Graphics and Human Computer Interfaces Commons^™

Storage Free Terrain Simulation, Warren Creemers

Theses : Honours

Landscape visualisation is the process of recreating a natural environment and displaying it in an interactive graphical simulation. To do this a terrain is displayed together with accompanying plant life and other objects. Present landscape visualisation software is capable in theory of displaying very detailed and large landscapes. The software is also in theory capable of simulating environments with thousands if not millions of individually structured plants. In practice though, the simulation of such landscapes requires such a large amount of storage space that it is not achievable on personal computers. Even storing small landscapes with a moderate amount plant …

Webtv, Soon Hing Leong

Student Works (2000-2009)

This graduation project report was a partial requirement of the Bachelor Degree of Information Technology. This project focused on the testing and implementation of streaming multimedia files using multicast and unicast technology through Local Area Network with conserving network resources. It is also an effort being carried out to provide a multimedia and interactive base entertainment system for Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology. Multimedia has become a popular catchword during the last few years. The idea behind a multimedia network is a single network combining an improving all current technologies that realizes fast and convenient access for the …

Computer Aided Learning Chinese Iiioms ( Calci), Chai Yam Yee

Student Works (2000-2009)

Computer aided learning have been implemented by lots of institutions and universities nowadays, due to the fast growing of information technology and the trend of moving towards paperless environment. Computer aided learning of Chinese idioms, is a package developed to assist students in the Chinese idioms study. This package is limited to Chinese idioms in 4 characters only. The package will provides the entire syllabus of Chinese idioms learned at primary and secondary school. It also contains idioms story, exercises and quizzes. The development of this package is assisted by multimedia tool to make it a more attractive, efficient and …

Meeting Scheduling System (Mss), Mun Ting Ng

Student Works (2000-2009)

Meeting Scheduling System (MSS) is a web-based system developed to support the organization of meetings, that is for each meeting request, a suitable meeting date can be determine based on constraints like meeting location, equipment and the number of invitees that can attend the meeting. Besides that, Meeting Scheduling System (MSS) allow users to check if the invitees are available to attend a meeting, and will inform participants on details about meetings tl1at involve them. It is to avoid the possibility of scheduling a person to attend two or more meetings at one time. Other than that, Meeting Scheduling System …

Studies Related To The Design And Implementation Of A Magnetic Suspension And Balance System, Syed Adeel Akhtar Jafri

Electrical & Computer Engineering Theses & Dissertations

This thesis presents studies related to the magnetic suspension and balance system (MSBS) of the Princeton/ONR High Reynolds Number Testing Facility (HRTF). The main motivation for developing the MSBS is to provide interference free aero/hydrodynamic testing of submersible models, which will lead to more accurate measurements. From the controls point of view, the main specification of the MSBS is to robustly control the position of a submersible model in five degrees of freedom (DOF), including three translational as well as pitching and yawing positions. The MSBS should not only regulate the submersible model's position but should also allow for small …

Sistem Perpustakaan Maya (Pengkhususan Kertas-Kertas Teknikal), Talib Noor Azimah

Student Works (2000-2009)

Perkembangan teknologi pada masa kini begitu pantas berlari mengikut arus peredaran zaman. Pelbagai perisian sistem yang telah dihasilkan mengikut keperluan, kehendak dan kesesuaian masa. Keadaan inilah yang telah memungkinkan pembangunan sebuah Sistem Perpustakaan Maya (SPMA) di mana ia merupakan sistem bermaklumat secara atas talian (online). SPMA merupakan sebuah sistem di atas talian yang memainkan peranan bagi membekalkan pelbagai sumber maklumat berbentuk kertas teknikal (technical paper) seperti yang dikehendaki oleh pengguna. Sistem ini dibangunkan di atas talian adalah bertujuan supaya ia boleh dicapai oleh para pengguna dari seluruh dunia. Matlamat utama sistem ini adalah bagi membantu memudahkan pengguna di dalam mencapai …

Motion-Based Video Representation For Scene Change Detection, Chong-Wah Ngo, Ting-Chuen Pong, Hong-Jiang Zhang, Roland T. Chin

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

We present a new ly developed scheme for automatical ly partitioning videos into scenes. A scene is general ly referred to as a group of shots taken place in the same site. In this paper, we first propose a motion annotation algorithm based on the analysis of spatiotemporal image volumes. The algorithm characterizes the motions within shots by extracting and analyzing the motion trajectories encoded in the temporal slices of image volumes. A motion-based keyframe computing and selection strategy is thus proposed to compactly represent the content of shots. With these techniques, we further present a scene change detection algorithm …

