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Spring 2002 Undergraduate Engineering and Science Poster Session Research Descriptions

 

Date & Time: Tuesday, April 23, 2002, 12-3 p.m.

Location: Wozniak Lounge, 4th Floor of Soda Hall

Theme: Solve that Problem!

Presenters: See immediately below.

Presenter
Mentor
Presentation Title (click on the title to be brought to the abstract)
Tomer Altman (Junior, BIOE) Adam Arkin Metabolic Network Generation in Computational Biology
Morgan Ames (Junior, Undeclared), Chinmayi Bettadapur (Sophomore, CS), Lisa Chan (Senior, CS), Steve Chan (Freshman, Undeclared) Jennifer Mankoff Ambient Displays
Dmitriy Ayrapetov, Brian Chin, Duy Lam, Stephen McCamant, Gruia Ioan Pitigoi-Aron, Michael Toomin (All Seniors, CS, except Brian Chin, who is a Junior, CS) Susan Graham HARMONIA: Support for Language-Aware Programming Editors and Tools
Szu-Huey Chuang (Senior, CS), Carrie Fei (Senior, EECS), Ellen Tsai (Senior, EECS) Kathy Yelick Optimization in Titanium
Catherine Cheng (Junior, BIOE) Song Li Cyclic Loading's Effect on Gene Expression in Human Bone Marrow Cells
Leonard Chung (Senior, CS/Cog. Sci.) David Patterson E-mail Dependability Benchmarking
Deep Debroy (Freshman, Undeclared) Marti Hearst WebTANGO Interface
Tomas Eggers (Junior, CEE) Lisa Alvarez-Cohen Kinetics of Mixed Culture Biodegradation of Chlorinated Solvents
Herman Hsu (Senior, EECS) Carlo Sequin Interface for Flying Along Smooth Surfaces in SLIDE
Wayne Kao (Junior, CS) & Tim Sohn (Junior, EECS) James Landay WebQuilt: Remote Usability Testing of Mobile Phones
Sandy Lin (Senior, CS) & Andrew Way (Senior, EECS) Sara McMains & Carlo Sequin Virtual Reality Design Station Project
Alan Liu (Junior, EECS) James Landay Context Logging
Wilmin Martono (Senior, EECS) Carlo Sequin Geometric Modeling & Prototyping of a Minimal Surface
Jong Seto (Senior, BIOE) Fred Wilt Sea Urchin Biomineralization
Rory Solomon (Senior, CS & Math) Ken Goldberg Vector Averaging for Collaborative Control of an Online Robot
Toni Widjaja (Senior, EECS & Economics Marti Hearst WebTango
Diana Wong (Junior, BIOE) Frank Tendick The Role of the Hand Assist in Surgery
Michael Lee Yang (Junior, CS) Richard Fateman Extracting Mathematics From Postscript Documents
He Zhu (Junior, EECS) & Jasmine Han (Senior, BIOE) Ted Cohn A New Diagnostic Device Using Only A Mouse

THE DESCRIPTIONS:

Tomer Altman

Metabolic Network Generation in Computational Biology

A new tool that allows the creation of abstract random chemical networks, that will allow for modeling and simulation of large, dense networks like those found in the cell.

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Morgan Ames, Chinmayi Bettadapur, Lisa Chan, Steve Chan

Ambient Displays

People are increasingly becoming saturated with information that demands and competes for our attention. Our goal is to create ambient displays that communicate on the periphery of human perception so as to reduce attention demanded and cognitive load. Previous research in the area of ambient displays has led to the development of several displays but has not explored their long-term usefulness. Our research aims to not only evaluate the effectiveness of ambient displays but also explore it along different dimensions such as modalities and interactivity. We ultimately aim to establish design guidelines for ambient displays through the development and evaluation of individual displays.

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Dmitriy Ayrapetov, Brian Chin, Duy Lam, Stephen McCamant, Gruia Ioan Pitigoi-Aron, Michael Toomin

HARMONIA: Support for Language-Aware Programming Editors and Tools

We are working on several projects -- exploring user interfaces for a programming editor; building a flexible COBOL parser; serializing program syntax trees to XML; building a language-independent pretty printer; building a complete C parser and semantic analysis engine; and building a parser generator that supports foreign language embedding.

