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Modeling 3D Geologic Structures in a Multisensory (touch & sound) Virtual Environment
For many geoscientific tasks—such as natural resource exploration, geohazard prevention or aquifer-characterization—geologists need detailed information about the underlying structure of subsurface rock formations in the form of a computer 3D Earth model. Traditionally, 3D geologic shapes have been modeled using...

PI:  Chris Harding

Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
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Investigation of the Behavior of Mercury Compounds in Coal Fired Boilers

PI:  Kenneth Mark Bryden

Funding Agency: Fuel Tech, Inc.
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Developing Sustainable off-Grid Energy Systems in Rural Mali

PI:  Kenneth Mark Bryden
Co-PIs:  Richard LeSar

Funding Agency: National Collegiate Inventors & Innovators Alliance
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Deere & Company: Phase 5 Research
VRAC's expertise in emerging interface technologies addresses a diverse range of challenging problems, including those of leading industry innovators. VRAC's partnership with Deere and Company, one of the world's leading manufacturers of agricultural, forestry, construction, and turf-care equipment, is one...

PI:  Eliot Winer

Funding Agency: Deere & Company
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NSF I/UCRC Center for Information Protection - Rockwell

PI:  Doug Jacobson

Funding Agency: Rockwell Collins Inc.
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Multi-touch Technology: Applications to Homeland Security and ISU Research
Priority 5 (P5) produces critical infrastructure management software used by organizations such as the DOD and DOE. P5 has teamed with ISU researchers to develop a best in class multi-touch user interface that will allow multiple users to interact...

PI:  Stephen Gilbert

Funding Agency: Grow Iowa Values Fund/ISU VPRED
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Development of Real-Time Graphics Tools for High Fidelity CD Data

PI:  Kenneth Mark Bryden

Funding Agency: US Dept. of Defense
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Graphical User Interface for Fire Modeling Codes

PI:  Kenneth Mark Bryden

Funding Agency: Reaction Engineering International
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NIST MEP

PI:  James Oliver

Funding Agency: National Institute of Science and Technology
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Commercialization of 3D Interactive Digit...

PI:  Eliot Winer
Co-PIs:  James Oliver

Funding Agency: ISU - Research Park
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Biomass Feedstock Assembly to Gasification Process Computational Interface Development

PI:  Kenneth Mark Bryden

Funding Agency: Idaho Nat'l Engineering & Environmental Lab of DOE
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Kansei Evaluation Methodology, Product, and Packaging Design for Tostitos Brand Product Line
Kansei engineering by definition is to seek the structure of emotions which exist beneath human behaviors. This structure is referred to as a person’s Kansei. It focuses on how people respond emotionally to products, packages, and brand experiences and...

PI:  Debra Satterfield
Co-PIs:  Sunghyun Kang, Roger Baer

Funding Agency: Frito Lay North America
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Statistical Graphics Research in Association with Ggobi
Statistical graphics have a huge impact on how statistics are perceived and practiced. New graphical tools help all areas of statistics: application, theory and pedagogy. GGobi is widely used software for the visualization and exploration of high-dimensional data. It allows...

PI:  Dianne Cook
Co-PIs:  Heike Hofmann

Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
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Virtual Teleoperation for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
VRAC Director James Oliver and his research team received an additional $4.2 Million award from the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory to continue research and development of the military’s next generation control interface for unmanned aerial vehicles. The researchers are...

PI:  James Oliver
Co-PIs:  Eliot Winer, Alexander Stoytchev

Funding Agency: Air Force Office of Scientific Research
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Virtual Advanced Power Training Environments

PI:  Kenneth Mark Bryden

Funding Agency: US Dept. of Energy
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GEPR: Functional Genomics of Bud Endodormancy Induction in Grapevine (vitis)

PI:  Julie Dickerson

Funding Agency: University of South Dakota
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Interactive Visualization and Analysis of Large Scale Graphs for Biological Network Modeling

PI:  Julie Dickerson
Co-PIs:  Dirk Reiners, Eve Wurtele

Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
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Virtual Teleoperation for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles-Phase 2
VRAC Director James Oliver and his research team received an additional $4.2 Million award from the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory to continue research and development of the military’s next generation control interface for unmanned aerial vehicles. The researchers...

PI:  James Oliver
Co-PIs:  Derrick Parkhurst, Eliot Winer, Alexander Stoytchev

Funding Agency: Air Force
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Summer Program for Interdisciplinary Research
Fifteen undergraduates from across the country are participating in the SPIRE-EIT program this summer. This NSF-sponsored Research Experience for Undergraduates program gives hands-on experience in creating technoligcal solutions to challenges in human computer interaction. The interns are from California State...

