives; Photographer Anthony Friedkin; LGBT pioneers: Ivy Bottini, Reverend Troy Perry, Pat Rocco, Don Kilhefner, Jeanne Cordova, Lynn Edward Harris

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DISRUPTING
Re-imagining completely an existing product or service by creating new behaviors, usages or markets

Alvio
R/GA, US, Professional
Bezalel Arkush – Founder and CEO, Qol;  Corey Wilson-Wirth – Business Development and Regulations, Qol; Ehud Tal – Creative, Qol; Tamir Rosenblum – Head of Products, Qol;  Angela Wen – Senior Visual Designer;  Chelsea McLemore – Senior Experience Strategist, Insights & Planning;  Chloe Gottlieb – SVP, Executive Creative Director; Christian Butte – Creative Director; Christiana Kallery – Copy Director; Eric Freitag – Group Director, Product Innovation; Jonathan Bradley – Program Director, R/GA Accelerator; Lauren Von Dehsen – Interaction Design Director; Nick Coronges – VP, R/GA and Technology Partner, R/GA Ventures; Richard Ting – EVP, Global Executive Creative Director, MSP; Stephen Plumlee – Global Chief Operating Office; Sam Keene – Senior Software Engineer; Virgilio Santos – Creative Director;  Wade Convay – VP, ECD, Product Innovation

Avocado
IDEO, US, Professional
Marco Triverio, IDEO

Efficia ECG100
Royal Philips, NL, Professional
Philips Design Healthcare Team

LEGO FUSION
LEGO System A/S, DK, Professional
LEGO Future Lab

Pearson – helping define the future of education
POSSIBLE, US, Professional
Matthew McBride, Bill Hermanns, Jonathan Blaugrund, Yoko Nakano, Ken Thelien, Shelby Cinca, Margarita Piza, Paul Hahn, Huei Peng Lee, Dana Wood, Chy Lin, Robert Zelin, Joshua Nathanson, Justin Chen, Eva Kang, Jason Brush, Ashley Seto

Predictive User Experience
Mercedes Benz Research & Development, US, Professional
Paolo Malabuyo, James Liu, Vera Schmidt, Marco Plewe, Patrick Corrigan, Jesh Nanthakumar, Mark Poguntke, Alexander von Hilliger, Rigel Smiroldo

Redesigning breast cancer diagnostics
Designit, NO, Professional
Marie Hartmann, Therese Hegsvold Borchgrevink, Annie Feddersen Hjelmervik

Signet
Ziba Design, US, Professional
Noah DiJulio, Malcolm Lee, Lee Croy, Carl Alviani, Sean Madden, Ayelet Katz

TetraBIN
The University of Sydney, AU, Student
Steven Bai, Sam Johnson, Martin Tomitsch

The Eventbrite Seat Designer for Reserved Seating Events
Eventbrite, US, Professional
Eventbrite Registration & Ticketing Team

The Library Compass – Experiencing the journey of knowledge for public libraries in times of digital
Technical University Munich, DK, Student
Andreas Schuster

VW.com
Deutsch LA, US, Professional
Pete Favat, Winston Binch, Mathias Appelblad, David Kim, Andy Hsu, Pelun Chen, Nathan Iverson, Marcus Silva, Jun Ikeya, Desmond Hsu, Kathy Hepinstall, Carrie Talick, Tim Shin, David Tanimoto, Vince Ku, Luis Vellanoweth, Jeremiah Dapkey, Mike Hildreth, Adam Sant, Fred Leveau, David Chen, Eugene Park, Cory Roth, Pam Scheideler, Melissa Eccles, Lauren Brown, Shaunt Halebian, Ilana Reiser, Trevor O’Brien, Nick Velloff, Brian Jeremy, Marc Gowland, Justice Erolin, Sean Klosky, Sean Schricker, Jason Clark, David Cai, Jeremy Bunting, Neseem Ishaq, Sam Kite, Karl Pablo, Taylor Loftin, Tatiana Kazantseva, Greg Parsons, Bill Delrieu, Jim Kohatsu, Juliet Scott, Rachel Connelly, Chris Suchy, Daniel Du, Tito Goldstein, James Chacon, Judy Zhou, Christian Johansson, Carter Blackwood, Sal Gonzales, Edie Chae, Chris Brown, Lauren Barrocas, Tom Else, John Deschner, Kristie Weston, Ian Phillips, Kris Morrison, Jeffrey Blish, Susie Lyons, Bud Caddell, Tessa Bodey, Margarita Ballesteros

