MEETING-DATE:September 8, 2011
MEETING-LOCATION:DC 1331
MEETING-TIME:11:30
MEETING-CHAIR:Jamie Ruiz
MEETING-CHAIRPIC:jgruiz_02.jpg
COFFEE-HOUR-LAST-WEEK:Matt
COFFEE-HOUR-THIS-WEEK:Jiame
COFFEE-HOUR-NEXT-WEEK:Volunteers?
FORTH-DATE1:September 15, 2011
FORTH-DATE2:September 22, 2011
FORTH-DATE3:September 29, 2011
FORTH-DATE4:October, 6, 2011
FORTH-LOCATION1:DC 1331 11:30
FORTH-LOCATION2:DC 1331 11:30
FORTH-LOCATION3:DC 1331 11:30
FORTH-LOCATION4:DC 1331 11:30
FORTH-CHAIR1:Mike Terry
FORTH-CHAIR2:Matthew Thorne
FORTH-CHAIR3:Dan Vogel
FORTH-CHAIR4:Zainab AlMeraj
FORTH-CHAIRPIC1:mterry.jpg
FORTH-CHAIRPIC2:thorne.jpg
FORTH-CHAIRPIC3:noface3.jpg
FORTH-CHAIRPIC4:zainab.jpg
FORTH-TP1:Alex Pytel
FORTH-TP2:Mike Terry
FORTH-TP3:Matthew Thorne
FORTH-TP4:Dan Vogel
FORTH-TPPIC1:apytel1.jpg
FORTH-TPPIC2:mterry.jpg
FORTH-TPPIC3:thorne.jpg
FORTH-TPPIC4:noface3.jpg
TPNAME:Matei Negulescu
TPTITLE:A Recognition Safety Net: Bi-Level 

TPABSTRACT:Designers of motion gestures for mobile devices face <nl>the difficult challenge of building a recognizer that can <nl>separate gestural input from motion noise. A threshold <nl>value is used to classify motion and effectively balances <nl>the rates of false positives and false negatives. We <nl>present a bi-level threshold recognizer that is built to <nl>lower the rate of recognition failures by accepting either <nl>a tightly thresholded gesture or two consecutive <nl>possible gestures recognized by a looser model. We <nl>evaluate bi-level thresholding with a pilot study in order <nl>to gauge its effectiveness as a recognition safety net <nl>for users who have difficulty activating a motion <nl>gesture. Lastly, we suggest the use of bi-level <nl>thresholding to scaffold learning of motion gestures.
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DIONE:Supernova.  See with strong binoculars for the next few nights.  Near the handle of the Big Dipper.
DITWO:Piazza for cgl?  Craig says "No."
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AIONE:Send PDF of recent posters to Steve.
AITWO:Coffee Hour at 4:30 in the fall? 
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SEMINARS:<dl><dt>2011 Sep 13, 13:30 — Database Research Group PhD Thesis Defence</dt><dd><nl>Chen Zhang, PhD candidate, David R. Cheriton School of Comp. Sci., Univ. Waterloo<nl>Enhancing data processing on clouds with Hadoop/HBase</dd</dl>