AmalBenzinaStudentProjects

Chair for Computer Aided Medical Procedures & Augmented Reality
Lehrstuhl für Informatikanwendungen in der Medizin & Augmented Reality

AmalBenzinaStudentProjects

In the Following table there are the Open, Running or finished student projects. Those projects can be part of a Bachelor, Master or Diploma thesis. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions.

Available Topics

Open topics Type of thesis Image
Multimodal Interacion in the Frave
Many interface have been and are being implemented for interaction (Travel, Selection and Manipulation) in Virtual Environment, in this case the FRAVE. The idea of this project is to implement the integration of those difference interaction devices and exchange of context data and information between the devices in general and specifically between the touch panels and the hand-held devices used. The touch panel should be able to detect that the hand-held device is in proximity or even put on the touch table and exchange important context information, like it is being modified and displayed on the FRAVE.
DA/MA/BA Multimodal_small.png
3D MultiTouch
Large scale 3D Plasma TV want to be equipped with multi-touch capabilities. You'll be part of a international partnership with KAUST university.
DA/MA/BA Beistell-flach_s.png
Does Size Matter
We use mobile phones and tablet PCs of different sizes to maneuver in a virtual world. Questions are if different sized and form factors have an influence on the steering quality and if the underlying mappings between actions to the device and viewpoint motion need to be cahnged. This exiting topic waits for a motivated student to be part in the project VirtualArabia.
DA/MA/BA size.jpg
Maneuvering Metaphors
Are you airplane pilot, car driver or lens user? Or are you anything else? Investigate metaphors, test users and develop an integrated solution for all purposes.
DA/MA/BA
Touch Floor
Large scale 3D Plasma TV on the ground are equipped with multi-touch capabilities. Make them available as User Interfaces. You'll be part of a international partnership with KAUST university.
DA/MA/BA TouchFloor.png
Virtual 3D Menu Grabber
This work is about implementing an AR application which allows a smartphone or a tablet to be pointed towards virtual 3D Menus and grab them onto the phone. We expect, that it is much more confortable to interact with the menu on the smartphone, instead of trying to hit the virtual menu in 3D space. If you are interested in this theses, please contact benzina@in.tum.de.
DA/MA/BA Fravebild_thumb.png

Running Topics

Running topics Type of thesis Student Image
F the FRAVE
The FRAVE is a Fully Reconfigurable CAVE at the Showroom I-Tüpferl in the Magistrale of the computer science building. It is mainly driven by a 3D terrain rendering software that uses Equalizer for parallelization of rendering. Our approach goes further. The F stands for Fully Equalizer does not yet support dynamic reconfiguration of displays. Your honorable job is to extend Equalizer to make the FRAVE what it is.
DA/MA/BA Evgeny Ilyushkin FRAVE-half-open_s.png
Feel This
We don't have force feedback light. Therefore we use haptic devices. Be part of the project VirtualArabia by integrating one of the best force feedback devices available on the market.
DA/MA/BA Maximilian Weber Haptic.png
Usage of Depth Camera xbox Kinect
The Purpose of the project is to investigate the usage of Depth camera xbox “Kinect” to implement some gesture recognition in a Virtual Reality environment.
Hiwi Hasan Elsherbiny
Design of user evaluation of two travel metaphors in a VR environment.
Design of user evaluation to be able to compare and evaluate the two implemented travel metaphors: Phone Based Motion Control Vs Steering and Driving. The two metaphors will be evaluated to each other quantitatively and qualitatively. To do that both metaphors should be integrated. An android phone has to be used for both metaphors (instead of tablet Pc in the second metaphor) and ART tracking has to be used in both metaphors (instead of orientation sensor in the first metaphor).
Bachelor Thesis Anastas Tanushev tunnelsharp.jpg
Follow The Magic Lense
Interaction in an immersive virtual environment (IVE) such as a CAVE or in our case FRAVEis an important issue to investigate. To be able to select and manipulate the virtual object displayed in VR world. The User can do it through the Magic Lenses, Where the Frave provide the contextual view and the tracked Handheld device the focus view. The view frustum is calculated using handheld device position and orientation.
DA/MA/BA Alba Huelves Frustum_s.png
Below The Surface Exploration
Interaction in an immersive virtual environment (IVE) such as a CAVE or in our case FRAVEis an important issue to investigate. Whithin the scope of the project Virtual Arabia, we need to perform Below surface exploration. For that purpose we would like to use the magic-lens solution with the Clearview solution(TUM3D)
DA/MA/BA Sandro Weber Clearview_s.png
Guidance in Simulation
Simulation systems may generate points of interest (POI) somewhere in the simlated volume. Let's assume we (the system) know, where such POIs are. Then, a system is needed to guide the user to that POI. But sometimes you have to be at a certain location to be able to see it in a specific direction... We already developed such a system for guidance and got much insights into furter demands. Your job will be to get into the previous work, to port the system to our rendering environment and to extend it according to the demands already found and with stuff that we discuss in our discussions.
DA/MA/BA Manuel Wolf oeffnung.jpg
Motivation Sports Cave Kinect Emotion Exergotchi
In dieser Arbeit soll die Frage beantwortet werden, welchen Einfluss die Emotionen eines virtuellen Avatars auf den Menschen oder gar Besitzer des Menschen hat. Konkret soll evaluiert werden, in wie weit Menschen bereit sind Sport zu machen, um eine Tamagotchi-ähnliche Figur glücklich zu machen. Es existiert ein Vorprojekt zu diesem Thema, dessen Ergebnisse in diese Arbeit einfließen sollen Diplomarbeit Exergotchi 2008. In dieser Arbeit sollen CG Animationen in Form von Real-Time-3D-Rendering in ein Evaluationsstoryboard integriert werden, so dass alle Zustände der Evaluationsaufgabe durchlaufen werden können. Als Evaluationsplattform soll die sich derzeit im ITüpferl befindliche "Cave" verwendet werden.
DA/MA/BA Mathias Gorf 04_ExergotchiWithCave_thumb.png

