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 Convergence Design Lab Admin | May 12, 2015 | 2015, DESIGN METHOD, Design Representation, Featured Publications, HUMAN SHAPE INTERACTION, Karthik Ramani, Shape Understanding, William Benjamin
We present Sketcholution, a method for automatically creating visual histories of hand-drawn sketches. Such visual histories are useful for a designer to reflect on a sketch, communicate ideas to others, and fork from or revert to an earlier point in the creative...
by William | Jan 21, 2014 | 2014, Devarajan Ramanujan, HUMAN SHAPE INTERACTION, Karthik Ramani, Multi-touch Interaction, Senthil Chandrasegaran, William Benjamin
Juxtapoze is a clipart composition workflow that supports creative expression and serendipitous discoveries in the shape domain. We achieve creative expression by supporting a workflow of searching, editing, and composing: the user queries the shape database using...
by preciseadmin | Aug 11, 2013 | Devarajan Ramanujan, Karthik Ramani, News, Uncategorized, William Benjamin, William Z Bernstein
Devarajan Ramanujan, William Benjamin, Â and William Z. Bernstein along with Professors’ Niklas Elmqvist and Karthik Ramani were awarded the 2013 Design for Manufacturing and the Life Cycle Conference Best Paper Award by the American Society of Mechanical...
by Dev Ramanujan | Aug 11, 2013 | 2013, DESIGN METHOD, Design Representation, Devarajan Ramanujan, Karthik Ramani, William Benjamin, William Z Bernstein
shapeSift is a framework for supporting sustainability based decision making during selection of similar previous designs from part repositories. Our framework is designed for 3D part repositories that contain metadata pertaining to materials and manufacturing...
by preciseadmin | May 3, 2012 | 2012, Cecil Piya, HUMAN SHAPE INTERACTION, Karthik Ramani, Publications, Shape Understanding, William Benjamin
Abstract: The process of re-creating CAD models from actual physical parts, formally known as digital shape reconstruction (DSR) is an integral part of product development, especially in re-design. While, the majority of current methods used in DSR are surface-based,...
