Window-Shaping: 3D Design Ideation in Mixed Reality

by Convergence Design Lab Admin | Nov 24, 2016 | 2016, HUMAN SHAPE INTERACTION, Karthik Ramani, Ke Huo, Mid-air Interaction, Multi-touch Interaction, Vinayak

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 workflow where users...

Seminar – Real World Entrepreneurship: from Idea to Implementation

by Convergence Design Lab Admin | Sep 9, 2016 | News

A successful entrepreneur, Mr. Manish Agrawal visited Purdue on September 5th and he shared his experiences with start-ups in his talk.   Mr. Agrawal shared his experience and key learnings from the entrepreneurial journey of over a decade, touching upon areas...

TMotion in the latest cover of ACM Interactions Magazine. (pg. 11)

by Convergence Design Lab Admin | Sep 7, 2016 | News, Sang Ho Yoon

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

by Convergence Design Lab Admin | Aug 29, 2016 | 2016, Design Collaboration, Design Learn, DESIGN METHOD, Design Representation, Publications, Senthil Chandrasegaran, Tarun George

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 concepts in...

Deep Learning 3D Shape Surfaces using Geometry Images

by Convergence Design Lab Admin | Aug 19, 2016 | 2016, Ayan Sinha, Recent Publications, Shape Understanding, Spatial Analytics

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 surfaces, learn...