Pervasive Health

This looks like an inteasting place to talk about the future research ( when its done ).

More papers to check out

I think these have some indiciation of how difficult it is to find something given the visual cluter around the. Worth looking for.

Denis G Pelli, Katharine A Tillman, Jeremy

Freeman, Michael Su, Tracey D Berger, and Najib J

Majaj. Crowding and eccentricity determine reading

rate. J Vis, 7(2):20.1–2036, 2007. doi:10.1167/7.2.20

H. Bouma. Interaction effects in parafoveal letter

recognition. Nature, 226(5241): 177–178, Apr 1970.

 A. Toet and D. M. Levi. The twodimensional

shape

of spatial interaction zones in the parafovea. Vision

Res, 32(7):1349–1357, Jul 1992.

 Denis G Pelli, Melanie Palomares, and Najib J Majaj.

Crowding is unlike ordinary masking: distinguishing

feature integration from detection. J Vis, 4(12):1136–

1169, Dec 2004. doi:10:1167/4.12.12

Itti, L., Koch, C., Neibur, E.  (1998).  A model of saliency-based visual attention for rapid scene analysis.  IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 20, 1254-1259.  Luck, S. J., & Vogel, E. K. (1997). The capacity of visual working memory for features and conjunctions. Nature, 390, 279-281.  Rosenholtz, R., Li, Y. & Nakano, L.  (2007).  Measuring visual clutter.  Journal of Vision, 7(2):17, 1-22.    VanRullen, R., Reddy, L. & Fei-Fei, L.  (2005).  Binding is a local probelm for natural objects and scenes.  Vision Research, 45, 3133-3144.

NATS-table.

I agreed with Yvonne to make a small NATS demo on the new table. 

The PC second drive is still not working. I told Y I would handle it.

Spoke to our PC fix it guy - he claims it's to do with the computers 'memory', coming over later to fix it. 

on the good idears front

Paul had a fantastic one which is too exciting to blog about - I must go and check the physics people out to see what they can advise/loan. 

Jeff had a good one to we where discussing the source of noise on the the DTouch table. He said it was electrical noise over the power I said it was background radiation. I pulled the laptop powercable out to prove it and when I did so the noise disappeared from the DTouch signal. Looks like if we could suppress the noise on the power-supply we could get much better recognition without getting into clever signal processing. 

Jeff reminded me it is less than a month be for UIST so I better get a move on with the floor stickies too.

Date dyslexia,

I was chatting to Anneli and she mentioned how she misses things because dates/times arrive to her but they don't get into her diary ( the problem being is that it is everywere).

I thought about an application that would fish for dates in your email as it arrived and then tried to figure out where it should go in your diary. ( Dinner tuesday - would make a good guess then let you change it).

Problem we both identified was the idea of doing this with sound - people tell you on the phone or in person when you don't have a version near you.

Perhaps a printable version which could use image recognition from photo capture to read back modifications you made to the paper version.
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Just noticed the new version of mac Mail will fish for dates out of your mail for you.

odd proxy thought of the day.

Another couple of times my machine has been hanging to display the page while it gets an image from an avertising server ( hint store them locally guys).

I just had the idea of a local proxy server ( possibly a permachine proxy or local grou better ) this would look for requests or adverts and banners. The concept would be to replace these with calls you make up special banners for you. For example you might find an avert repalced with 'bob you have a meeting in 20mins'. Or info on your disk usage ( 2 years 3 months until hard drive is full or Email from ruth arrived in 10 mins.

I quite like this combined with the RCA products avertsing features for things you already own.
'Want to make you images look older look for sepia in your copy of Photoshop'.

I've already had thoguhts on a local P2P proxy. Everytime you machine asks for an image or static page the UDP request goes out to the local network to see if anyone has it. This way people share cache space with out complex proxys.

Perhaps you could combine this with a web only style suggestions 'you looked at this and you might want to think about that web page that someone else looked at at the same time'.

Finally you could also include the southhampton addtion of suggested links. That is it looks at the content and adds links to enhance the content ( although there should be something that does that statically for all web pages ).