Last Friday, April 10th 2009, Project54 students visited MIT to hear Patrick Baudisch‘s lecture on Back-of-Device Interaction. Patrick is a research scientist at Microsoft Research and an Affiliate Professor at the University of Washington. He presented his findings on researching back-of-device interfaces, which is an interesting new concept of human-computer interaction. A predecessor of the …
Monthly Archive: April 2009
Apr
11
Hotmaps
Have you ever wondered about where people most often look at when searching online maps? Microsoft Research has the answer. I recently found out that they released a free tool called “Hotmaps“, which collects statistical information about the frequency of people looking at different areas on the world map, and then displays collected data as …
Apr
07
Report from Paul Green's Lecture and Open House
On Thursday, April 2nd 2009, Paul Green visited our lab. At that time he gave a talk on Human Factors Engineering and spent the whole day at our lab talking to students and visitors of the Open House. Dr Green is a distinguished Professor at UMTRI and the president of the Human Factors and Ergonomics …
Apr
04
CATLab Presents for UNH CEPS Open House
Last Saturday, March 28th, the University of New Hampshire had its annual College of Engineering and Physical Science (CEPS) Open House for incoming Freshmen. This event is designed to share the work and research that is being done at the university by the various faculty and staff with prospective students and their families. Through this …