Crawl into Research: 2010

Monday, October 4, 2010

Analytic tools for mobile apps

A list of analytic tools for mobile apps:

Google Analytics, iPhone and Android
Motally iPhone, Android, and Blackberry
Flurry iPhone, Android, Blackberry, and Java ME
GetJar iPhone, Android, Blackberry, and Java ME
Distimo
mopapp

Netduino with .NET micro framework

Netduino is an open source electronics platform with Atmel 32 bit microcontroller that uses the .NET Micro Framework.

UbiComp 2010 paper selection

The UbiComp 2010 conference included very interesting papers. Below I listed my paper collection. However, many other interesting papers were presented in the conference. For more information please check the conference program.

The Calendar as a Sensor: Analysis and Improvement Using Data Fusion with Social Networks and Location
Tom Lovett, Eamonn O'Neill, James Irwin, David Pollington
Toolkit to Support Intelligibility in Context-Aware Applications
Brian Y. Lim, Anind K. Dey
Identifying the Activities Supported by Locations with Community-Authored Content
David Dearman, Khai N. Truong
VoiceYourView: Collecting Real-time Feedback on the Design of Public Spaces
Jon Whittle, Will Simm, Marie-Angela Ferrario, Kate Frankova, Laurence Garton, Andrée Woodcock, Baseerit Nasa, Jane Binner, Aom Ariyatum
Modeling People's Place Naming Preferences in Location Sharing
Jialiu Lin, Guang Xiang, Jason I. Hong, Norman Sadeh
Tasking Networked CCTV Cameras and Mobile Phones to Identify and Localize Multiple People
Thiago Teixeira, Deokwoo Jung, Andreas Savvides
MoviPill: Improving medication compliance for elders using a mobile persuasive social game
Rodrigo de Oliveira, Mauro Cherubini, Nuria Oliver
Ambient Influence: Can Twinkly Lights Lure and Abstract Representations Trigger Behavioral Change?
Yvonne Rogers, William R. Hazlewood, Paul Marshall, Nick Dalton, Susanna Hertrich
What Do You Bring To the Table? Investigations of a Collaborative Workspace
Trevor Pering, Kent Lyons, Roy Want, Mary Murphy-Hoye, Mark Baloga, Paul Noll, Joe Branc, Nicolas De Benoist
ElectriSense: Single-Point Sensing Using EMI for Electrical Event Detection and Classification in the Home
Sidhant Gupta, Matt S. Reynolds, Shwetak N. Patel
SNUPI: Sensor Nodes Utilizing Powerline Infrastructure
Gabe Cohn, Erich Stuntebeck, Jagdish Pandey, Brian Otis, Gregory D. Abowd, Shwetak N. Patel
Augmenting On-Screen Instructions with Micro-Projected Guides: When it Works, and When it Fails
Stephanie Rosenthal, Shaun K. Kane, Jacob O. Wobbrock, Daniel Avrahami
EmotionSense: A Mobile Phones based Adaptive Platform for Experimental Social Psychology Research
Kiran K. Rachuri, Mirco Musolesi, Cecilia Mascolo, Peter J. Rentfrow, Chris Longworth, Andrius Aucinas
TCBI: The Design and Evaluation of a Task-Centered Battery Interface
Khai Truong, Julie Kientz, Timothy Sohn, Alyssa Rosenzweig, Amanda Fonville, Tim Smith
Sketching with Strangers - In the Wild Study of Ad-hoc Social Communication by Drawing
Panu Kerman, Arto Puikkonen, Antti Virolainen, Pertti Huuskonen, Jonna Häkkilä

Friday, September 10, 2010

MobileHCI 2010 paper selection

Here is my MobileHCI 2010 paper selection. If you have a selection please add the link as a comment to this post:

User-defined gestures for connecting mobile phones, public displays, and tabletops
Kray, C., Nesbitt, D., Dawson, J., and Rohs, M. 2010.

Amarino: a toolkit for the rapid prototyping of mobile ubiquitous computing
Kaufmann, B. and Buechley, L. 2010.

Addressing mobile information overload in the universal inbox through lenses
Sohn, T., Setlur, V., Mori, K., Kaye, J., Horii, H., Battestini, A., Ballagas, R., Paretti, C., and Spasojevic, M. 2010.

RearType: text entry using keys on the back of a device
Scott, J., Izadi, S., Rezai, L. S., Ruszkowski, D., Bi, X., and Balakrishnan, R. 2010.

Novel interfaces for digital cameras and camera phones
McAdam, C., Pinkerton, C., and Brewster, S. A. 2010.

Towards using embedded magnetic field sensor for around mobile device 3D interactio
Ketabdar, H., Roshandel, M., and Yüksel, K. A. 2010.

Semi-automatic zooming for mobile map navigation
Kratz, S., Brodien, I., and Rohs, M. 2010.

Mobile interaction with static and dynamic NFC-based displays
Hardy, R., Rukzio, E., Holleis, P., and Wagner, M. 2010.

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

open source electronics

A interesting website includes opens source physical computing devices:
http://leaflabs.com/

Thursday, August 5, 2010

Let the beauty of we love be what we do

A Hundred Ways to Pray
Mowlānā Jalāluddīn Rūmī

Today we're wasted with the spirit. Drunk like every day.
Lock up your angst and musings. There is music you must play.
There are a hundred ways to make prostrations in that Mosque
Where a Beloved's beauty is your Mecca. Turn and pray.

