Each Driving Assessment conference has been organized in the most beautiful locations. This year is no exception, with the venue taking place at amazing Squaw Creek Valley, CA. The scenery is simply gorgeous, as you can see in the picture below. This is probably the reason why this location was selected for the Winter Olympic …
Monthly Archive: June 2011
Jun
18
Pressurometer: Pressure Sensitivity Through Tagged Objects
This is another idea I have had over the last month working on Multi-Touch Environment under Andrew Kun, on Microsoft Surface. One of the key features lacking on the multi-touch surfaces is the ability to measure the pressure levels exerted by the user, which can be effectively used to gauze certain parameters that the user …
Jun
15
Scent Based Virtual Reality System
Researchers at the University of Tokyo, Japan are working on developing a virtual reality system that not only integrates sight and touch, but sense of smell as well. Their past research indicates that a person’s sense of smell can affect how certain foods taste. They developed a virtual reality apparatus composed of a camera, goggles, individual scent tubes, air pumps, and a …
Jun
11
Finger-Tagging: A Faster Approach To Gesture Creation
The advent of object-tagging on the Microsoft Surface, has opened up new methods of interacting with the touch environments. Although the major limitation is the unavailability of requisite physical objects at the time of gesture creation. The gesture developer has to answer certain questions when he creates the gesture library for the user: 1) How …
Jun
07
Calibrating Steering Encoder for UNH Driving Simulator
Since we upgraded our Drive Safety DS-600C driving simulator with the new version of the software, we noticed that the reading for the steering wheel angle was incorrectly calibrated. Namely, even though the steering wheel can be rotated about 1.5 full turns in both directions (which would amount to approximately -540° to +540° lock-to-lock) the …
Jun
07
Using Physical Objects As Time Sliders
Working on my current project I had a very useful idea crossing my mind. When users need to visualize data on charts and if they have to move through the x-axis, as in the following case (See Figure 1) Fig 1. Here we have a time dependent data. On a multi-touch screen we can have …
Jun
03
On the use of physical objects with Multi-Touch
On my current intern at the University Of New Hampshire under my mentor Andrew Kun , my work focuses on understanding the intractability of multi-touch with multi-touch. One of ideas that have already been implemented has been using the I-Pod style control, more like a puck to control any slider control. Here is a video …
Jun
03
Integrating Matlab With The .NET Framework
With data crunching applications being developed for applications such as Geographical Information Systems for Interactive Oil-Spill Surveys such as one used by Environmental Response Management Application® (ERMA) etc. the integration of the .NET framework with the Matlab environment becomes a necessity. This is a short tutorial on setting up your .NET for interaction with Matlab. …