Last Friday, 22nd October 2010, Dylan Fransway, Zeljko Medenica, Mark Taipan and I attended the New England Chapter of the Human Factors Ergonomics Society (NEC-HFES) 2010 Student conference in Cambridge, MA. The event took place at the first floor conference room of the Microsoft New England Research and Development (NERD) Center. The conference featured 16 …
Monthly Archive: October 2010
Oct
29
Wearable Cameras at IACP 2010
The past couple of IACP’s showed the rise of camera technology and video recording in the law-enforcement arena. This year’s trade-show was no different. Ross and I came across a variety of wearable cameras. CATLab staff and students have been developing a mobile application for the Dover Mounted Patrol Unit. One of the problems faced …
Oct
27
IACP 2010
Project54 staff members Dr. W. Thomas Miller III, Ross Lenharth, and Mark Taipan recently attended the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) 2010 Conference held at sunny Orlando, Florida. IACP 2010 showcased a variety of law-enforcement related technologies and equipment. Aside from the traditional in-car vehicle equipment such as light bars, radars and radios, …
Oct
25
NEC HFES 2010 Student Conference
For a couple of years now our lab has been well represented in the New England Chapter of Human-Factors and Ergonomics Society’s (NEC HFES) student conference and this year was no exception. Traditionally, the conference is held in Boston and this year Microsoft Cambridge provided their meeting room for this event. The nice thing about …
Oct
21
Lexus Driving Simulator
The future of simulated driving has arrived… The developers at the Lexus research campus at Higashifuji, Japan, have created a highly sophisticated driving simulator. According to the automotive company, this is the largest and the most advanced driving simulator available today. The simulator serves as a symbolic pledge of Lexus’ dedication to the concept of …
Oct
20
Custom C# Image Button
Recently I was implementing an image button on a Windows Mobile 6.5 system. On the desktop you can simply extend the Button class and overload the OnPaint function to control the look and feel (for example adding custom image fields). However, in the Compact Framework version of .Net the Button control doesn’t actually draw itself …