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-Formerly Available projects. (These were offered in Summer 2011.)
+====Formerly Available projects====
+(These were offered in Summer 2011.
-Listed in alphabetical order of the supervisor's last name:
+Listed in alphabetical order of the supervisor's last name.)
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-Simulation for Forest Fire Detection
+===Simulation for Forest Fire Detection===
 Supervisor: Rob Allison
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-Study of self-motion perception in microgravity
+===Study of self-motion perception in microgravity===
 Supervisor: Rob Allison
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-Stereoscopic cinema calculator
+===Stereoscopic cinema calculator===
 Supervisor: Rob Allison
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-Computer pointing devices and the speed-accuracy tradeoff
+===Computer pointing devices and the speed-accuracy tradeoff===
 Supervisor: Scott MacKenzie
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-One key text entry
+===One key text entry===
 Supervisor: Scott MacKenzie
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-The Algorithmics Animation Workshop
+===The Algorithmics Animation Workshop===
 Supervisor: Andy Mirzaian
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 The URL for Algorithmics Animation Workshop (AAW) is http://www.cs.yorku.ca/~aaw. The main purpose of AAW is to be a pedagogical tool by providing animation of important algorithms and data structures in computer science, especially those studied in courses CSE 3101, 4101, 5101, 6114, 6111. This is an open ended project in the sense that more animations can be added to this site over time.
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-Selenium/Eiffel Web Test Driven Development
+===Selenium/Eiffel Web Test Driven Development===
 Supervisor: Jonathan Ostroff
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 The goal of this project is (1) to translate Selenium tests into tests that can be run under Eiffel (e.g. via ESpec or AutoTest), and (2) to provide a complete Eiffel web application creation template (with embedded database such as sqlite) for creating and testing web applications.
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-Automated Reasoning System for Quantified Propositional Logic
+===Automated Reasoning System for Quantified Propositional Logic===
 Supervisor: Zbigniew Stachniak
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 Background: Various variants of QPL have been formally formulated for the first time in the 1920s by a number of logicians and mathematicians. In modern computer science, QPL plays a significant role in theoretical computer science (proof complexity, satisfiability) as well as in verification and AI.
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-NABU Network Emulator
+===NABU Network Emulator===
 Supervisor: Zbigniew Stachniak
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 Background : The NABU Network was designed and implemented by a Canadian company NABU Manufacturing between 1981 and 1983. The underlying idea behind the network was to link home personal computers to cable television networks which would supply a continuous, high speed stream of computer programs and information (at the rate of 6.5 Mbits per second) to almost an unlimited number of users. Cable television was a uniquely ideal technology for NABU to deliver software and data to home computers because of its high bandwidth and networking capabilities. After the official launch on Ottawa Cablevision in October of 1983, the NABU Network was introduced by Ottawa's Skyline Cablevision in 1984 and a year later in Sowa, Japan, via a collaboration between NABU and ASCII Corp. NABU Network subscribers could rent or buy a NABU PC and dedicated network adaptor, and use an ordinary television set as a display monitor. Once connected to the network, a user could choose from various application programs and services in categories including entertainment, information and guides, education, and professional programs. Dedicated NABU magazines, newsletters, programming guides, and user groups provided subscribers with supplementary information and support. To learn more, visit here .
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+===Robotic tangible user interface for large tabletops===
-Robotic tangible user interface for large tabletops
 Supervisor: Wolfgang Stuerzlinger
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 Tangible user interfaces provide the user with object that they can touch and use as input devices. One example is the use of (tracked) toy houses to perform a city planning task on a large surface. This project implements a new form of tracking/identification scheme for tangible objects via LED arrays mounted on them. Furthermore, and using robotic components, the tangible objects will have the ability to move around autonomously, which enables important functionalities such as undo and replay.
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+===Better Layout Mechanisms for User Interfaces Toolkits===
-Better Layout Mechanisms for User Interfaces Toolkits
 Supervisor: Wolfgang Stuerzlinger
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 The layout mechanisms for many GUI toolkits are hard to understand and often difficult to use. This project investigates new, easy-to-understand layout mechanisms and evaluates an implementation of one of them in a comparative user study. Platform: any modern GUI toolkit.
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+===Predicting Visibility Obstructions for a 6DOF Tracker===
-Predicting Visibility Obstructions for a 6DOF Tracker
 Supervisor: Wolfgang Stuerzlinger
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 Previous work of the supervisor generated a novel and highly accurate Virtual Reality tracking system based on (eye-safe) laser diodes. The speed and accuracy of this system matches or exceeds the specification of all competing commercial systems. However, this system works only in 5 or 6-sided immersive display environment. Recent work has adapted the system to track successfully with as little as one large display wall and has also characterized the accuracy more comprehensively. The next step is to generalize the system to work in normal rooms, which may have lamps, shelves, etc. Here, visibility obstructions play a significant role and predicting these obstructions can be used to increase the tracking accuracy. This project will simulate a new method for visibility obstruction prediction to detect how big an increase in accuracy can be expected.
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+===Extensions to a 3D Modeling System===
-Extensions to a 3D Modeling System
 Supervisor: Wolfgang Stuerzlinger