This year’s Eye Tracking Research and Applications conference is held in picturesque Santa Barbara, California. This gathering is the premier venue for cutting-edge eye tracking research in the world. The keynote speech was given by Andrew Campbell of Dartmouth College. He is interested in figuring out how smartphones can be used to infere about people’s …
Category Archive: Conferences
Mar
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Dec
19
AutomotiveUI 2011
Last week professor Kun and I came back from AutomotiveUI 2011. This time the conference took place in beautiful Salzburg, Austria. The conference was hosted by the University of Salzburg, located in the city’s “Old Town,” which is well known for its baroque architecture and was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1997. …
Oct
26
Experiences from the 2011 NEC HFES conference
Ten days ago Project54 students once again attended the annual NEC HFES student conference. According to the organizers, this year’s conference broke all records with respect to the number of submitted student papers. The picture below shows how the atmosphere at the conference looked like. There were 18 presenters in total, which amounted to the …
Oct
19
2011 NEC HFES Student Conference
This past Friday I traveled to Boston for the 2011 Student Conference organized by the New-England Chapter of Human Factors and Ergonomics Society. It was hosted at the Microsoft NERD Center in Cambridge, with a beautiful view of the Charles River Basin, shown in the figure above. Project54 had seven UNH graduate and undergraduate students in attendance: Zeliko Medednica, Shawn …
Sep
19
Experiences from MobileHCI 2011
This year’s MobileHCI conference was held in wonderful Stockholm, Sweden. I was lucky enough to have both a paper accepted for publication and also to serve as a student volunteer. Stockholm is a beautiful city. With its 14 islands and numerous bridges, it is rightly referred to as the “Venice of the North. “ Below …
Jul
06
Pupillometry presentation at Driving Assessment 2011
On June 29th I gave a lecture presentation at the Driving Assessment conference held at Squaw Creek Resort on beautiful Lake Tahoe, CA. The title of the talk was Exploring the Influence of Light and Cognitive Load on Pupil Diameter in Driving Simulator Studies. You can find our accompanying conference paper here. After the lecture …
Jun
30
First impressions from Driving Assessment 2011
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 …
Feb
11
A Visit to NavLab at Carnegie Mellon University
At this year’s AutmotiveUI Conference in Pittsburgh I met Aaron Steinfeld who was kind enough to give us a tour of NavLab at the world renowned Robotics Institute of CMU. The following photo shows Aaron with the latest NavLab vehicle, No 11. The lab focuses on developing autonomous vehicles, a.k.a. robot cars. They are equipped …
Dec
17
Automotive UI 2010
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 …
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. …