Graphics and Human Computer Interfaces Commons^™

End-To-End Deep Learning Systems For Scene Understanding, Path Planning And Navigation In Fire Fighter Teams, Manish Bhattarai

Shared Knowledge Conference

Firefighting is a dynamic activity with many operations occurring simultaneously. Maintaining situational awareness, defined as knowledge of current conditions and activities at the scene, are critical to accurate decision making. Firefighters often carry various sensors in their personal equipment, namely thermal cameras, gas sensors, and microphones. Improved data processing techniques can mine this data more effectively and be used to improve situational awareness at all times thereby improving real-time decision making and minimizing errors in judgment induced by environmental conditions and anxiety levels. This objective of this research employs state of the art Machine Learning (ML) techniques to create an ...

Effective Visualization Approaches For Ultra-High Dimensional Datasets, Gurminder Kaur

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

Multivariate informational data, which are abstract as well as complex, are becoming increasingly common in many areas such as scientific, medical, social, business, and so on. Displaying and analyzing large amounts of multivariate data with more than three variables of different types is quite challenging. Visualization of such multivariate data suffers from a high degree of clutter when the numbers of dimensions/variables and data observations become too large. We propose multiple approaches to effectively visualize large datasets of ultrahigh number of dimensions by generalizing two standard multivariate visualization methods, namely star plot and parallel coordinates plot. We refine three ...

Chameleon: A Customizable Language For Teaching Programming Languages, Saverio Perugini, Jack L. Watkin

Computer Science Faculty Publications

ChAmElEoN is a programming language for teaching students the concepts and implementation of computer languages. We describe its syntax and semantics, the educational aspects involved in the implementation of a variety of interpreters for it, its malleability, and student feedback to inspire its use for teaching languages.

An Application Of The Actor Model Of Concurrency In Python: A Euclidean Rhythm Music Sequencer, Daniel P. Prince, Saverio Perugini

Computer Science Faculty Publications

We present a real-time sequencer, implementing the Euclidean rhythm algorithm, for creative generation of drum sequences by musicians or producers. We use the Actor model of concurrency to simplify the communication required for interactivity and musical timing, and generator comprehensions and higher-order functions to simplify the implementation of the Euclidean rhythm algorithm. The resulting application sends Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) data interactively to another application for sound generation.

Disruptive Technology: Can The Banking Industry Harness Disruption For Competitive Edge?, Edgar Low

MITB Thought Leadership Series

Disruptive innovation was identified as a phenomenon more than two decades ago by prominent Harvard scholar Clayton Christensen. So you may wonder why established industries are only now waking up to the prospect of digital transformation - the banking industry in particular.

Developing A Contemporary Operating Systems Course, Saverio Perugini, David J. Wright

Computer Science Faculty Publications

The objective of this tutorial presentation is to foster innovation in the teaching of operating systems (os) at the undergraduate level as part of a three-year NSF-funded IUSE (Improving Undergraduate STEM Education) project titled “Engaged Student Learning: Reconceptualizing and Evaluating a Core Computer Science Course for Active Learning and STEM Student Success” (2017–2020).

Crambin: Model File Name: 2fd7-Crambin-Stick_Sc1-5.Stl, Michelle Howell, Rebecca Roston

3-D printed model structural files

This is a teaching model of cytochrome c (PDB: 2FD7). It is designed in a stick representation to explore protein secondary structure and how much space the protein takes up. The printable model is already uploaded to Shapeways.com in the MacroMolecules shop under the name “Crambin” and is intended to accompany the “Lipoprotein signal peptidase II”, “Cytochrome c”, and “3 water molecules” models. This model has been printed successfully using these parameters on Shapeways’ laser sintering printer in the following material: Processed Versatile Plastic (Strong & Flexible Plastic).

Amino Acid Pop-Set: Model File Name: Amino-Acid-Wgrp-Pop_Sc3.Stl, Michelle Howell, Rebecca Roston

3-D printed model structural files

This is a teaching model for protein primary structure. It consists of four amino acids (tryptophan, proline, arginine, and glycine) depicted in stick and space-fill representations, five peptide bonds depicted in space-fill, and an N-terminus and a C-terminus depicted in space-fill. It is designed so that students can make various peptides to explore the amount of space of the electron clouds of the amino acids and bonds, and explore the psi and phi angles for the peptides. The printable model is already uploaded to Shapeways.com in the MacroMolecules shop under the name “Amino acid pop-set”. This model has been ...

Lipoprotein Signal Peptidase Ii: Model File Name: 5dir-Lipoii-Reps_Sc1-5.Stl, Michelle Howell, Rebecca Roston

3-D printed model structural files

This is a teaching model of lipoprotein signal peptidase II (PDB: 5DIR). It is designed with different regions of the protein depicted in space-filling, ribbon, stick, and backbone-only representations to explore protein secondary structure and illustrate how much space the protein takes up. The printable model is already uploaded to Shapeways.com in the MacroMolecules shop under the name “Lipoprotein signal peptidase II” and is intended to accompany the “Crambin”, “Cytochrome c” and “3 water molecules” models. This model has been printed successfully using these parameters on Shapeways’ laser sintering printer in the following material: Processed Versatile Plastic (Strong & Flexible ...

3 Water Molecules: Model File Name: 3hoh-Final.Stl, Michelle Howell, Rebecca Roston

3-D printed model structural files

This is a teaching model of 3 water molecules depicted in space-fill. It is designed to the same scale as the “Lipoprotein signal peptidase II”, “Crambin”, and “Cytochrome c” models to illustrate the amount of space taken up by proteins. The printable model is already uploaded to Shapeways.com in the MacroMolecules shop under the name “3 water molecules” and is intended to accompany the “Lipoprotein signal peptidase II”, “Crambin”, and “Cytochrome c” models. This model has been printed successfully using these parameters on Shapeways’ laser sintering printer in the following material: Processed Versatile Plastic (Strong & Flexible Plastic).

