Karthik Ramani
ViSER: Visualizing supply chains for eco-conscious redesign
William Z. Bernstein, Devarajan Ramanujan, Niklas Elmqvist, Fu Zhao, Karthik Ramani
ASME 2014 IDETC/CIE DFMLC
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.
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.
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.
Understanding Abstraction In Design: A Comparison of Three Functional Analysis Methods for Product Dissection
Joran Booth, Tahira Reid, Karthik Ramani
ASME IDETC/CIE 2013
Profiling Energy Consumption of Smartphone Users for Environmentally Efficient Business Decisions
William Z. Bernstein, Devarajan Ramanujan, Fu Zhao, Karthik Ramani
ASME IDETC/CIE 2013
Best Paper Award by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Devarajan Ramanujan, William Benjamin,  and William Z. Bernstein along with Professors’ Niklas Elmqvist and Karthik Ramani were awarded the 2013 Design for Manufacturing and… Continue reading...
shapeSift: Suggesting sustainable options in design reuse from part repositories
Devarajan Ramanujan, William Benjamin, William Z. Benstein, Niklas Elmqvist, Karthik Ramani
ASME IDETC/CIE 2013
Understanding Brainstorming through Text Visualization
Senthil Chandrasegaran, Lorraine Kisselburgh, Karthik Ramani
ASME IDETC/CIE 2013
Multiscale Kernels using Random Walks
Karthik Ramani, Ayan Sinha
11th Symposium on Geometry processing, 3-5 July, Genova, Italy, 2013. Proceedings of the Computer Graphics Forum, Computer Graphics Forum, Volume 33, Issue 1, pages 164–177, 2014.
Shape-It-Up: Hand Gesture Based Creative Expression of 3D Shapes Using Intelligent Generalized Cylinders
Vinayak, Sundar Murugappan, HaiRong Liu, Karthik Ramani,
Computer-Aided Design, Volume 45, Issue 2, February 2013, Pages 277-287, ISSN 0010-4485, 10.1016/j.cad.2012.10.011.
(http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010448512002163)
Extended Multitouch: Recovering Touch Posture & Identity Using Depth Cameras on a Pen+Touch Tabletop Interface
Sundar Murugappan, Vinayak, Niklas Elmqvist, Karthik Ramani
Proceedings of ACM Conference on User Interface Software and Technology, 2012
ACTIVE-Hand: Automatic Configurable Tactile Interaction in Virtual Environment
You Wu, Lara Schmidt, Matthew Parker, John Strong, Michael Bruns, Vinayak Karthik Ramani
Proceedings of the ASME 2012 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference
The evolution, challenges, and future of knowledge representation in product design systems
Senthil Chandrasegaran, Karthik Ramani, Ram D. Sriram, Imre Horvath, Alain Bernard, Ramy Harik, Wei Gao
Computer-Aided Design Volume 45, Issue 2, February 2013, Pages 204-228.
A Proposed Platform to Simplify the Integration of Electronics into a Mechanical Engineering Design Course
Brett Skaloud, Senthil Chandrasegaran, Karthik Ramani
Proceedings of the ASME 2012 IDETC/CIE.
Enhancing Visual Thinking in a Toy Design Course Using Freehand Sketching
Elkin Taborda, Senthil Chandrasegaran, Lorraine Kisselburgh, Tahira Reid, Karthik Ramani
Proceedings of the ASME 2012 IDETC/CIE.
Handy-Potter: Rapid 3D Shape Exploration Through Natural Hand Motions
Vinayak, Sundar Murugappan, Cecil Piya, Karthik Ramani
Proceedings of the ASME 2012 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference IDETC/CIE 2012, August 12-15, 2012, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Kaleidogami: Multi-Primitive Reconfigurable Artistic Structures
Wei Gao and Karthik Ramani
Hyperseeing Spring 2012, Special Issue on Proceedings of SMI 2012 Fabrication and Sculpting Event
Makers’ Faire 2012
In 2012, our lab represented Purdue for the first time at the annual Makers’ Faire in San Mateo, California.
We taught sketching workshops for well… Continue reading...
Designing-in Sustainability by Linking Engineering Curricula with K-12 Science Projects
William Z. Bernstein, Arjun Ramani, Xiulin Ruan, Devarajan Ramanujan, and Karthik Ramani
Proceedings of the ASME 2012 IDETC/CIE.
Discovering Material Recovery Scenarios for Industrial Machinery
William Z. Bernstein, Devarajan Ramanujan, Mikko Koho, Fu Zhao, and Karthik Ramani
Proceedings of the 2012 ASME MSEC.
Teaching Design for Environment through Critique within a Project Based Product Design Course
William Z. Bernstein, Devarajan Ramanujan, Fu Zhao, Monica F. Cox, and Karthik Ramani
IJEE: Special Issue on Design Centric Engineering Education, Vol. 28, No. 4, pp.1-12.
Center-Shift: An Approach Towards Automatic Robust Mesh Segmentation (ARMS)
Mengtian Sun , Yi Fang , and Karthik Ramani
IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2012
ME 444: Redesigning a Toy Design Course.
Elkin Taborda, Senthil Chandrasegaran and Karthik Ramani
Proceedings of TMCE 2012, May 7–11, 2012, Karlsruhe, Germany, edited by I. Horváth and Z. Rusák, A. Albers and M. Behrendt.
