University of New Hampshire
Germany / ires / nsf / stuttgart / travel
My name is Calvin Liang, and I’m a Human Factors masters student at Tufts University. I’m so excited to be doing research abroad in Germany and am super grateful to be a part of the IRES program. I’ll use this blog to discuss my experiences in Stuttgart and Europe, including my research and general adventures.[…]
hci / hcilab / nsf / stuttgart / travel / unhires
Recently, the UNH IRES group visited Saarbrücken, Germany to tour two HCI labs at Universität des Saarlandes. We were all quite amazed by research effort at both labs. The Innovative Retail Lab at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) is conducting multiple studies on innovative shopping solutions and more! The simulated intelligent supermarket (pictured) provides shoppers with virtual assistance[…]
hci / hcilab / nsf / travel / Uncategorized / unh / unhires / visit
On June 30th, 2014 we met with Dominik Schmidt at Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI). HPI was Founded in 1998 and is the first, and still the only entirely privately funded university college in Germany. Dominik is currently doing research in human-computer interaction. More specifically, in his research, he scales natural user interfaces to span entire rooms and creates novel interaction[…]
travel / Uncategorized / unh / unhires
The Mercedes-Benz Museum was so much fun to see. It was my first automobile museum and it did not disappoint. The museum structure is a double helix and you start at the top of the building from the 1886 Benz Patent-Motorwagen to present time. The one thing I found interesting about the museum is that it not[…]
travel / unh / unhires / visit
Three years ago one of my close cousins moved out of the US to Basel Switzerland. When i first learned that i was accepted into the IRES program i instantly knew that i wanted to go visit her while i was in Germany. Basel is about a 3 hour train ride from Stuttgart so on[…]