So it looks like the face-detection engine has a really short memory. That is, if we turn our heads for a short while (like turn and talk to a team member), the face is removed and the attention level is reset. So I need to re-do my milestone deadlines and try to figure [...]
Archive for the 'Project Update' Category
Attention Meter Snag…
February 26, 2008
NearBy: A Geospatial Display
February 7, 2008
Project Name:
NearBy
Summary:
While online social networks have brought people from distant locations closer together symbolically, people are still dependent on their location to form many of their ties. People often make connections with others who congregate in the same general area (e.g. school, work, etc). These ties are often made regardless of where people actually live.
NearBy [...]
Public IM Bot Display
February 4, 2008
Project Name:
Public IM Bot Display
Summary:
The public IM bot will be a way for SI students to interact with a centralized display via an instant messaging interface. Many students are unable or unwilling to use the Bluetooth to interact with the display. Because many students have access to an instant messaging client, the probability of interaction [...]
YourNews: Presence Generated NewsMap
February 4, 2008
Summary
YourNews is an attempt to address the question “why is it easier to initiate interaction with strangers online than it is offline?”. Specifically, how do we encourage the development of relationships between two people situated in the same place, but with no reason to interact?
YourNews combines the RSS feeds of registered users and generates a [...]
Attention-aware Display
February 2, 2008
Summary:
AttentionMeter can be used in conjunction with bluetooth detection modules to control the types and scope of information that is displayed. For example, bluetooth detection can tell the system how many people are in the room/area, but the range of bluetooth is too far us to tell how many people are actually in [...]
Super Thank you & Reminder board
February 2, 2008
Project Name: Super Thank you & Reminder board
Summary:
I have two project ideas. I want to do one of them first and then implement the second.
Thank you board: The first project is to make the existing Thank you board (at WH and SI North) show messages related to the users near the display. A user profile [...]
