One of my graduate students, Ed Bourbeau, successfully defended his MS thesis today. Ed created software for collecting, analyzing and visualizing human-computer interactions in police cruisers equipped with the Project54 system. This work is paving the way for future work on exploring how officers use the system in the field. The officers have three ways to accomplish in-car tasks: using the speech user interface (SUI), using the GUI and using the hardware interfaces provided by in-car device manufacturers. The future work, which will build on Ed’s work, will quantify which interfaces officers use for which tasks, it will attempt to provide explanations for these choices and it will help us design better user interfaces.
Ed gave an excellent presentation which was followed by a good number of questions from the audience. Here’s a picture showing Ed responding to one of the questions.
Ed is now moving to the Philadelphia area. Best of luck Ed!
Andrew Kun
1 comment
Oskar Palinko says:
July 30, 2007 at 10:12 am (UTC -4)
I attended this presentation. It was very well hosted by Ed. I know how much effort he put into creating his graphs and I think it was well worth it: they were very intuitive. I also liked the laid-back (but still professional) style of his presentation.