Educating Machine Learning to Game Designers: Accepted CHI 2019 LBW
This fall, I have had the pleasure of working with UX Designer Jiachi Xie on QUBE; an interactive visualizer focusing on machine learning (ML) education for game designer. As a researcher on this p...Read More
Two New Papers: CHI 2019 and IUI SC 2019
I have been continuing my research on adaptive techniques for Voice User Interfaces (VUIs). Recently, I have had two paper accepted based on studies related to my dissertation work. Our latest stu...Read More
UX of VUIs with DiscoverCal
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DiscoverCal is a voice-controlled calendar display for a smart home or office setting. Through this application, we are exploring user experience design techniques for Voice User Interfaces (VUIs)....
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Improving UX of Gesture Control with Touch
(Case Study)
I designed and developed an approach for improving gesture control by combining it with touch input to address its key shortcomings: speed, accuracy, and live mic syndrome. My touch-enhanced gestur...
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Participate in Story and Game Research Projects
Help out my peers today by participating in their research projects. These are both PhD level projects looking for recruits. Each study is done online in one sitting! No traveling into a lab. The...Read More
Volunteers Wanted for Gesture Control Study
###Are you in the Philadelphia area? ###Volunteer to participate in a gesture control study! Located in University City, this 30 minute study will allow you to use new gesture control technol...Read More
WebSocket Motion Next Steps
I have continued to work on my WebSocket Motion project. I now have Acceleration X, Y, and Z data sending from the device to the desktop along with Alpha, Beta, and Gamma rotation. I am worried tha...Read More
Motion & Socket.io
Last week I had two major bugs with my websocket and motion project. You had to refresh to see new users and users were duplicated in the application. In class when I demoed the project, it crashe...Read More
WebSocket & Motion Testing
By the end of this term I originally wanted to create a color changing application that you could hit a button and it would change the background color of the website for anyone currently visiting ...Read More
Gathering Accelerometer Data
##Color Change Update Last week I got my color changing web app working. It was only a one page website with a button on it. When a user visited the website, they could click the button to change ...Read More
Websocket & Heroku
This week I worked on getting the color exercise using websocket completed. I wanted to create a site where you can go to a remote URL, click a button, and the background color of the site would ch...Read More
First WebSocket Exercises & Revised Plan
This week I started experimenting with WebSocket. The book I am using, WebSocket Essentials, left a lot to be desired. I found that the first examples were vague. The author uses the term, “It’s pr...Read More
New Project Plan for Gesture Control
I like to call this point in my thesis my “mid-thesis life crisis.” I believe it is fitting. Up until now, I have been working on testing touch and gesture control on three screen sizes: small (iPh...Read More
A Review of Gesture Schemes
To begin analyzing gesture commands, I need to pick a gesture scheme. This week, I have been looking at commercial and experimental gesture control devices and what commands they have installed. I ...Read More
Myo Gesture: Testing Summary
For the past three month I have been working with the Myo arm band and testing it’s control. The past two weeks I got to test a series of tasks I created on people and measure the success of their ...Read More
Myo Gesture: Tasks v02
We are back on track! Last week there was a hiccup with creating to tasks in HTML5. The issue was that the tasks needed to be from HTML5 Canvas Elements so a custom Myo.Js mouse could interact with...Read More
Myo Gesture: Basic Mouse Controller
As you may have read last week, I realized that the third party Myo mouse controllers were too wonky to complete the tasks in browser. This week I set out to create a HTML5 canvas “mouse” controlle...Read More
Myo Gesture: External Testing v01 Results and Plans for v02
This week I began testing Myo armband’s gesture on other people. I wanted to start small because there was a chance that I could successfully get through the tasks I created because, well, I create...Read More
Myo Gesture: Internal Testing
This week I conducted my own internal testing with the Myo armband. I wanted to focuses on how the Myo felt when completing tasks on a desktop screen (my 1680px wide laptop) and a very large screen...Read More
Myo Gesture Testing Pt. 01
Currently, I am testing the ease of using the Myo armband to complete common web tasks. Myo tracks the electrical signal in your arm and detects gestures. In June of 2015, Myo released Myo.js, a Ja...Read More