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boodly boodly boodly Boodly (the sound of a power up)
So I’ve moved to Toronto and started my Master’s in Computer Science. I’m living in a basement bachelor apartment only 15 minutes walk from school, surrounded by a variety of multi-cultural restaurants. In my building, The Bahen Centre for Information Technology, I have an office (cubicle, really) in the Dynamic Graphics Project on the fifth…
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Crazy Dream
So I’m in Toronto now, yada yada yada all is great and shiny and mucho-fantastic. But that’s another post. For now, let’s discuss a dream I had last night. I’m lucky to have pretty vivid dreams regularily, but this one was too odd to let go. I tried to send it in to my twitter,…
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Blood-Powered Multi-touch Sensing
My summer research at the Human Media Lab involves large investigations into multitouch sensing. For large interfaces, this involves the user touching the surface under some sort of illumination while a video camera captures the entire surface, and then filtering is applied to determine the touch points of the finger. There are often issues with…
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Scientific Results
An excellent quote from a paper I’m reading: “A final thought before moving on. Science has one methodology, art and design have another. Are we surprised that art and design are remarkable for their creativity and innovation? While we pride our rigorous stance, we also bemoan the lack of design and innovation. Could there be…
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Wizard of Oz in South Park
In Human-Computer Interaction studies, we often simulate new interfaces in experimental trials before actually putting the effort into making them. Sometimes this simulation is interactive, like Human Media Lab’s Display Objects, and sometimes it’s a crappy non-interactive piece of styrofoam (like the first prototype for the iPod). Although the device is non-interactive, we can pretend…
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A conversation with the Google Earth API
Dustin: Oh hey there, Google Earth, it looks like you have an API so that we can actually talk to each other.GE: Yeah, hello! It’s really useful.Dustin: Well, we’ll see about that. So, I’ve turned you on. Can you tell me what layers you have?GE: Of course! I’ve got the Geographic Web, Roads, 3D Buildings,…
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Wierd times on the internet
Keywords: advertising, user-generated content. So I just got an email from youtube about a music video I made a long time ago. Here it is below: ——————————————————————————————– YouTube | Broadcast Yourself™ Dear YouTube Member: UMG has claimed some or all audio content in your video Golden Videotape (part 1). This claim was made as part…
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Meta-blogging
My friend and fellow improvisor Monica Heisey interviewed me about blogging for the Queen’s Unversity Journal (student-run paper). Link!
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Where I work
Here is where I work at the Human Media Lab. I’ve got a great view overlooking the construction on the Queen’s Centre, and I’m sporting two computers, and a bunch of random other techno-gear, which makes me excited. The giant blue ball under the desk is a prototype I’m working on.
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1001 Books to read
Here’s a list of great books one is apparently supposed to have read. Sadly, great non-fiction works are omitted. Here’s how I add up: Book – Author (Reason) Read:Choke – Chuck Palahniuk (last year, I think)Life of Pi – Yann Martel (borrowed from Dad two years ago)Cryptonomicon – Neal Stephenson (read two years ago, must…