by Convergence Design Lab Admin | Mar 3, 2020 | Karthik Ramani, News
Professor Karthik Ramani elevated to Donald W. Feddersen Distinguished Professor by Board of Trustees on Friday (Feb. 7). Below is Distinguished Professor Karthik Ramani’s statements at the February 7th Board of Trustees meeting about Purdue, the Convergence...
by Convergence Design Lab Admin | Mar 1, 2020 | 2020, Convergence Accelerator, Future of Work, Karthik Ramani, Pawan Rao, Publications, Recent Publications, Xun Qian
Mobile robots and IoT (Internet of Things) devices can increase productivity, but only if they can be programmed by workers who understand the domain. This is especially true in manufacturing. Visual programming in the spatial context of the operating environment can...
by Yuanzhi Cao | Mar 1, 2020 | 2020, Convergence Accelerator, Featured Publications, Future of Work, Karthik Ramani, Ke Huo, Publications, Recent Publications, Tianyi Wang, Xun Qian, Yuanzhi Cao
Machine tasks in workshops or factories are often a compound sequence of local, spatial, and body-coordinated human-machine interactions. Prior works have shown the merits of video-based and augmented reality (AR) tutoring systems for local tasks. However, due to the...
by Ana Villanueva | Mar 1, 2020 | 2020, Ana Villanueva, Convergence Accelerator, Featured Publications, Future of Work, Karthik Ramani, Publications, Recent Publications, Zhengzhe Zhu, Ziyi Liu
Augmented Reality (AR) has become a valuable tool for education and training processes. Meanwhile, cloud-based technologies can foster collaboration and other interaction modalities to enhance learning. We combine the cloud capabilities with AR technologies to present...
by Tianyi Wang | Feb 9, 2020 | 2020, Karthik Ramani, Ke Huo, Publications, Recent Publications, Tianyi Wang
The emerging simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) techniques enable robots with the spatial awareness of the physical world. However, such awareness remains at a geometric level. We propose an approach for quickly constructing a smart environment with semantic...
by Convergence Design Lab Admin | Jan 28, 2020 | 2020, Karthik Ramani, Publications, Recent Publications
Engineering design typically occurs as a collaborative process situated in specific context such as computer-supported environments, however there is limited research examining the dynamics of design collaboration in specific contexts. In this study, drawing from...