Water Watcher
Smart Design, US, Professional
Smart Design Team: Dan Saffer, Kelsey O’Callaghan, Ivan Exposito, Lynn Collette, Nathalie Collins, Matthew Blunt

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EMPOWERING
Enabling people to go beyond their limits

Alvio
R/GA, US, Professional
Bezalel Arkush – Founder and CEO, Qol;  Corey Wilson-Wirth – Business Development and Regulations, Qol; Ehud Tal – Creative, Qol; Tamir Rosenblum – Head of Products, Qol;  Angela Wen – Senior Visual Designer;  Chelsea McLemore – Senior Experience Strategist, Insights & Planning;  Chloe Gottlieb – SVP, Executive Creative Director; Christian Butte – Creative Director; Christiana Kallery – Copy Director; Eric Freitag – Group Director, Product Innovation; Jonathan Bradley – Program Director, R/GA Accelerator; Lauren Von Dehsen – Interaction Design Director; Nick Coronges – VP, R/GA and Technology Partner, R/GA Ventures; Richard Ting – EVP, Global Executive Creative Director, MSP; Stephen Plumlee – Global Chief Operating Office; Sam Keene – Senior Software Engineer; Virgilio Santos – Creative Director;  Wade Convay – VP, ECD, Product Innovation

Avocado
IDEO, US, Professional
Marco Triverio, IDEO

BlindMaps.org
Blindmaps.org, AT, Professional
Andrew Spitz, Markus Schmeiduch, Ruben van der Vleuten

Designing a Child-Friendly Environment for Stressful and Painful Medical Procedures
Eindhoven University of Technology, NL, Student
Alice van Beukering

GripHint
Designstewd.io, DK, Student
Shu-Yang Lin, Priyanka Kodikal

HearMe – A Holistic Audio Experience for the Visually Impaired
National Taiwan University of Science & Technology / National Chengchi University, TW, Student
Diona Lin, Yi-Shuan Tsai, Hsien-Hui Tang, Yu Neng-Hao

Kaiser Permanente i60 Tool
Propelland, US, Professional
Byron Wilson, Hugo Giralt, Siddharth Vanchinathan, Victoria Ngo, Dwight Davis, Jordan Lang

Muse: the brain sensing headband
InteraXon, CA, Professional
Jay Vidyarthi, Trevor Coleman, Tim Gaweco, Matthew Wellman, Michael Apollo

BMC MyIT 2.0
Artefact, US, Professional
Dave McColgin, Stephanie Hughes, Rob Girling and Gavin Kelly

Remind – Music for Memory
Umeå Institute of Design, SE, Student
Migle Padegimaite, Emily Keller, Lina Trulsson, Darja Wendel

School in the Cloud
Made by Many, GB, Professional
Made by Many, Newcastle University

Seeing to Learn, Learning to See
University of Pittsburgh Center for Learning in Out-of-School Environments, US, Professional
Marti Louw, Molly Johnson

The new generation of SERVO-ventilators
Veryday, SE, Professional
Veryday: Madlene Lindström, Siamak Tahmoresnia, Rahul Sen, Daniel Höglund, Aydin Mert, Anna Carell, Thomas Nilsson, Fredrik Ericsson, Lena Edman, Magnus Gyllenswärd, Olof Bendt, Clayton Cook, MAQUET: Anette Sunna, Karin Blomquist, Annelise Müller, Helena Stone, Arne Lindy

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ENGAGING
Capturing attention, creating delight and delivering meaning

