Research Projects & Publications

Co-3Deator: A Team-first Collaborative 3D Design Ideation Tool

Cecil Piya, Vinayak, Senthil Chandrasegaran, Niklas Elmqvist, Karthik Ramani

In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2017), Denver, CO, May 6-11, 2017 (accepted for publication)

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Proto-TAI++: Exploring Perceptually Consistent Creation of Planar Shape Assemblies through Multi-modal Tangible Interactions

Cecil Piya, Vinayak, Karthik Ramani

Journal of Computing & Information Science in Engineering, Volume 16, Issue 3, September 2016.

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RealFusion: An Interactive Workflow for Repurposing Real-World Objects towards Early-stage Creative Ideation

Cecil Piya, Vinayak, Yunbo Zhang, Karthik Ramani

Proceedings of the Graphics Interface 2016, June 1-3, 2016, Victoria, BC, Canada

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FEAsy: A Sketch-based Tool for Finite Element Analysis

Sundar Murugappan, Cecil Piya, Vinayak, Karthik Ramani

Journal of Computing & Information Science in Engineering, Volume 16, Issue 3, September 2016.

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MobiSweep: Exploring Spatial Design Ideation Using a Smartphone as a Hand-held Reference Plane

Vinayak, Devarajan Ramanujan, Cecil Piya, Karthik Ramani

Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction, February 14-17, 2016, Eindhoven, Netherlands

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PROTO-TAI: Quick Design Prototyping using Tangible Assisted Interfaces

Cecil Piya, Karthik Ramani

Proceedings of the ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference IDETC/CIE, August 16-20, 2014, Buffalo, NY, USA

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Remanufacturing of Turbine Blades by Direct Laser Deposition with its Energy and Environmental Impact Analysis

J. Michael Wilson, Cecil Piya, Yung C. Shin, Fu Zhao, Karthik Ramani

Journal of Cleaner Production, Volume 80, May 2014, Pages 170 – 178

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Handy-Potter: Rapid 3D Shape Exploration Through Natural Hand Motions

Vinayak, Sundar Murugappan, Cecil Piya, Karthik Ramani

Proceedings of the ASME 2012 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference IDETC/CIE 2012, August 12-15, 2012, Chicago, Illinois, USA

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Towards locally and globally shape-aware reverse 3D modeling

Manish Goyal, Sundar Murugappan, Cecil Piya, William Benjamin, Yi Fang, Min Liu, Karthik Ramani

Computer-Aided Design, Volume 44, Issue 6, June 2012, Pages 537-553

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Virtual Repair: Geometric Reconstruction for Remanufacturing Gas Turbine Blades

Cecil Piya, J. Michael Wilson, Sundar Murugappan, Yung C. Shin, Karthik Ramani

Proceedings of the ASME 2011 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Design for Manufacturing and the Life Cycle Conference IDETC/DFMLC 2011 August 29 - 31, 2011, Washington, DC, USA

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Numerical Modeling of Liquid Piston Gas Compression

Cecil Piya, Indraneel Sircar, James D. Van de Ven, David J. Olinger

Proceedings of the ASME 2009 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, November 13 - 19, 2009, Lake Buena Vista, FL, USA

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