Hello ecebloggers, Last week, a group of us from the lab had traveled to Boston’s Northeastern University, attending the NECHFES student conference. It was my first conference experience and I do have to say that it surpassed my expectations. The atmosphere was very relaxed, and presentations were nicely sequenced with 10 – 15 minute breaks. …
Category Archive: PDA
Nov
03
Using voice to tag digital photographs on the spot
Hi ecebloggers, In the past I’ve discussed the imaging application, and in particular, the tagging capabilities it provides. Now it’s time to put the application to work. Tagging of media, particularly photographs, has become a very popular and efficient means of organizing material on the internet and on personal computers. Over a short period of …
Aug
07
The Intelligent Environments Conference '08
A few day ago, Prof Andrew Kun, Andras Fekete and I visited the Intelligent Environments ’08 Conference in Seattle, WA. An earlier post already introduced this conference on eceblogger. We presented three works there. Andras had a great poster on the deployment of his new P54 PDA software. The poster session took place in the …
Jul
25
Project54PDA Imaging
Over the past few months I’ve spent much of my time developing the Project54PDA imaging applications. Finally, after some coding revisions and a small in-lab experiment, we’re just about ready for deployment. From the results, it seems as though tagging of images using handheld devices has a bright future, along with the note-taking and memo-recording …
May
01
Remote Control of the Vehicle Computer
The majority of law enforcement officers patrol areas while using a police vehicle for transportation. Inside the vehicle, if it has been equipped with the Project54 system, the officer is provided with multiple safe-and-convenient interfaces which allow him or her to complete a variety of daily tasks. What happens when the officer leaves the vehicle? …
May
01
Record Queries over a Cellular Network
One of the most notable features of the Project54 system is its ability to provide officers with an organized means of checking records. Once the required information on an individual has been entered into the vehicle computer, Project54 forwards the request to the mobile radio of the police cruiser for transmission. On return, the information …
May
01
Image Capture and Tagging
Over the past few months I have been developing several applications which allow for image capture, tagging, and organization on PDA and desktop devices, all of which were demonstrated at the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) conference in Boulder, CO in early April. Last week I had presented the imaging application to Lieutenant Mark Liebl …
Apr
18
Papers accepted to Intelligent Environments 2008 conference
The Project54 lab will have three papers at the Intelligent Environments 2008 conference (to be held in Seattle, WA, July 21 and 22). Oszkar Palinko and I have a short paper and a demo paper, both related to our research on how press-to-talk buttons influence driving performance when used with in-car speech user interfaces. The …