tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-256258732012-01-22T22:48:14.016-08:00Anonnoreply@blogger.comBlogger191100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25625873.post-14798070635804696202009-11-04T16:29:00.000-08:002009-11-04T16:33:09.547-08:00

The results of an interview that I did with ICT for Education (a UK Education technology magazine) have now been published. See the article here.

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Heather Ellwood wrote a feature article about the invention and innovation process of the SMART Table in this month's EdCompass feature.It's an interesting story that includes interviews with both the SMART Table development team and the reaction from a Calgary Board of Education Elementary classroom.We've been thrilled with how quickly the SMART Table has gone from research prototype to shipping

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When I started my job search a few months ago, I was looking for a position that would allow me to learn about the process of innovation in a real world setting. In particular, I wanted to learn how to take novel ideas and bring them to product.My PhD has focused mostly on invention: coming up with novel ideas and pushing the boundaries of what can be done with computers. While I had taken

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Good news! I just got my Alberta Ingenuity Industrial Research Associate application approved with glowing results. Alberta Ingenuity uses the ProGrid evaluation system to rank candidates who apply for a particular scholarship. I learned that my scholarship was one of the top ranked in terms of benefits and initiative. Chart 1 is a 2D plot of my ranking (square) to all other applications of this

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I'm happy to annouce that I've successfully defended my doctoral dissertation! The defense presentation and question rounds went surprisingly smoothly. After my defense friends from the Interactions Lab presented me with a little surprise.I received a custom made hat with a scene depicting my PhD research on speech and gesture interaction over digital tabletop displays. Apparently this is a

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I've been reading The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen of Harvard Business School and I've been thinking about how the lessons of his book would apply to disruptive technologies such as interactive wall and table displays.Essentially, this book argues that companies (such as the Hard Drive industry) are exceedingly good at listening to their customer base and sustaining innovations

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Great news! I'm almost finished my PhD and I am now getting ready to apply for jobs for the fall. I'm planning on having three waves of job applications, and I just completed my first wave yesterday.I spent the most of the day writing these emails, editing them, getting friends and family to read them and editing them some more. Basically, I had six Gmail tabs open and was constantly moving back

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Having watched a number of movies lately, I've found the digital display interactions more and more irritating to watch. I am becoming increasingly concerned that the interactions portrayed in movies shape our expectations for how we expect to interact with computers in the future.Seriously, I've spoken with many researchers who have complained that their work is constantly being compared to

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Lol... there's someone on the Internet claiming to be me! I was reading my email when my Gmail RSS feed mentioned that there was an article on the Top Ten Issues of OLPC. I decided to read it given that I had written a similar article a few days earlier. The first paragraph said:"I am Carlo Emmanoel Oliveira Ph.D. I am not officially involved with OLPC but their project had a great impact in my

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During the past Human Factors in Computer Systems conference in San Jose, California there was a lot of attention on the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project (see a video). The project goal is: "To provide children around the world with new opportunities to explore, experiment and express themselves." In the mission statement the website claims that OLPC has been "extensively field-tested and

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jeremy.wagstaff: Do you mind offering a general comment about the future of interfaces with regard to something like Google Earth? Your project sounds interesting, and I imagine it's the starting point for a whole new way of operating these kinds of environments Edward: Sure, it may seem like this is a whole new way of interacting with maps but this is in fact not the case. Many of the

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I've been pouring over my web site stats for past few hours and I must confess that I'm excited about the amount of traffic that my website has received lately. My website usually recieves around 100 unique visitors a day, but every so often an article comes up that boosts the number of visits significantly.In the graph above you see a blip of about 1'000 visitors a day during the publishing of

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Today I read another comment posted on a blog regarding my research in natural speech and gesture interaction over digital tables. The quote is:Thats right baby CALGARY! Cow town my (expletive removed)!!! More like TECH town!! -iDextrose People often make assumptions about particular Universities based on word of mouth or sometimes profiles made by people not attending University themselves.

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Here's a comment that I recently read about my Warcraft III Video on YouTube (link). It goes something like this:OMGZ SO (expletive removed) COOL U GUYS ARE AWESOME AND MUST GET LAID LIKE CRAZY -notastonner96There is this interesting quote from Mick Jagger of Rolling Stones fame from the 60s when he was at a press conference and a female reporter asked him if he was satisfied. "What do you mean

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[ Pavel ] How would Diamond Touch enhance someone's enjoyment of a game like Warcraft III?[ Ed ] In traditional console games (e.g., XBox, Playstation) you are forced to look away from other people to face a television set. People's hands are tied to the controller thus producing very little awareness information. Diamond Touch is a table top interactive surface that allows multiple people to

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A question from Rainer Schuller[ Rainer ] I´m a huge fan of RTS Games and just saw ur W3 Video. First of all: Wonderful Idea! Really love it! I would be very interested what your opinion is about the release date and the approximate cost of such a Command Panel?[ Ed ] Large display touch technologies are already available from commercial companies such as Mitsubishi and SMART. Currently, these

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I've recently added videos of some previous work on table tops. In particular, the Shape of Conversation video shows multiple people doing crazy things with speech on a table top. Also, the GroupLab Diamond Touch Video shows work by Rob Diaz-Marino using the MERL Diamond Touch Hardware.These videos should give you a bit more background of how we got to using Speech and Gesture interaction over a

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A question from Rob "Xemu" Fermier regarding the lag in scrolling gestures.[Rob] Very cool technology and a nice approach for demonstrating it. Using contemporary examples like Google Earth and Warcraft 3 is an excellent way of taking relatively abstract concepts and making them real for people. The gap between academia and "real world" software development is often pretty huge and it's great to

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I've been recently reading some forums commenting on work that I did at Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories. Most of them are postive (there's usually a couple 'If your system could play some game I'd wet my pants' type comments) . A few conspiracy theorists seem to think that my demo is too good to be true - and someone calls me to task on my Warcraft skills.First, I'd like to dispel the

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