This November, a few of my colleagues and I attended the Automotive UI 2010 Conference, held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The conference attracted a significant number of high quality presenters active in the field of automotive user interface research and design. It was held during two consecutive days and had the Bill Gates building at the …
Monthly Archive: December 2010
Dec
17
Dec
13
AutoUI 2010 Illumination Poster Presentation
Alongside other Project54 members in November I visited the 2010 AutomotiveUI Conference held at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA. This time I presented a poster about our research on the effects of illumination and cognitive load on pupil diameter. The abstract to this poster can be found here. The poster session was very successful. …
Dec
09
Experience at AutoUI2010
I had the opportunity this past October to attend the conference Automotive UI 2010 at Carnegie Melon. Not only did I get a chance to see my colleagues in action, but I also was able to experience my first conference poster session. In addition to Oszkar’s and Zeljko’s great posters, there were other posters that …
Dec
05
Illumination Experiment
Amongst the many metrics that an eye tracker generates, pupil diameter as a metric has grabbed the attention of many eye tracking researchers. It is well known that the pupil diameter changes with respect to stimuli such as pain, arousal, auditory signals, cognitive demands and illumination etc. As an intern at the Project54 lab at …
Dec
02
Garrett Weinberg's Visit
As a continuation of the great series of lectures in the ECE900 Graduate Seminar, on November 18th we hosted Garrett Weinberg of the Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL). Garrett is a Member of the Research Staff at MERL in Cambridge, MA and I had a chance to work with him for the second year in …