امروز چو هر روز خرابیم خراب
مگشا در اندیشه و برگیر رباب
صدگونه نماز است و رکوعست و سجود
آنرا که جمال دوست باشد محراب

Transliteration:

emrōz chō har rōz, kharāb-ēm kharāb
ma-gshā dar andēsha-o bar gīr rabāb
Sad gōna namāz-ast-o rukū`-ast-o sujūd
ān-rā ke jamāl-é dōst bāsh-ad mihrāb

And just by way of comparison, here's Coleman Barks' "translation" of this quatrain:

Today, like every other day, we wake up empty
and frightened. Don't open the door to the study
and begin reading. Take down a musical instrument.
Let the beauty we love be what we do.
There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.

Friday, June 11, 2010

Cheer for your favorite team during World Cup 2010

World Cupinion, by University of Duisburg-Essen and Technische Universität Berlin, is an application which lets soccer fans share their reaction about different moments and events of a soccer match during Soccer World Cup 2010.
Through an interface users can partake in supporting their favorite team and share their opinions with other fans.Also the opinions are pushed to Facebook and Twiitter.
The application is available for Android phones and iPhone as well the PC.

Wednesday, June 2, 2010

AVI 2010 conference

That was the first time for me attending AVI (Advance Visualization Interface) conference. I should say that it was a great experience. Here is also couple of papers from the conference which I found very interesting

3-D Interaction with a Large Wall Display using Transparent Markers
Akito Hyakutake, Koichiro Ozaki, Kris Makoto Kitani, Hideki Koike University of Electro-Communications, Japan
iChase: Supporting Exploration and Awareness of Editing Activities on Wikipedia
Nathalie Henry Riche*, Bongshin Lee*, Fanny Chevalier° *Microsoft Research, USA, °Microsoft-INRIA joint center, Université Paris Sud, France
Implied Dynamics in Information Visualization
Caroline Ziemkiewicz, Robert Kosara, UNC Charlotte, USA
PAC-PAC: Pinching Gesture Recognition for Tabletop Entertainment System
Kentaro Fukuchi*, Toshiki Sato°, Haruko Mamiya°, Hideki Koike° ,*Meiji University, Japan, °The University of Electro-Communications, Japan
Structured Laser Pointer: Enabling Wrist-Rolling Movements as a New Interactive Dimension
Yongqiang Qin,Yuanchun Shi, Hao Jiang, Chun Yu, Tsinghua University, China
Jelly: A Multi-Device Design Environment for Managing Consistency Across Devices
Jan Meskens, Kris Luyten, Karin Coninx, Hasselt University, Belgium

Sunday, May 23, 2010

Pervasive 2010 conference

Here are couple of selected papers from Pervasive 2010 conference held in May, Helsinki, Finland

Supporting Energy-Efficient Uploading Strategies for Continuous Sensing Applications on Mobile Phones a novel strategy for continuous data sensor uploading
Virtual Compass: Relative Positioning to Sense Mobile Social Interactions a peer-based relative positioning system that relies solely on the hardware and operating system support available on commodity mobile handhelds
Object-Based Activity Recognition with Heterogeneous Sensors on Wrist extracting characteristic colors of daily activities for doing activity recognition using an interesting device prototype mounted on the wrist
Common Sense Community: Scaffolding Mobile Sensing and Analysis for Novice Users (best paper) more information can be find here
Aided Eyes: Eye Activity Sensing for Daily Life (best video award) real-time measurement of eye movement for human memory enhancement
GasSense: Appliance-Level, Single-Point Sensing of Gas Activity in the Home using a microphone sensor for monitoring ans sensing gas activity in the home
My 2 cents - sharing comments about retail products on Twitter (best poster)
12Pixels: Exploring Social Drawing on Mobile Phones (best paper presentation)a novel application and social web service that allows people to create and share drawings directly from a regular mobile phone

Make an eyetracker by yourself

Here are couple of useful links for those who are interested in building an eye tracker by themselves:

http://code.google.com/p/eyewriter/downloads/list
http://www.eyewriter.org
http://www.instructables.com/id/The-EyeWriter/

If you know any other links please add it to the comment. Thanks in advance.

Revue: Microsoft SenseCam is now commercially available

SenseCam a sensor augmented wearable camera from Microsoft Research Center is now commercially available at ViconRevue. The camera is designed to capture a digital record of the wearer’s day, by recording a series of images and capturing a log of sensor data.

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

faceAPI- 3D head tracking software

faceAPI is a head tracking software.3D head position and orientation is tracked, along with lip and eyebrow shape and position (facial expression).

Saturday, April 17, 2010

What makes a good HCI system paper?

Friday, April 9, 2010

EmoDetector App: Hear The Feeling of SMS

EmoDetector is an application that provides auditory cues in addition to the notification tone upon receiving an SMS based on a real-time analysis of a message's contents. The idea behind this project is to investigate how the use of audio-enhanced SMS affects the reading and writing behavior of users.
The app is available for Symbian S60 as well as Android mobile phones. The Android version can be downloaded from Android market by scanning the following QR code.