PI:  James Oliver

Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
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Barley Coordinated Agricultural Project: Leveraging genomics, genetics, and breeding for gene discovery and barley improvement
The Barley Coordinated Agricultural Project (CAP) integrates and uses state-of-the-art genomic tools and approaches in plant breeding programs to help develop superior cultivars. Researchers from nineteen institutions, including ISU, are working to develop a genetic map of barley that includes...

PI:  Julie Dickerson

Funding Agency: US Dept. of Agriculture
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High Density Sensor Network Development

PI:  Kenneth Mark Bryden

Funding Agency: US Dept. of Energy
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PLEXdb: Plant Expression Database
PLEXdb is a unified public resource for large-scale plant and pathogen microarray data that allows more extensive links between plant gene sequences and the broad range of expression data being developed. This research intends to provide an outlet for interactive expression...

PI:  Julie Dickerson
Co-PIs:  Volker Brendel, Roger Wise

Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
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ISEAGE: Internet-Scale Event and Attack Generation Environment
Internet-Scale Event and Attack Generation Environment (ISEAGE pronounced Ice Age) ISEAGE is a unique facility at a public university dedicated to creating a virtual Internet for the purpose of researching, designing, and testing cyber defense mechanisms as well as analysis...

PI:  Doug Jacobson

Funding Agency: U.S. Department of Justice
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NCO Intelligent Distribution System

PI:  Doug Jacobson

Funding Agency: Boeing
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NSF I/UCRC Center for Information Protection

PI:  Doug Jacobson

Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
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MetNet: Integrated Software for Arabidopsis Systems Biology Research
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MetNet is a suite of computational tools that brings together biologists from around the world to visualize, analyze, and exchange information about Arabidopsis, the tiny plant that has emerged as a model for understanding the genetic and metabolic behavior of...

PI:  Eve Wurtele
Co-PIs:  Dan Berleant, Dianne Cook, Julie Dickerson, Les Miller, Heike Hofmann

Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
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SFS Fellowships for Information Assurance Students

PI:  Doug Jacobson

Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
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Analysis of Gas Turbine Thermal Performances

PI:  Kenneth Mark Bryden

Funding Agency: US Dept. of Energy
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Using Virtual Reality for Painter Training [with Mike Meyers (Des Moines)]
To train new painters at Deere & Co., researchers are building a virtual reality training booth. To create a realistic training environment, the booth is designed with real equipment and an approximation of the lighting and optical effects, such as...

PI:  Eliot Winer

Funding Agency: Deere & Company
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Constraint-based Compliant Mechanism Design Using Virtual Reality
Virtual reality, combined with constraint-based design methods, will provide a natural three-dimensional design environment for engineers to rapidly explore and generate constraint-based design concepts that are both creative and efficient. Constraint-based compliant mechanism design theory is a powerful and rational...

PI:  James Oliver

Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
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Deere and Company Phase IV Research
Deere & Company, in partnership with VRAC, is developing and advancing virtual reality technology to simulate vehicle operations, evaluate human factors and ergonomics, analyze complex engineering data, and build capabilities in a broad range of other product and manufacturing process...

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Funding Agency: Deere & Company
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Cyber Crime Program

PI:  Doug Jacobson

Funding Agency: U.S. Department of Justice
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Development of a Virtual Environment for Evaluation of Operability and Maintainability
This supplemental funding supports a student to perform research during the summar of 2003 at Procter and Gamble. The tasks include implementing virtual reality applications in the P&G facilities as well as further development and training of P&G staff....

PI:  Judy Vance

Funding Agency: Procter & Gamble Company
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Center for Research on Dietary Supplements

PI:  Eve Wurtele

Funding Agency: National Institute of Health (NIH)
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Development of Virtual Power Plants
Researchers at VRAC, led by Professor Mark Bryden, have been working with the Department of Energy/National Engineering Technology Laboratory (DOE/NETL) on the development of virtual engineering tools. These virtual engineering tools aid in the design and development of thermal systems...

PI:  Kenneth Mark Bryden

Funding Agency: US Dept. of Energy
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IT Olympics
IT-Olympics is the capstone event for students who participate in IT-Clubs in high schools across Iowa. IT-Clubs provide an avenue for students to gain access to learning materials from Iowa State University, experiment with provided equipment, and ask questions...

PI:  Doug Jacobson

Funding Agency:
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