Towards locally and globally shape-aware reverse 3D modeling
Manish Goyal, Sundar Murugappan, Cecil Piya, William Benjamin, Yi Fang, Min Liu, Karthik Ramani
Computer-Aided Design, Volume 44, Issue 6, June 2012, Pages 537-553
3DMolNavi: A web-based retrieval and navigation tool for flexible molecular shape comparison
Yu-Shen Liu, Meng Wang, Jean-Claude Paul and Karthik Ramani
Published in BMC Bioinformatics 2012, 13:95
Computing the Inner Distances of Volumetric Models for Articulated Shape Description with a Visibility Graph
Yu-Shen Liu, Karthik Ramani, Min Liu
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), 2011, 23(12): 2538-2544.
First place in Ecological Sciences and Engineering Symposium Poster Competition
Ph.D students Willam Bernstein, Devarajan Ramanujan and Professor Karthik Ramani won 1st Place in the 2011 Ecological Sciences and Engineering Symposium (ESE) Graduate Student Poster… Continue reading...
Implementing Design Critique for Teaching Sustainable Concept Generation
William Z. Bernstein, Devarajan Ramanujan, Monica F. Cox, Fu Zhao, John W. Sutherland, and Karthik Ramani
Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED11), Vol. 8, pp. 55-65.
Virtual Repair: Geometric Reconstruction for Remanufacturing Gas Turbine Blades
Cecil Piya, J. Michael Wilson, Sundar Murugappan, Yung Shin, and Karthik Ramani
Proceedings of the ASME 2011 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Design for Manufacturing and the Life Cycle Conference IDETC/DFMLC 2011 August 29 - 31, 2011, Washington, DC, USA
Towards Enabling Visual Design Exploration Involving Multiple Abstractions of Design Descriptions
Srikanth Devanathan , Karthik Ramani
Proceedings of the ASME 2011 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference IDETC/CIE 2011 August 28-31, 2011, Washington, DC, USA (Best Paper Award)
HeatWalk: Robust Salient Segmentation of Non-rigid Shapes
William Benjamin, Andrew Wood Polk, S. V. N. Vishwanathan, and Karthik Ramani
Computer Graphics Forum Volume 30 (2011), Number 7 Pages 2097-2106
sLLE: Spherical Locally Linear Embedding with Applications to Tomography
Yi Fang, S.V.N. Vishwanathan, Mengtian Sun, and Karthik Ramani
Published in IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), pp 1077-1129, 2011
Temperature Distribution Descriptor for Robust 3D Shape Retrieval
Yi Fang, Mengtian Sun, and Karthik Ramani
4th Workshop on Non-Rigid Shape Analysis and Deformable Image Alignment (NORDIA'11). 2011 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW)
APIX: Analysis from Pixellated Inputs in Early Design Using a Pen-based Interface
Sundar Murugappan, Vinayak, Karthik Ramani, and Maria. C. Yang
Proceedings of the ASME 2011 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference IDETC/CIE 2011, Washington, DC, USA
Global Geometric Affinity for Revealing High Fidelity Protein Interaction Network
Yi Fang, William Benjamin, Mengtian Sun, and Karthik Ramani
PLoS ONE 6(5): e19349.
Heat-Mapping: A Robust Approach Toward Perceptually Consistent Mesh Segmentation
Yi Fang, Mengtian Sun, Minhyong Kim, and Karthik Ramani
IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), pp 2145-2152, 2011
Evaluating Wikis as a Communicative Medium for Collaboration Within Colocated and Distributed Engineering Design Teams
Carolynn J. Walthall , Srikanth Devanathan , Lorraine G. Kisselburgh , Karthik Ramani , E. Daniel Hirleman , and Maria C. Yang
J. Mech. Des. 133, 071001 (2011), DOI:10.1115/1.4004115
Addressing Uncertainties within Product Redesign for Sustainability: A Function Based Framework
Devarajan Ramanujan, William Z Bernstein, Fu Zhao, Karthik Ramani
Proceedings of the ASME 2011 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference IDETC/CIE 2011, August 28-31, 2011, Washington, DC, USA
Using Diffusion Distances for Flexible Molecular Shape Comparison
Yu-shen Liu, Qi Li, Guo-Qin Zheng, Karthik Ramani, and William Benjamin
BMC Bioinformatics 2010, 11:480
Estimating view parameters from random projections for Tomography using spherical MDS
Yi Fang, Sundar Murugappan, and Karthik Ramani
shed in BMC Medical Imaging 2010, 10:12
Integrated Sustainable Lifecycle Design: A Review
Karthik Ramani, Devarajan Ramanujan, William Z Bernstein, Fu Zhao, John Sutherland, Carol Handwerker, Jun-Ki Choi, Harrison Kim, and Deborah Thurston
Published in the Journal of Mechanical Design, Sept. 2010, Vol. 132, No. 9, pp. 1-15.
A Port-based Agent Approach to Guiding Concept Generation for Customizing Modular Varieties
Dongxing Cao, Karthik Ramani, Ming Wang Fu, and Runli Zhang
in Proceedings of the ASME 2010 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference IDETC/CIE 2010 August 15-18, 2010, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Creating Polytope Representations of Design Spaces for Visual Exploration Using Consistency Techniques
Srikanth Devanathan and Karthik Ramani
Journal of Mechanical Design, August 2010, Volume 132, Issue 8, 081011
Understanding Innovation in Student Design Projects
Luis A. Elizondo, Lorraine G. Kisselburgh, E. Daniel Hirleman, Raymond Cipra, Karthik Ramani, Maria Yang, and Tamara Carleton
Proceedings of the ASME 2010 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference IDETC/CIE 2010 August 15-18, 2010, Montreal, Quebec, Canada