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SpiderSense and Wearable Technology on BOLD.

mvictoras — Tue, 14 May 2013 06:34:43 +0000

Photo: Lance Long, Electronic Visualization Laboratory, University of Illinois at Chicago

I was asked to write a forward on Wearable Technology for the BOLD blog.

You can read the article here.

Futile Video Game Trailer

mvictoras — Tue, 07 May 2013 17:55:33 +0000

Futile is a space exploration game that takes place trillions of years from today.

The universe is in an unstable state and you need to save it! Can you do it?

Sensing the Environment through SpiderSense

mvictoras — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 06:13:51 +0000

Photo: Lance Long

My paper “Sensing the Environment through SpiderSense” has been accepted at the 4th Augmented Human International Conference in Stuttgart, Germany.

I will be presenting on Thursday March 7th.

“Recent scientific advances allow the use of technology to expand the number of forms of energy that can be perceived by humans. Smart sensors can detect hazards that human sensors are unable to perceive, for example radiation. This fusing of technology to human’s forms of perception enables exciting new ways of perceiving the world around us. In this paper we describe the design of SpiderSense, a wearable device that projects the wearer’s near environment on the skin and allows for directional awareness of objects around him. The millions of sensory receptors that cover the skin presents opportunities for conveying alerts and messages. We discuss the challenges and considerations of designing similar wearable devices”

You can find the program of the conference here.

You can follow me on twitter here.

ThermoWeather

mvictoras — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 13:59:14 +0000

ThermoWeather is a Weather Station made entirely in QML. The displayed data is polled from worldweatheronline.com. It is a project I made for the User Interface Design class. Custom Designed in Adobe Illustrator and coded in QML.

Features of ThermoWeather:

Current conditions outside: temperature, humidity, precipitation, wind speed, wind direction, clouds coverage, visibility and weather description
The predictions for the day: temperature min, max, precipitation, wind speed, wind direction, weather description
5 day forecast: temperature min, max, precipitation, wind speed, wind direction, weather description
The current condition and forecasted weather is represented by graphic representation
Displays the temperature and humidity inside the building (Because no sensors are available, this information is hard-coded)
Supports changing the location
Resolution of 1280×800
Touch-screen compatible
Multiple language support (currently supports 4 languages)
Support for US/European system
Displays weather alerts (the weather alerts are not real, but hard-coded)

More information about this project here.

Spring 2013 Semester

mvictoras — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 16:44:11 +0000

This semester I am taking CS 426 – Game Design and CS 422 – User Interface Design. These are my last two classes I need to take to complete the Ph.D. required class hours.

CAVE2 Trailer

mvictoras — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 22:38:34 +0000

Take a sneak peak at the amazing work being done at the Electronic Visualization Laboratory in the CAVE2:

Programming GPGPUs

mvictoras — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 18:58:07 +0000

For the Parallel Processing class I gave a talk with Tomas Gerlich about Programming GPGPUs. You can find the presentation here.

Parallel implementation of the determinant of the k-th power of a matrix

mvictoras — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 22:15:05 +0000

For the Parallel Processing class I implemented a program that calculates the |X^k| in parallel using various parallel formulations.

You can find the source code and the documentation of the project here.

Behind the scenes of Terminator 2

mvictoras — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 18:21:50 +0000

Remember Terminator 2′s awesome effects? It was one of the first movies that used CG heavily.

Well, as it turns out the T-1000 effects were not computer graphics at all!

Check out the video on youtube: Terminator 2: Special Effects

Determinant of a Matrix

mvictoras — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 18:45:17 +0000

For CS 566 I implemented an algorithm that runs on a cluster and find the determinant of a matrix. The algorithm distributes the matrix across the nodes of the cluster and divides the processing across the nodes. More info here.