A Re-design of Shopping Experience to Leverage Consumer Showrooming Behaviors
IIT, Institute of Design, US, Student
Associate Professor, Anijo Punnen Mathew; Students, Thomas Brandenburg, Paula Falco, Xinli Lin,  Paul Sheetz; IIT Institute of Design

Apocalypse 10 lives
LVL, CA, Professional
Ideacom International Web, CC&C, LVL

Career Quest
QUEST Alliance, IN, Professional
Ashis Panday, Jayashree Arasu, Nikita Bengani, Ragini Lall

ChemCrafter
Bluecadet, US, Professional
Josh Goldblum – Creative Director, Troy LaChance – Art Director, Rebecca Smith – Producer, Kathryn Stracquatanio – Developer, Jason Marziana – Developer, Aaron Richardson – Designer

Hackaball
Made by Many, GB, Professional
Made by Many

National Pro Grid League
Cooper, US, Professional
Doug LeMoine, Brendan Kneram, Jason Csizmadi

Native American Voices
Bluecadet, US, Professional
Josh Goldblum – Creative Director, Troy LaChance – Art Director, Aaron Miller – Producer, Victoria Jones – Producer, Mark Llobrera – Developer, Kim Quinn – Designer & Animator, Aaron Richardson – Animator

Project Edison: A dynamic, open source lighting installation
IDEO, US, Professional
IDEO, Joie de Vivre Hotels

Seeing to Learn
Learning to See, University of Pittsburgh Center for Learning in Out-of-School Environments, US, Professional
Marti Louw, Molly Johnson

The Coffee Connector
Tellart, US, Professional
Tellart, The Secret Little Agency, OctoPD

Treasures from Korea
Bluecadet, US, Professional
Josh Goldblum – Creative Director, Troy LaChance – Art Director, Aaron Miller – Producer, Victoria Jones – Producer, Stacey Martens – Developer, Theresa Decker – Designer, Aaron Richardson – Animator

Water Watcher
Smart Design, US, Professional
Smart Design Team: Dan Saffer, Kelsey O’Callaghan, Ivan Exposito, Lynn Collette, Nathalie Collins, Matthew Blunt

Wells Fargo Community Mural – West Hollywood
Wells Fargo Community Mural Team, US, Professional
Wells Fargo Strategic Store Formats, Community Mural Team (Design, Research, Project Management): Beth Currie, Wayne Edwards, Alanna Tameta, Melanie Tobin, Julian Balderas, Hana Cerkez, Anne Marie Lapitan, Jon Perkins, Megan Bayley, Devin Gumm, Charmian Liang, Julian Torres, Kelly Riggio, Matt Stewart); Community Partners: ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives at the USC Libraries, Los Angeles Public Library Photograph Collection; Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society; June Mazer Lesbian Archives; Photographer Anthony Friedkin; LGBT pioneers: Ivy Bottini, Reverend Troy Perry, Pat Rocco, Don Kilhefner, Jeanne Cordova, Lynn Edward Harris

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EXPRESSING
Encouraging self expression and/or creativity

Beats Music
R/GA London, US, Professional
Anthony Baker – Technical Lead; Anthony Galvin – Technical Director; Dan Kashman, Rory O’ Flaherty,  Anne Taillandier – Digital Advertising; Daniel Nieuwenhuizen – Associate Design Director; Dave Robbins – Head of Production; Germán Levy, Pablo DiStefano, Leandro Glossman, Andrian Olaru, Razvan Pavel, Artur Cistov  – Engineers; James Temple, Jay Zasa – Executive Creative Director; Jenna Livingston, Jason Ashlock, Luke Wicker – Copywriters; John Mullin, Tracy Hepler, Catherine Tirpak – Social Media; Jon Ward, Simone Cucchi – Senior Designer; Josh Mandel, Kat Friis, Monique D. Veillette, Shannon Worley, Alex Wills, Jocelyn Birsch, Elisabetta Viggiani, David Kalvert, Erin Rabasca, Nicolas Karlson – Broadcast Production; Josh Yeston, Wilf Eddings, Andy Bull – Art Director; JP Toher, Jason Leitch – Senior Producer; Lucio Rufo – Creative Director; Niall McCormack, Catarina Peres – iOS & Android Engineers; Patrick Van Kann – Executive Technical Director; Razvan Creanga – Quality Assurance; Rebecca Rumble – Editor; Rob Northam – Associate Creative Director; Scott Shaw – Interaction Design Director; Trent Reznor – Chief Creative Officer, Beats Music; Rob Sheridan – Creative Director, Beats Music; Ayse Kulahci – Senior Director, Product Management & Strategy, Beats Music

