by Convergence Design Lab Admin | May 16, 2017 | 2017, Design Collaboration, Recent Publications, Senthil Chandrasegaran, Uncategorized
Despite its grounding in creativity techniques, merging multiple source sketches to create new ideas has received scant attention in design literature. In this paper, we identify the physical operations that in merging sketch components. We also introduce cognitive...
by cecil | May 17, 2016 | 2016, Cecil Piya, Karthik Ramani, Mid-air Interaction, Multi-touch Interaction, Recent Publications, TANGIBLE, EMBEDDED & EMBODIED INTERFACES, Uncategorized, Vinayak, Yunbo Zhang
We present RealFusion, an interactive workflow that supports early stage design ideation in a digital 3D medium. RealFusion is inspired by the practice of found-object-art, wherein new representations are created by composing existing objects. The key motivation...
by Convergence Design Lab Admin | Apr 25, 2016 | News, Uncategorized
We had a successful event for announcing the start of the Indiegogo campaign for Ziro on April 18th. The event took place in Gatewood Wing of Purdue Mechanical Engineering building and it was a major success with more than 350 people attended. The event has introduced...
by vinayak | Oct 25, 2015 | 2015, HUMAN SHAPE INTERACTION, Karthik Ramani, Mid-air Interaction, Recent Publications, Uncategorized, Vinayak
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 represented as a...
by Convergence Design Lab Admin | Jul 17, 2015 | Recent Publications, Uncategorized
Abstract:  Product design is one of the most important sectors influencing global sustainability, as almost all the products consumed by people are outputs of the product development process. In particular, early design decisions can have a very significant impact...
