by Ananya Ipsita | Apr 19, 2022 | 2022, Ana Villanueva, Ananya Ipsita, Karthik Ramani, Karthik Ramani, Publications, Recent Publications
The US manufacturing industry is currently facing a welding workforce shortage which is largely due to inadequacy of widespread welding training. To address this challenge, we present a Virtual Reality (VR)-based training system aimed at transforming...
by Ana Villanueva | Apr 19, 2022 | 2022, Ana Villanueva, Karthik Ramani, Karthik Ramani, Publications, Recent Publications, Subramanian Chidambaram, Zhengzhe Zhu
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 education. In this...
by Luis Paredes | Jan 11, 2022 | 2021, Featured Publications, Karthik Ramani, Karthik Ramani, Luis Paredes, Publications, Recent Publications, Senthil Chandrasegaran
Wearable technologies draw on a range of disciplines, including fashion, textiles, HCI, and engineering. Due to differences in methodology, wearables researchers can experience gaps or breakdowns in values, goals, and vocabulary when collaborating. This situation...
by Tianyi Wang | Oct 12, 2021 | 2021, Featured Publications, Fengming He, Karthik Ramani, Karthik Ramani, Publications, Recent Publications, Tianyi Wang, Xun Qian, Yuanzhi Cao
Freehand gesture is an essential input modality for modern Augmented Reality (AR) user experiences. However, developing AR applications with customized hand interactions remains a challenge for end-users. Therefore, we propose GesturAR, an end-to-end authoring tool...
by Subramanian Chidambaram | Jul 7, 2021 | 2021, Karthik Ramani, Publications, Recent Publications, Subramanian Chidambaram
In this modern world, with the increase of complexity of many technologies, especially in the micro and nanoscale, the field of robotic manipulation has tremendously grown. Microrobots and other complex microscale systems are often to laborious to fabricate using...
by Subramanian Chidambaram | Jun 29, 2021 | 2021, Ana Villanueva, Featured Publications, Fengming He, Hank Huang, Karthik Ramani, Karthik Ramani, Publications, Recent Publications, Subramanian Chidambaram, Xun Qian
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 interactive AR content. We...