One of Qianying's paper recently received the Brian Shackel Award at Interact 2005. This award is to recognize the most outstanding contribution in the form of a refereed paper submitted to and delivered at the Conference.

The award committee felt that our paper, "Visual Interface and Control Modality: An Experiment About Fast Photo Browsing on Mobile Devices" "combines theory with experiment and produces surprising results that can be explained in terms of the theories used to generate the initial hypotheses." They decided that "the paper is timely, could guide current product development and is good science. The design work is as good, with the theory driving the design options and underpinning evaluation. It thus is strong in all the key areas critical to HCI."