BlogOctober 16, 2024Drawing in QualtricsQualtrics is a great tool for conducting surveys, and I have only recently started playing around with making surveys of my own. For a survey I’m working on now, I needed to figure out a way to allow participants to draw on an image to …April 14, 2024Poly LandsFor my Virtual Reality Engineering class, I created a small adventure story set in the fictional Poly Lands to help connect the different demos. The story first implements wayfinding to guide the player to the market. Then the story utilizes …January 30, 2024BEAMvrFor my Mixed Reality Project class, I pitched the idea of creating a virtual reality rapid architectural modeling application that could also simulate different lighting conditions. This isn’t a novel idea, but it encompasses many of the types of …January 20, 2024Neural Net Model ComparisonsThis is a continuation of my last post on building a web scaper to use with TensorFlow Playground. I described how I wrote the code for my web scraper using Selenium, so I could run trials with different conditions for different …December 8, 2023Playing With Web Scrapers and Neural NetsIf you are interested in learning about neural networks, TensorFlow Playground is a great resource for helping build intuition about how they work. The interface is user friendly and allows for lots of customizations. I …November 6, 2023Vuforia DemosTo learn concepts of augmented reality engineering, I implemented demos using Unity, Vuforia, and a mobile phone. A full playlist of the demos can be found here (augmented reality).July 6, 2023IR Camera TestingOne of my main responsibilities so far since I started grad school has been to get six Flir Boson IR cameras to work simultaneously. This is just one of the sensors we are using for our smart room project, and so far it has been the most …June 30, 2023Making This Site With HugoIt felt like it was time for a change on my personal site, and I wanted to integrate a blog feature on my site so I could document some of my PhD journey. I also wanted to do it as cheap as possible in true computer scientist fashion. …February 19, 2023Modeling HumansIDS 6267: Understanding Humans for Modeling and Simulation Understanding Humans for Modeling and Simulation acted as my foundational course for the psychology side of modeling and simulation. I learned about different cognitive architectures and …December 9, 2022Modeling PortsIDS 6145: Simulation Techniques For the final project for SimTech, my group compared the performance of three different port models created in AnyLogic under different conditions. This project evaluated the impact of quay cranes speed on in-port …«««12»»»