1 May 2012

Foodie: Play with Your Food Promote Interaction and Fun with Edible Interface. Full Journal Paper in IEEE Transactions of Consumer Electronics

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Congratulations to Ph.D student Wei Jun (@weijun924) for having a full paper accepted in the journal IEEE Transactions of Consumer Electronics! The abstract of our paper is below.

Abstract — This paper presents Foodie, a novel interactive system that promotes interactive entertainment using the real edible food, connecting digital playfulness with active participation in the food creation and eating experience. Through this system, people can not only create novel food media and share with remote family members or friends, but also serve them with the physical food. This system adds another natural and organic dimension – edible food with smell and taste, to enhance the lifelike feeling and enrich the play experience. We believe the actual manipulation of real food through digital drawings would increase the engagement and enjoyment even for remote people, extending the digital playfulness of food games with real life experience. Besides social entertainment, this intuitive interface also provides an attractive channel for kids to try out and learn about realistic cooking, in a safe, creative and playful way

1 May 2012

Mobile implementation and user evaluation of the Huggy Pajama system

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Mobile implementation and user evaluation of the Huggy Pajama system

We introduce Huggy Pajama, a system for remote hugging targeted at parent-child communication. Expanding on experimentation and research shared in a previously published paper; in this paper we focus on development breakthroughs regarding the wearable output and independently controlled multiple air-actuated modules found in the mobile wearable jacket subsystem. We include practical data in designing the wearable and mobile version of Huggy Pajama with embedded electronic and pneumatic devices, as well as offer results from a user study, from which we find that in order to deliver a mediated hug of high fidelity, the system needs to be capable of actuating hugs with a wide and differing range of pressure. Finally, we also present results from this study that show an overall positive emotional affect in the use of the new and improved version of the Huggy Pajama system.

This paper appears in:
Haptics Symposium (HAPTICS), 2012 IEEE
Date of Conference: 4-7 March 2012
Author(s): Teh, James K.S. 
IDMI, National University, Singapore 
Tsai, Zhenling ;  Koh, Jeffrey T.K.V. ;  Cheok, Adrian D. 
On Page(s): 471 – 478 

23 Apr 2012

Sanebox

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I have started using Sanebox. So far so good. I am like the man in this video. Driven insane by email. (by sanebox)

23 Apr 2012

Measuring my mind using Quantified Mind experiments

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I found this site which allows one to measure their mind and test yourself against different conditions. I think it is very useful to learn more about oneself. I think the next step of data and internet will be measuring (almost) everything about oneself and analyzing it in the cloud. And if you find yourself in need of a healthy way to improve your skin, check South Beach Skin Lab.

From the site:
Quantified Mind experiments
Quantified Mind is ready to be used in mind-boggingly fun experiments! Advance everyone’s knowledge of factors that affect our mental performance by actively taking cognitive tests under different conditions. Here are a few ideas for things to test: sleep, exercise, diet, drugs and supplements, treadmill desk, time of day, level of background noise, etc..

23 Apr 2012

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Keio has the dumbest air conditioning system. So I come to work today and it is a particularly cold and rainy spring day. It is very cold actually. So I decide to put on the air conditioned to heat my office. But the “Lords” of Keio air conditioning have decided it is summer already. So we can only cool now (down to a useless 26 degrees). I know we are trying to save energy but it is hard to work when my legs are shivering with cold. Can’t Keio allow us to control our air conditioning like adults and not treat us like children?

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