{"id":2118,"date":"2025-03-28T10:08:42","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T10:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hicup.famnit.upr.si\/?p=2118"},"modified":"2025-03-29T19:57:21","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T19:57:21","slug":"our-paper-wins-acm-iui-2025-best-paper-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hicup.famnit.upr.si\/index.php\/2025\/03\/28\/our-paper-wins-acm-iui-2025-best-paper-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Paper Wins ACM IUI 2025 Best Paper Award"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Our paper, <a href=\"https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/doi\/10.1145\/3708359.3712073\">&#8220;Text-to-Image Generation for Vocabulary Learning Using the Keyword Method&#8221;<\/a> has received the Best Paper Award at the <a href=\"https:\/\/iui.acm.org\/2025\/\">ACM IUI 2025 Conference<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"723\" src=\"https:\/\/hicup.famnit.upr.si\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/PXL_20250327_0722185642-1-1024x723.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2126\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hicup.famnit.upr.si\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/PXL_20250327_0722185642-1-1024x723.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/hicup.famnit.upr.si\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/PXL_20250327_0722185642-1-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hicup.famnit.upr.si\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/PXL_20250327_0722185642-1-768x542.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hicup.famnit.upr.si\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/PXL_20250327_0722185642-1-1536x1085.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/hicup.famnit.upr.si\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/PXL_20250327_0722185642-1-2048x1446.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Our research explores the use of AI-generated images to enhance foreign language vocabulary learning through the keyword method. By externalizing mental associations with AI-generated visuals, we demonstrated a significant improvement in vocabulary retention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/hicup.famnit.upr.si\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/PXL_20250325_104828753-2-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2127\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hicup.famnit.upr.si\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/PXL_20250325_104828753-2-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/hicup.famnit.upr.si\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/PXL_20250325_104828753-2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hicup.famnit.upr.si\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/PXL_20250325_104828753-2-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hicup.famnit.upr.si\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/PXL_20250325_104828753-2-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/hicup.famnit.upr.si\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/PXL_20250325_104828753-2-2048x1152.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The ACM IUI conference is a premier international venue for research merging AI and HCI ranked as an A conference according to <a href=\"https:\/\/portal.core.edu.au\/conf-ranks\/1101\/\">ICORE<\/a>. Winning the Best Paper Award at this prestigious event reflects the impact and potential of our work in shaping the future of intelligent user interfaces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Attygalle, N.T., Kljun, M., Quigley, A., \u010copi\u010d Pucihar, K., Grubert, J., Biener, V., Leiva, L.A., Yoneyama, J., Toniolo, A., Miguel, A., Kato, H. and Weerasinghe, M., 2025, March. Text-to-Image Generation for Vocabulary Learning Using the Keyword Method. In Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (pp.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/doi\/10.1145\/3708359.3712073\">1381-1397<\/a>). <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1145\/3708359.3712073\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1145\/3708359.3712073<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Follow HICUP Lab in its official channels for more updates:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>X (formerly Twitter) account:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/HicupLab\">https:\/\/x.com\/HicupLab<\/a><br>Website:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/hicup.famnit.upr.si\/\">https:\/\/hicup.famnit.upr.si<\/a>\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For feedback regarding our media content, you may contact our&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:michelle.fernando@famnit.upr.si\">Social media and web manager<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our paper, &#8220;Text-to-Image Generation for Vocabulary Learning Using the Keyword Method&#8221; has received the Best Paper Award at the ACM&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2124,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awards","category-media","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hicup.famnit.upr.si\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hicup.famnit.upr.si\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hicup.famnit.upr.si\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hicup.famnit.upr.si\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hicup.famnit.upr.si\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2118"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/hicup.famnit.upr.si\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2144,"href":"https:\/\/hicup.famnit.upr.si\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2118\/revisions\/2144"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hicup.famnit.upr.si\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hicup.famnit.upr.si\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hicup.famnit.upr.si\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hicup.famnit.upr.si\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}