Current Primary Tasks
Ambient Orb Study Paper
Living Lab Specifications
SoundWall Prototype
Find out how many classes I still need to take
1) Ambient Orb Study Paper
I've worked a bit more on how to restructure the paper, and I've been editing the orginal draft to match the revamped [...]
Current Primary Tasks
Ambient Orb Study Paper
Living Lab Specifications
SoundWall Prototype
Find out how many classes I still need to take
1) Ambient Orb Study Paper
After discussing the paper with Kay last week I've got a good idea of how the paper will be structured, and where the emphasis will [...]
I've been talking to all the people I can find from the Mitsubishi Electronics Research Lab in a mad attempt to talk them into giving us a DiamondTouch table. We used to have one but Yvonne took it to the UK.
When I was working on the DiamondTouch [...]
In many ways, this has been one of the most painful semesters to date. Usually, the beginning of the semester is chaotic, you have new classes, new meetings, new due dates, and new deadlines. However, usually you make it through your first one or two weeks and finally get a [...]
At CHI last year I was complaining to the Student Volunteer Chair about how much I hated the way SV's had to schedule their tasks. Each student is expected to work at least 20 hours to justify their free hotel and registration at the conference, and this is done by [...]
I added the macro code to my rss feed, lets see if it shows up in planet info
Long live Techno!
[...]There is an act that everyone does, but no one will admit it. I think its time that people just accept it as a natural act of human curiosity. I'm sure you've all guessed that I'm referring to the act of Googlig your own name to see what comes up [...]
I am working on a study that asks participants to figure out how to use a device that offers no affordances or clues as to what it actually does, and looks nothing like what it actually is. The device I am using is the [...]
A professor here at IU named Gregory Rawlins wrote an interesting book called “Moths to the Flame: The Seductions of Computer Technology.” The book is interesting because Rawlins is a futurist who does a very thorough job of taking into account lessons [...]
It may seem like a silly inquiry, but I've been doing some researching to find full definitions of Pervasive Computing, Ubiquitous Computing, and Ambient Intelligence in order to understand the difference between the three. It seems to me that people use all of these terms interchangeably, but I don't know [...]
I've been kicking around the idea of implementing some sort of awareness system for our lovely tower of power over here at Eigenmann. After talking to Yvonne and seeing Paul Dourish's talk on Place and Space, I think it would be a good exercise and could even evolve into a [...]
So over the past few weeks, I've been thinking more and more about "Ambient Intelligence." Specifically Ambient Display Devices. I had thought that the domain had already been viewed and discarded by the side of the road, however since I've started looking for examples, I'm finding them all over. [...]
I've been told that I am "blackballed" for my insidious acts in the PhD office over here at Eigenmann. Apparently, the file cabinets in the vacant offices were providing some sort of function, and my involvement in moving them so they could actually be used, has somehow altered the [...]
I purchased an Ambient Orb online from Ebay for only $40. They said that it did not work, but I plugged it in and everything seems to work correctly. It is pretty neat looking. Since someone owned it before me I have to wait and get the password chagned [...]
I've started to think seriously about applying for an internship this summer. Yvonne has suggested looking into intel's research labs. After poking around a bit on their website I discovered the Intel Ubiquitous Computing research lab. Several of the projects in the Cambridge lab look very interesting. However, [...]
Our paper entitled, "Extending Tabletops to Support Flexible Collaborative Interactions" was accepted to the first IEEE International Workshop on Horizontal Interactive Human-Computer Systems" (TableTop2006). We've put over a year of work into this paper and its quite a relief that it is going to be published. The sad part [...]
