Often times we include a picture of our simulator in our publications. It turned out to be an interesting problem, because if we want to show a cab – we need light; if we want to show the projected scenery – we need to have a dark room: The obvious solution is to compose parts …
Monthly Archive: October 2008
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30
Oct
29
Effects of using a push-to-talk button for speech user interfaces on visual attention
Hello ecebloggers, I’m very proud today because I’m writing about my first experiment. The experiment builds on two of our previous studies. In one of them Zeljko Medenica found that when speech recognition performance is poor, having to use a push-to-talk button results in worse driving performance than using ambient recognition (you can find the paper on …
Oct
28
License Plate Experiment
The last few weeks I have been working on designing a new driving experiment which would compare different user interfaces for entering license plate numbers into the police cruiser system for checking records. The two user interfaces are manual and speech. To be able to achieve this, license plates had to be added into our …
Oct
18
Multitouch Space Invaders
Check out this cool multitouch game (via Interactive Multimedia Technology): Multitouch Space Invaders! from multitouch-barcelona on Vimeo. Andrew Kun
Oct
16
YouTube audio preview
Check out the new audio preview button on YouTube: Pretty neat, and it was inspired by web comic xkcd (via Lifehacker) Andrew Kun
Oct
13
KLAS Tour Guide and Navigation
As posted a few months ago, Matthew Lape and I were given the opportunity to work on KLAS, the Kingsbury Location Awareness System. With the help of Professor Andrew Kun as our adviser and Oskar Palinko as a source of valuable insight, we were able to create a simple navigation application and tour guide application …
Oct
10
Ubiquitous computing at Nine Inch Nails show
Hello ecebloggers, As some of you may know professor Andrew Kun is teaching a Ubiquitous computing course this fall. So far it’s been a lot of fun I’m a big fan of Nine Inch Nails. The band is known for its good music as well as their visualizations on shows. Recently they published their first …
Oct
09
Slideshare
I just ran across Slideshare, a (beta) website that lets you share slides (yes the name is descriptive). I uploaded my first set of (PowerPoint) slides, and now I can embed them in this post – very cool: P54 Presentation at 2007 ITU Fully Networked Car Workshop View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: …
Oct
08
The Tiltable TouchKit TableTop (TTT)
We have already reported on the arrival of the TouchKit as well as on its initial run. This time, we present our sturdy new mounting solution for the whole system. We have accomodated the display screen of the TouchKit in the middle of a hollow desktop. Here is the author with the solution. It can …