As part of our ongoing advanced research efforts I have been asked to participate on a panel at HCII 2009 in San Diego. The topic/thematic area is Augmented Cognition and I will be talking about emerging technologies with regards to adaptive learning. The attached paper outlines the foundations of Social Cognitive Theory, Oral Tradition / Storytelling, and specifies a Digital Cultural Ecosystem that uses stereoptic video capture (and lots of other cool technology) to document cultural learnings by military personnel in contested cultures. I’ll post the presentation after the event. Enjoy.
Posted by Joseph Juhnke on March 8, 2009
I may have had a drink or two or perhaps the interviewer was particularly charming. Either way I opened up for the folks at Level 3 and shared our dreams and visions for where Digital is going to take us in the coming years. I wish you could have seen the interviewer’s face. These were not answers he was prepared to address. Tell me the truth… Do I sound like a nut? Check out the other interviewees here. Great thinking and commentary from all.
Posted by Joseph Juhnke on December 9, 2008
That’s right, we’re coming home today. China has been an interesting host and we’ll thank her kindly for the hospitality (I’ll share stories in another forum) but we are excited to return home. Our flight departs today at 4PM and arrives today at 4PM in Chicago.
Yesterday my presentation, “Designing for Augmented Cognition: Problem Solving for Complex Environments” was well received by everyone. A good portion of the presentation dealt with the pilot-cockpit research we’ve been working on for the last 2 years. After my presentation, I had an interesting discussion with a gentleman about the value of the old-school steam gauges that are still in use in the majority of today’s general aviation fleet. I think I’m going to need to better document my justifications for revisiting the cockpit interface metaphor. I’ve talked about the acceptance resistances exhibited by expert users of bad interfaces in the past and if this discussion is representative of the aviation community as a whole, I’ve got my work cut out for me. More on that later.
For the most part I am finding myself re-invigorated by our cockpit research. I’m planning on doing a little more work and then releasing our UI to the public as an open source initiative. I’m excited to participate in a larger open discussion. For now, though, I will spend a little more time dreaming. Now where’s that bottle of Ambien? See you all soon.
Posted by Joseph Juhnke on July 26, 2007
Greetings from Beijing. Between jet lag and merciless schmoozing, I’ve been unable to get to posting as frequently as I’d hoped. Here’s an update:
- I have still not slept an entire night. My body clock is definitely discombobulated but I think it’s on London time. Hmmmm.
- The Conference opened on Tuesday with a Plenary Session that included an interesting speech by Dr. Takeo Kanade. He’s done some interesting stuff, including the robotic camera system used to take the matrix like shots of players in the Super Bowl. His area of focus right now is Digital Human Modeling. His premise is that the human is the weakest link in a system and therefore we should spend a good deal of time modeling human behavior and construction digitally. He’s already done some work cataloging and modeling human feet, hands, and gestures for a number of commercial clients. He created a machine that electronically scans feet (think 3D CAT scan) and provides an accurate shoe size. This machine is creating a huge database of the shapes of human feet. Dr. Kanade hopes to create a database of how feet change over 30 years of growth and use. He’s helped auto manufacturers create a passive monitoring system that can accurately predict what control you are going to touch based on the motions you begin making and your kinetic structure. My favorite project is a web site that allows mothers in Japan to describe a room in their house and then tell them all of the ways their child can get hurt in it. It’s part of his QoLT program. Apparently it’s quite popular. No English translation yet.
- Wednesday provided some very interesting sessions including HCI for Aviation, Social Computing, Smart Living Spaces, “Neurotechnology and Augmented Cognition Applications: Present and Future” and more.
- We had the most amazing Peking (Beijing) Duck for Lunch. Our friend Chong speaks Cantonese and found a famous restaurant about 5 minutes ($1.50 cab ride) from the Olympic Crater (are they really going to be ready for next summer?).
- I’ve finally got a presentation that I am proud of. No more nitpicking in PowerPoint for this guy.
- It’s 6:30 AM so now I have to go through my very artificial morning ritual.
That’s my report for now. This has definitely been an interesting expedition.
Posted by Joseph Juhnke on July 25, 2007
Tim Mills and I are off to speak at HCI International 2007 in Beijing, China. We’ll be talking about designing for Augmented Cognition. Specifically we’re talking about a fighter cockpit interface we’ve been working on for the last two years. We’ve been tasked with studying the information flow in the fighter cockpit environment. Our novel interface was designed for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. We’ll be posting about our trip all week including discussions about the interface. So far our trip has started off on the wrong foot. Our flight out of O’Hare (United 851) was delayed by 3 hours. Safety first, right?
Posted by Joseph Juhnke on July 21, 2007
Recent Comments