University of New Hampshire
hci / hcilab / travel / unh / unhires / visit
On June 30th the UNH IRES team (Rudra Timsina, Micheal Nyugin, Drea Fekety and myself) went to the HCI lab at the Hasso Plattner Institut just outside Berlin Berlin. Dominik Schmidt was gracious enough to show us around the institute. He also showed us some of the projects they are currently working on as well as some[…]
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[…]
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[…]
hci / travel / unhires / visit
As I mentioned in a previous post, the IRES students (including myself) were lucky enough to visit two HCI research labs in the same day during our trip to Munich. This current post will chronicle my experience of the LMU IFI as we were hosted and guided by Dr. Florian Alt. Most of the work we[…]
hci / hcilab / nsf / stuttgart / travel / unh / unhires
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[…]