by nanokiwi | Oct 19, 2016
Predicting the Suitability of Working Dogs using Instrumented Dog Toys Project Description Working dogs are significantly beneficial to society; however, a substantial number of dogs are released from time consuming and expensive training programs because of...
by nanokiwi | Jul 30, 2016
Professor on Fire Shawl Project Description Collaborating with Clint Zeagler and Jessica Pater, we were asked to create a wearable for Dr. Beth Mynatt to wear while receiving recognition as an ACM Fellow. My role was to lead the construction and development of the...
by nanokiwi | Dec 3, 2015
Tangible Feedback and Sharing of Emotions through Soft Toy Dinosaurs Project Description How can we maintain and build relationships from afar? Students studying abroad – aging parents in retirement homes – best friends living on different sides of the...
by nanokiwi | May 19, 2015
FIDO | Haptics as a Communication Tool Project Description Working dogs perform a variety of essential services for their human partners, from assisting people with disabilities, to Search and Rescue, police, and military work. Recent interest in the nascent field of...
by nanokiwi | May 2, 2014
Chaining Dynamic Movement Primitives (DMPs) for Learning Complex Tasks from Demonstration Project Description Learning complex tasks is an important goal for Learning from Demonstration. Dynamic Movement Primitives (DMPs), which can be used to encode a trajectory, are...
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