Collaborative teaching to study the social impact of A.I, Automation, and Robots

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Funded by UC Forward Course Development grant. The Future of (no) Work and Artificial Intelligence. (Award fund rescind due to COV-19 budget freeze). 2020 Amount: $15,000.  The courses will be offered in the Fall semester. 2020. Ming Tang, Associate Professor, School of Architecture and Interior Design, DAAP Cory Haberman, Assistant Professor and Director of the […]

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An interdisciplinary approach to using eye-tracking technology for design and behavioral analysis

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Eye-tracking Tobii workshop offered at CGC, DAAP, UC. 2019. Eye-tracking devices measure eye position and eye movement, allowing documentation of how environmental elements draw the attention of viewers. In recent years, there have been a number of significant breakthroughs in eye-tracking technology, with a focus on new hardware and software applications. Wearable eye-tracking glasses together […]

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Hybrid Construction

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A hybrid construction using Hololens AR model overlay with the physical structure. The second half of the video is captured through MS Hololens. However, due to the low visibility of the holographic image under sunlight, we are not able to use the AR model to guide installation. Research to be continued…. Installation. SAID, DAAP, University […]

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UIA-CBC Design Build Competition

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Pear Orchard Cabins Design + Build project in China. UIA-CBC Competition 2019 UIA-CBC International Colleges and Universities Competitive Construction Workshop walks into Guoyuan Village, Aiyuan Town, Siyang County, Suqian City, Jiangsu. UC + Beijing Jiaotong University (BJTU) team has won the UIA-CBC competition proposal as one of the top 15 teams from proposals submitted by […]

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Uptown Cincinnati Urban Mobility Studio

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Studio Brief Following the sucess of Fall 2018 Urban Mobility studio, using Cincinnati Uptown and proposed Smart Corridor area as the focus area, the Spring 2019 studio presents a study investigating the urban mobility with an emphasis on the simulated human behavior cues and movement information as input parameters. The research is defined as a […]

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M.Arch. thesis books

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Congratulations to Turan, Lorrin, Mark for their M.Arch thesis book completion. Thanks to all the committee advisors. Here is the abstract and full text: Cyber-Physical Experiences: Architecture as Interface Turan M. Akman, Committee Chair: Ming Tang, Committee Member: Joori Su, Tony Liao Conventionally, architects have relied on qualities of several elements like materiality, light, solids […]

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Machine Learning & A.I

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A.I controlled computer vision using a convolutional neural network (CNN) by Google AutoML, and Deep Dream. Machine Learning, object detection and image classification. By Ming Tang’s students in ARCH3014, Summer. 2020, ARCH4001, ARCH7014, SAID, DAAP, UC. Fall 2018.

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urban mobility studio

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Grant: “Project-Based Collaborative Coursework for Developing Connected Transportation Network and Accessible Multimodal Hub in Uptown”. UC Forward grant. Co-PI: Heng Wei, Na Chen, Xinhao Wang, Jiaqi Ma, Ming Tang. $5,000. Total $27,500. ARCH4001. Fall. 2018. SAID, DAAP, UC. Faculty: Ming Tang, RA, LEED AP, Associate Professor. UC Using Cincinnati Uptown and proposed Smart Corridor area […]

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AR based Digi_Fab

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Augmented Reality for Digital Fabrication.  Projects from SAID, DAAP, UC. Fall 2018. Hololens. Fologram, Grasshopper. Faculty: Ming Tang, RA, Associate Prof. University of Cincinnati Students: Alexandra Cole, Morgan Heald, Andrew Pederson,Lauren Venesy,Daniel Anderi, Collin Cooper, Nicholas Dorsey, ,John Garrison, Gabriel Juriga, Isaac Keller, Tyler Kennedy, Nikki Klein, Brandon Kroger, Kelsey Kryspin, Laura Lenarduzzi, Shelby Leshnak, […]

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publication in Urban Rail Transit journal

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Paper published in the Urban Rail Transit journal Tang, Ming, and Christopher Auffrey. “Advanced Digital Tools for Updating Overcrowded Rail Stations: Using Eye Tracking, Virtual Reality, and Crowd Simulation to Support Design Decision-Making.” Urban Rail Transit, December 19, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40864-018-0096-2. This paper describes an innovative integration of eye-tracking (ET) with virtual reality (VR), and details […]

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Navigating the New Longevity Symposium

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Prof. Ming Tang was invited as a panelist and presented his Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality research projects at the Navigating the New Longevity Symposium organized by the Village Chicago on November 7. The symposium topic is “How Will Virtual Reality Change Your Future?” The Village Chicago organized a lively discussion of how immersion technology […]

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paper published in inForma

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Ming Tang’s paper “Architectural visualization in the age of mixed reality” is published by the architectural journal inForma. Tang, Ming. 2018. “Architectural Visualization in the Age of Mixed Reality.” informa 11: 82–87. Having been a promising visualization tool since the 1950s, ironically, virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) were not widely used in the architectural design […]

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