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Week 1: Introduction to Eye Tracking and Physiological Sensor Technology

During our first week at the University of Stuttgart we received a plethora of technology that was mainly new to all of us. It was a very exciting week. I felt like a kid in a toy store being able to pay with everything. The technology we played with were: EPOC Headset from Emotiv FaceLAB[…]

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Introductions and of Course, Thank Yous

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[…]

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Cultural Experiences in Germany, Part 2 (World Cup, transportation, recycling, and food)

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[…]

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Cultural Experiences in Germany, Part 1 (language, graffiti, beer & cars)

During my 2-month stay in Germany so far, I’ve noticed many cultural and behavioral differences between people in the southeastern United States (where I’m from) and the southwestern region of Germany (where I’m currently living). I’ve even started getting used to some of them too, even though it’s a little late because I’ll be back in[…]

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Getting started: An Introduction to IRES

I’ll be using this first blog post as a sort of introduction. Throughout the next couple of weeks i’ll be writing about my experiences and thoughts throughout the UNH IRES program that I’ve been participating in this summer. For starters UNH IRES is an “International Research Experience for Students” organized by the University of New[…]

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