Pengkalan Web Bermaklumat Untuk Pmr (Bahasa Inggeris), Shuaid Ema Shuaida

Student Works (2000-2009)

Dunia sekarang sedang menuju ke era yang lebih digital di mana teknologi maklumat menjadi satu wadah yang penting terutamanya di dalam bidang pendidikan. Bidang pendidikan juga maju setapak ke hadapan dengan penggunaan pengajaran yang berasaskan multimedia dan CD-Rom. la termasuk dengan kewujudan laman web yang berasaskan grafik dan teks yang menarik. Oleh itu, projek yang bakal dibangunkan ini iaitu Pangkalan Web Bermaklumat untuk Pelajar Penilaian Menengah Rendah (PMR), khusus untuk mata pelajaran bahasa lnggeris juga memberi banyak kemudahan dan kebaikan kepada pelajar-pelajar dan guru-guru yang memerlukannya. Objektif utama projek ini ialah untuk membangunkan pangkalan web yang menarik, padat, teliti dan …

Pakej Bantuan Pembelajaran Bagi Kanak-Kanak, Rameli Norma

Student Works (2000-2009)

Pakej Bantuan Pembelajaran Bagi Kanak-kanak Tadika(PBPKT) ini adalah merupakan satu alat bantuan yang dibangunkan dengan menggunakan perisian Director 7.0. Ia boleh menjadi alat perantara kepada para guru dan ibubapa untuk mendidik kanak-kanak dalam bentuk yang lebih menarik kerana ianya mempunyai pelbagai daya tarikan seperti bunyi, suara, gambar, animasi, lagu dan video bagi memudahkan kanak-kanak mertlahami apa yang hendak disampaikan. Selain itu juga mereka boleh berinteraksi dengan pakej ini. PBPKT ini mempunyai empat modul utama yang meliputi subjek seperti huruf, nombor, bentuk dan warna, yang mana subjek-subjek ini merupakan silibus bagi peringkat pra-sekolah. Pakej ini juga akan mendekati kanak-kanak secara psikologi. …

Webwordpro Version 2.0 The Web-Based Word Processing System, Koon How Lin

Student Works (2000-2009)

Nowadays in this era of information technology computerized word processors have become a very common and essential need to everyone. From leisure to serious manner, it is used for typing letters, assignments, reports, paperwork and etc. It also enables people to keep data and manage it in a more secure and efficient way. With the current popularity and expansion of the Internet, Web-based applications become a new platform for the evolution of business system. Well, from this point, come the idea of providing the word processing system through Internet or online. WebWordPro 2.0, which is the upgraded version of Web …

Pakej Pembelajaran Rangkaian Komputer Dan Komunikasi Data (Rangkomdata), Jusoh Noorakmal

Student Works (2000-2009)

Penggunaan perisian yang berbentuk CD atau web semakin mendapat perhatian dan sambutan terutamanya dikalangan pelajar. Namun begitu pakej pembelajaran terutamanya dalam Bahasa Melayu untuk pelajar lPT masih lagi berkurangan di pasaran Menyedari hakikat inilah ia mendorong saya untuk membangunkan pakej pembelajaran bermultimedia seperti ini. Berdasarkan kepada kajian yang dijalankan, sambutan dari kalangan pelajar adalah begitu menggalakkan. Projek yang dibangunkan ini, adalah bertajuk Pakej Pembelajaran Rangkaian Komputer dan Komunikasi Data atau panggilan ringkasnya Pakej RANGKOMDATA Bermultimedia. Perisian ini adalah diharapkan dapat rnembantu proses pembelajaran para pelajar jurusan sains komputer dan teknologi maklumat yang mengikuti kurus ini. Pakej RANGKOMDATA ini adalah satu …

Traffic Scheduling And Link Sharing Mechanisms For Controlled Load Service, Yun Choong Chin

Student Works (2000-2009)

The project studies and develops a simulator based on the link-sharing and traffic scheduling mechanism for Controlled Load service. The simulation adopts some of the features of the Class Based Queueing. The main factors that determine whether a packet scheduling algorithm is able to support integrated services or differentiated services on Internet is the ability to provide bandwidth guarantee. It is important to provide guarantee for minimum bandwidth when there are enough demands to ensure competing data flows do· not degrade each others' performance. The objective of this project is to observe the performance of the link-sharing and traffic scheduling …

Structured Web Databases, Shuang Li

Dissertations and Theses

Recent research has focused on the cooperation of web server and database server software in the deployment of data-intensive web sites. That work has focused either on storing data in a database that can be used to generate the contents of a web site, or on providing interfaces and gateways to enable queries to be invoked from web pages and executed at external database servers.

