Karthik Ramani

Plain2Fun: Augmenting Ordinary Objects with Interactive Functions by Auto-Fabricating Surface Painted Circuits

Tianyi Wang, Ke Huo, Pratik Chawla, Guiming Chen, Siddharth Banerjee, Karthik Ramani

Proceedings of the 2018 DIS Designing Interactive Systems Conference, June 9-13, 2018, Hong Kong, China, with honourable mention.

Plain2Fun: Augmenting Ordinary Objects with Interactive Functions by Auto-Fabricating Surface Painted Circuits

Tianyi Wang, Ke Huo, Partik Chawla, Guiming Chen, Siddharth Banerjee, Karthik Ramani

In Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (p. LBW113). ACM.

Ani-Bot: A Modular Robotics System Supporting Creation, Tweaking, and Usage with Mixed-Reality Interactions

Yuanzhi Cao, Zhuangying Xu, Terrell Glenn, Ke Huo, Karthik Ramani

Twelfth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interactions (TEI 2018) March 18-21, Stockholm, Sweden

C Design Lab’s Alumni – You Wu named to Forbes 30 Under 30 list

Ziro’s robotics kit for kids now works with Alexa

iSoft has been selected as top 10 2017 research news stories from Purdue University !

3D Object Classification via Spherical Projections

Zhangjie Cao, Qixing Huang, Karthik Ramani

In proceeding of International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV 2017), Spotlight Presentation. Qingdao, China, October 12-14, 2017

Innovative material for soft sensor could bring new tactile tech

Prof. Ramani gives a Distinguished lecture at IUPUI

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Learning Hand Articulations by Hallucinating Heat Distribution

Chiho Choi, Sangpil Kim, Karthik Ramani

In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2017 to appear.

Robust Hand Pose Estimation during the Interaction with an Unknown Object

Chiho Choi, Sang Ho Yoon, Chin-Ning Chen, Karthik Ramani

In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2017 to appear.

DESIGN PATTERNS FOR VISUALIZATION-BASED TOOLS IN SUSTAINABLE PRODUCT DESIGN

Ramanujan D., Bernstein W.Z., & Ramani K.

Design Patterns for Visualization-based Tools in Sustainable Product Design, Proceedings of the 2017 ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Visual Analytics Tools for Sustainable Lifecycle Design: Current Status, Challenges, and Future Opportunities.

Ramanujan D., Bernstein W.Z., Chandrasegaran SK., & Ramani K.

ASME Journal of Mechanical Design, 2017

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

The Design for Additive Manufacturing Worksheet (Journal)

Joran W. Booth; Jeffrey Alperovich; Pratik Chawla; Jiayan Ma; Tahira Reid; Karthik Ramani

J. Mech. Des. 2017; MD-17-1084 doi: 10.1115/1.4037251

SurfNet in Science news !

Artificial intelligence can turn 2D photos into real-world objects, By Matthew Hutson

SurfNet in Purdue news !

New AI technique creates 3-D shapes from 2-D images

Secure Collaboration in Engineering Systems Design

Wang S., Bhandari S., Chaduvula S. Chaitanya, Atallah M., Panchal J. H., and Ramani K

J. Comput. Inf. Sci. Eng 17(4), 041010 (Jun 15, 2017) (11 pages) Paper No: JCISE-16-2090; doi: 10.1115/1.4036615

The Influence of Toy Design Activities on Middle School Studentsâ€™ Understanding of the Engineering Design Processes

Ninger Zhou, Nielsen L. Pereira, Tarun Thomas George, Jeffrey Alperovich, Joran Booth, Senthil Chandrasegaran, Jeffrey David Tew, Devadatta M. Kulkarni, Karthik Ramani

Journal of Science Education and Technology (2017): 1-13.

Toy Design Workshops

We want children to learn through experience. They need to prototype to think. Authentic and active learning connects to their lives and provides a strong… Continue reading...

Middle school students visited Purdue ME and C Design lab on April 6th

C Design at ‘INSPIRE TO INNOVATE Tech Fair’, on April 2nd

SurfNet: Generating 3D shape surfaces using deep residual networks

Sinha, A., Unmesh, A., Huang, Q., and Ramani, K

In proceedings of CVPR, 2017.

Toy Design at Purdue: Learning To Be Kids AND Engineers

Prof. Karthik Ramani talks about how Toy Design class (ME444) at Purdue University Mechanical Engineering is bringing out creativity by designing and making fun toys.… Continue reading...