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Topic: Gesture Recognition for Virtual Orchestra Conducting Literature_Review.pdf

First, the annotated bibliography, the preliminary version submitted two days ago: craig_annotated_bibliography. Second, I want to outline my general plan here. After a meeting with Charlie this week and carefully reading some of the more fundamental papers for the topic, I have greater clarity … Read More

Annotated Bibliography Surveys various methods for gesture recognition and audio processing for the purpose of playing music through physical motion.

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Topic: Augmented Reality to enhance campus tour experience Advisor: Xunfei Jiang I would like to develop an interactive and informative mobile application that will assist the prospies and other outside visitors during their campus visits with the use of Augmented Reality. By using Augmented … Read More

Now that I have a better understanding of what I want (and need) to do, here’s the first draft of my new plan: Using the 3D motion tracking data of the Microsoft Kinect, our goal is to create a virtual … Read More

I have chosen to do my senior project on data compression and my adviser for the project will be Xunfei Jiang. Data compression is the concept of compressing data to fit into a smaller space.  Lossless compression is when when … Read More

Project Idea (Charlie is the Advisor): Developing some sort of hardware/software combination that would allow for monitoring of washers and dryers on Earlham’s campus. I would then create an app of some sort so that students could go on to … Read More

Deeksha Srinath Senior Seminar Topic Statement Advisor: Charlie Peck   My interest in how social media today is influencing our lives influenced my topic. I will be working to design a unified data model for Facebook and Twitter data. I … Read More

For my Senior Research, my topic will be a data mining project using data collected from Twitter. Twitter’s API offers 1% of a spatial bandwidth (in my case, the continental U.S.A.) for users to collect. This data has been collected … Read More

. . ., but it may be revised again soon. Our goal is to make a 3D rhythm game that would, among other possible applications, teach players the gestural motions of an orchestral conductor and act as a teacher for … Read More

Big Picture Topic: Software Interfaces and Human Behavior Adviser: Charlie Peck Description While this requires some additional refinement, I’ve settled on the general topic and hope to incorporate some of my interests from the other topics along the way. I will … Read More

Intelligent Personal Assistant for Medicine Research Supervisor: Dave Barbella I want to build a software (potentially mobile application) that acts as an intelligent personal assistant for medical purpose. The inspiration comes from modern programs like Siri, but instead of being … Read More

Connecting a seemingly similar history to a surprisingly variable present With this project, I would examine how a set of nations (a subset of Scandinavian nations) that are today relatively homogeneous in terms of race and economic capacity have vastly … Read More

I’m primarily interested in human-computer interaction (HCI) and, extending the notion further, how the principles of computer science, when applied through software or social networks, produce changes in human behavior. In general I’m drawing my thoughts from behavioral economics, network theory, … Read More