Last week my colleague Zeljko Medenica and I visited AgeLab of the Massachussetts Institute of Technology. The visit was organized by the New England Chapter of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (NEC-HFES). This laboratory is investigating the role of technology in the human aging process. One of the big issues that older people face …
Category Archive: Driving simulator
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Summer internship at MERL
This summer I have had a great opportunity to be an intern at Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs (MERL) in Cambridge, MA. This is not only a great prospect for my professional career, but also a chance to experience how working in a real company looks like. MERL is a daughter company of the Mitsubishi Electric …
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 …
Mar
23
High-Tech Day
Last Wednesday our Project54 lab was one of the hosts at the High Technology Day here at UNH. Lots of local high school students had a chance to learn first-hand about different areas that various laboratories at UNH’s electrical, computer engineering and computer science departments work on. Oskar, Mark, Erika and me had a chance …
Mar
12
Commute UX at Microsoft TechFest 2009
Check out the video below in which Ivan Tashev, Mike Seltzer and Y.C. Ju discuss the Commute UX project at TechFest 2009. Last summer Oszkar and I visited the MSR driving simulator lab and it’s great to see how quickly Ivan and co. are making progress with the simulator. And it’s pretty cool that the …
Mar
04
Paul Green Lecture & Simulator Open House
On April 2nd, 2009 our lab will host Paul Green, a distinguished Research Professor at UMTRI and the President of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society. Dr. Green will give a lecture on Human Factors Engineering as a part of the CEPS Frontiers Lecture Series. The lecture will also be an integral part of the …
Jan
26
DFT Driving Challenge
So apparently in the UK the Department of Transportation is called the Department for Transportation. This means that the acronym is DFT, which is confusing because DFT of course stands for Discrete Fourier Transform. So the question is, when transportation becomes fast in the UK will the DFT become the FFT? OK a little geeky …