NYT has an article (by Saul Hansell) comparing features offered by Google and Yahoo and their acceptance by people. The basic question is: Do Internet users prefer services that are consistent and predictable, like those offered by Yahoo, or are…
Consistency VS Wow
UCI CAP: Council on Academic Personnel
Today a dinner was hosted at Dele Ogunseitan’s residence for the 2005-2006 UCI CAP members. Since I served on this committee for this year, I attended the dinner. This committee helps university administration in their decisions related to appointment and…
Digital Photo Albums
I posted some thoughts on this topic some time ago here. Here are some functionality that I thought such systems should provide. These are still at very high level and are evolving. A digital photo album should provide following functionality:…
Words: Events
We live in three-dimensional space. This space is continuous. To refer to space we use different types of abstractions. Some abstractions are based on objects and some are the result of our desire to put some structure of otherwise continuous…
Gesture based image navigation
Microsoft developed gesture based image navigation technology but is licensing it to a start-up for commercializing and applying it to specific applications. Interesting. Considering strong activity in gesture-based interaction in the computer vision community, I expect to see many interesting…