Hi Ecebloggers, This time, I decided to write something about the current activities in my college, IIT Guwahati. After completing my internship at UNH , I always thought how I could promote the current research work at UNH and my pilot experiment work for obstacle testing during the internship period. Fortunately, the electronics department in …
Monthly Archive: August 2008
Aug
29
Oszkar Palinko defends MS thesis
Last Friday Oskar Palinko defended his MS thesis. Oszkar’s thesis was centered around the cool push-to-talk (PTT) glove he has designed. Oszkar ran a rather large user study (24 participants) to evaluate if the PTT glove outperforms a fixed PTT button. While in comparing driving performance when using the two PTT solutions Oszkar didn’t find …
Aug
20
Ubicomp course – Fall 2008
This fall I’ll be teaching a graduate level course on ubiquitous computing (ECE 992). The course will look at recent research in this field, or more accurately in a few segments of this field. Specifically, we’ll look at the visions of ubicomp, some applications, human-computer interfaces, context awareness and privacy. The course will revolve around reviews …
Aug
17
Tim Paek talk on mobile speech interaction
Last week Tim Paek of Microsoft Research visited the Project54 lab at UNH. Tim and I have been collaborating for about two years now, and this summer Tim is the supervisor of my PhD student, Zeljko Medenica, during Zeljko’s summer internship with MSR. As part of his visit Tim gave a talk on his research …
Aug
15
Using Adobe Premiere
As many of you may know, I spent a good part of the summer in front of the video-editing computer transcribing data from videos of experiments. I used Adobe Premiere to organize and view the videos. However, Adobe Premiere was made for movie/cinematic editing, not data transcription, so I had to “invent” a few ways …
Aug
11
Where did the multiple windows go in Excel 2007?
I have recently realized that when I open multiple documents in Excel they all show up separately on Taskbar but show up in the same window of Excel. This can be very aggravating for anyone who works with multiple documents and multiple monitors. After becoming fed up with Excel I did some research online and …
Aug
07
The Intelligent Environments Conference '08
A few day ago, Prof Andrew Kun, Andras Fekete and I visited the Intelligent Environments ’08 Conference in Seattle, WA. An earlier post already introduced this conference on eceblogger. We presented three works there. Andras had a great poster on the deployment of his new P54 PDA software. The poster session took place in the …
Aug
06
UNH Tech Camp Visits Project54
Students from the UNH Tech Camp recently visited the Project54 lab. These students ranged from 7th to 12th grade, and all but two were from New Hampshire. The camp is aimed to give young interested students a glimpse of the engineering and science world. The students were given a brief background of how P54 came …
Aug
06
Microsoft Sphere
Check out this post by Todd Bishop, and the very interesting video. It talks about the Microsoft Sphere, an adaptation of the multitouch Microsoft Surface to a spherical display, using Global Imagination hardware. Andrew Kun