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Up and Spinning 3

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Friday was set aside to finish a manuscript that I've been working on for too long. Its completion was in sight and I was looking forward to submitting in to the journal editor by the end of the day. That was before my colleague dropped in and said, "you wanna be on TV?" A reporter from the local Fox news station was doing a story about some of the interruptions research in our labs when the driving simulator was mentioned. One thing led to another, and before I knew it I was miked up and being interviewed and filmed driving our new simulator. You can see the story here. It wasn't a scheduled interview so I wasn't exactly prepared for it, but it came out fine. I hope to invite them back when we have some interesting data to talk about.

Up and Spinning 2

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Here's a brief video (Quicktime required) of our new driving simulator in action. As noted before, the yaw (rotation) movement is a novel feature on a simulator this scale. I didn't have any students available to help me that morning, so I had to shoot it myself.

This video was shot with an iSight and captured with a demo version of iVeZeen.

Simulator up and "spinning"

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Our new driving simulator at GMU is finally fully operational as of yesterday. It can now rotate 90º to the right and left, hopefully adding some strong motion-cues to participants when they turn. This feature is truly unique, let alone for a simulator this size. There's a small pitch-motion system as well to give drivers a sense of acceleration and braking feel.

A video of the simulator in action will be available soon. It's very cool! Now it's time to dive in with some experimental studies.

Media coverage

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My lab got a short write-up in Mason's Gazette today. My student David and I did the photo shoot on Friday.

Been Busy

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Quick update:

I'm still off fast food, as long as Pizza Hut doesn't count.

I've been busy at work overseeing the installation of my new driving simulator.

I'm way, way, way behind in my reading for the year.

My wife and I have been busy getting our house ready to sell. Our first open house was this past Sunday.

My friend William started a blog.

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