November 11, 2015, ARM TechCon, Santa Clara, CA—Markus Levy from EEMBC talked about the need for care in reviewing benchmark results. Even though many benchmarks are easy to apply and provide hard numbers, they may not be appropriate for the units being measured. EEMBC has been in the standard benchmark arena for 18 years as…
March 3, 2015, Game Developer Conference, San Francisco—Chris Hazard from Hazardous Software talked about trust in games. The ability to measure responses allows for the manipulation of player trust through choice and game mechanics. Trust is an essential element in games. The play needs strong goals and it is easy to lose the player if…
February 9, 2015, Electronic Imaging Conference, San Francisco—Daniel Cernea from Technische University in Kaiserslautern discussed interaction-driven emotion visualization on multi-touch interfaces. The intent of the work is to create better user interfaces and incorporate other human factors to enhance collaboration. The detect user emotional states allows researchers to measure user affective states. In group settings,…
February 4, 2013, Electronic Imaging Conference, Burlingame, CA—Thomas Bindre from Nik Software presented concepts for selective editing of images on touchscreen devices. The growth of smart mobile devices allows picture-taking capabilities anywhere, but the quality of most pictures is poor. Editing can be a global operation, where all pixels are changed with some parameter, or…