ETRA presentation
ETRA '08 was this week, I didn't get to present but Michael and Andrew took care of it. I just thought I'd share the presentation they gave. Enjoy.
A new usability tool
I just want to share this with people. It's a new usability tool to simulate eye tracking and also visual blur. It can be a great tool, especially for those of us who don't have eye trackers around the house. It's called the Stompernet Scrutinizer, and it was developed by my friend Andy Edmonds.
Here's a short video screencast of the scrutinizer.
So, go download it, and have fun!
Site Changes
I decided to make some changes to the site. I have now upgraded to the latest stable version of WordPress (2.3.1). I have also made some changes to the "Zen in Grey" theme, originally designed by Sajith M . I've now added the Clemson HFES site to the projects pages. Hopefully it has increased the usability of the site. I think it looks nicer, anyway.
ETRA conference paper
The EyeWrite study has now gotten two papers for publication. The newest one is for ETRA. This one actually has the experimental results, showing that EyeWrite did well, but not quite as well as the On Screen QWERTY. It's unfortunate that EyeWrite didn't "win", but I'm still happy with the results. We are looking to continue this line of research, since EyeWrite shows some promise, by using the word completion code. We may also use EyeWrite as a way to enter commands since it takes up much less screen real estate. Click here for the paper.
Clemson HFES website
Last year I was elected to the Webmaster position of the Clemson University Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES). I decided that I wanted to redo the site and create something a bit more interesting and interactive
I also decided I wanted to do something interesting for IE 802, which is "Human-computer interaction". So, I asked the professor, Dr. Greenstein, if I could do the HFES website as the class project.
That turned out to be a fantastic idea because I had some great people on my development team:
Matt Garbarino, Nathan Klein, and Shiva Subramaniam.
The new site can be found at www.clemsonhfes.org
The old site can be found at http://people.clemson.edu/~hfes
Please check out the new site, and feel free to sign up and get posting!
Well it’s been a minute
Sorry for the lack of posting, but the end of the semester has been BUSY. I'm going to make a few posts to update you on what has been happening.
ACnet
My test Drupal install of ACnet is up.
It probably won't look like much to you, but then, it's not supposed to. It's an online intranet for Anderson County employees to communicate.
It's built on the open source cms Drupal, which is pretty good stuff. It's not as easy to use as I'd like, but.... it's pretty darn good.
I hope to be testing some users soon.
Coming soon will also be the test site for the Clemson HFES chapter as the current site is.... well it's a site 
We’ve moved!
By we, I mean me
I've moved everything over to Clemsonlinux, because they offer more space, more flexibility, and better software.
Viva CLUG
Contact info and HFES work
I realized I didn't have contact information for myself on the site, which is a big no-no. I have rectified that situation with a "contact" page. Please avail yourself to it if you need to contact me.
Also, I have finally gotten the password for the HFES website. So, I've done some updates. I haven't made any changes to the look or usability of the site (neither of which I particularly like) because we are working on a ground-up redesign. That should debut in the next two months or so. Hopefully, it will help the club take on it's new role as "Clemson HFES" rather than "HFES Student Chapter". I hope to have much more site participation and input from faculty, alumni, and perhaps even area HF professionals. If you have some input feel free to contact me.
Welcome
If you are seeing this, it's likely because I gave you (or someone in your company) a resume that had this website address.
I'd just like to welcome all of you.
Hopefully this site will tell you a bit more about me than I can squeeze onto a resume and cover letter.
So, take a look around, see if you can get to know me a little better, and if you have questions, don't hesitate to ask me: jrubins@clemson.edu
