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Summer Program for Interdisciplinary Research and Education – Emerging Interface Technologies

Author Archives: Johann Chen

Last Blog Post

SPIRE-EIT 2025 Posted on July 31, 2025 by Johann ChenJuly 31, 2025

Today is the second to last day, last time I will blog. We’re going to be doing poster presentations to showcase our projects that we have been working on all summer. That seems like an interesting event, I look forward … Continue reading →

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AWOL In Blogging

SPIRE-EIT 2025 Posted on July 23, 2025 by Johann ChenJuly 23, 2025

It’s been a bit since I last blogged, sorry about that. I’ve been caught up in my NAVI project and been really immersed in it. Since the last blog post, our team has finished the program to run our experiments, … Continue reading →

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Project Progress

SPIRE-EIT 2025 Posted on July 14, 2025 by Johann ChenJuly 14, 2025

Last week Friday, we went to University of Iowa to give some presentations on our projects and also hear about their projects as well. It was a super cool experience to visit another university, hear about their program and also … Continue reading →

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Presentation

SPIRE-EIT 2025 Posted on July 10, 2025 by Johann ChenJuly 10, 2025

Today a lot has happened, it feels like a lot has happened. Natasha had presented a class to us about thinking and decision making, it was an interesting topic that was talked about. This lecture was a bit different and … Continue reading →

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Neuralangelo

SPIRE-EIT 2025 Posted on June 27, 2025 by Johann ChenJune 27, 2025

Quick blog post. I spent the last 8 hours or so on class trying to get pas the first step, but these last two hours for my MCA has been really nice. Stephen and Adam are helping out a ton, … Continue reading →

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Lasgneon

SPIRE-EIT 2025 Posted on June 26, 2025 by Johann ChenJune 26, 2025

I forgot to mention all the other luncheon guest speakers in the previous weeks. Thank you Eliot, Jack, Jim, and Holly for giving us advice through your stories about your life. The career ups and downs are always interesting to … Continue reading →

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Walmart Is Walkable

SPIRE-EIT 2025 Posted on June 20, 2025 by Johann ChenJune 20, 2025

Hey interns, I’ll just talk about a few events that were pretty interesting yesterday. We had a pasta event, where we pretty much had Eliot guide us like a baby on how to make the pasta. Natasha and David made … Continue reading →

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Back to the beginning

SPIRE-EIT 2025 Posted on June 17, 2025 by Johann ChenJune 17, 2025

It’s rough, thinking you have the perfect research question, imagining a plan that everything will follow smoothly, As I should known with all our mentors past stories and all of the tellings of failure, our brilliant research question was pretty … Continue reading →

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Lights

SPIRE-EIT 2025 Posted on June 13, 2025 by Johann ChenJune 13, 2025

For today’s blog post, I will talk about yesterday, 6/12. With our research, our goals became more clear as we became more knowledgable with the concept of self driving cars, more specifically, the remote operators that can assist if there … Continue reading →

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Struggles with SolidWorks

SPIRE-EIT 2025 Posted on June 10, 2025 by Johann ChenJune 10, 2025

Yesterday, on Monday, we learned some topics on SolidWorks, which was my first time, and it was pretty rough with lots of new material to learn. At first, I had no idea idea what I was doing, I was trying … Continue reading →

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The Ordinary Pizza

SPIRE-EIT 2025 Posted on June 4, 2025 by Johann ChenJune 5, 2025

For today’s lunch, we went to a restaurant “Pizza Pit” to eat, pizza. Before, we had a lot of recommendations saying that this pizza was cheap and really good tasting. So, we had to go try it out, it took … Continue reading →

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First Taco Tuesday

SPIRE-EIT 2025 Posted on June 3, 2025 by Johann ChenJune 5, 2025

Since we have blog time every single day of this week, I’m gonna write only about one topic for this post. Today we had a presentation shown to us about colors and gestures, all involving VR. This topic was interesting … Continue reading →

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First Monday Blog

SPIRE-EIT 2025 Posted on June 2, 2025 by Johann ChenJune 3, 2025

What’s up, today is the first Monday since the start of the program and a some exciting stuff has happened. With the research stuff first, we have learned C++ for the first time today, we had some team building activities … Continue reading →

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5/29/2025

SPIRE-EIT 2025 Posted on May 29, 2025 by Johann ChenMay 29, 2025

For today’s blog, I’ll talk about my arrival on the 27th to what I did now. Waking up at 2:30 am on the 27th was probably the worst part, but I was able to sleep on the plane over here, … Continue reading →

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Recent Posts

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  • Last Blog Post
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  • Last Week
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  • Graduate School & Cody’s Luncheon
    by Vanina Joyce Nguemsop Feutie
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  • Pilot testing and luncheon lecture
    by Madeleine Korver
  • AWOL In Blogging
    by Johann Chen
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    by Aidan Link
  • Shifting away from coding
    by Madeleine Korver
  • Grad School Insight
    by Jacob Becker
  • Mix
    by Madeleine Korver

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