The Design of a Virtual Prototyping System for Authoring Interactive Virtual Reality Environments From Real-World Scans

The Design of a Virtual Prototyping System for Authoring Interactive Virtual Reality Environments From Real-World Scans

Ananya Ipsita*, Runlin Duan*, Hao Li*, Subramanian Chidambaram, Yuanzhi Cao, Min Liu, Alex Quinn, Karthik Ramani
in ASME. J. Comput. Inf. Sci. Eng. March 2024

Domain users (DUs) with a knowledge base in specialized fields are frequently excluded from authoring virtual reality (VR)-based applications in corresponding fields. This is largely due to the requirement of VR programming expertise needed to...

EditAR: A Digital Twin Authoring Environment for Creation of AR/VR and Video Instructions from a Single Demonstration

EditAR: A Digital Twin Authoring Environment for Creation of AR/VR and Video Instructions from a Single Demonstration

Subramanian Chidambaram, Sai Swarup Reddy, Matthew Rumple, Ananya Ipsita, Ana Villanueva, Thomas Redick, Wolfgang Stuerzlinger, Karthik Ramani
In 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR)

Augmented/Virtual reality and video-based media play a vital role in the digital learning revolution to train novices in spatial tasks. However, creating content for these different media requires expertise in several fields. We present EditAR, a...

ColabAR: A Toolkit for Remote Collaboration in Tangible Augmented Reality Laboratories

ColabAR: A Toolkit for Remote Collaboration in Tangible Augmented Reality Laboratories

Ana Villanueva, Zhengzhe Zhu, Ziyi Liu, Feiyang Wang, Subramanian Chidambaram, Karthik Ramani
In the Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 6(CSCW1), 1-22

Current times are accelerating new technologies to provide high-quality education for remote collaboration, as well as hands-on learning. This is particularly important in the case of laboratory-based classes, which play an essential role in STEM...

ProcessAR: An augmented reality-based tool to create in-situ procedural 2D/3D AR Instructions

ProcessAR: An augmented reality-based tool to create in-situ procedural 2D/3D AR Instructions

Subramanian Chidambaram, Hank Huang, Fengming He, Xun Qian, Ana M Villanueva, Thomas S Redick, Wolfgang Stuerzlinger, Karthik Ramani
In Proceedings of the Designing Interactive Systems Conference

Augmented reality (AR) is an efficient form of delivering spatial information and has great potential for training workers. However, AR is still not widely used for such scenarios due to the technical skills and expertise required to create...

FabHandWear : An End-to-End Pipeline from Design to Fabrication of Customized Functional Hand Wearables

FabHandWear : An End-to-End Pipeline from Design to Fabrication of Customized Functional Hand Wearables

Luis Paredes, Sai Swarup Reddy, Subramanian Chidambaram, Devashri Vagholkar, Yunbo Zhang, Bedrich Benes, Karthik Ramani
In Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies

Current hand wearables have limited customizability, they are loose-fit to an individual's hand and lack comfort. The main barrier in customizing hand wearables is the geometric complexity and size variation in hands. Moreover, there are different...

VRFromX: From Scanned Reality to Interactive Virtual Experience with Human-in-the-Loop

VRFromX: From Scanned Reality to Interactive Virtual Experience with Human-in-the-Loop

Ananya Ipsita, Hao Li, Runlin Duan, Yuanzhi Cao, Subramanian Chidambaram, Min Liu, Karthik Ramani
In Extended Abstracts of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

There is an increasing trend of Virtual-Reality (VR) applications found in education, entertainment, and industry. Many of them utilize real world tools, environments, and interactions as bases for creation. However, creating such applications is...

C Design Lab at the Greater Lafayette Mini Maker Faire 2019

C Design Lab at the Greater Lafayette Mini Maker Faire 2019

One more year the C-Design Lab is part of the Greater Lafayette Mini Maker Fair, an event that attracts hundreds of children and makers. This year, people were able to have a feeling of design methods, fabrication techniques, and digital...

Shape Structuralizer: Design, Fabrication, and User-driven Iterative Refinement of 3D Mesh Models

Shape Structuralizer: Design, Fabrication, and User-driven Iterative Refinement of 3D Mesh Models

Subramanian Chidambaram, Yunbo Zhang, Venkatraghavan Sundararajan, Niklas Elmqvist, and Karthik Ramani
ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2019), May 4–9, 2019, Glasgow, Scotland, UK

Current Computer-Aided Design (CAD) tools lack proper support for guiding novice users towards designs ready for fabrication. We propose Shape Structuralizer (SS), an interactive design support system that repurposes surface models into structural...