Literature review is a big part of a scientific underatkening. Thanks to the Internet, most papers are available on line. This resulted (at least for me) in a big number of papers that I read and stored for feature references… Welcome to the age of data mining. As a researcher I have yet another problem …
Monthly Archive: September 2008
Sep
26
UNH ECE on Facebook
The Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of New Hampshire now has a Facebook page. You can find it here. Show your support for UNH ECE by becoming a fan! And of course, you can use the page to make plans for Homecoming and the ECE Department’s 100 year anniversary celebration.
Sep
26
Project 10^100
Here’s the 10^100 website and a CNN story on the topic. Andrew Kun
Sep
25
The TouchKit Is Operational
After a couple of days fighting with scarce documentation, the TouchKit project, which I have written about here, is finally operational. It was tested with a helloworld and a drawing application, which came with the system. Here, you can see my colleague Mark operating the touch screen, which reacts by putting a red circle at …
Sep
23
Windows CE Virtual Memory Management: It's Influence on Project54
Here’s one for the books! First, let me ask a few questions. What do you do if your shiny new application causes your previously working system to crash? Well, that’s simple, you search through your code for days, line by line, until some function returns an error, then correct for it. What if you’ve searched …
Sep
22
Multitouch application: Microsoft Surface as hotel concierge
Check out this video showing the Microsoft Surface in Sheraton hotels: Apparently there’s one in Boston, and it looks like it’s the Sheraton next to the Prudential. [via Interactive Multimedia Technology] Andrew Kun
Sep
18
Panopticon and the scary side of ubicomp
Today in my ubicomp course we’re discussing Adam Greenfield’s talk on Everyware given at Keio University in 2006. One idea that Adam presented was that of the Panopticon, a prison in which the prisoners never know if they are watched or not. Adam points out that inhabitants of a ubicomp world may feel this way unless …
Sep
12
VTTI's Smart road
Hello ecebloggers, In my previous post I wrote about Naturalistic Driving and Analysis Symposium at Virginia Tech University. The most interesting event on the symposium was demonstration of the Smart road, a research facility managed by Virginia Tech Transportation Institute. It is a 2.2 mile twp-lane road with a capability to produce a wide range …
Sep
11
Projector phones could be neat for indoor navigation
I was just talking to Mark Taipan and Matt Lape who are working on an indoor navigation project that utilizes handheld computers. Their application allows users to see where they are on a map. Of course the small size of handheld computer displays limits the type of maps you can use. This is even more of …
Sep
10
The TouchKit Project
Our lab has recently acquired a TouchKit development system. It serves as a basic building block for creating multi-touch screen user interfaces. The TouchKit consists of an infra-red illuminated projection screen and a FireWire camera board. A projector has to be added to complete the system. Here is the initial setup: The image shows the …