[About Me]
24 August 2007
Regarding Site Updates
I appear to be slacking on updates to the other pages of my site (as in everything other than my bi-weekly to weekly posts). In particularly, my grad school pages, audio game (I still need to release the latest build to SourceForge...), and resume pages are all in dire need of updates. I also want to freshen up the general design of the page, but that's not going to happen for awhile. However, even the general site updates probably won't be rolled out until sometime at the end of next month, so please be patient for those updates.
In terms of what I've been up to lately, I've had classes start. I've found that I'm actually pretty into my statistics class--I'm taking it partially as a refresher and partially to learn some portions of statistics I never learned and need for writing research papers/my thesis. Speaking of papers, I am currently working on three papers with deadlines in mid-September--a CHI Notes for a methodology I worked on over the summer; a full CHI paper on my audio game; and an IEEE VR Sketch paper for the H3D project (now officially named Multi-modal Mesh Manipulation or M4). I have the first draft of the CHI Notes paper done, but the other two I need to work on a bit--the full CHI paper shouldn't be too bad as I have a lot of the background research and such for that. The M4 paper I'm slightly worried about for various reasons, but it's only a four page paper so I'm not too concerned about it.
As for other school related things, I found out that I was nominated and elected Treasurer of the HCI Student Group during my absence this summer, in addition to being one of the two senators to the Graduate and Professional Student Senate (GPSS), which (conveniently), has an amendment at the next meeting for increasing funding to conferences (and which I plan on proposing an amendment to so it increases funding for international conferences). I'm also helping to organize one (or more) teams for the CHI student design competition. I don't plan on participating in it myself, but I do plan on spearheading the process and making sure that things stay organized. I'd like to see more people at Iowa State going to CHI, and I figure this is a great way to do it.
My last bit of an update is that I'm considering buying an iPhone. The 4 GB one is $100 off refurbished, I already have AT&T (And my mom wants to renew our contract with them so she can get a new phone), and I've been looking for a pocket sized Internet device for about 2 years now (and a multi-touch one with good video playback gives me more stuff that I've been wanting for over a year).
In terms of what I've been up to lately, I've had classes start. I've found that I'm actually pretty into my statistics class--I'm taking it partially as a refresher and partially to learn some portions of statistics I never learned and need for writing research papers/my thesis. Speaking of papers, I am currently working on three papers with deadlines in mid-September--a CHI Notes for a methodology I worked on over the summer; a full CHI paper on my audio game; and an IEEE VR Sketch paper for the H3D project (now officially named Multi-modal Mesh Manipulation or M4). I have the first draft of the CHI Notes paper done, but the other two I need to work on a bit--the full CHI paper shouldn't be too bad as I have a lot of the background research and such for that. The M4 paper I'm slightly worried about for various reasons, but it's only a four page paper so I'm not too concerned about it.
As for other school related things, I found out that I was nominated and elected Treasurer of the HCI Student Group during my absence this summer, in addition to being one of the two senators to the Graduate and Professional Student Senate (GPSS), which (conveniently), has an amendment at the next meeting for increasing funding to conferences (and which I plan on proposing an amendment to so it increases funding for international conferences). I'm also helping to organize one (or more) teams for the CHI student design competition. I don't plan on participating in it myself, but I do plan on spearheading the process and making sure that things stay organized. I'd like to see more people at Iowa State going to CHI, and I figure this is a great way to do it.
My last bit of an update is that I'm considering buying an iPhone. The 4 GB one is $100 off refurbished, I already have AT&T (And my mom wants to renew our contract with them so she can get a new phone), and I've been looking for a pocket sized Internet device for about 2 years now (and a multi-touch one with good video playback gives me more stuff that I've been wanting for over a year).
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