2014

GestureAnalyzer: Visual Analytics for Pattern Analysis of Mid-Air Hand Gestures

Sujin Jang, Niklas Elmqvist, Karthik Ramani

Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Spatial User Interaction, October 4-5, 2014, Honolulu, HI, USA

Plex: Finger-Worn Textile Sensor for Mobile Interaction during Activities

Sang Ho Yoon, Ke Huo, Karthik Ramani

In Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing: Adjunct Publication (Ubicomp'14 Adjunct), Seattle, USA, 2014.

BendID: Flexible Interface for Localized Deformation Recognition

Vinh Nguyen, Sang Ho Yoon, Ansh Verma, Karthik Ramani

Proceedings of the ACM international Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, Sep 13-17, Seattle, USA. pp 553-557, 2014

Art Meets Engineering Design: An Approach for Reducing Sketch Inhibition in Engineers During the Design Process

Joran W. Booth, Abhinav K. Bhasin, and Karthik Ramani

In ASME 2014 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (pp. V003T04A013-V003T04A013). American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

Evaluating the Bottom-Up Method for Functional Decomposition in Product Dissection Tasks

Joran W. Booth, Abhinav K. Bhasin, Tahira Reid, Karthik Ramani

In ASME 2014 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (pp. V003T04A009-V003T04A009). American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

Prioritizing Design for Environment Strategies Using a Stochastic Analytic Hierarchy Process

Devarajan Ramanujan, William Z. Bernstein, Mikko Koho, Fu Zhao, Karthik Ramani

Journal of Mechanical Design, 136(7), 071002

Contextualizing Environmental Sustainability in Design Engineering Curricula

Devarajan Ramanujan, William Z. Bernstein, Monica Cardella, Karthik Ramani

In ASME 2014 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (pp. V003T04A025-V003T04A025). American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

PROTO-TAI: Quick Design Prototyping using Tangible Assisted Interfaces

Cecil Piya, Karthik Ramani

Proceedings of the ASME 2014 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference IDETC/CIE 2014, August 16-20, 2014, Buffalo, NY, USA

Lateral and vertical transformations observed in the study. Lateral transformations can occur through modification of an existing sketch, or through the creation of a new sketch inspired from an existing sketch, to create a new idea. Vertical transformations can occur through adding details such as dimensions, annotations, or features to an existing sketch, or through a new sketch showing a different detail, to develop an existing idea.

Collaborative Sketching with skWiki: A Case Study

Senthil Chandrasegaran, Sriram Karthik Badam, Zhenpeng Zhao, Niklas Elmqvist, Lorraine Kisselburgh, Karthik Ramani

Proceedings of the ASME IDETC/CIE Conference, Aug 17-20,Buffalo, NY, 2014.

$We present a screenshot of the ViSER tool. The supply chain shown is representative of the peripheral computer equipment industry. Each callout points to a specific feature of the ViSER platform and are described as follows: (A) a directed graph that represents the supply chain network as the edges connected to the selected nodes are shown in red, (B) a representation fo the product system graph oriented by a combination of force directed physics and user manipulation, (C) change propagation results for selected nodes of interest, (D) a comparison chart of impact categories for selected nodes of interest, (E) sparklines for each criterion with outliers shown in red and (F) the profile of selected node attributes, e.g.\ time and smog. A video demonstration of ViSER can be found here: \href{http://youtu.be/pDJAqW9H3ME}{\textcolor{blue}{http://youtu.be/pDJAqW9H3ME}}.$

ViSER: Visualizing supply chains for eco-conscious redesign

William Z. Bernstein, Devarajan Ramanujan, Niklas Elmqvist, Fu Zhao, Karthik Ramani

ASME Paper No. DETC2014-34960.

Remanufacturing of Turbine Blades by Laser Direct Deposition with Its Energy and Environmental Impact Analysis

J. Michael Wilson, Cecil Piya, Yung C. Shin, Fu Zhao, Karthik Ramani

Journal of Cleaner Production 80 (2014), 170 - 178

HexaMorph: A Reconfigurable and Foldable Hexapod Robot Inspired by Origami

Wei Gao, Ke Huo, Jasjeet S. Seehra, Karthik Ramani, and Raymond J. Cipra

IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS'14) , Chicago, September, 2014

ChiroBot: Modular-Robotic Manipulation via Spatial Hand Gestures.

Jasjeet Singh Seehra, Ansh Verma and Karthik Ramani

Proceedings of the 2014 conference on Interaction design and children (IDC '14). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 209-212.

IDEA-Pen: Interactive Design and Analysis through a Pen-based Interface

Anirudh Roshan Sriram, Monica E Cardella, Karthik Ramani

121st ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Indianapolis, IN, June 15-18, 2014

PuppetX: A Framework for Gestural Interactions With User Constructed Playthings

Saikat Gupta, Sujin Jang, and Karthik Ramani

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces, May 27-30, Como, Italy. pp. 73-80, 2014

Tracing and Sketching Performance using Blunt-tipped Styli on Direct-Touch Tablets

Sriram Karthik Badam, Senthil Chandrasegaran,Niklas Elmqvist, and Karthik Ramani

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces, May 27-30, Como, Italy. pp. 193-200, 2014

zPots : A Virtual Pottery Experience Through Spatial Interactions Using the Leap Motion Device

Vinayak, Karthik Ramani, Kevin Lee Jr., Raja Jasti

Proceedings of the ACM CHI' 14 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing System (CHI EA'14) April 26- May 1, Toronto, Canada.

Chiron: Interpreting signals from Capacitive Patterns and Inertial Sensors for intuitive Shape Modeling.

Ansh Verma, Gabriel Culberston and Karthik Ramani

In Proceedings of the extended abstracts of the 32nd annual ACM conference on Human factors in computing systems (pp. 1831-1836). ACM.

Figure: Detail of final robot illustration by an artist created using Juxtapoze while freely exploring (10 min). The task log shows substantial
time spent on edits and personalization of constituent shapes.

Juxtapoze: Supporting Serendipity and Creative Expression in Clipart Compositions

William Benjamin, Senthil Chandrasegaran, Devarajan Ramanujan, Niklas Elmqvist, SVN Vishwanathan, Karthik Ramani

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, April 26 - May 1, Toronto, Canada. pp 341-350, 2014.

skWiki: A Multimedia Sketching System for Collaborative Creativity

Zhenpeng Zhao, Sriram Karthik Badam, Senthil Chandrasegaran, Deok Gun Park, Niklas Elmqvist, Lorraine Kisselburgh, and Karthik Ramani

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, April 26 - May 1, Toronto, Canada. pp. 1235-1244, 2014.