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HCI Student Group Talks List - FA07 (pdf)
HCI Student Group Talks List - SP08 (pdf)
- Adam Faeth is presenting Monday at 2:10 within Howe Hall room number 20.
Presentation Entitled: Touch, Cut and Deform That Which Does Not Exist
A few words from Adam-I work with Chris Harding and Mike Oren on a system that enables the manipulation of shapes in three dimensions using haptics. I'll start with a quick overview of haptics and the tools we use to render touch using a computer. Then I'll talk specifically about my work cutting and deforming triangular meshes, a representation of shapes on the computer. After that, I hope to spend most of our time giving you a chance to touch, cut, and deform shapes that don't really exist; experience and interact with the cutting and deforming work in progress on our system.
- Janea Triplett is presenting Monday at 2:10 within Howe Hall room number 20
A few words from Janea about her presentation Monday:
HCI professionals are increasingly asked to get to know their users. Well talk
about analyzing social settings from a sociological and anthropological view
point as well as discuss what HCI researchers like Beyer and Holtzblatt write
about contextual design. Issues related to collecting qualitative data will be
reviewed. Then well spend a few minutes learning how to analyze data from a
grounded theory perspective.
- Jeremiah Still is presenting Monday at 2:10 within Howe Hall room number 20
Presentation Entitled: How Does Eye Tracking Inform the Interface Designer?
Only information that receives focused attention is likely to gain conscious awareness. Thus, knowing where attention is focused spatially provides the designer with valuable insight into what the user is actually aware of. Recently, designers have been measuring spatial attention through direction of gaze. Nevertheless, direction of gaze is not necessarily synonymous with the user's focus of attention. Therefore, what may and may not be inferred from eye tracking data?
- A few words from Andrew Koehring about his presentation Monday at 2:10 within Howe Hall room number 20:
Presentation Entitled: Experiences from the SAGES conference: VR meets medicine
In April, myself and a few others from my research group attended the annual meeting for the Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons. In the talk, I'll be going over some of the research that got us there as well as other work in the field. Also, I will discuss my experience both as an attendee and as "faculty" ( i.e. giving the same 2 minute demo to hundreds of surgeons with minimal knowledge of VR technology). If time permits, I'll throw in some augmented reality demos.
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Presentation Entitled: Adolescent CyberConnections: Cyberculture, Identity Construction, and Peer Interaction among Adolescents in 2007
Adolescents seemed to have appropriated the internet as a space to extend the social networks they establish in real life. The most popular platforms include social networking sites (SNSs), where postings that deal with such intimate issues as sexual orientation are presented, as well as massive multiplayer online role playing games (MMORPGs) that provide anonymity through the use of the virtual body of an avatar. These media and their appropriation by a young crowd present a new paradigm for the study of the construction of identity. What kind of information adolescents share online? What drives their choices when it comes to portraying themselves? What are the social norms that guide interactions among adolescents in the web? My research investigates adolescents' online social networks and the impact these interactions have in the formation of a net culture.
Presentation Entitled: The Usability Study of the Census In Schools Web Applications for
Grades 3-6
This presentation details the findings from a usability study performed on Web pages developed by the United States Census Bureau for children in grades 3-6. In the past, the Census Bureau's Web site has targetted a mature and educated audience where the content available for children was limited and not "kid-friendly." Recently the agency developed animated cartoon-like pages to expand their audience to younger children. The new pages included activities that involve counting and coloring pages, memory games, word finds, quizzes, and a state facts for students information site. These pages were tested in two segments. The first phase involved testing of children in grades K-2 and the second phase tested grades 3-6. This talk will present the reasoning that went into the decision making for designing the study in addition to the results of the tests.
Presentation entitled: Enhancing multi-touch tabletop displays with hand-tracking
I will be giving a brief background on multi-touch technology and the benefits of the technique. Then I will talk in more detail about our specific system at VRAC, which uses frustrated total internal reflection for touch sensing and is augmented with computer vision hand-tracking. The goal of our work is to make a collaborative tabletop display that tracks user identities in an unobtrusive way.
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