Carnegie Mellon University
Singapore Management University
Dublin Institute of Technology
Communication, Machines & Human Augmentics,
2016
The University of Illinois at Chicago
Communication, Machines & Human Augmentics, John Novak, Jason Archer, Victor Mateevitsi, Steve Jones
communication +1
This essay reformulates the question of human augmentation as a problem of advanced human-machine communication, theorizing that such communication implies robust artificial intelligence and necessitates understanding the relational role new technologies play in human-machine communication. We focus on the questions, “When do electronic tools cease to be ‘simply’ tools, and become meaningfully part of ourselves,” and, “When might we think of these tools as augmenting our selves, rather than simply amplifying our capabilities?” These questions, already important to the medical and rehabilitative fields, loom larger with increasing commodification of pervasive augmentation technologies, and indicate the verge on which human-machine communication ...
Haptic Foot Feedback For Kicking Training In Virtual Reality,
2016
Purdue University
Haptic Foot Feedback For Kicking Training In Virtual Reality, Hank Huang, Hong Tan
The Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) Symposium
As means to further supplement athletic performances increases, virtual reality is becoming helpful to sports in terms of cognitive training such as reaction, mentality, and game strategies. With the aid of haptic feedback, interaction with virtual objects increases by another dimension, in addition to the presence of visual and auditory feedback. This research presents an integrated system of a virtual reality environment, motion tracking system, and a haptic unit designed for the dorsal foot. The prototype simulates a scenario of virtual kicking and returns haptic response upon collision between the user’s foot and virtual object. The overall system was ...
Gdd(Growth Degree Day) Module For Vinsense Visual Analytics System,
2016
Purdue University - West Lafayette
Gdd(Growth Degree Day) Module For Vinsense Visual Analytics System, Pradeep K. Lam, David Ebert , Phd, Jiawei Zhang
The Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) Symposium
Limited resources and increasing costs require vineyards to develop optimized methods of planting, growing, and harvesting crops in order to ensure max yield and stay competitive in the marketplace. Data from sensors planted within the soil paired with weather reports and observation data from farmers could help develop competitive farming strategies. While automatic computation models are usually a black box that cannot explain how the input data are transformed into output, the farmers require an approach that allows them to interactively manipulate and supervise the computation process. The VinSense project was developed for this purpose. In this paper, we focus ...
Passive Visual Analytics Of Social Media Data For Detection Of Unusual Events,
2016
Purdue University
Passive Visual Analytics Of Social Media Data For Detection Of Unusual Events, Kush Rustagi, Junghoon Chae
The Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) Symposium
Now that social media sites have gained substantial traction, huge amounts of un-analyzed valuable data are being generated. Posts containing images and text have spatiotemporal data attached as well, having immense value for increasing situational awareness of local events, providing insights for investigations and understanding the extent of incidents, their severity, and consequences, as well as their time-evolving nature. However, the large volume of unstructured social media data hinders exploration and examination. To analyze such social media data, the S.M.A.R.T system provides the analyst with an interactive visual spatiotemporal analysis and spatial decision support environment that ...
An Extendable Visualization And User Interface Design For Time-Varying Multivariate Geoscience Data,
2016
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
An Extendable Visualization And User Interface Design For Time-Varying Multivariate Geoscience Data, Yanfu Zhou
Computer Science and Engineering: Theses, Dissertations, and Student Research
Geoscience data has unique and complex data structures, and its visualization has been challenging due to a lack of effective data models and visual representations to tackle the heterogeneity of geoscience data. In today’s big data era, the needs of visualizing geoscience data become urgent, especially driven by its potential value to human societies, such as environmental disaster prediction, urban growth simulation, and so on. In this thesis, I created a novel geoscience data visualization framework and applied interface automata theory to geoscience data visualization tasks. The framework can support heterogeneous geoscience data and facilitate data operations. The interface ...
Towards Understanding And Developing Virtual Environments To Increase Accessibilities For People With Visual Impairments,
2016
Kennesaw State University
Towards Understanding And Developing Virtual Environments To Increase Accessibilities For People With Visual Impairments, Miao Dong
Master of Science in Computer Science Theses
The primary goal of this research is to investigate the possibilities of utilizing audio feedback to support effective Human-Computer Interaction Virtual Environments (VEs) without visual feedback for people with Visual Impairments. Efforts have been made to apply virtual reality (VR) technology for training and educational applications for diverse population groups, such as children and stroke patients. Those applications had already shown effects of increasing motivations, providing safer training environments and more training opportunities. However, they are all based on visual feedback. With the head related transfer functions (HRTFs), it is possible to design and develop considerably safer, but diversified training ...
