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Sensor Squid Relation Game project site launched

Reflective Livers Lisa and Becky have just launched a project page for the Sensor Squid Relation Game, a project for which they each got a short paper accepted to SIGCHI. Project page, Flickr photos.

AME/SENSIP Open House/Thanksgiving Social

Tuesday November 20, 1-3 PM
Matthews Center I-Stage, Room #222
Refreshments will be served
We are increasingly surrounded by extremely fine-grained, distributed sensor networks consisting of audio, video, and tactile sensing technologies. Computing is escaping the world of the desktop and getting back out into real, physical space. Despite the proliferation of raw sensing technologies, the problems of [...]

Another demo of the multi-touch screen interface

( academic and industry and sensing )

This one took place @ TED in February 2006.  It’s not as entertaining as the other videos floating around out there, but it’s somewhat engaging…
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=884017118027634444&q=jeff+han&hl=en
Enjoy!

fast computing..

A few weeks ago, the new york times did a nice story on Kazushige Goto, a research associate at UT Austin. What he has done is to create a high performance version of BLAS (basic linear algebra subroutines), by carefully exploiting the specific processor architecture details to optimize the libraries – and he did this [...]

Sensing meeting Notes

The meeting provided an overview of the sensing activities and sensing methods being applied in the following concentrations, education, Biofeedback and Rehabilitation and Interactive arts.
The current work in the education project is sensing using microphone arrays. Initially the microphone array is being designed to estimate location of the speaker. Higher level features hope to extracted [...]

Motion Analysis meeting on Thursday, Dec 1st

This is a brief summary of the MA meeting that took place on December 1st.
First, Harvey started throwing chairs around the room and screaming something about applications, while Jodi and I watched. Then Gang came and calmed Harvey down, and we got to business.
I presented some initial work on getting features from motion capture [...]