Sensecam
“Vicon Revue [http://www.viconrevue.com] is the commercial reincarnation of Microsoft’s Sensecam concept: a wearable digital camera that is designed to take photographs passively, without user intervention, while it is being worn. Its purpose is to support life-loggers wanting to track and document their everyday movements as digital memories. In combination with other physical sensors or additional image-recognition algorithms, the potential opportunities are enormous.”
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Tags: digital camera, digital memories, everyday movements, Health Care, image recognition, loggers, Microsoft, physical sensors, recognition algorithms, sensecam |
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| Posted: 5/28/10 6:00 am UTC by djp3 Make the First Comment | |
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Photo courtesy of paulworthington
Congratulations to Informatics faculty member Gillian Hayes and Informatics grad students Sen Hirano, Gabriela Marcu, Mohamad Monibi, David H. Nguyen, and Michael Yeganyan on having their paper, ‘Interactive Visual Supports for Children with Autism‘ accepted to Personal and Ubiquitous Computing Journal.
“Interventions to support children with autism often include the use of visual supports, which are cognitive tools to enable learning and the production of language. Although visual supports are effective in helping to diminish many of the challenges of autism, they are difficult and time-consuming to create, distribute, and use. In this paper, we present the results of a qualitative study focused on uncovering design guidelines for interactive visual supports that would address the many challenges inherent to current tools and practices. We present three prototype systems that address these design challenges with the use of large group displays, mobile personal devices, and personal recording technologies. We also describe the interventions associated with these prototypes along with the results from two focus group discussions around the interventions. We present further design guidance for visual supports and discuss tensions inherent to their design.”
Get a copy of this paper here: http://www.springerlink.com/content/106503/
Congratulations Gillian, Sen, Gabriela, Mo, David and Michael!
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Tags: autism, children, David H. Nguyen, education, Gabriela Marcu, Gillian R. Hayes, interface, Michael Yeganyan, Mohamad Monibi, paper published, Sen Hirano |
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| Posted: 5/27/10 6:00 am UTC by djp3 Add Your Comment | |
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There is something very cool about this wind-powered knitting machine. It makes an infinite tube of yarnliness, which is of marginal utility, but conceptually it is pretty neat IMHO. Sustainable, practical, local, colorful. Via mocoloco.
“The knitted material is harvested from time to time and rounded-off in individually packaged scarves. Each scarf has its own label which tells you in how much time it has been knitted and on which date.”
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Tags: art, knitting machine, sustainability |
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| Posted: 5/26/10 8:00 am UTC by djp3 Make the First Comment | |
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From left, Butts, Patterson, Venkatesh and Goldberg dissect social media from the vantage points of their individual fields.
From a CalIT2 Interface article which posted in full here.
Is the social media revolution real, or just hyperbole?
UC Irvine professors from four disciplines – humanities, business, social sciences and computer science – weigh in on this hot topic. They are David Goldberg, professor of comparative literature and director of the UC Humanities Research Institute; Alladi Venkatesh, professor of management and associate director of CRITO (The Center for Research on Information Technology and Organizations); Carter Butts, associate professor of sociology and director of the Networks, Computation and Social Dynamics Lab; and Donald Patterson, assistant professor of informatics and director of LUCI (Laboratory for Ubiquitous Computing and Interaction).
Q. What are some of the negative implications?
Patterson: As social networks begin to encompass all of life, they bring with them many of the same problems that we have in real, or non-digital, life. I think the assumption that everyone on your social network is a “friend” will be tested. We’ll need to learn how to deal with the people who won’t stop talking, stand too close, creep us out, but whom we can’t just wholesale disconnect from because of social and professional obligations.
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Tags: Alladi Venkatesh, CalIT2, Carter Butts, David Goldberg, Donald J. Patterson, facebook, social networks, twitter |
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| Posted: 5/25/10 4:03 pm UTC by djp3 Make the First Comment | |
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Congratulations to Informatics Professor Crista Lopes on being elected a Senior Member of the IEEE.
From the ICS Press Release here:
Dr. Lopes is best known as one of the co-inventors of Aspect-Oriented Programming. She conducts research in software engineering, specifically in large-scale source code search and analysis, and architectures for massive multi-user systems.
Congratulations Crista!
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Tags: aspect oriented programming, Crista Lopes, IEEE, software engineering, source code search |
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| Posted: 5/25/10 3:46 pm UTC by djp3 Make the First Comment | |
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Congratulations to Informatics undergraduate student, Sabel Braganza and her CSE team mates Jared Haren and Adrian Guzman for being named one of six national finalists in Google’s “Juicy Ideas Collegiate Competition”. Teams from MIT, Stanford, and University of Washington are among the other finalists. Informatics Faculty Member Donald J. Patterson helped advise them.
Ever wondered if Pippin has Wifi? Does the campus Starbucks take gift cards if so, then “UCI Dining” is the app for you!
UCI Dining grew out of experience gained in Informatics 133, Human Computer Interaction (Software) and some unstoppable student munchies.
Google press release here.
Congratulations Sabel!
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Tags: Adrian Guzman, contest, Donald J. Patterson, Google, Jared Haren, MIT, mobile app, Sabel Braganza, University of Washington |
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| Posted: 5/25/10 3:23 pm UTC by djp3 Add Your Comment | |
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Professor Bill Tomlinson
“Informatics professor Bill Tomlinson was honored with the Engaged Scholar Award for his efforts to advance students’ civic and service learning, and his contributions to the public good. Tomlinson, whose research focuses on using information technology to increase environmental awareness, has developed several user-friendly platforms that encourage novel approaches to global environmental issues.”
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Congratulations Bill!
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Tags: award, Bill Tomlinson, CalIT2, sustainability |
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| Posted: 5/19/10 5:28 pm UTC by djp3 Make the First Comment | |
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