As I’ve written here before, I really cannot believe how poorly IEEE Xplore works. I have what the IEEE calls the IEEE Member Digital Library. This is a $35/month (!) service that allows you to download 25 (!!!) papers a month. So, I just tried to download a paper with the following result: Seems pretty …
Monthly Archive: April 2008
Apr
29
A glove to operate wearable computers
Reading Engadget this morning, I stumbled across something rather interesting not only for myself, but for some of my colleagues here at Project54. Oszkar Palinko is heavily into research and experimentation using a glove for push to talk for the Project54 system. There is a local company called RallyPoint that has taken a glove that …
Apr
27
Get your Dilbert cartoon fast
The new dilbert.com is pretty slow. However, if you just want the strip, you can go to www.dilbert.com/fast and read away. On the other hand, the new site has nice features, e.g. you can get code to embed strips in your own website. So here it goes: Btw, I think those of you have a …
Apr
26
UNH ECE Open House
Last Saturday was the UNH ECE Department‘s open house (in fact this was the UNH College of Engineering and Physical Sciences open house). The Project54 lab was one of the labs prospective ECE students toured. Our visitors got a chance to test drive the Project54 driving simulator (newly equipped with an eye tracker). We also …
Apr
23
UNH ECE Senior Projects at the Undergraduate Research Conference (URC)
Each year at UNH, the Electrical and Computer Engineering Seniors join with other engineering disciplines in the Undergraduate Research Conference (URC). Here they present their research projects that they have been working on for months, some even up to a year. This year, the projects range from renewable energy to digital imaging processing to audio …
Apr
22
Make Money While Driving a Simulator!
The above title is the caption of a flier I’m starting to distribute around UNH campus these days. It is a call for potential subjects to participate in one of our experiments which will test a number of hypotheses. Among others, we will be testing how does our wireless glove work as a push-to-talk activator. …
Apr
22
Project54 and NHPTV datacasting effort showcased at National Association of Broadcasters convention
A demo featuring Project54 datacasting software was displayed at the 2008 National Association of Broadcasters convention. Last year, Project54 collaborated with the New Hampshire Public Televisionin a study to evaluate the application of one version of the technology to law enforcement problems. At this year’s NAB convention, Harris Corporation demonstrated the Project54 software and a new …
Apr
18
Papers accepted to Intelligent Environments 2008 conference
The Project54 lab will have three papers at the Intelligent Environments 2008 conference (to be held in Seattle, WA, July 21 and 22). Oszkar Palinko and I have a short paper and a demo paper, both related to our research on how press-to-talk buttons influence driving performance when used with in-car speech user interfaces. The …
Apr
17
Experiences in Boulder, CO
So a couple weeks ago, my colleague Ivan Elhart and I got to join Dr.Miller and Dr.Kun on a journey to Colorado for the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) conference. What can I say, it was a fabulous time. We arrived on Wednesday at 11pm (local time), so we just had time to grab some …