This thesis describes the implementation of a prototype of the Data Web system that is being implemented at Portland State University. With Data Web, a user can embed in a web page virtual tables that …

Pembangunan Laman Web Bermultimedia Bagi Sebuah Sekolah, Kaliappan Malathi

Student Works (2000-2009)

Laman web sekolah ini merupakan sebuah laman web bermultimedia yang mengandungi unsur-unsur multimedia seperti bunyi, grafik, imej dan animasi. Objektif utama laman web ini adalah untuk membangunkan satu sistem multimedia yang bermutu tinggi, mengetahui keputusan peperiksaan awam, mengetahui maklumat ahli-ahli organisasi sekolah iaitu guru-guru dan kakitangan lain kerana ke semua maklumat ini telah dimasukkan dalam pangkalan data, memberi maklumat tentang aktiviti tahunan dan ko-kurikulum sekolah. Dengan adanya laman web ini, maklumat dapat diperoleh tanpa mengunjungi sekolah tersebut. Secara amnya, laman web ini mengandungi semua maklumat tentang sekolah tersebut seperti sejarah sekolah, organisasi sekolah, pencapaian akademik, kurikulum, kokurikulum, aktiviti tahunan, kemudahan …

An Intelligent User Interface To Support Air Force Weather Product Generation And Automated Metrics, Darryl N. Leon

Theses and Dissertations

Air Force pilots require dependable weather reports so they may avoid unsafe flying conditions. In order to better gauge the accuracy of its weather products, Air Force Weather has established the requirement for an Air Force-wide automated weather metrics program. Under the guidelines for this program, forecasts will automatically be compared to observed weather to determine their accuracy. Statistics will be collected in the hopes of determining forecast error trends that can be corrected through education and training. In order for the statistical data produced by such a program to draw reliable conclusions about forecast accuracy, however, the correct format …

A 3d Display System For Lightning Detection And Ranging (Ldar) Data, Michael W. Darwin

Theses and Dissertations

Lightning detection is an essential part of safety and resource protection at Cape Canaveral. In order to meet the unique needs of launching space vehicles in the thunderstorm prone Florida environment, Cape Canaveral has the only operational three- dimensional (3D) lightning detection network in the world, the Lightning Detection and Ranging (LDAR) system. Although lightning activity is detected in three dimensions, the current LDAR display, developed 20 years ago, is two-dimensional. This thesis uses modern three-dimensional graphics, object-oriented software design, and innovative visualization techniques to develop a 3D visualization application for LDAR data.

Three-Dimensional Data Visualization Of Electronic Military Intelligence Using The Project Broadsword System, Michael L. Goeringer

Theses and Dissertations

Today's military electronic infrastructure solves many problems while creating others. Using computers, battlefield and global awareness is brought to bear through the near real-time linking of sensor platforms from around the globe. These intelligence networks produce vast amounts of data that must be parsed, interpreted, digested and stored by information gathering systems. As the amount of intelligence data continues to increase, these text-based systems become cumbersome and inadequate. To ensure vital information is not overlooked or discovered too late, other forms of intelligence product management and data navigation need to be investigated. This thesis explores procedures for enhancing the capabilities …

A Comparative Analysis Of Cockpit Display Development Tools, Matthew J. Gebhardt

Theses and Dissertations

Currently, no standard methodology exists that enables cockpit display engineers to evaluate software tools used in the development of graphical cockpit displays. Furthermore, little research has been accomplished in comparing current software development tools with traditional hand-coded methods, This research effort discusses a framework for analyzing cockpit display software development tools and follows through with a detailed analysis comparing today's hand-coding standard, OpenGL, with two of today's cockpit display software development suites, Virtual Application Prototyping System (VAPS) and Display Editor. The comparison exploits the analysis framework establishing the advantages and disadvantages of the three software development suites. The analysis framework …

Vcu's My Library: Librarians Love It. . . . Users? Well, Maybe, Jimmy Ghaphery, Dan Ream

VCU Libraries Faculty and Staff Publications

Virginia Commonwealth University's My Library project (circa 1998-1999) has chosen "ease of use" as its primary design criteria. The development of this tool using Perl scripting is described, and reports derived from usage logs are analyzed here. My Library tends to appeal a great deal to a small number of users as a personal tool. Librarians have found it popular as a class teaching tool, with pages designed for specific classes in library instruction receiving the heaviest use.

