An interesting poster was presented by Mark Micire from the University of Massachusetts at Lowell and Brenden Keyes from Mitre Corp. at last week’s IUI’09 Conference. It dealt with using a multi-touch table to control a mobile robot agent. Multi-touch displays are getting more prominent in different interaction tasks. Here, a physical system is controlled …
Monthly Archive: February 2009
Feb
12
Light Box
Recently, I’ve been working on a small project that allowed me to take high quality pictures of any small object such as a PDA or cell phone. I built the light box, which allows me to control the amount of light that enters the area of the object I’m trying to take a picture of. …
Feb
12
CEPS Roundtable on Research Proposals
On Tuesday UNH CEPS faculty gathered for a roundtable discussion on navigating the process of submitting research proposals to various federal agencies. The event was organized by Janet Campbell, Associate Dean for Research, and it featured eight panelists. Each panelist was charged with saying a few words about successful strategies for getting funding from a …
Feb
10
Image Processing for Intelligent User Interfaces at IUI'09
Trevor Darrell a distinguished professor from UC Berkeley gave a very interesting invited talk yesterday at IUI’09 on the role of image processing in making user interfaces more intelligent. He elaborated on the state-of-the-art of image recognition. There are essentially two categories of this field: 1) instance level recognition and 2) category level retrieval. The …
Feb
09
Reporting from MIAA at IUI'09
Hello Everyone, Yesterday, on February 8th 2009, I gave a presentation at the Multimodal Interfaces for Automotive Applications workshop, at this years Intelligent User Interfaces Conference. The title of my presentation was: Effects of Different Push-To-Talk Solutions on Subjective Driver Satisfaction. The presentation went very well. The listeners seemed to have a great connection with …
Feb
03
The New Eye Trackers Have Arrived
Two new SeeingMachines eye trackers have arrived to the P54 lab. They have successfully survived their long trip from Australia in their well rugged cases. We have already one eye tracker from the same company installed in our driving simulator. This tracker has provided us with lots of interesting new data on driver behavior. Some …