Margaret Kivelson, one of the most distinguished space physicists, gave a talk at a colloquium held by UNH Physics Department on Nov. 10. 2008. She is a professor at UCLA and an author of a textbook most commonly used by students in space science field, which may be why most people in the field know …
Monthly Archive: November 2008
Nov
20
Handheld-display projection application survey
Hello ecebloggers, Throughout the semester, Ivan Elhart, Michael Farrar, and myself, have developed a handheld-display projection application, allowing users to transfer the handheld displays’ contents to an alternative viewing platform. We have recorded several scenarios demonstrating the system and would like your feedback. In each video, an image of the handheld displays’ contents will be …
Nov
20
More insight from NECHFES 2008
As Matt and Mike pointed out, several of the students here at Project54 attended the NECHFES 2008 Student Conference at Northeastern. Being from a suburb of Boston, it was nice to be in the city again and Northeastern served as a great venue for this conference. Several students from around New England (predominantly from the …
Nov
19
Don Dodge on why engineers drop out of school
Brad Gillespie, a friend and UNH alumnus, pointed me to this article by Don Dodge. Don is greatly concerned about the high dropout rate at US engineering schools and he offers some ideas on how to fix this problem. For schools like UNH some of his ideas sound good only in theory (e.g. provide full scholarship …
Nov
18
NECHFES Conference 2008
This year Mark Taipan and myself were fortunate enough to be selected as one of the 18 presenters for the New England Chapter of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (NECHFES) yearly student conference. This year the conference was held at Northeastern University in Boston, MA. Here we were able to not only learn about …
Nov
18
My talk at Northeastern University: NECHFES student conference
Hello ecebloggers, Last week, a group of us from the lab had traveled to Boston’s Northeastern University, attending the NECHFES student conference. It was my first conference experience and I do have to say that it surpassed my expectations. The atmosphere was very relaxed, and presentations were nicely sequenced with 10 – 15 minute breaks. …
Nov
17
Human-human experiments (NECHFES2008)
The title of my talk for NECHFES2008 student conference was “Multi-threaded spoken dialogs in hands-busy and eyes-busy environments: Human-human experiments”. That talk was mostly about our new experiments that we plan to run. We will use variation of a Twenty Questions game in our experiments. This game allows us to control the search space for …
Nov
15
iPhone/iPod Touch Disk Mode Solution
If you have had the chance to use an iPhone or iPod Touch, you might have noticed a “small” inconvenience: these devices do not appear as removable storage drives in Windows, like prior versions of iPod (classic, nano, etc). This effectively prevents the iPhone and iPod Touch to be used for data transfer. There is …
Nov
14
Reporting from NECHFES Conference '08
I’m reporting today from the NECHFES Student Conference held this year at the Northeastern University in Boston. Here you can see our participants: Matt, Mark, Zeljko, Nemanja and Mike. Alex was also present. So far we have heard very interesting driving simulator talks from NEU students. Hui Cai presented his results on estimating driver emotional …
Nov
13
Cameron Wake's Lecture at GIS Day 2008
Yesterday, at the GIS Day 2008, Cameron Wake gave the keynote speech on the topic of ‘Climate Change in the Northeast’. Professor Wake is a distinguished researcher in the field of climate change at UNH. Since GIS Day is an event geared towards elementary and high school students, Wake urged the millennium generation to talk …