Expressive Wearable
Art Center College of Design, US, Student
Sangli Li

Flutter
Fabrica, IT, Student
Concept and Design: Alex Rothera, Ivor Williams, Jacopo Atzori, Aaron Gillett; Music Composition: Jhon William Castaño Montoya

FRICKbits
thirteen23, US, Professional
Ryan Hovenweep, Laurie Frick, Lani DeGuire, Sarah Johnson, Matt McGlincy, Michael VanMilligan, Doug Cook

Gramore
National Institute of Design, IN, Student
Aalok Jaiswal

MixDown
Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design, DK, Student
Francesca Desmarais, Chia Yu Hsu, Arunima Singh, Paula Te

Spark Camera App
IDEO, US, Professional
IDEO design team

Stop-Motion Studio
Second Story, part of SapientNitro, US, Professional
Design & Development: Second Story, part of SapientNitro, Client: Verizon Wireless

The Nike SB App
R/GA, US, Professional
Brian Tobin – Senior iOS Developer; Devin Heatley, Albert Patton  – Copywriter; Jesse Green, Lauren Manning, Marc Maleh – Data Visualization; Guy Helson, Mark Voelpel – Digital Studio; Hoshi Ludwig – Associate Creative Director; Jake Hall – Technical Lead, Nike Tech; John Agnew, Mark Whiteley, Brian Aster, Eric Swisher – Nike SB Team; Lambert Torres – Technical Lead; Leena Patankar – Nike QA; Michael Grater, Samira Sultana – Quality Assurance; Nauman Hafiz – Technical Director; Nick Parisi – Executive Producer; Patricia Choi, Wes Harris – Group Technology Director / VP, Managing Director; Patrick McInerney, Rasmus Wangelin, Young Seo – Visual Design; Pedro Mancheno, Nicolas Viegas  – iOS Developer; Ron Forrester, Rochelle Shibahara, Christopher Rollo – Nike Tech; Sammi Needham – Group Executive Creative Director; Tim Farr – Senior Producer; Dana Hong – Senior Producer; Tim McElreath – Senior Java Engineer; Xavier Gallego – Associate Creative Director

Tink
Stanford University, US, Student
Megan Chiou, Alfredo Sandes, Kunal Chawla

toot
SUPSI, DE, Student
Federico Lameri

TRANSFORM
MIT Media Lab, US, Student
Daniel Leithinger, Sean Follmer, Amit Zoran, Philipp Schoessler

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OPTIMIZING
Making daily activities more efficient

Alvio
R/GA, US, Professional
Bezalel Arkush – Founder and CEO, Qol;  Corey Wilson-Wirth – Business Development and Regulations, Qol; Ehud Tal – Creative, Qol; Tamir Rosenblum – Head of Products, Qol;  Angela Wen – Senior Visual Designer;  Chelsea McLemore – Senior Experience Strategist, Insights & Planning;  Chloe Gottlieb – SVP, Executive Creative Director; Christian Butte – Creative Director; Christiana Kallery – Copy Director; Eric Freitag – Group Director, Product Innovation; Jonathan Bradley – Program Director, R/GA Accelerator; Lauren Von Dehsen – Interaction Design Director; Nick Coronges – VP, R/GA and Technology Partner, R/GA Ventures; Richard Ting – EVP, Global Executive Creative Director, MSP; Stephen Plumlee – Global Chief Operating Office; Sam Keene – Senior Software Engineer; Virgilio Santos – Creative Director;  Wade Convay – VP, ECD, Product Innovation

eOSCE – Examinations People Like
Institut für Software, HSR Hochschule für Technik Rapperswil, CH, Professional
Kevin Gaunt, Sebastian Hunkeler, Philippe Zimmermann, Stephan Schallenberger, Felix Schmitz, Markus Stolze

