This post is the fifth in a series of nine illustrating my trip to Japan. On my fifth day in Japan, March 25th, Matt and I decided to take the time to do some sightseeing and go to the various areas around Tokyo, including Central Tokyo (æ±äº¬), Ginza (銀座), Asakusa (æµ…è‰), and Shinjuku (新宿区).
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This post is the fourth in a series of nine illustrating my trip to Japan. On the fourth day in Japan, March 24th, we recouperated from a fun evening the night before and got ready for another round of presentations. We caught up with Bert at breakfast and figured out the plan for the day.
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This post is the third in a series of nine illustrating my trip to Japan. On the third day, March 23rd, I presented the paper I co-authored, “Frequency analysis of the detectability of virtual haptic gratings.” It was surprisingly stressful (this was my first “real” presentation to a group of >200 individuals), but it went over well. Matt also presented poster on a paper he co-wrote, “Discriminability of Real and Virtual Surfaces with Triangular Gratings,” which is shown in the images below.
This post is the second in a series of nine illustrating my trip to Japan. On the second day, March 22nd, I took the time to get my bearings and get ready for the first day of the conference.
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This post is the first in a series of nine illustrating my trip to Japan.
After arriving in Japan on March 21st, we caught a bus from Narita International Airport to Tsukuba:
It’s been a while since I’ve posted and that has been primarily due to the fact that I had been preparing for an oral presentation at the World Haptics 2007 conference. I presented a paper this past week on research that I had conducted with Dr. Hong Z. Tan at the Haptic Interface Research Laboratory investigating whether a linear system model can be used to describe human texture perception. Our research supports the hypothesis that the human somatosensory system may perform a spectral analysis on the proximal stimuli and that a linear system model may describe human texture perception.
I had the opportunity to present our research and to take some time to travel to Tokyo (with my friend Matt Kocsis) and Kyoto. I’m going to get back into the swing of things and start posting more projects (I’ve got a couple up my sleeve that some people might find interesting). I’m also going to post some galleries of pictures from my travels.
I’ve completed the server move and the DNS changes, so hopefully everything will now work. There was a problem with the email program (cgiemail) during the transfer, but it seems as though I resolved the problem by using a different script (FormMail). Please feel free to send me an email or leave a comment in this post if there are any problems.
As an added bonus, I’ve attached some pictures of sparks generated with my high voltage power supply, which I was able to fix. It appears as though the old MOSFET had blown, so I was able to recreate the circuit with no issues. Continue to the post for a few more pictures. Read More
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