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Neuro Pathways

Medical students historically have difficulty conceptualizing and projecting the three-dimensional aspects of neural pathways and embryonic organ development from two-dimensional text materials and electronic resources. This collaboration will support the development of interactive three-dimensional simulations systems to allow students to visualize and conceive neural pathways and embryonic development.
Neuro Pathways
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X3D for Physics & Chemistry

Many fundamental concepts in physics and chemistry require the development of active mental models for the students to understand the physical and mathematical components. We want to explore student attention and learning of difficult concepts while improving their mental models using 3D augmentation. The proposed research will improve faculty and student expertise in 3D computer-based simulations.
X3D for Physics and Chemistry
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VIEW (Virtual Interactive Engineering on the Web)

The main objective of this project is to implement virtual laboratories to supplement the course: Introduction to Engineering Materials. Hands on laboratories are an essential part of engineering and science education wherein students are introduced to data analysis, report writing, finding empirical correlations between experimental variables and data and to validate theories. See more details by clicking on the image.
VIEW Project
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NSF STEP

The College of Science and Technology at AASU has been funded by the National Science Foundation to offer a summer research scholar program for students majoring in science, math and technology. The NSF-STEP (Science Talent Expansion Program, DUE-0856593) allows us to offer summer research opportunities, mathematics preparation and potential course credit for up to twenty students in the class of 2013. Jazmine Carpenter is a STEP student, and she conduct research in the summer 2009 in our NEWS Laboratory.
STEP Project
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BACH (Broadband Analysis of Collaborative Haptics)

This project investigates techniques that will allow an additional human sense, haptic touch to be sent over the Internet. At present, networks are designed to carry information that stimulates two human senses: the auditory sense (e.g. VoIP) and the visual sense (e.g. video, graphic, text etc). However, the introduction of haptics in the medical field for training purposes has proven the importance of simulating this sense. We are at the dawn of the widespread use of haptic devices in a multitude of application domains. With the introduction of the Falcon haptic interface (Novint™ Technologies) such devices are not a "laboratory specimen" anymore but become a "household appliance." See more details by clicking on the image.
BACH Project
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UNIVERO (UNIVersal Electronic Reference Organizer)

The univero project is an attempt to simplify the creation, formatting, and retrieval of scholarly and other references on the Web. In short, univero provides many researchers with an opportunity to build, modify, and maintain libraries with publication entries and corresponding resources in a properly compiled and organized format. This tool can be a tremendous help to someone who needs to quickly update their résumé online or prepare references for any electronic document.
UNIVERO Project
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HaptEK-16 (Haptic Environments for K16)

The term haptic is derived from the Greek haptikos, meaning "able to touch." Haptics is the science of applying tactile sensation to computer applications in order to enable users to receive feedback in the form of felt sensations. In this project we are focusing on promoting haptics feedback by presenting a large set of applications that would benefit from the recent developments in Haptics hardware and software especially simulation and training tools for education. See more details by clicking on the image.
HaptEK-16 Project
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3DRDV (3D Radiation Dosage Visualization)

Radiation dosage and associated maps are obtained as a result of complex procedures and calculations. Creation of 3D maps of the radiation dose for a patient from existing DICOM-RT information allows visualization in three dimensions of the patient organs impacted by radiation. In this project we explore algorithms and optimization techniques for such large datasets visualization in real-time. For illustration click on the image.
3DRDV Project
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