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 ====== Proposed Projects for Summer 2015 ======
-====== Proposed Projects for Summer 2015 ======
+======Projects for Summer 2015 ======
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+=======Scouting Stone Project======
+**Supervisor**: Michael Jenkin
+**Short Description**:
+A unique 4th year project...
+Interested in robotics, robot-human interaction, and art? Then do we have a project for you...
+The Scouting Stone Project is a robotic work of art which fuses sensory tracking of people in public space, autonomous exploratory movement, and stone sculpture. A large, hollow boulder housing a robot base will move through its environment based on live data collected about the cumulative travels of people in the robot’s surroundings. This data — obtained through a network of placed video cameras —  will be used to identify the common lanes of travel that most people follow in the space. The robot will integrate this information and then move blocking a different area which will in turn disrupt the motion of people in the environment.
+The intended presentation of this work is in public where the work can engage with an unsuspecting public, and the intended movement of the robot will be glacially slow so that the movement of the robot is only apparent after repeated visits to the space. The robot has numerous challenges for its design including the ability to carry heavy weight, highly articulate motion, object avoidance, data analysis, power supply management, and object stability among others. The ultimate goal of this work is to exhibit it across Canada both in Artist Run Centres and in public venues. This is a great opportunity to work on what will be a highly visible project that people from all walks of life will see and interact with.
+If you are interested in working on this project, as either as part of a 4th year thesis in Computer Science, or as a capstone engineering (ENG4000) project, please contact Michael Jenkin (jenkin@cse.yorku.ca).
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+=====Virtual Worlds for Immersive Visual Displays=====
+**Supervisor**: Rob Allison
+**Desired background**: Good programming skills. Some background in graphics (e.g. EECS 3431, EECS4471 or EECS 4491) is required.
+**Short Description**: Immersive virtual environments envelop users in a computer mediated world. They are used in a variety of contexts including entertainment, education, simulation and research. In this project one or more students would develop virtual worlds that could be experimentally controlled or modified to support experiments on spatial navigation and locomotion in virtual environments.
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+=====Locomotion Interface for Immersive Visual Displays=====
+**Supervisor**: Rob Allison
+**Desired background**: Good programming and mechanical skills.
+Short Description: Immersive virtual environments envelop  users in a computer mediated world. They are used in a variety of contexts including entertainment, education, simulation and research. In this project the student will develop an interface and embedded software for a treadmill based interface to a state-of-the-art, full-field of view, virtual display.
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-*****Implementation of a Monte Carlo simulator for heat transport problems*****
+=====Implementation of a Monte Carlo simulator for heat transport problems=====
 **Supervisor**: Simone Pisana