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SenSys 2022 Demo: Through an AR Lens

Sarah Eom has demonstrated our ongoing work on AR-based magnification for hand-held loupes at ACM SenSys’22 in Boston, MA. This work is based on a collaboration with Miroslav Pajic (Duke ECE) and Majda Hadziahmetovic (Duke Ophthalmology). [Demo description PDF] [Accompanying poster PDF]

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IEEE INFOCOM 2022 Paper and Demo

This week Ying Chen is presenting our work on evaluating and exploiting characteristics of user pose in VR at IEEE INFOCOM’22, in a paper and an accompanying demonstration:  VR Viewport Pose Model for Quantifying and Exploiting Frame Correlations presents the … Continue reading

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ACM SenSys’20 paper: Gaze-based Cognitive Context Sensing

In our recent work that appeared in ACM SenSys 2020, we take a close look at the detection of cognitive context, the state of the person’s mind, through users’ eye tracking. Eye tracking is a fascinating human sensing modality. Eye movements … Continue reading

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2016 IEEE Communications Society Young Author Best Paper Award

Aya Wallwater, Gil Zussman, and myself received the 2016 IEEE Communications Society Young Author Best Paper Award at the 2016 IEEE GLOBECOM earlier this week, for our paper on measurements and algorithms for networks of energy harvesting nodes that appeared … Continue reading

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Why I Volunteer On The Grace Hopper Conference Scholarship Committee

I am finding it exceptionally rewarding to be serving on the Grace Hopper Conference Scholarship Committee, that is, reviewing Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Conference travel grant applications. I’ve served on this committee in 2015 and 2016, and … Continue reading

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Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2016: Does It Affect My Purchasing Decisions?

Coming to the Consumer Electronics Show is like stepping into a geeky adults’ version of a candy shop, except that some of the candy you see won’t be on sale for several months (if it reaches the market at all), … Continue reading

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Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2016: First Timer’s Impressions

The legendary and glorious Consumer Electronics Show. A congregation of more than 170,000 people (for comparison, I grew up in a city of only 30,000), in the shiny artificial Las Vegas. A happening that takes over tech pages in all … Continue reading

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2011 IEEE Communications Society Award

I received the 2011 IEEE Communications Society Award for Advances in Communications earlier this month at the 2011 IEEE GLOBECOM award ceremony in Houston, TX.  This award recognizes papers that open new lines of work, envision bold approaches to communication, … Continue reading

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