Design, Implementation, And Evaluation Of Virtual Interface Architecture For Power Pc Machines, Ben Mckenzie

Inquiry: The University of Arkansas Undergraduate Research Journal

The Virtual Interface Architecture (VIA) standard is a low-latency protocol that was designed for use in high-performance networks. VIA improves performance by reducing overhead in messaging. This research has two components. The first part of this research project is the development of a new tool for measuring the performance of a VIA implementation and comparing it to the more traditional high-overhead protocols used on the Internet. The development of the tool represents a significant contribution in and of itself, since the tool has been put into the public domain and will likely become useful by Lima users, both for measuring …

Personalizing The Gams Cross-Index, Saverio Perugini, Priya Lakshminarayanan, Naren Ramakrishnan

Computer Science Faculty Publications

The NIST Guide to Available Mathematical Software (GAMS) system at http://gams.nist .gov serves as the gateway to thousands of scientific codes and modules for numerical computation. We describe the PIPE personalization facility for GAMS, whereby content from the cross-index is specialized for a user desiring software recommendations for a specific problem instance. The key idea is to (i) mine structure, and (ii) exploit it in a programmatic manner to generate personalized web pages. Our approach supports both content-based and collaborative personalization and enables information integration from multiple (and complementary) web resources. We present case studies for the domain of linear, …

Multimedia Kuronthogai, Sellappan Mohan

Student Works (2000-2009)

Project Multimedia Kuronthogai is a Final Year Project (Thesis) offered by the Faculty of Computer Science & Information Technology. This project was divided into Thesis I and Thesis II and supervised by my project supervisor Assoc. Prof. Dr. N.Selvanathan. The moderator for this project is Cik Hannyzzura Affal. Kuronthogai is a one of the Tamil anthologies. It contains 401 poems. The theme of these poems is love and the verse are of the five lands (tinais) in appropriate time. Most of the Tamil literatures are in the form of a book. Only few of them are in Multimedia environment. It …

Using Macromedia Director For Multimedia Design On The Www, Domenick Pinto, Sandra Honda-Adams

School of Computer Science & Engineering Faculty Publications

A SIGCSE sponsored workshop at SIGCSE, the 31st Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, March 8-12, 2000, Austin, Texas. The workshop introduced attendees to the basic components of Director 7.0 software including the use of stage, cast members, score, paint window, and scripting.

ACM SIGCSE - Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education

Virtual Reality And The Modern Ideology Of Order And Control, Craig I. Murrihy

Theses : Honours

In this thesis I will examine the construction of the concept of Virtual Reality. I argue that rather than a technology of liberation as it is often perceived, virtual realities' conception has been influenced significantly by a discourse of control and order. I examine books, articles and films concerning Virtual Reality to support this claim. Furthermore this discourse of control and order is born out of a larger ideology of Western culture that values order and control. Throughout modernity this ideology has manifested itself through techniques and technologies of social and environmental control. I provide a brief historical outline highlighting …

Design And Implementation Of A University Department Website, Margaret M. Rick

Graduate Research Papers

The website design cycle consists of four important components: (1) planning, (2) production, (3) implementation, and (4) operation. Within these components are a variety of vital tasks ranging from defining the objective and audience to conceptualizing the site, determining content, and creating, testing, and revising the site. Numerous rules or accepted principles guide the design process from color and font selection, to graphic creation, to site navigation layout. Once created, a website must be maintained: content should be updated and outside links verified on a regular basis. A site that is not maintained or kept current is of no benefit …

E-Commerce : Web Page Standards And Consumer Confidence, Natarajan @ Kumar Nc Krishnan

Student Works (2000-2009)

This thesis involves around the generation of a set of recommendations for web page design that could be possibly used by authorities or auditing firms to audit and approve commercial web pages that comply to the standards. The recommendations shall cover what information consumers would like to see on commercial web pages. The contents of a web page are critically important in Electronic Commerce as it is the only interface between consumers and the merchant. Web Page Approval shall be a preferred way of identifying a web page to do online business by potential consumers. Consumer shall have increased confidence …

