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Comparative Analysis Of Rgb-Based Eye-Tracking For Large-Scale Human-Machine Applications, Brett Thaman, Trung Cao

Posters-at-the-Capitol

Gaze tracking has become an established technology that enables using an individual’s gaze as an input signal to support a variety of applications in the context of Human-Computer Interaction. Gaze tracking primarily relies on sensing devices such as infrared (IR) cameras. Nevertheless, in the recent years, several attempts have been realized at detecting gaze by acquiring and processing images acquired from standard RGB cameras. Nowadays, there are only a few publicly available open-source libraries and they have not been tested extensively. In this paper, we present the result of a comparative analysis that studied a commercial eye-tracking device using IR …

Assessing The Alignment Of Social Robots With Trustworthy Ai Design Guidelines: A Preliminary Research Study, Abdikadar Ali, Danielle Thaxton, Ankur Chattopadhyay

Posters-at-the-Capitol

The last couple of years have seen a strong movement supporting the need of having intelligent consumer products align with specific design guidelines for trustworthy artificial intelligence (AI). This global movement has led to multiple institutional recommendations for ethically aligned trustworthy design of the AI driven technologies, like consumer robots and autonomous vehicles. There has been prior research towards finding security and privacy related vulnerabilities within various types of social robots. However, none of these previous works has studied the implications of these vulnerabilities in terms of the robot design aligning with trustworthy AI. In an attempt to address this …

A Note From The Co-Editors, Jada C. Johnson

Ideas: Exhibit Catalog for the Honors College Visiting Scholars Series

An introduction to the fifth issue of the third volume of Ideas Magazine, concerning the thoughts, experience, and work of Dr. Marcelo J.S. de Lemos.

Astronaut Or Astronot?, David A. Gusis

Ideas: Exhibit Catalog for the Honors College Visiting Scholars Series

As space becomes more and more accessible to the general population, the terminology we used in the past to describe those who trained endlessly to become the pioneers of a new frontier is beginning to lose its meaning. Astronauts like Colonel Richard Covey have earned their title and to bestow it on others who haven't gone through the same training or have paid to visit space as a tourist is wrong. My hope is to provide the necessary background information about what it means to be an Astronaut and provoke thought about preserving the term and creating new terminology for …

The Biological Problems Of Space Travel, Madilyn R. Reid

Ideas: Exhibit Catalog for the Honors College Visiting Scholars Series

Colonel Richard Covey is a distinguished former astronaut who has logged over 646 hours of space travel. Over the years, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and research scientists in the aerospace industry have become increasingly concerned about the biological complications of space travel. This article goes in-depth on what is already known about the biological problems of being in space and potential solutions to remedy the complications.

A Brief History Of The Making Of An Astronaut, Sharon J. Kulali

Ideas: Exhibit Catalog for the Honors College Visiting Scholars Series

With more advancement in technology, recreational travel to space is increasingly becoming common. This raises the question of whether all individuals who travel to space are considered astronauts. In this paper, the astronaut requirements that the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has had throughout the years are broken down. Furthermore, renowned former astronaut, Colonel Richard O. Covey, is used as an example to demonstrate these requirements.

Industry Expo Program 2021, Allen E. Paulson College Of Engineering And Computing

Allen E. Paulson College of Engineering and Computing Industry Expo

Program for the Industry Expo 2021

The Three-Year Capstone: A Progression Of Learning In Purdue University’S Theatre Engineering Program, Leigh Witek

Symposium on Education in Entertainment and Engineering

Purdue University’s Theatre Engineering Program capstone combines the yearly production work of the College of Liberal Arts with the final senior design format used in the Colleges of Engineering. By starting their production work after gaining admission to the program, students work on progressively more involved projects throughout their time at Purdue. This poster presentation will examine the lessons learned and challenges faced by Leigh Witek, a recent Theatre Engineering graduate, as she completed each role in the program. She will share how each project informed her understanding of the design process and how a three-year immersion in production work …

Timing, Latency, And Live Performance, Robert Klimek, Catherine Skokan

Symposium on Education in Entertainment and Engineering

How important is synchronous timing in a performance? In the world of science, engineering and the arts, we cannot avoid it. In the arts, it is a living and vital concept between composer, performer and audience. During the Pandemic, with an increase in virtual meetings and performances, made us more aware of timing issues and introduced us to a path with many questions about latency and affect between audience and performer. The hand waving, head nodding and eye gestures of Renaissance musicians led eventually to the classic conductor’s baton. These all helped ensembles of dissimilar instruments and/or voices, conquer problems …

Catenate: Creating An Interdisciplinary Art Project, Brian Phillips, Melissa Eddings Mancuso, Emma Sherban

Symposium on Education in Entertainment and Engineering

This paper will present the rationale for, the challenges of, and successes encountered in the formation process of an interdisciplinary Visual & Performing Arts Project, Catenate, at Ohio Northern University’s School of Visual & Performing Arts.

