Search Constraints

Start Over
Filtering by: Subject Human mechanics -- Computer simulation Remove constraint Subject: Human mechanics -- Computer simulation

Search Results

  • Studies to inform a visual language for authoring interactive exercise prescriptions

    Creator:
    Dodge, Jonathan E.
    Abstract:
    Communicating dynamic motion content, such as exercise, with a static medium, such as paper, is difficult. The technology exists for presenting 3D animated exercise content to patients; however, the tools for allowing exercise domain experts to effectively author the content do not exist. We conducted two formative studies with exercise...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
    Full Text:
    degree of Master of Science in Computer Science presented on November 25, 2009. Title: Studies to

  • Evolving character controllers for collision preparation

    Creator:
    Rose, Robert W.
    Abstract:
    Full dynamic control of physically simulated characters is the holy grail of video games and other interactive applications. Recent advances in the field have presented controllers that can handle the balance and fall response after a collision. This thesis addresses the development of a controller that handles the response before...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
    Full Text:
    simulation became a popular area of interest to computer graphics re- searchers in the mid 1980’s. At the

  • The Development and Evaluation of the Tennis Shirt Pattern for a Wheelchair Tennis Player in a CAD Program

    Creator:
    Jin, HeeJae
    Abstract:
    This study was to develop and evaluate a shirt pattern for a wheelchair tennis player to improve comfort using reducing garment strain using a CAD program. For that, seven body movements related to garment strain during play were analyzed. In order to develop a pattern, a morphological matrix was used...
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
    Full Text:
    Jin for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Design and Human Environment presented on June 8, 2016

  • A data-driven model of pedestrian movement

    Creator:
    Casburn, Ledah
    Abstract:
    This thesis presents a model for simulating individual pedestrian motion based on empirical data. The model keeps track of a pedestrian’s position, orientation, and body configuration and leverages motion capture data to generate plausible motion. Our model can automatically incorporate a pedestrian’s physical limitations when making movement decisions, since it...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
    Full Text:
    dis- cuss some of the related work in pedestrian simulation and computer animation. We present our

  • Interactive human locomotion using motion graphs and mobility maps

    Creator:
    Srinivasan, Madhusudhanan
    Abstract:
    Graph-based approaches for sequencing motion capture data have produced some of the most realistic and controllable character motion to date. Most previous graph-based approaches have employed a run-time global search to find paths through the motion graph that meet user-defined constraints such as a desired locomotion path. Such searches do...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
    Full Text:
    degree of Pvlaster of Science in Computer Science presented on March 17, 2005. Title: Interactive Human

  • Creating and editing motion machines for 3D characters

    Creator:
    Korada, Suman
    Abstract:
    Recent efforts in user-control of data-driven characters have focused on designing high-level graph data-structures that we call a Behavior Finite State Machine (BFSM). A BFSM is an interactive data-structure that benefits from the advantages of both motion graphs and blend-based techniques for generating animated motion. Each node in a BFSM...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
    Full Text:
    THE THESIS OF Suman Korada for the degree of Master of Science in Computer Science presented on

  • A responsiveness metric for controllable characters

    Creator:
    Oregon State University. Dept. of Computer Science, Srinivasan, Madhusudhanan, and Metoyer, Ronald A., 1971-
    Abstract:
    This paper presents an empirical approach for measuring and characterizing the responsiveness of a character to changes in goal. Our approach is based on keeping track of the character's progress towards a frequently changing goal. A "distance-to-goal" function is defined to measure the progress. We then calculate an asymptotic proportion...
    Resource Type:
    Research Paper
    Full Text:
    human athletics. InPro- ceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH 95, Addison Wesley, R. Cook, Ed., Computer Graphics

  • Behavior graphs for data-driven animation of 3d characters

    Creator:
    Srinivasan, Madhusudhanan
    Abstract:
    In this dissertation, we present a user-in-the-loop method for the design of an interactive motion data structure that benefits from the advantages of both motion graphs and blend-based techniques. Our novel approach automatically analyzes a traditional motion graph built from labeled motion clips. The result is a more condensed, coarser...
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
    Full Text:
    the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science presented on February 9, 2009. Title

  • Determining the validity of the task management environment to predict pilot concurrent task management performance

    Creator:
    Stebel, Jeffrey Michael
    Abstract:
    Concurrent Task Management (CTM) is the process by which human operators of complex systems (such as pilots, drivers, surgeons, and operators) allocate their attention among multiple concurrent tasks (Funk, 1991). A more thorough understanding of the human operator's knowledge, skills, and abilities associated with CTM might help us to prevent...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis

  • An Approach to Modeling Fuel Plate Deformations in Fluid-Structure Interactions

    Creator:
    Howard, Trevor
    Abstract:
    As computational power increases, so does the desire to use fluid-structure interaction (FSI) software to design complex systems and components such as fuel plates. Presently, an effort is underway to support the design and qualification of a new nuclear fuel material which is intended for applications in select, plate-type, research...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
    Full Text:
    components as small as individual fuel plates can take weeks on a desktop computer, thus requiring the use