University of New Hampshire
hci / hcilab / nsf / stuttgart / unh / unhires
Hi, my name is Michael Nguyen and I’d like to first introduce myself to the Human-Computer Interaction Lab at the University of New Hampshire (UNH) blog page as one of the fortunate students in IRES program. I’m currently an undergraduate student studying industrial engineering at Montana State University-Bozeman (MSU). My background as an undergrad ranges[…]
In a previous post, I described my visit to the Hasso Plattner Institute outside of Berlin and the time I spent with Dominik Schmidt in his lab. In the current post, I’ll discuss the other parts of the IRES team’s weekend trip to Berlin. The first thing we did, after checking into our hotel and dropping[…]
In a previous post, I talked about the IRES team’s visit to the Eindhoven Technical University and what we saw during our lab tour. However, that was only one day out of a 3-day trip to the Netherlands in which we hopped around from Stuttgart to Amsterdam to Eindhoven, and then back again. I’ll describe[…]
The second week of my time in the UNHIRES program was spent visiting Basel, Switzerland. Unlike most of our other trips outside of Stuttgart, this trip was a 2-day trip so we only stayed 1 night in Basel. Regardless, it was still fun and I saw a lot of cool stuff. One of the main[…]
So this is Part 2 of my post on my experience of German culture, or at least southwestern German culture. In the previous post I talked about German-English language barriers, attitudes toward smoking and beer, graffiti, and cars/racing. As some may be aware (but perhaps not in the United States…), the World Cup was held[…]