sneaker.org

Looks like some of my work got slashdotted and people are coming to this side after searching for my name on the web. This is my personal site, which has been more or less dormant for a while (as you can probably tell from the dated posts). The real website you want to go to to find out more about my research is the GUIDe project on the Stanford HCI website.

You will find the links to the EyePassword paper, the EyePoint video, the soon-to-be-published Gaze-based Scrolling Techniques paper and lots of other work in the publications section of the site.

For my doctoral work at Stanford I am working on developing ways to use eye-gaze to interact with computing devices. The project called GUIDe (Gaze-enhanced User Interface Design) allows you to do everyday actions of interacting with a computer using eye-gaze. You can surf the web without having to use a mouse, switch applications by simply looking at them in an expose-like view etc. For more information check out the GUIDe website.

I haven’t really been updating my personal site at all, but here is a link to some of the work I did at Stanford which was published at CHI 2005. The basic premise is that cars should be equipped with a dynamic speedometer which shows the current speedlimit on the background of the display. The technology to do this already exists today. This is just one of several approaches we developed in order to combat the issue of un-intentional speeding.

Dynamic Speedometer website is on the Stanford HCI Group page.

Here is a video clip which shows the dynamic speedometer in action.

In addition, here is a podcast which featured the Dynamic Speedometer research.

After having run my own server for sneaker.org for now over 10 years, I have finally moved to a hosting service and decided to retire the old linux box that was hosting the site. It has served well, but it’s time has come. Dealing with the customer support of a hosting provider has certainly been frustrating, but not having to setup the server from scratch and not have to worry about keeping it patched will hopefully be a good tradeoff.

The site has been migrated, but all changes should in theory be transparent. If you find any problems, please report them to me. Thanks!

I am taking most of the summer off from Stanford to attend to personal and business matters and to do some traveling. As a quick update, I finally fixed the CSS for the site so that it makes better use of the browser real-estate. Still plan on doing a couple more changes at some point in the future. Other than that most of the site is pretty stable. There are some new posts in the Thought section. Have a good summer!

This post if for fellow bloggers. I am interested in finding out more about whether you would be interested in having a “blog-monitoring tool” which allows you to know when someone arrives on your site, is spending time reading your site and when they leave your site. To use the tool on your site would require you to only add about 2 lines of HTML in your blog template and would allow you to watch the action on your site either in a browser or by installing a windows system tray icon/visualization. Would you be interested in such a tool? Do you currently tail your logs? Or what other techniqus do you currently use to do this? Please respond by leaving a comment.

thanks!

P.S. Check out my rant on EBay

Before sneaker.org went dark over a year ago, a google search for my name would bring sneaker.org as the first hit on google. After the site went dark, the ranking for the site on google’s search fell dramatically (which is to be expected). After I restored the site, I’ve been observing the logs and the rankings on google (not scientifically, but just using random sampling). Recently I noticed the google bot making requests for pages and images which do not exist on the site any more. Presumably this will make it remove the dead links to those pages over time (and hopefully expunge them from the cache as well) and also raise the rankings of the live pages. Intriguing…

On Friday, October 15th, I will be attending the Alumni Awards Ceremony at Carnegie Mellon University where I will receive the Young Alumni Award for 2004. The award is described on the CMU Alumni Awards website as:

“Young Alumni” are defined as those alumni who have graduated, with their bachelor’s degree between 1994 and 2004. The award will be granted to an individual who has either attained exceptional accomplishment in the nominee’s chosen occupation or for distinguished service that brings honor to the recipient and the university during the first 10 years following the receipt of their bachelor’s degree. The contribution of service need not bring public acclaim, but may consist of important creative effort in organization and development having social or educational value. The Young Alumni Award need not be presented each year.

The website is mostly in shape from a content perspective. Further cosmetic updates such as the color paleter adjustment and subtle fixes to the CSS to accomodate IE/Firefox issues are still in the works.

Sometime in 2003 (actually precisely on July 31st, 2003) sneaker.org went dark. It was more on a whim and I really intended on changing some of the layout and the content and then putting it back up again

After over a year of being dark, I’ve decided to slowly turn on the lights again. The old content will still be accessible, however, since the site structure has changes a little, the old links may not work in a 100% of the cases. The site is still taking form, so it may take a couple of days/weeks for all the sections to be operational. But feel free to poke around in the mean while and welcome back