SPRING 2016 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEES PI: Richard West (Computer Science, CAS) Collaborators: Cara Lewis (Health Sciences, SAR), Sheryl Grace (Mechanical Engineering, ENG) This project is developing an on-body, biokinematic data acquisition and analysis tool that tracks the body position of ice hockey skaters during stride production. This research aims to inform future inquiries in the […]
FALL 2015 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEES Sarah Frederick (Japanese Literature) and Alice Tseng (History of Art and Architecture) This project was a navigable and interactive online guide and database that was useful for undergraduate teaching and for the broader research community on the city of Kyoto that maps references in literature, film, art, fashion, and cinema […]
FALL 2015 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEES Maurice Lee (English) This project used the digital humanities tool Voyant to track keyword frequencies across a corpus of American and British adventure novels from 1800-1920. The goal was to determine how the spread of quantitative methods influenced the use of numerical terminology and calculative concepts in novelistic traditions that, […]
FALL 2015 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEES Jodi Cranston (History of Art and Architecture) The proposed website, “Mapping Titian” (www.mappingtitian.org) aimed to function as an archive and as an interpretative and teaching site by documenting and mapping one of the most fundamental concerns of the discipline of Art History: the interrelationship between an artwork and its changing […]
FALL 2015 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEE Meg Tyler (Humanities) “Literary Lab: Allusions to the Greco-Roman Classics in Irish Literature” was an extensive database which provided contextualization for references to the Classics in (mostly modern) Irish Literature. The only collection of its kind, the database accepted entries from scholars the world over. It also allowed for a […]
FALL 2015 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEE John Gerring (Political Science) Evidence about the past is scattered across archives, published works, and web sites, and often embedded in original-language sources. Consequently, those who wish to tackle historical subjects on a global scale are faced with the daunting prospect of assembling their own data, more or less from […]
SPRING 2015 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEE Emma Previato (Mathematics and Statistics, College of Arts & Sciences) Mentoring activities are receiving increasing attention on the part of academia, federal agencies, industry and community activists: mentoring changes lives and creates careers. However, research on mentoring (on best practices, assessment, e.g.) is not yet an established discipline; this project aims to […]
SPRING 2012 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEE Andrea Berlin (Archaeology, College of Arts & Sciences) The project seeks to create a robust, interactive, easy-to-use web application for ceramics of all periods produced and exchanged in the Levant from antiquity through modern times. This application will be both an archive and a tool. Users would be able to […]
SPRING 2011 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEE Assaf Kfoury (Computer Science, College of Arts & Sciences) As computing technology continues developing, new techniques, infrastructures, tools, and interfaces are advancing dramatically: the collaborative or “crowd-sourced” assembly of Wikipedia, IBM’s Watson question-answering system, ubiquitous palm-sized computing devices with intuitive interfaces, and so on. The user interface design (UID), human-computer […]
SPRING 2015 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEES Pablo Ruiz (Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering) and Michael Caramanis (Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering) Electric power systems are often congested, leading to higher power costs (increases of $4-8 billion annually in the US), reliability problems and spillage of available wind and solar generation. With support from DOE ARPA-E, we have […]