Cytochrome C: Model File Name: 1b7v-Cytc-Stick_Sc1-5.Stl, Michelle Howell, Rebecca Roston

3-D printed model structural files

This is a teaching model of cytochrome c (PDB: 1B7V). It is designed in a stick representation to explore protein secondary structure and how much space the protein takes up. The printable model is already uploaded to Shapeways.com in the MacroMolecules shop under the name “Cytochrome c” and is intended to accompany the “Lipoprotein signal peptidase II”, “Crambin”, and “3 water molecules” models. This model has been printed successfully using these parameters on Shapeways’ laser sintering printer in the following material: Processed Versatile Plastic (Strong & Flexible Plastic).

A Novel Multirobot System For Plant Phenotyping, Tianshuang Gao, Hamid Emadi, Homagni Saha, Jiaoping Zhang, Alec Lofquist, Arti Singh, Baskar Ganapathysubramanian, Soumik Sarkar, Asheesh K. Singh, Sourabh Bhattacharya

Mechanical Engineering Publications

Phenotypic studies require large datasets for accurate inference and prediction. Collecting plant data in a farm can be very labor intensive and costly. This paper presents the design, architecture (hardware and software) and deployment of a multi-robot system for row crop field data collection. The proposed system has been deployed in a soybean research farm at Iowa State University.

Human Hexokinase I - Allosteric Regulation: Model File Name: 1dgk-Editb22-Allostery_Sc06.Stl, Michelle Howell, Rebecca Roston

3-D printed model structural files

This is a teaching model of human Hexokinase I in a surface representation with small molecules ADP and G6P included (PDB: 1DGK). It is designed to be hollow with a lever to mimic allosteric regulation. The printable model is already uploaded to Shapeways.com in the MacroMolecules shop under the name “Human Hexokinase I - Allosteric regulation model”. This model has been printed successfully using these parameters on Shapeways’ laser sintering printer in the following material: Processed Versatile Plastic (Strong & Flexible Plastic).

Discrete Information Object Analysis Of Primary Flight Display Clutter, Kenneth Ward

National Training Aircraft Symposium (NTAS)

Modern aircraft utilize digital display screens to provide critical flight and system status information to pilots. As computing power has increased, the number of data sources and information presented has also increased, with the goal of increasing situational awareness. However, the display can become cluttered with extraneous or irrelevant information, to the detriment of pilot cognitive workload. Pilot perceptions of clutter vary with flight experience, introducing unique considerations in the flight training environment, given the experience difference between instructors and students. Researchers have studied the problem, identifying both the number of visual objects and information density as predictors of perception ...

Theatrical Genre Prediction Using Social Network Metrics, Manisha Shukla

Theses and Dissertations

With the emergence of digitization, large text corpora are now available online that provide humanities scholars an opportunity to perform literary analysis leveraging the use of computational techniques. This work is focused on applying network theory concepts in the field of literature to explore correlations between the mathematical properties of the social networks of plays and the plays’ dramatic genre, specifically how well social network metrics can identify genre without taking vocabulary into consideration. Almost no work has been done to study the ability of mathematical properties of network graphs to predict literary features. We generated character interaction networks of ...

Teaching Landscape Construction Using Augmented Reality, Arshdeep Singh

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This thesis describes the design, development, and evaluation of an interactive Microsoft HoloLens application that projects landscape models in Augmented Reality. The application was developed using the Unity framework and 3D models created in Sketchup. Using the application, students can not only visualize the models in real space but can also interact with the models using gestures. The students can interact with the models using gaze and air-tap gestures.

Application testing was conducted with 21 students from the Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning department at Utah State University. To evaluate the application, students completed a usability survey after using the ...

Leveraging Tiled Display For Big Data Visualization Using D3.Js, Ujjwal Acharya

Boise State University Theses and Dissertations

Data visualization has proven effective at detecting patterns and drawing inferences from raw data by transforming it into visual representations. As data grows large, visualizing it faces two major challenges: 1) limited resolution i.e. a screen is limited to a few million pixels but the data can have a billion data points, and 2) computational load i.e. processing of this data becomes computationally challenging for a single node system. This work addresses both of these issues for efficient big data visualization. In the developed system, a High Pixel Density and Large Format display was used enabling the display ...

Haptic Alternatives For Mobile Device Authentication By Older Technology Users, David M. Cook, Kulwinder Kaur

Dr. David M Cook

The Efficacy Of Using Virtual Reality For Job Interviews And Its Effects On Mitigating Discrimination, David M. Cook, Rico Beti, Faris Al-Khatib

Dr. David M Cook

Formalizing Schoenberg’S Fundamentals Of Musical Composition Through Petri Nets, A. Baratè, G. Haus, L. A. Ludovico, Davide Andrea Mauro

Weisberg Division of Computer Science Faculty Research

The formalization of musical composition rules is a topic that has been studied for a long time. It can lead to a better understanding of the underlying processes, and provide a useful tool for musicologist to aid and speed up the analysis process. In our attempt we introduce Schoenberg’s rules from Fundamentals of Musical Composition using a specialized version of Petri nets, called Music Petri nets. Petri nets are a formal tool for studying systems that are concurrent, asynchronous, distributed, parallel, nondeterministic, and/or stochastic. We present some examples highlighting how multiple approaches to the analysis task can find ...