Peralatan Membaca Untuk Golongan Kurang Penglihatan, Abd Rahman Fadzli

Student Works (2000-2009)

Oalam menghadapi cabaran era sains dan teknoIogi pada alaf ini teknologi maklumat rnenjadi tunjang utama dalam informasi dan kegunaan terhadap setiap goIongan masyarakat.Oieh itu setiap kelebihannya haruslah dapat dirasai Ieh setiap goIongan masyarakat. Oieh itu satu sistem telah dibangunkan untuk membantu golongan kurang penglihatan dalam pembacaan. Sistem ini dibangunkan dalah untuk menbantu golongan kurang penglihatan dalam pembacaan teks atau perkataan dengan penggunaan komputer. Sistem Peralatan Membaca Untuk Golongan Kurang Penglihatan Versi Bahasa Melayu ini adalah merupakan sistem yang menggunakan konsep text-to-speech. Input sistem adalah merupakan teks atau perkataan yang dimasukkan oleh pengguna dan pembacaan teks atau perkataan adalah merupakan output …

Tools For Jawi Character Recognition, Hassan Nur Hassinah

Student Works (2000-2009)

Huruf jawi terdiri daripada 36 huruf. Ia merupakan huruf-huruf yang kebanyakannya lahir daripada huruf arab.Tulisannya adalah unik kerana mempunyai aksara yang bersambung dalam sesuatu perkataan. lni menyebabkan pengecaman terhadap tulisan jawi tangan menjadi lebih kompleks apabila aksara perlu dipecahkan. Selain itu, perwakilan bagi sesuatu aksara jawi mempunyai bentuk yang berlainan bergantung kepada kedudukannya dalam perkataan. Perisian alatan teknikal iaitu MATLAB digunakan untuk membina atatan yang terdiri daripada pemprosesan imej, pensegmenan, dan pengecaman aksara jawi. Input adatah satu perkataan jawi yang diimbas. lmej dalam bentuk digitaJ akan melalui pemprosesan imej untuk tujuan pengurangan kebisingan dan peningkatan kualiti. lmej seterusnya dipecabkan kepada …

Laman Maklumat Berasaskan Web Untuk Pelajar-Pelajar Spm Khusus Matapelajaran Fizik Dan Bahasa Melayu, Kamis Faridah

Student Works (2000-2009)

Saya telah memilih untuk membangunkan sebuah halaman web yang mampu menyediakan capaian kepada laman-laman lain yang mengandungi nota latihan contoh-contoh soalan dan beberapa kaedah pembelajaran yang berguna untuk pelajar-pelajar tingkatan 5. Dengan kata lain, laman ini cuba bertindak sebagai pintu masuk ke laman-laman lain yang ada menawarkan pelbagai bahan-bahan keperluan untuk para pelajar. Untuk memastikan laman spm ini dapat bertindak sebagai tapak pengumpul yang cekap dan berkesan maka satu fungsi enjin pencari telah dilaksanakan untuk membolehkan pelajar-pelajar membuat pencarian sumber-sumber. Hasilnya, pelajar-pelajar tidak perlu membuang masa dan tenaga untuk menjelajah mana-mana Iaman yang tidak berkaitan serta belum pasti lagi menepati …

Sistem Kiosk Tajwid Di Web, Wan Chik @Wan Din Wan Mohammad Shukri

Student Works (2000-2009)

Ini merupakan laporan bahagian pertama yang mengandungi penerangan terhadap pembangunan Sistem Kiosk Tajwid di Web. Sistem ini merupakan sumber rujukan altenatif kepada pengguna untuk asas ilmu Tajwid. Sistem ini dibangunkan dengan menggunakan kaedah-kaedah kejuruteraan yang sesuai dengan saiz dan kritikalnya. Secara keseluruhan, laporan ini mempunyai enam bab sahaja iaitu: bab satu yang membicarakan pengenalan kepada projek, penentuan skop dan objektif serta perancangan yang dibuat bagi menjayakan projek ini; bab dua pula adalah berkaitan dengan kajian literasi yang dilakukan beserta dengan beberapa siri analisis yang dijalankan dan sintesis yang diperohehi; bab tiga pula menyatakan perkara-perkara berkaitan metodologi sistem seperti model pembangunan …