Developing Soft Skills With Interdisciplinary Teams In The First Year: Lessons Learned, Christian Rogers

Symposium on Education in Entertainment and Engineering

The academic structure of most universities dictates that a student work with those of their own program and in conjunction with a program that is tangential to theirs. Interdisciplinary educational experiences that provide students with the opportunity to develop soft skills (such as communication, empathy and problem solving) are considered rare but are much more common in the working environment. As an example, working environments such as Universal Creative are comprised of multiple disciplines (i.e. civil engineer, mechanical engineering, illustration, user experience design, etc.) A function of working in an interdisciplinary team can also be to work on unknown or …

Autonomous Control And Signal Acquisition System, Rion Krampe

Scholars Week

Dr. Bunget has an autonomous control and signal acquisition system that he wants to be repaired and improved upon. This requires that we identify the current issues with the system and repair them as well as make innovations to the system to meet customer needs. The position control needs to be autonomous, and the acquisition of the oscilloscope signal and the transducer position needs to be synchronous. The user should be able to control the position, speed, and how often the signals are captured. The waveform of the scan should be appended into a spreadsheet. The system code also needs …

Ehr Data Management: Hyperledger Fabric-Based Health Data Storing And Sharing, Md Jobair Hossain Faruk, Hossain Shahriar, Maria Valero

Symposium of Student Scholars

Despite the type of industry, data sharing has always been a concern across the globe within the conventional database model; particularly in the healthcare industry, where the lack of data interoperability in existing applications creates not only security and transparency issues in EHR but also cost-related concerns that impact the quality of patient care. Without adopting novel and emerging technologies that allow patients to store and share EHR data within a tamper-evident, immutable, and secure data storing and sharing network, this current problem could not be resolved. Emerging Hyperledger Fabric-based Blockchain technology can be an ideal solution to address these …

Joint Latency-Energy Optimization Scheme For Offloading In Mobile Edge Computing Environment Based In Deep Reinforcement Learning, Jui Mhatre

Symposium of Student Scholars

With the increasing number of mobile devices (MD), IoT devices, and computation-intensive tasks deployed on these devices, there is a need to increase the efficiency and speed of the deliverable. Due to inadequate resources, it is infeasible to compute all the tasks locally. Similarly, due to time constraints, it is not possible to compute the entire task at a remote site. Edge computing (EC) and cloud computing (CC) play the role of providing the resources to these devices on the fly. But a major drawback is increased delay and energy consumption due to transmission and offloading of computation tasks to …

Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (Cmmc) Compliance For Dod Contractors, Sierra Burnett

Cybersecurity Undergraduate Research Showcase

The DoD is currently taking a supply-chain risk management strategy to foster cybersecurity. This unique strategy is often referred to as CMMC which stands for “Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification”. The approach requires that all the 300,000 DoD contractors acquire third-party authentication that may attain the requirements for the CMMC maturity level suitable to the work they desire to do for the DoD. CMMC typically examines the organization's capability to safeguard Federal Contract Information as well as CUI. It integrates various cybersecurity standards already in place and plots the best practices alongside processes to five maturity levels that range from the …

Protection Of Patient Privacy On Mobile Device Machine Learning, Matthew Nguyen

Cybersecurity Undergraduate Research Showcase

An existing StudentLife Study mobile dataset was evaluated and organized to be applied to different machine learning methods. Different variables like user activity, exercise, sleep, study space, social, and stress levels are optimized to train a model that could predict user stress level. The different machine learning methods would test if both patient data privacy and training efficiency can be ensured.

