Hello readers! I come to you with a post on my travels in Hungary. This summer I had the opportunity to vacation there. For those of you wishing for a change of scenery from UNH, I suggest you take advantage of the exchange program offered by UNH to go visit BUTE (Budapest University of Technology and Economics). The program is perfectly compatible with your …
Monthly Archive: August 2007
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Aug
23
Hazardous Driving Events
I would first like to say I have thoroughly enjoyed my 3 weeks interning at Project54. During my time here, I have created four “hazardous” traffic incidents. Hazardous in the sense that there is perceived danger, which requires the driver to take preventative actions to avoid collisions or accidents. While none of these are commonplace …
Aug
22
Chris Gaudreau defends MS thesis
Christopher Gaudreau, one of my graduate students for the past 2 years, has defended his MS thesis. Chris worked on developing software for a handheld computer version of the Project54 system. Chris’ software enables officers to interact with the in-car Project54 system from outside the cruiser. Chris conducted a pilot deployment of the software in …
Aug
21
Owen Derby presentation on driving simulator scenarios
Owen Derby, a participant of the St. Paul’s Advanced Studies Program, spent several weeks during this summer working in the Project54 lab. He created several scenarios for the Project54 driving simulator. The scenarios are to be used in testing driver distraction. Here is a picture of Owen during the presentation he gave about his work at …
Aug
19
Science-Oriented Video Website
Skimming Slashdot today, I stumbled across a Youtube-esque site for the science community. It’s called SciVee and is operated by the Public Library of Science (PLoS), the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC). According to their about page, SciVee provides a place for scientists to attach video content to papers …
Aug
16
Ubicomp vs. pervasive computing vs. ambient computing
Ever wonder what the difference is between ubiquitous computing (ubicomp), pervasive computing, ambient computing, and a plethora of other terms used by researchers to refer to interconnected computing devices embedded into the world around us (hmm, is this a definition?). Albrecht Schmidt takes a crack at making sense of the different terms in this post …
Aug
15
Speech Interface Accuracy and Driving Performance
Hello again. This year was very productive for our papers at different conferences, so we are getting ready for another one. This time we published a paper at the conference called Interspeech 2007, which will be held at the end of August in Belgium. Our paper, The Effect of Speech Interface Accuracy on Driving Performance, …
Aug
10
A Wireless Push-To-Talk Glove
Hello, My name is Oskar Palinko. I’m a grad student at UNH. For some time now, I have been working on a wireless glove push-to-talk interface for Project54. I inserted push-buttons into the fabric of a glove, under the fingertips of the index finger and the thumb. These buttons activate an RF remote controller (AirClick) …
Aug
09
On the importance of reading
Here is an interesting article from the New York Times on the reading habits of successful CEOs. Andrew Kun
Aug
07
Microsoft Surface
While my main research interest is in speech user interfaces, I have to say that the Microsoft Surface looks very nifty. I really like the ideas for interaction between virtual objects and physical objects shown in the third (rightmost) video on the Surface website. By the way, I found out about the Surface from my …