Finished Topics

Finished topics Type of thesis Student
Android Selection and Zooming metaphor in a VR environment
The Purpose of the project is to Use the built-in sensors of an Android phone (Accelerometer, Compass) for selection task in Virtual Reality Environment. Also to use the Android phone touch capability for zooming in VR tasks. This is work is going to be a part of an ongoing project; Android phone has been already used for travel task using the built in sensors and the multi-touch capability of the phone.
Bachelor Thesis Yanko Sabev
Development of Android touch interface for navigation in an immersive environment such as CAVE
The navigation technique in this work is: Walking In Place using touch: The basic idea of this navigation technique is simulating a locomotion technique using the fingers on the touch handheld device in this case Android phone. In this Bachelor thesis the first part is to implement the 2D translation part. Using Android SDK, the translation gesture of the user on the android device is detected and the translation value, speed of translation and angle of translation is calculated.
DA/MA/BA Ashry Mohamed
Methoden und Metaphern zur Navigation in virtuellen Landkarten
In den letzten Jahren konnten sich elektronische Landkarten vor allem wegen ihres praktischen Nutzens immer weiter verbreiten und durchsetzen. Von der einfachen zweidimensionalen Kartenapplikation bis hin zur virtuell komplett nachgebauten Erde gibt es verschiedene Ansätze für die Interaktion mit virtuellen Landkarten. Navigation ist ein wichtiger Faktor zur Orientierung in virtuellen Welten. Anders als in der Realität können wir uns hier ohne den Einfluss von Naturgesetzen bewegen und uns jederzeit an jeden Ort bringen lassen. Elektronische Landkarten bieten viel mehr Freiheitsgrade als ihre klassischen Pendants, aber bisher gibt es kaum Erkenntnisse wie diese Freiheitsgrade dem Benutzer intuitiv zugänglich gemacht werden können. Die in dieser Arbeit entwickelte Steuerung ist eine komplexe Flugsteuerung, die versucht den Benutzer durch den Einsatz bekannter Steuerungselemente zu unterstützen. Hierfür wurde besonders die Metaphern ''Lenkrad``- und ''Flugzeug``- Steuerung untersucht. Der Benutzer hält mit seinem Eingabegerät ein virtuelles Lenkrad, respektive ein Flugzeug in der Hand und steuert. In einer Benutzerstudie wurde untersucht wie weit sich die beiden Metaphern gleichzeitig in einem Eingabegerät kombinieren lassen. Ob Anwender intuitiv eine der beiden Metaphern bevorzugen, und welchen Einfluß die Neigung des Eingabegerätes auf die Wahl der Metapher hat war einer der Hauptfaktoren, die untersucht wurden.
DA/MA/BA Nick Heuser
Gesture Recognition in a VR environment - Kinect
The Purpose of the project is to investigate the usage of Depth camera xbox “Kinect” to implement some gesture recognition in a Virtual Reality environment. The gestures are analyzed to perform 3D Menu selection task and Parameter adjustments in a dynamic simulation in VR. For this purpose Particle tracer software is used. Two parameters (Reynolds values , Viscosity) are to be adjusted through gesture recognition.
Bachelor Thesis Tilman Eberspächerr
Entwicklung eines Prozesses zur Kalibrierung von Datenhandschuhen in Virtual Environments
Do the Vulcanian's greet - we have two wireless data gloves, each equipped with 14 sensors that wait for a motivated student to be integrated in the project VirtualArabia.
Master Thesis Michael Förster
The impact of virtual emotions on real persons
In dieser Arbeit soll die Frage beantwortet werden, welchen Einfluss die Emotionen eines virtuellen Avatars auf den Menschen oder gar Besitzer des Menschen haben. Konkret soll evaluiert werden, in wie weit Menschen bereit sind Sport zu machen, um eine Tamagotchi-ähnliche Figur glücklich zu machen. Es existiert ein Vorprojekt zu diesem Thema, dessen Ergebnisse in diese Arbeit einfließen sollen Diplomarbeit Exergotchi 2008.
DA/MA/BA Clara Lange


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