The Design for Additive Manufacturing Worksheet (Conference)

The Design for Additive Manufacturing Worksheet (Conference)

Joran W. Booth; Jeffrey Alperovich; Tahira N. Reid; Karthik Ramani
Proc. ASME. 50190; Volume 7: 28th International Conference on Design Theory and Methodology, V007T06A041.August 21, 2016 DETC2016-60407 doi: 10.1115/DETC2016-60407

Additive manufacturing (AM) technologies have become integral to the modern manufacturing process. These roles are filled both in prototyping and production. Many studies have been conducted and lists been written on guidelines for AM. While these...

Deconvolving Feedback Loops in Recommender Systems

Deconvolving Feedback Loops in Recommender Systems

Ayan Sinha, David F. Gleich, Karthik Ramani
In Proceedings of the Thirtieth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS'16) , Barcelona, Spain, 2016

Collaborative filtering is a popular technique to infer users' preferences on new content based on the collective information of all users preferences. Recommender systems then use this information to make personalized suggestions to users. When...

Window-Shaping: 3D Design Ideation in Mixed Reality

Window-Shaping: 3D Design Ideation in Mixed Reality

Ke Huo, Vinayak, Karthik Ramani
In Proceedings of the 2016 Symposium on Spatial User Interaction, Tokyo, Japan, 2016 Oct.

We present, Window-Shaping, a mobile, markerless, mixed-reality (MR) interface for creative design ideation that allows for the direct creation of 3D shapes on and around physical objects. Using the sketch-and-inflate scheme, we present a design...

TRing: Instant and Customizable Interactions with Objects Using an Embedded Magnet and a Finger-Worn Device

TRing: Instant and Customizable Interactions with Objects Using an Embedded Magnet and a Finger-Worn Device

Sang Ho Yoon, Yunbo Zhang, Ke Huo, Karthik Ramani
In Proceedings of the 29th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software & Technology (UIST'16) , Tokyo, Japan, 2016 (Acceptance Rate: 20.6%)

We present TRing, a finger-worn input device which provides instant and customizable interactions. TRing offers a novel method for making plain objects interactive using an embedded magnet and a finger-worn device. With a particle filter integrated...

Developing Middle School Students’ Engineering Design Concepts through Toy Design Workshop

Developing Middle School Students’ Engineering Design Concepts through Toy Design Workshop

Ninger Zhou, Tarun Thomas George, Joran W. Booth, Jeffrey Alperovich, Senthil Chandrasegaran, Nielsen L. Pereira, Jeffrey David Tew, Devadatta M. Kulkarni, Karthik Ramani
ASEE 123rd Annual, New Orleans, LA, June 26-29, 2016

In this study, we structured a toy design workshop to provide hands on and engaging design activities for middle school students, to help them develop self-efficacy beliefs in design, model and scaffold engineering design mindsets, and apply design...

Deep Learning 3D Shape Surfaces using Geometry Images

Deep Learning 3D Shape Surfaces using Geometry Images

Ayan SInha, Jing Bai, Karthik Ramani
The 14th European Conference on Computer Vision, October 11-14, 2016, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Surfaces serve as a natural parametrization to 3D shapes. Learning surfaces using convolutional neural networks (CNNs) is a challenging task. Current paradigms to tackle this challenge are to either adapt the convolutional filters to operate on...

shapeSIFT: Evaluating InfoVis Tools for Eco-Conscious Design

shapeSIFT: Evaluating InfoVis Tools for Eco-Conscious Design

Ramanujan D, Bernstein WZ, Kulkarni D, Tew J, & Ramani K
In ASME 2013 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (pp. V004T05A041-V004T05A041). American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

In this paper, we present the methodology and results from the evaluation of shapeSIFT: a multi-dimensional visualization tool for exploring part repositories in the context of eco-conscious design. The goals of this work are twofold, to create a...

FEAsy: A Sketch-Based Tool for Finite Element Analysis

FEAsy: A Sketch-Based Tool for Finite Element Analysis

Sundar Murugappan, Cecil Piya, Maria C. Yang, Karthik Ramani
Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering, Volume 16, Issue 3, September 2016

Freehand sketching is an integral part of early design process. Recent years have seen an increased interest in supporting sketching in computer-based design systems. In this paper, we present finite element analysis made easy (FEAsy), a...

The intrinsic geometric structure of protein-protein interaction networks for protein interaction prediction

The intrinsic geometric structure of protein-protein interaction networks for protein interaction prediction

Yi Fang, Mengtian Sun, Guoxian Dai, and Karthik Ramani
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (TCBB) TCBB Homepage archive Volume 13 Issue 1, January/February 2016 Pages 76-85

Recent developments in high-throughput technologies for measuring protein-protein interaction (PPI) have profoundly advanced our ability to systematically infer protein function and regulation. However, inherently high false positive and false...

Proto-TAI++: Exploring Perceptually Consistent Creation of Planar Shape Assemblies Through Multimodal Tangible Interactions

Proto-TAI++: Exploring Perceptually Consistent Creation of Planar Shape Assemblies Through Multimodal Tangible Interactions

Cecil Piya, Vinayak, Karthik Ramani
Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering, Volume 16, Issue 3, September 2016

We explore tangible 3D interactions that allow for geometric and perceptual correspondence between a midair modality and the 3D elements it controls. To demonstrate our approach, we use a concrete application scenario through Proto-TAI++, a...