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We have been experimenting with smaller, custom web applications for research projects.

The purpose of this guide is to help someone setup a secure websocket server on any Ubuntu VM (AWS/Linode/Digital Ocean/Azure etc.).

Since completing my Ph.D., I have been working as a HCI Researcher and Software Lead on the TunePad project.

As we got closer to opening up TunePad to more classrooms, we wanted to have some web analytics set up.

Since the time I’ve had the “Red Dragon”, it has had a broken driver’s side door lock.

From my childhood, I have loved cars; perhaps it should not be surprising that my graduate studies would involve cars in some form or the other.

I designed and developed an Apple Watch application to let museum visitors navigate galleries of interest more easily, communicate/share data between the watch and a museum's interactive displays for content personalization, and also save snippets of inte…

The Digital Rails project was done in partnership with the fine folks at Chicago's Field Museum.

While changing the rotors and brake pads, I had noticed that the rubber boot on the driver’s side CV-axle was broken.

Did some work on the old “red dragon” over the last couple of days.

Could NATO put in place an “Article 5 for cyber crime” into effect?

What do Google Maps, Apple Maps and Bing Maps (Nokia Here?)

When I started working at the TIDAL Lab in 2012, a project that investigated family practices around appliances and household energy usage was already in place (NSF grant).

GhostHunter started as an offshoot of the GreenHomeGames NSF grant, where we were exploring ways to augment traditional heating and cooling systems controls (such as the thermostats) in homes to help families learn about their energy footprint. energy use…

We added various actuators, sensors, and a micro-controller to a frisbee that could be used to give throw feedback to an ultimate frisbee player. left: exploded view of circuit components, middle: after mounting on a custom designed and etched circuit boa…