MobiSweep: Exploring Spatial Design Ideation Using a Smartphone as a Hand-held Reference Plane

MobiSweep: Exploring Spatial Design Ideation Using a Smartphone as a Hand-held Reference Plane

Vinayak, Devarajan Ramanujan, Cecil Piya, Karthik Ramani
In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction, Netherlands, 2016

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...

Extracting Hand Grasp & Motion for Intent Expression in Mid-Air Shape Deformation: A Concrete & Iterative Exploration through a Virtual Pottery Application

Extracting Hand Grasp & Motion for Intent Expression in Mid-Air Shape Deformation: A Concrete & Iterative Exploration through a Virtual Pottery Application

Vinayak and Karthik Ramani
Computers & Graphics, Volume 55, April 2016, Pages 143-156, ISSN 0097-8493, (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cag.2015.10.012.)

We describe the iterative design and evaluation of a geometric interaction technique for bare-hand mid-air virtual pottery. We model the shaping of a pot as a gradual and progressive convergence of the pot-profile to the shape of the user's hand...

A Collaborative Filtering Approach to Real-Time Hand Pose Estimation

A Collaborative Filtering Approach to Real-Time Hand Pose Estimation

Chiho Choi, Ayan Sinha, Joon Hee Choi, Sujin Jang, and Karthik Ramani
In Proc. IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2015, Santiago, Chile.

Collaborative filtering aims to predict unknown user ratings in a recommender system by collectively assessing known user preferences. In this paper, we first draw analogies between collaborative filtering and the pose estimation problem....

Empirical Studies of Functional Decomposition in Early Design

Empirical Studies of Functional Decomposition in Early Design

Joran W. Booth, Ahbinav Bhasin, Tahira Reid, and Karthik Ramani
Proceedings of the ASME 2015 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, IDETC/CIE 2015 August 2-5, 2015, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

This paper explores functional decomposition in early design. In the first part of this study, we explore how the three most common methods (top-down, energy-flow, enumeration) affect concept generation for novice design teams (n=25). We found that...

Mutually coordinated visualization of product and supply chain metadata for sustainable design

Mutually coordinated visualization of product and supply chain metadata for sustainable design

William Z. Bernstein, Devarajan Ramanujan, Devadatta M. Kulkarni, Jeffrey Tew, Niklas Elmqvist, Fu Zhao and Karthik Ramani
Journal of Mechanical Design

Abstract: 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...

Sketcholution: Interaction Histories for Sketching

Sketcholution: Interaction Histories for Sketching

International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 82 (2015) 11–20

Abstract: 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...

Informing Early Design Via Crowd-based Co-creation

Informing Early Design Via Crowd-based Co-creation

Abstract: 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...

HandiMate: Create and Animate using everyday objects

HandiMate: Create and Animate using everyday objects

Abstract: The combination of technological progress and a growing interest in design has promoted the prevalence of DIY (Do It Yourself) and craft activities. In a similar spirit, we introduce HandiMate, a platform that makes it easier to fabricate...

BendID: Flexible Interface for Localized Deformation Recognition

BendID: Flexible Interface for Localized Deformation Recognition

Abstract: We present BendID, a bendable input device that recognizes the location, magnitude and direction of its deformation. We use BendID to provide users with a tactile metaphor for pressure based input. The device is constructed by layering an...

KINETOGAMI, A Reconfigurable and Printable Sheet Folding

KINETOGAMI, A Reconfigurable and Printable Sheet Folding

Abstract: As an ancient paper craft originating from Japan, origami has been naturally embedded and contextualized in a variety of applications in the fields of mathematics, engineering, food packaging, and biological design. The computational and...

Collaborative Sketching with skWiki: A Case Study

Collaborative Sketching with skWiki: A Case Study

Abstract: Sketching for conceptual design has traditionally been performed on paper. Recent computational tools for conceptual design have leveraged the availability of hand-held computing devices and web-based collaborative platforms. Further,...

ViSER: Visualizing supply chains for eco-conscious redesign

ViSER: Visualizing supply chains for eco-conscious redesign

Abstract: In this paper, we present ViSER, an interactive visual analytics platform that visualizes supply chain data for enabling eco-conscious redesign. ViSER provides a visualization dashboard consisting of multiple mutually coordinated views...

ChiroBot: Modular-Robotic Manipulation via Spatial Hand Gestures.

ChiroBot: Modular-Robotic Manipulation via Spatial Hand Gestures.

Abstract: We introduce ChiroBot, a cyber-physical construction kit that allows users to create custom robots out of craft material, easily assemble the robots using joint modules and control them using hand gestures. These hand-crafted robots are...

skWiki: A Multimedia Sketching System for Collaborative Creativity

skWiki: A Multimedia Sketching System for Collaborative Creativity

Abstract: We present skWiki, a web application framework for collaborative creativity in digital multimedia projects, including text, hand-drawn sketches, and photographs. skWiki overcomes common drawbacks of existing wiki software by...

Understanding Brainstorming through Text Visualization

Understanding Brainstorming through Text Visualization

Abstract: Automated content analysis software tools have significantly aided in the study of design processes in the recent past. However, they suffer from the lack of domain knowledge and insight that a human expert can provide. In this paper, we...

Multiscale kernels using random walks

Multiscale kernels using random walks

Abstract: 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.