Let’s say that you and a friend are touring New York City together and end up separated, with no way to communicate between each other? Where do you meet? When? Popular culture has focused on the analysis of of…
I’ve been hard at work with a fellow classmate, Eric Gonzales, on our class project. We’re trying to develop novel exploration techniques for increasingly digital libraries. As catalogs become more computerized and automated storage and retrieval systems replace the old…
I just realized that I should make a post explaining some of the new material going on here. I’m currently taking a class from Andruid Kerne, of the Interface Ecology Lab. We’re analyzing the topics of curation and ideation and how…
We’ve done it! Texas A&M University finally has a student chapter for HFES. We’ll be having our first meeting on Monday night, and I’m scrambling around with Katie Tippey’s help, getting food arranged and making sure everything’s up to date….
I’m just writing a quick update from beautiful, mild San Diego. I’m putting the finishing touches on my presentation for tomorrow morning; I’ll be part of the Perception & Performance Technical Group– Display Research lecture session. I’ll be presenting Supporting Speeded…
We’re all familiar with the staggering incompetence that human beings can display. It can be frustrating to be an observer to the destructive, clueless behavior of others. The internet abounds with examples of this sort of behavior. It is easy…
In a recent piece of news, a dolphin distressed by a fish-hook sought out human divers to provide assistance. This, while heartwarming, has several distinct levels of astounding attached to it: How did the dolphin know to ask people for…
During my trip to Boston for the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society annual meeting, I got to go on a tour of Continuum, a innovative design consultancy. It was incredibly fascinating and resulted in a semi-permanent “kid in a candy…
There’s a new write-up of the Creative Haptic Interaction At-a-Distance project that I’ve been working on for the past year-and-a-half or so, over at The Aggie Engineer!
My friend, Mel White, was kind enough to take on a question that has been buzzing around in my head for awhile, particularly after the Bio-Inspired Swarms panel at Human Factors and Ergonomics Society annual conference (Mike Goodrich’s visualizations were…