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
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Mentor
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Presentation Title (click on the
title to be brought to the abstract)
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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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