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Szh-Huey Chuang, Carrie Fei, Ellen Tsai

Optimization in Titanium

We analyzed performance results between Titanium and Java arrays and compilers on the scimark2 benchmarks. (http://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~etsai/)

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Catherine Cheng

Cyclic Loading's Effect on Gene Expression in Human Bone Marrow Cells

Project involving human bone marrow cells and testing cells under cyclic stretch conditions for gene expression changes using real time PCR.

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Leonard Chung

E-mail Dependability Benchmarking

Motivated by the observation that a system's dependability is significantly influenced by its human operators, we're constructing a dependability benchmark that captures the impact of the human operator on the tested system. (http://roc.cs.berkeley.edu/papers/DSN-humanbench.pdf).

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Deep Debroy

WebTANGO Interface

The project involves developing a graphical interface to the raw output of the core WebTANGO tools. The interface would provide web designers a fast and user-friendly way to view the computed values for various metrics and qualitative predictions of their overall site and individual web-pages. The interface is based on Java Swing techology. (http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~debroy/
TangoViewer/URO.htm
)

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Tomas Eggers

Kinetics of Mixed Culture Biodegradation of Chlorinated Solvents

The goal of the research is to shed light on the biodegradation of tetrachloroethene and trichloroethene by miucrobial cultures. Several approaches have been taken including kinetics experiments and enrichment of existing cultures based on a variety of carbon sources.

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Herman Hsu

Interface for Flying Along Smooth Surfaces in SLIDE

I'm creating an interface for tracing the geodesic line along a smooth surface in SLIDE. In particular, I will use this geodesic line trace to simulate flying over the surface of the object.

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Wayne Kao & Tim Sohn

WebQuilt: Remote Usability Testing of Mobile Phones

We have extended a web logging and visualization system, WebQuilt, to support the capture and analysis of WAP phone clickstreams. (http://guir.berkeley.edu/projects/webquilt/)

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Sandy Lin & Andrew Way

Virtual Reality Design Station Project

Create a Virtual Reality Network environment with stereographics and haptic arm to navigate in 3D space.

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Alan Liu

Context Logging

As a first step towards prototyping context-aware computing systems, we are designing a "Wizard of Oz" interface for logging contextual events.

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Wilmin Martono

Geometric Modeling & Prototyping of a Minimal Surface

Description to come.

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Jong Seto

Sea Urchin Biomineralization

Description to come.

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Rory Solomon

Vector Averaging for Collaborative Control of an Online Robot

This paper describes the first collaboratively controlled online robot, where a distributed group of users share control of an industrial robot arm. A Java applet at each client streams mouse motion vectors from up to 30 clients; our server averages these vectors to produce a single control stream for the robot. Clients receive visual feedback from a digital camera mounted above the robot arm. Vector averaging can reduce error in the presence of noise. This paper describes system architecture and experiments based on 18 months of continuous operation.

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Toni Widjaja

WebTango

The entire project aims to automate website design evaluations; I am in charge of reducing the statistical data set by using factor analyses to make conclusions from the project more accessible to users. (http://sims.berkeley.edu/~toniw/webTango/).

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Diana Wong

The Role of the Hand Assist in Surgery

This study involves a simulation of the laparoscopic environment with and without the hand present in order to establish whether or not haptic cues significantly improve laparoscopic performance. (http://robotics.eecs.berkeley.edu/medical/
research.html#cognition
)

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Michael Yang

Extracting Mathematics from Postscript Documents

Postscript documents are essentially instructions that are fed to a postscript interpreter (such as Ghostscript), not a mark-up language like HTML or RTF; this makes a postscript document really hard to search through without some form of processing. The current algorithms that are used to construct a searchable version of the document (basically, converting from postscript to ASCII) do not do a good job at detecting/parsing mathematics. Our goal is to extend current processing technologies to include finding mathematical expressions. (http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~mlyang/)

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He Zhu & Jasmine Han

A New Diagnostic Device Using Only A Mouse

Develop an inexpensive and efficient device for quantitative analysis of human's postural stability. The key design is the use of an optical mouse.

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