I have been awarded a Google Research Award to extend my work on motion gestures. I am extremely thankful and am looking forward to collaborating again with Yang Li. Keep checking the Motion Gestures Project Page for updates on the project.
I have been awarded a Google Research Award to extend my work on motion gestures. I am extremely thankful and am looking forward to collaborating again with Yang Li. Keep checking the Motion Gestures Project Page for updates on the project.
Today my students and I hosted 3 4th grade classes from the Fort Collins area to learn about programming as part of CSU’s Math Science & Technology Day. We had a lot of fun using B.Y.O.B to learn about basic computer programming.
Today Matei presented out paper on Bi-level thresholding at MobileHCI in San Francsico.
For more information check out http://www.jaimeruiz.com/research/publications/a-recognition-safety-net-bi-level-threshold-recognition-for-mobile-motion-gestures
Website has been updated to reflect my new position at Colorado State University.
Details:
-Custom installation of Concrete5
-Wordpress for the blog
-Responsive Design (works well on phones and tablets)
My paper on User Defined Motion Gestures for Mobile Interaction has been named an “Excellent Paper of 2011″ by Google Research. Google Research choose the most “influential papers authored or co-authored by Googlers covering all of 2011″ and selected my paper for the field of HCI.
Read more at http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2012/03/excellent-papers-for-2011.html.
Lately have been spending some of my free time trying to learn zf2. So far I have found there to be quite a steep learning curve, and I am usually good at picking up things quickly. One problem I have encountered while developing a sample app is accessing variables set in the ActionController in my layout.phtml. After some googling I found this great blog post:
http://akrabat.com/zend-framework-2/access-view-variables-in-another-view-model/
However, it did not work for me. When I tried to access the child nodes using:
$children = $this->viewModel()->getCurrent()->getChildren();
I consistently received errors because the method getCurrent() returned null. After a lot of trial and error, my solution was to set the layout variables in the ActionController. For example:
public function indexAction()
{
$myvars = array('myvar' => 'test');
$this->layout()->setVariables($myvars);
return array('myvar' => 'test');
}
While this is a horrible hack, it accomplished my goal. Now in my layout template I can simply use the following to output the variable.
<?php echo $this->myvar; ?>
Our paper titled “A Recognition Safety Net: Bi-Level Threshold Recognition for Mobile Motion Gestures” has been accepted to MobileHCI 2012.
Today I successfully defended my thesis titled “Predicting Endpoint of Goal-Directed Motion in Modern Desktop Interfaces using Motion Kinematics”.
Next stop the CS department at Colorado State University.
Our paper on inter and intra-group territoriality and behaviour around large vertical publicly-shared displays has been accepted as a full paper to DIS 2012.
Our paper titled “Tap, Swipe, or Move: Attentional Demands for Distracted Smartphone Input”, which examines the temporal and cognitive cost associated with using motion input on smartphones has been accepted to Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI) 2012