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- | ====== Currently offered Projects, | + | ====== Currently offered Projects, |
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- | **Supervisor**: | + | **Supervisor**: |
- | **Required Background**: | + | **Required Background**: |
- | **Recommended Background**: | + | The Leap Motion, leapmotion.com, |
- | Structural equation modeling (SEM) is a statistical technique that is becoming increasingly popular in the educational and behavioral sciences. SEM allows researchers to test the validity of hypothesized models involving complex relationships among multiple variables. Collected data is used to estimate the parameters of the equations and assessing the fit of the model. | + | ====== 3D Drawing System with 3Gear gesture tracker ====== |
- | The software required is an application that allows researchers to define their hypothesized models visually and will output the correct syntax for the analytical software of their choosing. | + | **Supervisor**: |
- | To date a promising functional application has been developed in JAVA by a Computer Science student as a 4080 project. The existing software allows the user to draw a path diagram and outputs code for the R package sem. There are a number of improvements to be made (refinements and additions to graphical user interface) and then the application needs to be extended to output syntax appropriate for additional software applications (openMX, MPlus and EQS). Though this project may not begin at “the first stages” of the software lifecycle, this scenario is likely common in the software development market. In addition, the student will be working with a primary “client” who is far less technically advanced, which is also reflective of real-world situations. | + | **Required Background**: |
- | More details {{: | + | The 3Gear system, threegear.com, lets users control a computer with their hands and fingers. This project creates a new 3D drawing system that enables users to quickly generate and modify 3D solids. |
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- | **Supervisor**: | + | **Supervisor**: |
- | **Required Background**: | + | **Required Background**: |
- | **Description** The YUsend (York University Space Engineering Nanosatellite Demonstration) Lab has procured a Windows XP-based industrial computer | + | This project compares the Leap Motion |
- | Specific tasks include: 1. Writing temperature acquisition card (OMEGA Engineering CIO-DAS-Temp) drivers for LabView - should be written in Visual C++ or similar and compiled into SubVI format. 2. Write LabView VI's (“Virtual Instrument”) to perform (a) Test set-up activities - checkout of sensor and lamps, assigning neumonics to temperature sensors, setting of alarm conditions for sensors and lamps (b) Acquire and monitor temperature data and control lamp voltage during test, raise operator alarms for temperature or IR lamp anomalous conditions as required © Store temperature and control data for subsequent analysis and reporting. 3. (Optional) Interface the Test Manager with an orbital simulation tool which would be used to compute IR lamp inputs based on a simulation of the nanosatellite' | + | ====== Tilt Target Selection |
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- | ====== Game Playing Framework | + | **Required Background**: |
- | **Supervisor**: | + | Touchscreen mobile devices commonly use a built-in accelerometer to sense movement or tilting actions of the device. |
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+ | ====== Attentive Sensing for Better Two-Way Communication in Remote Learning Environments ====== | ||
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+ | good math skills, knowledge of C and MATLAB programming languages | ||
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+ | One of the challenges in remote learning is to allow students to communicate effectively with the lecturer. | ||
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+ | The goal of this project is to apply attentive sensing technology (www.elderlab.yorku.ca) to this problem. | ||
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+ | In particular, working with a senior graduate student or postdoctoral fellow, the successful applicant will: | ||
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+ | - Study the problem of detecting hand-raises in the preattentive sensor stream | ||
+ | - Implement algorithms for detecting hand-raises based upon this investigation | ||
+ | - Evaluate these algorithms in a real-classroom setting, using proprietary attentive sensing technology | ||
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+ | ====== Continuation of a Path Diagram to Syntax Application ====== | ||
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+ | **Supervisor**: | ||
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+ | **Required Background**: | ||
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+ | **Recommended Background**: | ||
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+ | Structural equation modeling (SEM) is a statistical technique that is becoming increasingly popular in the educational and behavioral sciences. SEM allows researchers to test the validity of hypothesized models involving complex relationships among multiple variables. Collected data is used to estimate the parameters of the equations and assessing the fit of the model. | ||
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+ | The software required is an application that allows researchers to define their hypothesized models visually and will output the correct syntax for the analytical software of their choosing. | ||
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+ | To date a promising functional application has been developed in JAVA by a Computer Science student as a 4080 project. The existing software allows the user to draw a path diagram and outputs code for the R package sem. There are a number of improvements to be made (refinements and additions to graphical user interface) and then the application needs to be extended to output syntax appropriate for additional software applications (openMX, MPlus and EQS). Though this project may not begin at “the first stages” of the software lifecycle, this scenario is likely common in the software development market. In addition, the student will be working with a primary “client” who is far less technically advanced, which is also reflective of real-world situations. | ||
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+ | More details {{: | ||
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- | **Description** Game playing frameworks in Eiffel such as Eiffelmedia usually wrap C frameworks in Eiffel. The goal of this project is to develop (initially, a simple) framework using pure Eiffel/ | ||
====== Numerical Methods ====== | ====== Numerical Methods ====== | ||
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there is in the calibrated tip position, and methods for reducing | there is in the calibrated tip position, and methods for reducing | ||
the variance of the calibrated tip position. | the variance of the calibrated tip position. | ||
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+ | ====== A privacy safeguard framework for sharing photos on Facebook ====== | ||
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+ | **Description**: | ||
+ | One of the major privacy concerns in Online Social Networks is photo sharing. | ||
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+ | **Required prerequisite background**: | ||
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+ | **Desired prerequisite**: |
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