Category: research-proj

  • Devices that Bruise

    (with Alicia Grubb) For a Topics in Ubiquitous Computing class, a colleague and I were interested in helping people get out of being in a bad mood. Typically when someone is in a bad mood, it does not improve the situation to directly tell them. Instead, subtle feedback may be better. We created the concept…

  • Teaching Origami by Overlaid Video

    The motivation of this project was to teach novel gestural interaction to new users when static diagrams did not suffice. I recorded a video of myself making an origami boat. Then, I projected this video full-size back onto the same space. I brought in a few people to try to learn the process. The video…

  • Mimicry-Afforded Gesture Instruction

    I was exploring techniques to teach novel gesture interaction “in the moment”. The alternative is to have the user learn everything interaction up front, or to have a large toolbar that takes up screen real estate. I created a concept video that showed me working on a multi-touch tabletop I was using “for the first…

  • Quantum Phases Project

    I received a summer 2006 NSERC USRA grant to do research in the Queen’s University Math Department. My research was numerical simulation in MATLAB of a Ph.D student’s theoretical approach using Semidefinite Optimization to understand the quantum behaviour of Cooper Pairs of electrons in the now poorly-understood High-Temperature Superconductivity. No pretty pictures (yet), unfortunately.

  • Daylighting Simulation Project

    In the summer of 2005, I worked in the Solar Calorimetry Lab on simulating the effect of daylighting and the response of a lighting control I installed in the Integrated Learning Center. I simulated everything using the lighting software package RADIANCE.