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Winter Update, Grad School News

January 15, 2014 / kateringland / 0 Comments

Hello! Here’s just a quick update from me. The first 6 months of my graduate school experience has just flown by. I’m now in my second week of winter quarter. Phew!

First, I want to just make an observation about my experience so far before I get into the news segment of this post. I have had moments of sheer anxiety and insecurity, but those seem to be balanced out with moments of happy triumph. An email I received recently really sums up why there is this oscillation of confidence. The contents of the email were along the lines of “You have a really awesome idea, I’m impressed with you. Why aren’t you talking more in class? You should sit in the front row.” And this is what grad school is all about: small moments of celebration followed by many moments of pushing you to the next level. I’m learning to treasure my little celebrations and embrace all the criticism because it’s going to make me a much stronger person in the long run.

Talking more in class discussion? I’ll save that subject for a different blog post.

Onto the news!

My team submitted a project to the iConference Social Media Expo competition and made it to the final round. We will be flying to Berlin the first week of March to present our work. My favorite part of the project was editing together the video for it. You can see the video and read our abstract on my portfolio page.

I also presented my poster at ASSETS 2013 in October for work I did on the Clothing Tagging Systems for the Visually Impaired. While I probably won’t be doing further work on this project, I got a lot of valuable feedback. The experience I gained from this project has influenced much of the work I am currently doing and will be doing in the future.

I have a couple more projects in the works that I’m excited to share with everyone when they are a little further along. Stay tuned!

Week 10

August 13, 2012 / kateringland / 0 Comments

In a whirlwind of getting everything done, the summer is over! This past week I created a video showcasing all of the tagging systems I put into clothes. I also wrote a presentation, which I gave at the Summer Undergraduate Research Festival on Wednesday, August 8th. This was the same festival that I created and presented a poster at.

Here are the slides from my presentation. The video I created followed these slides.

Tagging Systems to Assist Visually Impaired Users Identify Visual Data in Clothing.

And here is the video I created:

All in all, I’m really sad to be going home and leaving this project behind. I had a lot of fun working on it and learned a LOT. It was wonderful working with so many great people. I’m super excited to be continuing on with school and working on graduate school applications this fall!

Week 5

July 9, 2012 / kateringland / 0 Comments

This week was a short week because of the July 4th holiday. I spent the week refining my project. I put together a list of supplies I would need to build an NFC reader and the tags to put into clothing. Sadly, a lot of the online stores did not have the components in stock.

In the meantime, I examined an already built RFID reader that was made by another graduate student last spring.

RFID Reader

RFID Reader Innards

It was great to be able to see how someone else put a system together with different components. This system used a battery, an Arduino Pro Mini, a bluetooth controller, and a RFID antenna mounted on the outside of the box.

I also helped in the production of a tutorial video. The video is for people who will be participating in a study using an iPhone app called VizWiz. Learning how to make a video was a lot of fun. My main role was narration, which was a new experience for me.

Winter Update, Grad School News

Week 10

Week 5

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