Projects
Throughout the past few years, I've worked on a variety of research projects, term papers, and independent pieces. This page helps to categorize and promote the ones that I've found most rewarding.
Text Scrolling through the use of an Eye Tracker
For my honors thesis in Computer Science at Hamilton College, I'm investigating the feasibility of scrolling text using an eye tracker. During the first semester, to fulfill the requirements of the Computer Science senior seminar, I've been investigating the use of eye tracking in HCI. During the upcoming spring semester, I will be working with the eye tracking equipment and writing code for Windows and Mac OS.
Bluetooth Automatic Data Acquisition and Synchronization Software
In the summer of 2005, Michael Gruen, Erik Goulding, and myself worked on a research project with our computer science advisor, Mark Bailey. Over the course of a ten week project, each of us worked independently, as well as, collaboratively to develop software that allowed a user to synchronize a folder of files between two computers, using a bluetooth-equipped cell phone as the means.
Research involving The Posture-Based Model
During the 2002-03 and 2003-04 academic calendar, including the summers of 2003 and 2004, I worked with professor Jonathan Vaughan and aided him in collecting data for his Posture-Based model.
An Independent Study in Mobile Embedded Systems
During the fall of 2004, Michael Gruen, Erik Goulding, and myself, in addition to our advisor Mark Bailey, created our own independently taught course at Hamilton College. Over the course of the 14-week semester, we met three times a week and explored different issues surrounding mobile embedded systems. Each class was taught by one of us and involved giving an informal presentation on a research paper from the Association for Computing Machinery. We were required each to produce an annotated bibliography of each paper, in addition to a series of three papers: the first two were 5-page papers directly comparing three papers surrounding a specific topic, while the third paper was a 10-20 page survey of the papers we had read. Here are the papers I wrote:
» Techniques in Decreasing Power Consumption for Handheld Displays
» Techniques in Improving Scrolling on Handheld Devices
» Investigating Hardware and Software Approaches to Increasing the Battery Life of Mobile Embedded Systems
Karelian Extended Essay
For high school and to complete the IB, we had to work on a thesis entitled the extended essay. It could be on whatever we wanted and I choose to write it on the topic of The Karelian relocations between 1939 and 1944. I tried to focus on the causing events, the changes those that relocated had the face, and current day feelings on this issue. It was a great experience, as I spent my summer interviewing those who had peronally been effected, and in the end, learnt a lot more about my heritage.