HearMe – A Holistic Audio Experience for the Visually Impaired
National Taiwan University of Science & Technology / National Chengchi University, TW, Student
Diona Lin, Yi-Shuan Tsai, Hsien-Hui Tang, Yu Neng-Hao

MyMilkman.ie – Fresh UX Delivered to your Door
Frontend.com, IE, Professional
Frontend Design Team

Oyasami
Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design, NL, Student
Pierluigi Dalla Rosa, Shamik Ray, Neha Parekh

Patient Data Explorer
SAP SE, DE, Professional
Marion Fröhlich, Alessandro Sposato, Dominik Bertram, Matthias Steinbrecher

PIRCH Advisor
Artefact, US, Professional
Sabrina Boler, Mei Hsei, Nick Alto, Sam Baker

Predictive User Experience
Mercedes Benz Research & Development, US, Professional
Paolo Malabuyo, James Liu, Vera Schmidt, Marco Plewe, Patrick Corrigan, Jesh Nanthakumar, Mark Poguntke, Alexander von Hilliger, Rigel Smiroldo

Redesigning breast cancer diagnostics
Designit, NO, Professional
Marie Hartmann, Therese Hegsvold Borchgrevink, Annie Feddersen Hjelmervik

SAP Ganges
SAP Labs India Pvt Ltd, IN, Professional
Neelakantan Padmanabhan, Rakesh Rai, Gian Franco Bonini, Sri Vidhya A N, Shirish Totade, Ravi Srinivasan, Joe Kattackal, Raghavendra Bhuvan, Mohan George, Sajid Saiyed, Deepak Mallya, Abhijit De, H S Vinay, Nishita Gill

The Library Compass – Experiencing the journey of knowledge for public libraries in times of digital
Technical University Munich, DK, Student
Andreas Schuster

The new generation of SERVO-ventilators
Veryday, SE, Professional
Veryday: Madlene Lindström, Siamak Tahmoresnia, Rahul Sen, Daniel Höglund, Aydin Mert, Anna Carell, Thomas Nilsson, Fredrik Ericsson, Lena Edman, Magnus Gyllenswärd, Olof Bendt, Clayton Cook, MAQUET: Anette Sunna, Karin Blomquist, Annelise Müller, Helena Stone, Arne Lindy

VW.com
Deutsch LA, US, Professional
Pete Favat, Winston Binch, Mathias Appelblad, David Kim, Andy Hsu, Pelun Chen, Nathan Iverson, Marcus Silva, Jun Ikeya, Desmond Hsu, Kathy Hepinstall, Carrie Talick, Tim Shin, David Tanimoto, Vince Ku, Luis Vellanoweth, Jeremiah Dapkey, Mike Hildreth, Adam Sant, Fred Leveau, David Chen, Eugene Park, Cory Roth, Pam Scheideler, Melissa Eccles, Lauren Brown, Shaunt Halebian, Ilana Reiser, Trevor O’Brien, Nick Velloff, Brian Jeremy, Marc Gowland, Justice Erolin, Sean Klosky, Sean Schricker, Jason Clark, David Cai, Jeremy Bunting, Neseem Ishaq, Sam Kite, Karl Pablo, Taylor Loftin, Tatiana Kazantseva, Greg Parsons, Bill Delrieu, Jim Kohatsu, Juliet Scott, Rachel Connelly, Chris Suchy, Daniel Du, Tito Goldstein, James Chacon, Judy Zhou, Christian Johansson, Carter Blackwood, Sal Gonzales, Edie Chae, Chris Brown, Lauren Barrocas, Tom Else, John Deschner, Kristie Weston, Ian Phillips, Kris Morrison, Jeffrey Blish, Susie Lyons, Bud Caddell, Tessa Bodey, Margarita Ballesteros