2006 REU PROJECTS

Data Visualization

REU Student: Daniel Fregosi
Faculty: Dr. William Ribarsky, PhD
Description: Interactive 3D Model System used to attract businesses and people to move into the Charlotte area. Students extracted building footprints from geography data, created a program to view and edit footprints, and output the data for optimal access and rendering.
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Digital Gaming – Teaching Computer Science through Video Games

REU Student: Alex Godwin, Amanda Chaffin, Eve Powell, Paige Matthews, Tar Ralph
Faculty: Tiffany Barnes, PhD
Description: Developed games that teach Recursion and For Loop. Students tested whether people prefer learning through a game as compared to traditional methods of learning programming and studied the effect of gaming on college successes. Download Presentation by A. Godwin
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Wireless Networking and Embedded Computing

Mentor: Marguerite Doman
REU Student: Lee Cranford, Monique Kearson
Faculty: Teresa Dahlberg, PhD
Description: Using a collection of small hardware devices that collect data from their environment, students created a representation of data within the network through simulations, created a futuristic presentation of use of WSN, and demonstrated routing protocol using mote hardware.
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Digital Humans in a Virtual Environment

Mentor: Evan Suma, Sabarish Babu
REU Student: Brandon Miller, Lauren Cairco, Louis Fletcher
Faculty: Larry Hodges, PhD
Description: Projects involved using digital humans to teach language and skills.
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