Audit Of Road Safety Elements In National Road N25.2 “Prishtinë – Gjilan”, Gresa Xhemaili, Nol Dedaj

UBT International Conference

With the increase of the number of vehicles and the number of kilometers of the road as well as the time of their construction, the number of accidents has also increased, therefore it is very important to audit the road elements (level of roughness, macro and micro deformations, turns, longitudinal and transverse slope, shoulders, erosion and filling in roads, drainage, etc.) which directly affect the safety of road traffic. The audit of road elements will give us a clear picture on the identification of road factor elements in certain road segments of the road N -25.2 Prishtina - Gjilan, which …

Calculation Of Measurement Uncertainty, Ibush Luzha, Fidan Feka, Berat Durmishi, Burim Morina

UBT International Conference

Calculation of measurement uncertainty is the basis of measurements, tests in calibration laboratories, tests and their calibration, tests reports. Calculation of measurement uncertainty is one of the basic requirements of the international standard ISO/IEC 17025 General requirements for the competence of testing and calibration laboratories, on the metrological traceability of measurements. Calculation of measurement uncertainty has a direct impact on the development of trade and technology, the production and marketing of certain products in the measurement chain with a high degree of accuracy. The measurement uncertainty is calculated and defined as a value, accompanied by the result of a measurement, …

Application Of Prestressing With Pretension And Post-Tension In Precast Beams, Bardh Kurteshi, Nebi Pllana

UBT International Conference

In Nowdays, prestressed concrete founds wide application in the construction of engineering structures. Where concrete elements are subjected to mandatory stresses to gain more favorable behaviors. This can be realized by applying prestressing force with system of pre-tension and post-tension.

Analysis of precast beams elements with different sections by applying these prestressing methods, will help us to determine which method of force application is going to be more favorable for realization.

Analysis of precast beams elements for different shapes of sections for two methods of prestressing, that with pretensioned and post-tension, by checking the basic condition criteria of servisability limit …

Warshipping: Hacking The Mailroom, Jackson Szwast, Bryson Payne

KSU Proceedings on Cybersecurity Education, Research and Practice

Everyone knows what package shipping is, but not everyone knows what warshipping is. Corporate mailrooms are rarely considered as part of the cybersecurity attack surface of most organizations, but they offer physical access to millions of uninspected packages daily. UPS shipped 5.5 billion items last year, with their daily average being 21.9 million items and operating through 1,800 locations in 2020. FedEx shipped 6.5 million packages daily and operates 2,150 locations. The United States Postal Service delivered 143 billion pieces of mail in 2019. Increasingly the world’s consumers are relying on e-commerce, and during the recent COVID-19 pandemic, package deliveries …

Environmental Sustainability Of Precast And Cast-In-Situ Concrete Structures: A Case-Study Comparison Based On Built Supermarket Facilities, Bruno Dal Lago, Davide Visconti, Visar Krelani

UBT International Conference

Environmental sustainability is assuming a growing role in the strategic plans of several countries worldwide. In order to switch to more sustainable solutions in the construction field, many researchers and efforts are focusing on the material level, mainly concerning solutions aimed at partially or fully replacing the most impacting components with alternative or recycled solutions characterised by a lower carbon footprint or a higher durability, in view of a life-cycle assessment. Alongside these positive efforts, another instrument to reduce the environmental impact of construction materials, often less tackled by researchers, is reduction of material consumption by structural optimisation, often ensured …

Particle Shape Analysis Of Industrial Sand Using Traditional And Computational Geometry Methods, Gregor Kravanja

UBT International Conference

Silica sand is widely used as a raw material in the manufacture of building and construction products. Particle shape parameters such as sphericity and roundness were determined using both the Krumbein-Sloss diagram and the ImageJ processing algorithm. A total of 10 samples from production plants were comprehensibly analyzed. Olympus SZX16 microscope was used for image acquisition. Image analysis was performed separately for each grain size fraction ranging from 0.063 mm up to 2.0 mm. The microscope images showed that there was a visible difference in color and shape between manufactured sands. For sand shape parameters, the computerized method was significantly …

International Conference On Energy Efficiency Engineering, University For Business And Technology - Ubt

UBT International Conference

UBT Annual International Conference is the 9th international interdisciplinary peer reviewed conference which publishes works of the scientists as well as practitioners in the area where UBT is active in Education, Research and Development. The UBT aims to implement an integrated strategy to establish itself as an internationally competitive, research-intensive university, committed to the transfer of knowledge and the provision of a world-class education to the most talented students from all background. The main perspective of the conference is to connect the scientists and practitioners from different disciplines in the same place and make them be aware of the recent …

3d Digital Measurement Of Dimensions, Displacements, And Deformations Of The Parts, Betim Shabani, Fisnik Osmani, Xhemajl Mehmeti

