See what Matt Cookson, Associate Vice Chancellor for External Relations for the University System of New Hampshire, has to say about opportunities for young professionals in NH: I fully agree with his assertion that NH is a great place to live and raise a family. Andrew Kun
Monthly Archive: March 2009
Mar
26
SiMPE Workshop at MobileHCI 2009
The call for papers for the Fourth Workshop on Speech in Mobile and Pervasive Environments (SiMPE) is now available. The workshop will focus on speech user interfaces for pervasive (ubiquitous) computing applications. SiMPE will be held in conjuntion with MobileHCI 2009 in Bonn. This is the fourth year SiMPE is being organized and I’m thrilled …
Mar
25
Coffee and barcodes
I was visiting family when I was introduced to a coffee maker that uses barcode technology. The Bosch device below uses a barcode reader to decide how to prepare your coffee. The coffee comes in small cups (similar to the K-cups we use at home), and the cups carry the barcode the coffee maker reads: …
Mar
23
High-Tech Day
Last Wednesday our Project54 lab was one of the hosts at the High Technology Day here at UNH. Lots of local high school students had a chance to learn first-hand about different areas that various laboratories at UNH’s electrical, computer engineering and computer science departments work on. Oskar, Mark, Erika and me had a chance …
Mar
19
Collaboration on documents
I was advised to use FolderShare application to share documents with my collaborators. But, in fact, we already have subversion for our code development. This automatically raised a question of why would we use FolderShare if we already have subversion installed on our server and in operation. It is not reasonable to compare subversion with …
Mar
12
Commute UX at Microsoft TechFest 2009
Check out the video below in which Ivan Tashev, Mike Seltzer and Y.C. Ju discuss the Commute UX project at TechFest 2009. Last summer Oszkar and I visited the MSR driving simulator lab and it’s great to see how quickly Ivan and co. are making progress with the simulator. And it’s pretty cool that the …
Mar
11
Paul Ossenbruggen Discusses Traffic, Denise Markow Introduces NHDOT TMC
On Monday UNH Civil Engineering Professor Paul Ossenbruggen gave a talk in a joint ECE-Math seminar on the topic of traffic. His talk was inspired by Tom Vanderbilt’s book which is also entitled Traffic. Paul introduced a number of interesting topics, such as the Braess’ paradox, system optimization issues and the use of intelligent transportation …
Mar
06
Breathalizer watch and social networks
So, I wonder how much user data was gathered for the system shown in this video: Ride.Link – Scenario from MIT Mobile Experience Lab on Vimeo. My guess would be that, the more drunk the user is, the less likely he/she is to use the nifty breathalizer. Andrew Kun
Mar
04
Paul Green Lecture & Simulator Open House
On April 2nd, 2009 our lab will host Paul Green, a distinguished Research Professor at UMTRI and the President of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society. Dr. Green will give a lecture on Human Factors Engineering as a part of the CEPS Frontiers Lecture Series. The lecture will also be an integral part of the …
Mar
02
Applications of Microsoft Embedded Systems
Hi all, Last Wednesday on February 27th, 2009, I had the wonderful opportunity of speaking about Applications of Microsoft Embedded Systems to some ECE and CS students here at UNH. Specifically, I gave a brief overview regarding embedded systems (they aren’t just your HCS12 Motorola Controller with one or two sensors!) and how Microsoft fits …