by Convergence Design Lab Admin | Sep 1, 2018 | Karthik Ramani, Ke Huo, News, Tianyi Wang
Plain2Fun: Augmenting Ordinary Objects with Interactive Functions by Auto-Fabricating Surface Painted Circuits; receives an honorable mention among 400+ total submissions at the proceedings of the 2018 DIS Designing Interactive Systems Conference, June 9-13, 2018,...
by Convergence Design Lab Admin | Sep 1, 2018 | Ayan Sinha, Karthik Ramani, Karthik Ramani, News
Download: Nature – Gauss’s Law for networks directly reveals community boundaries
by Convergence Design Lab Admin | Aug 22, 2018 | 2018, Ayan Sinha, Karthik Ramani, Karthik Ramani, Publications, Recent Publications
The study of network topology provides insight into the function and behavior of physical, social, and biological systems. A natural step towards discovering the organizing principles of these complex topologies is to identify a reduced network representation using...
by Convergence Design Lab Admin | Aug 21, 2018 | 2018, Devarajan Ramanujan, Karthik Ramani, Publications, Recent Publications
This study explores the use of mini-fabrication exercises for helping students learn design for rapid prototyping in computeraided design and prototyping courses in engineering curricula. To this end, we conducted mini-fabrication exercises in ME444—an undergraduate...
by Tianyi Wang | Jun 23, 2018 | 2018, Fabrication, Karthik Ramani, Karthik Ramani, Ke Huo, Pratik Chawla, Recent Publications, TANGIBLE, EMBEDDED & EMBODIED INTERFACES, Tianyi Wang
The growing makers’ community demands better supports for designing and fabricating interactive functional objects. Most of the current approaches focus on embedding desired functions within new objects. Instead, we advocate repurposing the existing objects and...
by Convergence Design Lab Admin | Apr 21, 2018 | 2018, Featured Publications, HUMAN SHAPE INTERACTION, Ke Huo, Recent Publications, Sang Ho Yoon, TANGIBLE, EMBEDDED & EMBODIED INTERFACES, Yuanzhi Cao
The emerging simultaneous localizing and mapping (SLAM) based tracking technique allows the mobile AR device spatial awareness of the physical world. Still, smart things are not fully supported with the spatial awareness in AR. Therefore, we present Scenariot, a...