UBT International Conference

The 3D digital measurement is commonly used nowadays when parts are with complex geometry, and fast development is required. This comes also from constant technological improvements of devices like 3D scanners. However, the use of them for particular applications needs research that shows the wide range of usability. The purpose of this study has to do with better understanding of the measurement of dimensions, displacements, and deformations of the parts using non-contact techniques, which are elaborated with the case studies for each investigation. Base on the presented research, we see the approach of using the 3D scanning technique for several …

Cost Oriented Control Unit For Robotic Arm Mitsubishi Movemaster Ii, Roni Kasemi, Endrit Hoxha

UBT International Conference

One of the main reasons for robotics development was always making human life easier by assisting or even replacing humans in hazardous environments. But in order to get robotics at that level, a lot of development and research was needed in order to solve the barriers and challenges that appear along the way. Solving problems, especially engineering ones usually accompanied by complex tech which is in most cases expensive to implement, and by that, a new challenge is appearing: high cost. In order to get robotics to help humans, especially in daily tasks, the cost of robotics needs to drop …

Errors In Distance And Angle Measurements Of Ultrasonic Sensor Hc-Sr04, Fidan Smaili, Plotdon Beqiri, Rinor Lubovci

UBT International Conference

This project presents the measurement of distances and angles by means of Arduino Uno microcontroller and Ultrasonic Sensor HC-SR04. Accuracy on distance and angle measurements of the sensor has been investigated. The change of object distance in motion is displayed and monitoring of the change of the angle and position. Data measurements were compared with the real measurement unit of the meter to observe their deviation, 1.6% of the standard deviation is observed between real measurement and sensor data, meanwhile, at the angle data measurements were no deviation is observed.

Mitigation Of Wind-Induced Vibrations In Dry-Assembled Precast High-Rise Tower Buildings, Francesco Foti, Bruno Dal Lago

UBT International Conference

Dry assembled precast concrete is currently trending for the construction of low- and medium-rise residential buildings, especially in

countries requesting high construction volumes in limited time. Recently, dry- assembled precast technology was investigated to be applied for the

construction of high-rise buildings, too. This paper analyses the dynamic response of a 100m tall residential tower fully designed and detailed under static loads with a dry-assembled couples frame/wall precast structural system, when subjected to Vortex Induced Vibration (VIV). Within this framework, the efficiency of different distributions of Tuned Mass Dampers (TMDs), from one bulk device positioned at the top to smaller …

The Calculation Of Appropriate Surfaces For Installation Of Solar Thermal Collectors And Solar Panels, Case Study City Of Pristine, Drita Qerimi

UBT International Conference

In Kosovo participation of renewable resources is very symbolic, most of the generated electricity produced from fossil fuel, a part of the energy comes from the import. Pristina is ranked among the most polluted sites and this is mainly: by transport, old power plants, and fossil fuel use as a heating fuel for winter seasons. Therefore, the aim of this paper is the use of solar energy knowing that the average sun duration for the city of Pristine is 5.44[h], while the average horizontal irradiation is 3.79[kWh/m²] per day. In this paper, the first step is analyzing and mapping of …

Testing Of The Oil Type Distribution Transformers, Armend Ymeri, Nexhmi Krasniqi, Arton Aliu, Alush Mexhuani, Edon Hajdini, Endrit Mustafa

UBT International Conference

This paper proposes to present the testing of oil type distribution transformers in order to supply with adequate voltage for all consumers, regardless of the voltage level where they are connected. One of the main challenges of the distribution system operator remains the proper selection of the transformer, application of the modern methods of commissioning and testing them, as a necessity to provide a reliable electrical supply. With the technological advancement, has been achieved to proportionally increase the quality of transformers, contributing to the increase of the efficiency of the power system as a whole. Input data, including construction and …

Oil Type Transformers, Testing Of Transformers, Commissioning Of Transformers, Type Of Testing., Bukurije Hoxha, Risto V. Filkoski

UBT International Conference

Wind energy has a relatively strong potential for electricity generation in various parts of Europe and it has increasingly taken its place in the energy mix in recent years. Kosovo has limited sources of renewable energy and its energy production sector is based on fossil fuels. This may come from the policies used so far in subsidizing such resources. Such a situation emphasizes the importance of active research and efficient use of renewable energy potential. According to the analysis of meteorological data for Kosovo, it can be concluded that the place with high potential is Kaçandoll. Due to the shared …