Friday, December 24, 2010

Wish you a Merry Christmas

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Is Christmas eve, my favorite festival, a day to celebrate the coming of Jesus. Wish all the people around have a very good day and peace be with you, God blessed! :D

Friday, December 10, 2010

PoP


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While I search about mybrain15, I found an interest title by coincidence. Publish or Perish abbreviate PoP, which is a tool for researcher to check their article ranking or what we always called as impact factor.

With this application, user can search around all the publication for the particular author. Whilst the original purpose of this app it to should the cited article by the particular author. However, I found it's just great for me to view my publication cited and also the journal impact. Let have a try if you haven't!

Monday, November 15, 2010

Google instant or not?

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Recently I use the google advanced search especially the function of Results per page. I didn't aware that every time I search with the 100 pages, it's still remained the default number of pages. Until today, I discover that the google got such this problem because of google instant function. Google instant is a new and powerful function that manage to display the output while the user key in the search keywords. However, I still like the traditional way that is press the search button after I key in the keywords. The results per page will recover function after you put it off away. Just a little sharing~

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Questioning & answering myself

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After a period of time in doing research, I come back to the origin point, this is how a researcher will face too. I questioning myself again with few questions, I complier as following:
  1. Why I choose this title?
  2. What is the state-of-the-art for current title?
  3. What is the problem issues of this title?
  4. Who is your target user?
  5. When to use this approach and when to use other?
  6. What is the challenge of your current topic?
  7. Who is your competitors?
  8. What is your advantage compare with other researches (or researchers) ?
  9. What is your contribution to the knowledge?
  10. What sort of problem you going to solve in the title?
  11. What is your goal(s)?
  12. What is your objective(s)?
Great, the week I'm gonna to strengthen up my answers again by getting evidence from other sources. Cheer~

Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Just a nag

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September was pass and now I step in October. I thought that the 'unsmooth' month was pass but it seem not, start of October my bike need to send to workshop for repaired. Luckily I didn't crash when the bike chain jam during riding it. Thank to my friend also who willing come to fetch me during the moment I need. Now I was face some bottle neck on my job. Unsolved problem bothering few days ago, still can't find any solution, and I feel like to give up. Since I have the responsibility then I must find a way to figure out it. I was now a bit emo, feel like don't want to do anythings. How I going to move forward for the rest of the life? Alas.

Sunday, September 5, 2010

Piece of happiness

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Today I met a friend after the mass. I feel very surprised cause I never thinking can meet with her again. I also happy to know one new friend. Hope can see him every week to the mass. Recently I feel stress cause a lot of works to do, but God can make me happy with a little surprise. Happiness came around cause God give me. Love you God.

Sunday, August 29, 2010

Failed

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My post-guaduate life fulled of failure. Trying to apply difference academic grant and scholarship but each came out with unsuccessful results. Sigh~ everytime I saw people around me get their scholarship, I'll smiling cause they are lucky and hope that they can concentrate more on their research. However, while I look back to myself, asking myself what I get? ...I still trying, may be the time still not coming yet, but actually I started doulbt myself, am I wouldn't get any finance aids until the end of my research? Then how long should I take to finish my research? I need to do part-time jobs to cover my life spend and dairy expenses, lacking of time on research is my main concern, when I can finish my research? Goosh! I will not giving up anymore since I failed so many time. I always thanking God for I'am not the only one, thanking cause I still standing here, and I believe God will give me the honour at the day coming.

Friday, July 16, 2010

Block facebook game

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The internet administrator already block the facebook game inside the campus. I was told by my colleague today. Well, it's not a big deal to me because I seldom play around on facebook game recently. More concentration on research due to the time save from gaming. This actually my advised to my colleagues.

Friday, July 9, 2010

Vexed

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I have a feeling that I'm wasting time. Time should be tight during doing research but I think that not applying on me. Upset that I not doing properly, down because don't have a clear route. I need some one can really guide me a lot care me a lot but not bothering me a lot. I need rest but I can survive without doing jobs. I want hacked my head so that I can get many ideas, finish up my research as soon as possible and leave this damn environment.

Friday, July 2, 2010

My publication

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In year 2010, I already published one conference paper and one journal which collaborated with my colleague. The link is provided in this article. You may read it here for the conference and here for journal paper. My target for publication still far far away. Need thousands hardworking to hit my target.

Monday, June 28, 2010

Be an effective guy

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I always thinking how to become more effective in every way rather than hanging around and wasting the time everyday. I found an article from this website, it's talk about "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People" I list down 7 of those habits:
  1. Be Proactive
  2. Begin with the End in Mind
  3. Put First Things First
  4. Think Win/Win
  5. Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood
  6. Synergize
  7. Sharpen the Saw
Number 5 was the mind set that should apply to me everyday. However, it is also the most time taken for me actually. Yet, the other also important to become a more effective researcher.

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Babel Fish

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What is Babel Fish? It's another online tool for me to do translation. I started to use it since yesterday after told by my colleague that the grammer is more accurate compared with goolge translate that I normally used. Just to share! Have a nice day.

Monday, May 24, 2010

Meaning of interaction

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"Technology gets obsolete in a year, and applications get obsolete in 10 years. But vision driven by art survives beyond our lifespan" quoted from Hiroshi Ishii.
He believes the experience of interacting with devices should be pleasing, not just functional.

Tuesday, May 4, 2010

User Model

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"When a new user sits down to use a program, they do not come with a completely clean slate. They have some expectations of how they think the program is going to work. If they've used similar software before, they will think it's going to work like that other software. If they've used any software before, they are going to think that your software conforms to certain common conventions. They may have intelligent guesses about how the UI is going to work. This is called the user model: it is their mental understanding of what the program is doing for them."

The paragraph above is came from Joel Spolsky on his title
Figuring Out What They Expected
If you want to know more about what is user model, I suggest you should read through to know deeper, it's quite easily to understand when reading the article.

Thursday, April 29, 2010

My current research

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Computer vision + image processing = Gesture Recognition,

Hand gesture + speech = Multi-modal interaction,

My current research = Integrating multi-modal interaction.

Thursday, April 22, 2010

The Answer

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I'm planning to write a review of the article or journal related to multi-modal interaction for the coming month. What actually a review paper needed? Here is my idea after "looping" for thinking the answer: "Look forward to the way people do it from the previous researches. What have been done before and what can be your extended tasks through previous researches." It look quite ambiguous but it might the answer I looking for and I feel comfortable with it.

Thursday, April 15, 2010

The World After 5K Days

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The speaker, Eric Yao who talks about the "Future of The World after 5K days". In this video, he mentioned about the Tom Kelley, the author of the book name "The Ten Faces of Innovation" and also Johnny Lee, a HCI researcher at Carnegie Mellon University. The video is in mandarin, if you can't understand your can first learn the mandarin, or second choice ask somebody know mandarin to translate to you.


Hand Gesture Controlling Laptop

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This is not a new news actually, I found the date is year 2008. I would like to share the technology of hand gesture interaction in the future. Controlling the laptop might be one of the challenged currently but not the future.

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

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I comprehend something today that I already know before I undergraduate.

I'm not a genius, but the only thing I can do more is hardworking than genius, so I can be an artificial genius.