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Since completing my Ph.D., I have been working as a HCI Researcher and Software Lead on the TunePad project. TunePad is a tool for creating music using the Python programming language. It has various musical instruments (bass, drums, synthesizer, sequencer etc.) that are programmable, a healthy library of tutorials
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From my childhood, I have loved cars; perhaps it should not be surprising that my graduate studies would involve cars in some form or the other. However, I count myself as being extremely fortunate that my advisor (Mike!) let me to formulate and investigate a research problem for my PhD
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The Digital Rails project was done in partnership with the fine folks at Chicago's Field Museum. The museum had recently opened up a state-of-the-art gallery called the Hall of China with the intention 0f educating museum visitors about China's complex history using historical/cultural artifacts. Quoting
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When I started working at the TIDAL Lab in 2012, a project that investigated family practices around appliances and household energy usage was already in place (NSF grant). Over the next couple of years, we developed two "board games" to investigate if a thoughtfully designed board game can
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GhostHunter started as an offshoot of the GreenHomeGames NSF grant, where we were exploring ways to augment traditional heating and cooling systems controls (such as the thermostats) in homes to help families learn about their energy footprint. The idea was simple, look for ways to way energy use more "
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We added various actuators, sensors, and a micro-controller to a frisbee that could be used to give throw feedback to an ultimate frisbee player. Here's an excerpt from the paper: Ultimate frisbee is a rapidly growing sport that is played in more than 42 countries. Although it is
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This was Jesse's Master's thesis project that we got to collaborate on. By this point in time, our lab had been researching Organic User Interfaces and flexible display interaction techniques that involved bending/twisting the display for years, but Jesse had this idea of combining touch-input
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Unifone was Tre's (Andreas Hollatz) brainchild and ended up being the project that directly led to his Master's degree/thesis. Tre built all the hardware and the software for the project. Luckily for me, David and Tre let me collaborate on the paper writing, illustrations and
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Part-I of my Master's thesis (Remote Multitouch: In-Air Pointing Techniques for Large Display Interactions) where we were looking at how well in-air gestures can work for data manipulation tasks on a large vertical display. We designed and built a docking task where participants would either use dual laser
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Part-II of my Master's thesis (Remote Multitouch: In-Air Pointing Techniques for Large Display Interactions) where we were looking at how well in-air gestures can work for data manipulation tasks on a large horizontal/tabletop display. The ergonomics of a horizontal display, along with the position of a user
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About 8-months into my Master's program, my advisor (Roel) gave me an idea to work on a project that ended up becoming a precursor to my thesis. The idea was to use the lab's Vicon Motion Capture system to build a video blending application. By this