Introduction of an author.
Jan
28
I am Ivan Razumenić, an Electrical Engineering senior exchange student from Serbia. After the eventful first semester at UNH and ECE department, and halfway through the exchange program, I would like to share my experience and hopefully motivate some of you for study abroad programs. I will briefly talk about academic, student life, and cultural aspects …
Jul
15
While working under Andrew Kun in Project54, I have been researching and developing applications for the Microsoft Surface for my Senior Project. This project has eventual collaboration with other schools and professional groups working toward a multi-touch application which controls a fleet of multiple unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAVs. Other groups have developed similar UAV …
Jul
11
My partner Shawn and I gave a presentation a couple weeks ago focused on the games available for the Surface. For our Senior Project we are working on designing a virtual air hockey game for the Microsoft Surface, I will be focusing my work on creating a controller that tracks a users movements and how …
Feb
03
Two new SeeingMachines eye trackers have arrived to the P54 lab. They have successfully survived their long trip from Australia in their well rugged cases. We have already one eye tracker from the same company installed in our driving simulator. This tracker has provided us with lots of interesting new data on driver behavior. Some …
Sep
10
Our lab has recently acquired a TouchKit development system. It serves as a basic building block for creating multi-touch screen user interfaces. The TouchKit consists of an infra-red illuminated projection screen and a FireWire camera board. A projector has to be added to complete the system. Here is the initial setup: The image shows the …
Jul
31
As a part of Project54, we have a newly formed Radio Testing Lab which is used for performing tests on projects related to the usage of Land Mobile Radios. Currently we are working on two projects that attempt to solve problems associated with the utilization of mobile radios. While the first project provides a solution …
Jul
30
The title of this post was the first sentence that popped into my mind, when I figured out that our DriveSafety simulators can be divided into many small, so called SingleBox, simulators. The title is of course an hommage to Clarke and Kubrick‘s timeless work 2001: A Space Odyssey. In this movie Dave Bowman realizes, …
May
21
My colleague Andras Fekete and I had a chance to visit the Forney Museum of Transportation in Denver, on our journey with Dr. Miller and Dr. Kun to Colorado for the National Institute of Justice conference. The museum started as the private collection of Mr. J. D. Forney with only a few cars. Today, it …
Mar
05
Usually, I’m skeptical about new ideas coming from my co-worker and good friend Alex Shyrokov, but this time I have to admit that he was right. He showed me a small application called FreeMind, that allows to create and manage mind maps. I was unaware of the existence of such maps, though i might have …
Jan
07
Last week we received our newest research tool, a state-of-the-art eye-tracker, called faceLAB, product of Seeing Machines Inc. It uses a pair of stereo cameras to track the direction of the subject’s gaze. Not only the eyes are tracked, but head position and orientation too. Based on the collected data, it calculates fatigue measures (for …