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The Oceans Above Us: An Augmented Reality Experience, Chris Nalani Dimeo
The Oceans Above Us: An Augmented Reality Experience, Chris Nalani Dimeo
Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects
Augmented reality holds the potential to be the new fabric of our everyday lives.
Also known as AR, augmented reality is any technology that superimposes graphical information over a real-world environment, whether it be through a smartphone screen or visually projected onto the environment. Though it has existed in various forms for decades, augmented reality development is still widely considered the work of experts in technology-related fields.
In November 2019, however, Adobe unveiled a new augmented reality development platform, Project Aero, along with boasts that the app’s intuitive design and integration with other Adobe programs would place AR creation into …
Building Something With The Raspberry Pi, Richard Kordel
Building Something With The Raspberry Pi, Richard Kordel
Presidential Research Grants
In 2017 Ryan Korn and I submitted a grant proposal in the annual Harrisburg University President’s Grant process. Our proposal was to partner with a local high school to install a classroom of 20 Raspberry Pi’s, along with the requisite peripherals. In that classroom students would be challenged to design something that combined programming with physical computing. In our presentation to the school we suggested that this project would give students the opportunity to be “amazing.”
As part of the grant, the top three students would be given scholarships to HU and the top five finalists would all be permitted …
The New Legal Landscape For Text Mining And Machine Learning, Matthew Sag
The New Legal Landscape For Text Mining And Machine Learning, Matthew Sag
Faculty Articles
Now that the dust has settled on the Authors Guild cases, this Article takes stock of the legal context for TDM research in the United States. This reappraisal begins in Part I with an assessment of exactly what the Authors Guild cases did and did not establish with respect to the fair use status of text mining. Those cases held unambiguously that reproducing copyrighted works as one step in the process of knowledge discovery through text data mining was transformative, and thus ultimately a fair use of those works. Part I explains why those rulings followed inexorably from copyright's most …
Girls Who Code 3rd-5th, Khristina Polivanov
Girls Who Code 3rd-5th, Khristina Polivanov
Honors Expanded Learning Clubs
The goal of the club is to encourage girls to be confident in themselves and their abilities while teaching them basic concepts used in computer science.
Qr Codes For The Dead, Tamara Kneese
Qr Codes For The Dead, Tamara Kneese
Media Studies
Graveyards are becoming smart spaces, but will today's technology last for eternity?
Determining The Effects Of Technology On Children, Kristina E. Hatch
Determining The Effects Of Technology On Children, Kristina E. Hatch
Senior Honors Projects
Determining the Effects of Technology on Children
Kristina Hatch
Faculty Sponser: Timothy Henry, Computer Science and Statistics
Technology has become an essential part of Americans’ daily lives, affecting our communications, mail, relationships, the management of our bills and finances. As we have become more immersed in the benefits and capabilities of these constantly developing technologies, children as well as adults have become avid users. Laptops and cell phones are specially developed for preteens. Software and game companies have been targeting children in their game development. Video games have become common entertainment for children as young as four. Children today can …