Driving Assessment 2007 featured three poster sessions. One of these (the hybrid session) was accompanied by what the Ubicomp and Pervasive conferences call one-minute madness (in the DA version the sound of a gong was embedded in the presenter’s Powerpoint slide and the goal of course was complete your presentation before the gong). Here are …
Monthly Archive: July 2007
Jul
10
Don Norman's keynote at Driving Assessment 2007
Driving Assessment 2007 got off to a great start with Don Norman‘s keynote entitled “The Design of Future Things: Cautious Cars.” Don talked about automation and how it’s finding its way into automobiles. One of his main points was that partial automation is very dangerous. By partial automation Don means systems that help drivers when …
Jul
03
Scientific videos
Hello eceblogger readers! I am an avid reader of the news site slashdot.org (commonly known as /.) which had an article I thought to share with you all. It was a link to sciencehack.com which is a site that contains links to videos submitted by the public on the popular site youtube and Metacafe. One …
Jul
03
Comparing User Interfaces
Hello, my name is Zeljko Medenica and I am a research assistant with Project54. I am working on human-computer voice interactions in vehicles and this post is about one of the experiments that I conducted in our lab. Probably everybody knows how many electronic devices police officers have in their cruisers. Although they are very …
Jul
03
Live Earth – 7/7/07
Are you planning to watch the Live Earth concert on Saturday, 7/7/07? To learn more about efforts to solve the global climate crisis you can check out Al Gore’s website. The website also has a link to Live Earth. Andrew Kun
Jul
02
A Project54 Equipped Motorcycle
Recently Project54 completed its second and third motorcycle installations for Greenland, NH and Lee, NH, respectively. Because this was not a standard vehicle installation, we had to make a few adaptations, like compacting all the equipment (i.e. the radio, radar, battery system, CAN network, etc.) into an area approximately 60cm x 45cm x 15cm, which …