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 …
Category Archive: US travel
Travel to destinations in the US for work.
Mar
21
Global UGRAD Program – My UNH Experience
It’s been 7 months today since I arrived at UNH. I’m from Honduras, and came here as part of the Global UGRAD Program. I got accepted at the UNH ECE Department for the Computer Engineering program. Universities in the U.S. are very different from those in other countries, so it took some time to get used to so …
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 …
Jun
25
Reporting from Driving Assessment '09
During the fourth week of June 2009, the biannual Driving Assessment conference was held at the beautiful Big Sky Resort, Montana. This is one of the most important driving related conferences. Andrew Kun and I had a poster presentation here, with the following title: Comparison of the Effects of Two Push-to-Talk Button Implementations on Driver …
Feb
09
Reporting from MIAA at IUI'09
Hello Everyone, Yesterday, on February 8th 2009, I gave a presentation at the Multimodal Interfaces for Automotive Applications workshop, at this years Intelligent User Interfaces Conference. The title of my presentation was: Effects of Different Push-To-Talk Solutions on Subjective Driver Satisfaction. The presentation went very well. The listeners seemed to have a great connection with …
Dec
02
Behavioral Screening – Biometric Security
Interesting Israeli device “This ‘brain-fingerprinting,’ or technology which checks for behavioral intent, is much more developed than we think.” http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/12/02/airport.security/index.html
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 …
Aug
05
Visit to Microsoft Research
A couple of weeks ago I spent a day visiting Microsoft Research and gave a talk on our lab’s work on in-car speech user interfaces. My hosts were two Microsoft researchers, Tim Paek and Ivan Tashev. I was also accompanied by one of my graduate students, Oszkar Palinko. As part of the visit Ivan gave …
Jun
22
Reporting from YRRSDS08
My colleague, Zeljko Medenica and I are participating at this year’s Young Researchers’ Roundtable on Spoken Dialog Systems in Columbus, Ohio. This is a very interesting event with lots of young speech researchers from all over the world. There are also representatives from different research and development companies interested in spoken dialog systems like: Microsoft …