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Msc Ubiquitous Computing Lecture
Today I was asked by Prof. Hans Gellersen to give a guest lecture as part of his Ubiquitous Computing course for the MSc Computer Science.
The title of the lecture was Practical Tools for Designing Ubiquitous Computing Interfaces and you can find the slides here. We covered Embedded, Tangible, Multitouch and Whole-Body Interactions and I presented three demos about .NET Gadgeteer, reacTIVision and Kinect.
CHI Paper Video
Video
This is the video I made for my CHI submission.
It describes my paper MotionMA: Motion Modelling and Analysis by Demonstration.
Hope you enjoy it!
Augmented Human Paper Accepted
My paper Qualitative Activity Recognition of Weight Lifting Exercises, which I co-authored together with my colleagues Andreas Bulling, Hans Gellersen, Wallace Ugulino and Hugo Fuks has just been accepted for the 4th Augmented Human International Conference, taking place in Stuttgart, Germany, on March 7th and 8th 2013.
It will soon be available in my Publications page.
CHI Paper Accepted
My paper MotionMA: Motion Modelling and Analysis by Demonstration, which I co-authored together with my supervisors Andreas Bulling and Hans Gellersen has just been accepted for the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’13), taking place in Paris next year.
It will soon be available in my Publications page.
iCareNet Workshop
Leaping Out (Part II)
After a very interesting week working with very talented people, Leaping Out is finally over, culminating with the evening at the Dukes’ DT3. The night was a success, featuring art installations, dramatic and comic sketches and soundscapes. Following the theme, ‘Ready & Waiting’, I contributed with an airport departure board that displayed tweets that mentioned people waiting for something in the departures side and people ready for something else in the arrivals side.
The event was sold-out and received a very positive review by Michael Nunn, which can be found here.
Leaping Out
This week I am taking part in a project called Leaping Out, which is being organised by Josh Coates and Leo Burtin, from LEAP – Lancaster Emerging Arts Platform.
The project started last Saturday at the Gregson Centre in Lancaster, with a very interesting day of activities that gathered artists and makers of different backgrounds.
The idea is to spend this week working on a collaborative project with the theme ‘Ready & Waiting’. The project will be presented to the public in a free event at the Dukes DT3 on Saturday. If you are interested you can book your ticket at the Dukes’ website or by calling them.
SBSC Paper Accepted
A paper on remote monitoring of elderly patients, which I co-authored together with my colleagues from Groupware@LES (Wallace Ugulino, Márcio Ferreira and Hugo Fuks) has just been accepted for the Brazilian Symposium on Collaborative Systems 2012, which will take place in São Paulo, Brazil.
It will soon be available in my Publications page.
Matlab + C#
Matlab is a powerful tool for everyone that works with sensor data. Recently, I have been developing some scripts in Matlab to make sense of some sensor data because it is very handy for prototyping algorithms. The final system, however, was to be implemented in C#. I thought I would have to reimplement all my algorithms, but then I found out that it is possible to connect C# applications to Matlab in several ways. I ended up calling my Matlab scripts using the COM interface.
This is how I did it:
1) Create a project in Visual Studio
2) Right-click on References > Add Reference
3) In the COM tab select “Matlab Aplication” and click OK
4) The following code creates the COM object
MLApp.MLApp matlab = new MLApp.MLApp();
5) Now you can access all Matlab functionality through the methods provided by this object. You can send commands with the Execute method which returns a string with the console output.
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