by vinayak | Jan 22, 2016 | 2016, Cecil Piya, Devarajan Ramanujan, HUMAN SHAPE INTERACTION, Karthik Ramani, Mid-air Interaction, Multi-touch Interaction, Recent Publications, TANGIBLE, EMBEDDED & EMBODIED INTERFACES, Vinayak
In this paper, we explore quick 3D shape composition during early-phase spatial design ideation. Our approach is to re-purpose a smartphone as a hand-held reference plane for creating, modifying, and manipulating 3D sweep surfaces. We implemented MobiSweep, a...
by Dev Ramanujan | Jul 17, 2015 | 2015, Devarajan Ramanujan, Karthik Ramani, William Benjamin, William Z Bernstein
A large portion of design activity involves applying previous design knowledge in order to solve new problems. Therefore, facilitating eco-conscious exploration of archived designs is needed for advancing sustainable product design. It is thus necessary to create...
by William Z Bernstein | Jul 17, 2015 | 2015, Devarajan Ramanujan, Karthik Ramani, William Z Bernstein
In this paper, we present a novel visualization framework for product and supply chain metadata in the context of redesign-related decision scenarios. Our framework is based on the idea of overlaying product-related metadata onto the interactive graph representations...
by wei | May 19, 2015 | 2015, DESIGN METHOD, Design Representation, Devarajan Ramanujan, Fabrication, Karthik Ramani, TANGIBLE, EMBEDDED & EMBODIED INTERFACES, Wei Gao, Yunbo Zhang
Additive manufacturing (AM) is poised to bring about a revolution in the way products are designed, manufactured, and distributed to end users. This technology has gained significant academic as well as industry interest due to its ability to create complex geometries...
by preciseadmin | Apr 24, 2015 | Devarajan Ramanujan, Joran Booth, News, Sujin Jang, William Z Bernstein
Bill Bernstein, Devarajan Ramanujan, Joran Booth, and Sujin Jang have received this year’s  Estus H. and Vashti L. Magoon Award for Teaching Excellence (2015). This award, given by the the College of Engineering, recognizes outstanding teaching assistants...
by Dev Ramanujan | Apr 20, 2015 | 2015, DESIGN METHOD, Design Representation, Devarajan Ramanujan, Karthik Ramani, Publications, Vinayak
Customer inputs in the early stages of design can potentially lead to completely new outlooks in concept generation. We propose crowd-based co-creation as a means to this end. Our main idea is to think of the customer as a source of initial design concepts rather than...