A Demonstration Of The Pmf-Extraction Approach: Modeling The Effects Of Sound On Crowd Behavior,
2016
University of Pennsylvania
A Demonstration Of The Pmf-Extraction Approach: Modeling The Effects Of Sound On Crowd Behavior, Jason Cornwell, Barry G. Silverman, Kevin O'Brien, Michael Johns
Barry G Silverman
The vast majority of psychology, sociology, and other social-science literature describing human behavior and performance does not reach the eyes of those of us working in the modeling and simulation community. Our recent work has been concerned with the extraction and implementation of Human Behavior Models(HBMs)/ Performance Moderator Functions(PMFs) from this literature. This paper demonstrates how our methodology was applied to extract models of the effects of music and sound on both individuals and groups and to implement them in a simulated environment. PMFs describing how several classes of sound affect decision-making and performance were constructed based on ...
Data-Driven Synthesis And Evaluation Of Syntactic Facial Expressions In American Sign Language Animation,
2016
Graduate Center, City University of New York
Data-Driven Synthesis And Evaluation Of Syntactic Facial Expressions In American Sign Language Animation, Hernisa Kacorri
All Graduate Works by Year: Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
Technology to automatically synthesize linguistically accurate and natural-looking animations of American Sign Language (ASL) would make it easier to add ASL content to websites and media, thereby increasing information accessibility for many people who are deaf and have low English literacy skills. State-of-art sign language animation tools focus mostly on accuracy of manual signs rather than on the facial expressions. We are investigating the synthesis of syntactic ASL facial expressions, which are grammatically required and essential to the meaning of sentences. In this thesis, we propose to: (1) explore the methodological aspects of evaluating sign language animations with facial expressions ...
Real-Time, Non-Contact Heart Rate Monitor,
2016
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Real-Time, Non-Contact Heart Rate Monitor, Daniel Blike
Computer Engineering
No abstract provided.
Visual Code: Breaking The Binary,
2016
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Visual Code: Breaking The Binary, Jacob Johannesen, Andrew Adriance
Liberal Arts and Engineering Studies
This project seeks to create an accessible programming language that is more visually based. Although some solutions exist, namely MIT’s Scratch, nothing has caught up to the mobile age. This proj- ect aims to reframe creating a game or app into the context of tell- ing a story, putting character creation first. By researching sto- ry-telling and how people learn, and by applying technical and user interface design knowledge, this project intends to deliver a soft- ware solution that opens introductory coding education to more people.
Accelerating Hash Grid And Screen-Space Photon Mapping In 3d Interactive Applications With Opencl,
2016
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Accelerating Hash Grid And Screen-Space Photon Mapping In 3d Interactive Applications With Opencl, Nikolai Shkurkin
Computer Science
Achieving interactive and realistic rendering is only possible with a combination of rendering algorithms, rendering pipelines, multi-core hardware, and parallelization APIs. This project explores and implements two photon mapping pipelines based on the work of Mara et. al [5] and Singh et. al [7] to achieve interactive rendering performance for a set of simple scenes using OpenCL and C++ to work with a GPU. In particular, both a 3D hash grid and a screen-space tiling algorithm are parallelized to accelerate photon lookup in order to compute direct and indirect lighting on visible surfaces in a scene. By using OpenCL with ...
Pain Management: Formal Verification Of An Android Application Using Eventb2sql,
2016
Dickinson College
Pain Management: Formal Verification Of An Android Application Using Eventb2sql, Graham Peter Williams
Honors Theses By Year
This project is a case study on formal verification of an Android application used for pain management. When it comes to healthcare applications, the consistency of the application is crucial, as it may affect the wellbeing of the user. The application will check for trends in the user reports of pain, stress, etc. and notify the user accordingly. The model that specifies these trends is defined in Event-B using an Eclipse-based IDE called Rodin. We used the automated and interactive theorem provers built into Rodin to verify that the model always gives the user consistent information. The Event-B model is ...
An Application Of High Fidelity Ftds For Ab Initio Pilot Training: The Way Ahead,
2016
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Daytona Beach
An Application Of High Fidelity Ftds For Ab Initio Pilot Training: The Way Ahead, Nickolas D. Macchiarella, Tim Brady, Brandon S. Lyon
Nickolas D. "Dan" Macchiarella
"Decreases in simulation costs and increases in aircraft training costs led to the need for further investigation into the application of simulation-based training. Researchers conducted an eighteen-month study using ab initio student pilots as participants. This study applied a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) approved, Part 142, flight-training curriculum that included 60% flight training device (FTD) use. Researchers identified five causal factors that warranted further investigation. The causal factors identified were visual fidelity, procedural similarity, dynamic flight environment, difficulty of task, and visual scanning and response. These causal factors have the potential to affect transfer of training (ToT) from simulated flight ...
Texture Modelling Using Convolutional Neural Networks,
2016
University of Tuebingen
Texture Modelling Using Convolutional Neural Networks, Leon A. Gatys, Alexander S. Ecker, Matthias Bethge
MODVIS Workshop
We introduce a new model of natural textures based on the feature spaces of convolutional neural networks optimised for object recognition. Samples from the model are of high perceptual quality demonstrating the generative power of neural networks trained in a purely discriminative fashion. Within the model, textures are represented by the correlations between feature maps in several layers of the network. We show that across layers the texture representations increasingly capture the statistical properties of natural images while making object information more and more explicit. Extending this framework to texture transfer, we introduce A Neural Algorithm of Artistic Style that ...
