Painful! Painful! It amazes me how little effort is sometimes put into documentation and today I found another example in Actionscript 3.0. (This is another reason I love codeigniter: great user-friendly manual! but that is another story). The actionscript goal was as follows: to change text characteristics by applying css to a textField. I was [...]
It has been some time since the first post on this subject on Mar 4, 2009. I had concluded that the issue was a silent failure (i.e., there is no direct feedback) of not enough PHP memory to run Wordpress with several plugins on 1and1. I like running plugins and therefore this situation was unacceptable. [...]
I ran across an issue today in Microsoft Word 2007 where the text inside my tables was noticeably not being spell check (i.e., words like aaa or woords were not considered misspelled). To make a long story short, it turns out that the style used for the text had spell checking turned off. This is [...]
One of my summer project (2009) is to supervisor someone for awhile on a projected I designed. This year’s project is entited “Visualization for Effectively Co-located GIS Map Items” (title did take a while to invent). The official project paragraph is below along with a mockup of the idea we are implimenting.
“When information is sent [...]
We (i.e., Dr. Adams and I) just had our HFES journal paper “unsubmit” because our “submission exceeds the recommended figure/table count.” I had to laugh when I read it. The instruct sheet says this about figure/table count:
“[papers] typically have no more than 8 tables and/or figures and a reference section of no more than 1,500 [...]
At Vanderbilt I work almost exclusively from my own Dell Inspiron E1705 labtop. I started using my own laptop so that I could sit in a room with windows and because being a Grad Student I often had to take work home. However, my laptop is getting dated and it is running out of hard [...]
I starting using Komodo IDE as my PHP editor over Dreamweaver in 2006? I was tired of Dreamweaver not having features like “looking function definition” which jumps to where the php function is defined in some other file. I tried a few other editors and they just didn’t feel as intutive. Since Komodo has created [...]
Future emergency incident responses, including Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and Explosive (CBRNE), will incorporate robots. The ability to interact with robots and understand the resulting volumes of information requires a system of human-robot interfaces employing directable visualizations that provide information immediacy, relevancy, and sharing appropriate for each human’s responsibilities.
This dissertation conducted two modified Cognitive Tasks [...]
The emergency response incidents (e.g., Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and Explosive (CBRNE) incidents or weapons of mass destruction) are evolving from a response involving humans (e.g. first responders, government officials, civilians) with equipment (e.g. protective suits, vehicles, sensors) to a response system combining humans and thinking machines (e.g. robots, information technology). The difference between equipment (e.g. fire engines, [...]
As robotic systems encompass larger numbers of individual robotic agents, interface design must provide better visual representations that account for factors affecting situational awareness. This project investigated different robotic team visualizations that varied in how much information was displayed: only individual robots, individual robots connected via a semitransparent team shape, and a solid team shape. [...]