Sonifying Git History,
2016
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Sonifying Git History, Kevin J. North
Computer Science and Engineering: Theses, Dissertations, and Student Research
Version control is a technique that software developers use in industry to manage their source code artifacts. One benefit of using version control is that it produces a history of every change made to a codebase, which developers frequently analyze in order to aid the software development process. However, version control history contains highly multidimensional and temporal data. State of the art techniques can show several of these dimensions, but they cannot show a large number of dimensions simultaneously without becoming difficult to understand. An alternative technique to understand temporal data with high dimensionality is sonification. Sonification maps information to ...
Principles Of Anti-Discriminatory Design,
2016
Old Dominion University
Principles Of Anti-Discriminatory Design, D. E. Wittkower
Philosophy Faculty Publications
Technical design can produce exclusionary and even discriminatory effects for users. A lack of discriminatory intent is insufficient to avoid discriminatory design, since implicit assumptions about users rarely include all relevant user demographics, and in some cases, designing for all relevant users is actually impossible. To minimize discriminatory effects of technical design, an actively anti-discriminatory design perspective must be adopted. This article provides examples of discriminatory user exclusion, then defining exclusionary design in terms of disaffordances and dysaffordances. Once these definitions are in place, principles of anti-discriminatory design are advanced, drawing upon a method of phenomenological variation employed in the ...
Improving Electroencephalography-Based Imagined Speech Recognition With A Simultaneous Video Data Stream,
2016
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Improving Electroencephalography-Based Imagined Speech Recognition With A Simultaneous Video Data Stream, Sarah J. Stolze
Computer Science and Computer Engineering Undergraduate Honors Theses
Electroencephalography (EEG) devices offer a non-invasive mechanism for implementing imagined speech recognition, the process of estimating words or commands that a person expresses only in thought. However, existing methods can only achieve limited predictive accuracy with very small vocabularies; and therefore are not yet sufficient to enable fluid communication between humans and machines. This project proposes a new method for improving the ability of a classifying algorithm to recognize imagined speech recognition, by collecting and analyzing a large dataset of simultaneous EEG and video data streams. The results from this project suggest confirmation that complementing high-dimensional EEG data with similarly ...
Nextgen Flight Deck Data Comm: Auxiliary Synthetic Speech Phase I,
2016
Dean, College of Aviation, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach
Nextgen Flight Deck Data Comm: Auxiliary Synthetic Speech Phase I, Tracy Lennertz, Judith Bürki-Cohen, Andrea L. Sparko, Nickolas D. Macchiarella, Jason Kring, Mike Coman, Tom Haritos, Jeffry Alvarado
Nickolas D. "Dan" Macchiarella
Data Comm—a text-based controller-pilot communication system—is critical to many NextGen improvements. With Data Comm, communication becomes a visual task. Interacting with a visual Data Comm display may yield an unsafe increase in head-down time, particularly for single-pilot operations. This study examined the feasibility of supplementing Data Comm with synthetic speech. To this end, thirty-two pilots flew two experimental scenarios in a Cessna 172 Flight Training Device. In one scenario, ATC communication was with a text-only Data Comm display, in the other, communication was with a text Data Comm display with synthetic speech that read aloud each message (i ...
Transfer Of Training From Flight Training Devices To Flight For Ab-Initio Pilots,
2016
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Daytona Beach
Transfer Of Training From Flight Training Devices To Flight For Ab-Initio Pilots, Nickolas D. Macchiarella, Pamela K. Arban, Shawn M. Doherty
Nickolas D. "Dan" Macchiarella
The application of flight simulation to meet pilot training needs continues to evolve. Flight simulations built with powerful and inexpensive computers are making high fidelity simulation available as a medium for training ab-initio pilots at Pilot Schools and Training Centers. The researchers conducted an 18-month study that applied an experimental flight-training curriculum comprised of 60% flight training device (FTD) flight and 40% airplane flight to certify Private Pilots under Federal Aviation Regulation (FAR) Part 142. The results from the research provided data to ascertain the effective transfer for each flight-training task. Ab-initio student pilots practiced each task to standard in ...
A Study Of Android Malware Detection Techniques And Machine Learning,
2016
University of Cincinnati - Main Campus
A Study Of Android Malware Detection Techniques And Machine Learning, Balaji Baskaran, Anca Ralescu
MAICS: The Modern Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science Conference
Android OS is one of the widely used mobile Operating Systems. The number of malicious applications and adwares are increasing constantly on par with the number of mobile devices. A great number of commercial signature based tools are available on the market which prevent to an extent the penetration and distribution of malicious applications. Numerous researches have been conducted which claims that traditional signature based detection system work well up to certain level and malware authors use numerous techniques to evade these tools. So given this state of affairs, there is an increasing need for an alternative, really tough malware ...
