Category: Ongoing Projects

Deep Sensing is a an OBSERVATORY OF CRITICAL ZONES. In January 2024, Richardson Texas, you will be able to sense deep space: Sciart exchange

You will be accessing the latest data from big telescopes in orbit and on earth to sense the universe we are embedded in.

At the simple level, the team is converting NASA data into sensory experiences involving sight, sound, touch and walking around. No human has ever been to the places you will be “visiting’. What you will experience are ‘fabrications’ made a team of artists, scientists, administrators and…

By that it doesn’t mean that they are ‘false’ but that they are “made up’ so we can make sense of these places. In some cases they may be false “hallucinations’, but we can only find that out by collecting different kinds of data.

The place you will be visiting has been named by some humans as “the pandora cluster’ a collection of galaxies orbiting each other.

You can read more about it in this blog post.

Wanderer is an interactive application with a visual display screen and built-in sensors. Wanderer applies two Taoist concepts (Tao, Wuwei) to interaction design and system design and aims to foster a posthuman relationship between humans and a virtual fish. The relationship only exists when the shared environment and peripheral conditions are habitable for the participating species. In short, the interaction design of Wanderer prioritizes environmental conditions and minimizes human manipulation.

To emphasize the significance of the nature and global influence, Wanderer not only includes, and more importantly, prioritizes external environment in the virtual interaction by adding real-time regional data regarding weather, temperature, water quality, and global variables (e.g., warfare and oil spills). The ecological parameters would be a decisive factor in the Wanderer in that to connect people indoor with the reality outdoor. In addition to ecological factors, Wanderer uses digital sensors to measure temperature, motion, distance, sound level, and lighting level of the indoor environment (i.e., ArtSciLab space) and determines whether the collective condition is suitable for the fish to appear.

Project By:
Lee Yueh-Jung
Evan Acuna
Michael Tran
Aiden Acuna
Samra Obuobi

Alejandro, Evan, Clement, and a few other UTD students are participating in NASA’s Mars XR challenge, where they create assets and scenarios for astronauts to train on before embarking on their journey to the red planet. The challenge concludes on August 2nd, and the team will proudly present their creation to the public during the Fall semester of 2023 at UT Dallas.

Project By:
Evan Acuna
Alejandro Garcia
Clement Lee

This research paper aims to provide a comprehensive analysis of Covid-19 mortality in the United States, with a focus on understanding the relationships between Covid-19 deaths, health conditions, age, and vaccination release periods. The paper explores the impact of Covid-19 on the country’s death rate and the contributing factors, including other health conditions, age groups, and holidays.

Using data visualization techniques, the paper presents an overview of Covid-19 mortality trends in the United States, highlighting the variations based on time and the release of the vaccine. The findings of this research can help policymakers and healthcare professionals develop effective strategies to combat Covid-19 and protect vulnerable populations.

Project By:
Sujaan Shah
Nirmala Rani Pinnamaneni

Yoga is much more than the physical practice. At its core is practice of self-reflection and self-discovery.  This work is inspired from body postures that communicate our emotions and mental state. The everydayness of yoga is about becoming self-aware with breath, body, mind and soul. Often bodily postures change when seen in a reflection. This interaction is designed to provoke the visitor of that very reflection in a nuanced way using technology to reflect upon inner feelings.

Credits: This AI model is trained using EEG dataset of yoga practitioners from SVYASA Yoga Centre, India. 

Project By:
Anupama Gowda
Bryant James Hargreaves
Nicholas George Gross

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The ArtSciLab Carousel is a project created by a previous lab member named, Mahmoud Elkarmalawy. The idea for the project is to have art, science, and art/science work rotating within the Edith O’ Donnell building. Eventually, extending out to a variety of areas throughout the campus. There are a group of individuals that organize this project called, The Carousel Collaborators (CACO). 

Group members will have a chance to create a piece of work in their field of interest if they would like. Or allow someone that they know that wants to exhibit a project to collaborate with the lab. After completing any projects, an artist’s presentation is allowed to display the completion in the Dean’s lobby. Then the work rotates to the ArtSciLab bulletin board and/or the sky gallery. The results of this operation are to exemplify new projects to give onlookers different perspectives on art and science work. 

Project By:
Taylor Green

The ArtSciLab is proud to celebrate its 10th anniversary, and as part of this momentous occasion, we are embarking on an exciting project called “Interesting Incomplete Ideas.” We recognize that there have been previous lab members who had brilliant ideas but were unable to bring them to fruition. So, we’d like to contact our esteemed alums and document their unfinished work in some form. By doing so, we honor their contributions to the lab and inspire current and future members to build on their innovative ideas. Join us in this endeavor to uncover and showcase the fascinating unfinished projects of our alums.

Project By:
Misal Shah

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Arts-Based Learning for Business (ABLB) is a research project conducted by director and producer Kathryn Evans in conjunction with Paul Nichols, a member of the faculty at the Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Through a set of online video modules, instructors have the opportunity to inject arts-based learning into their curriculum.

Students view the videos and then practice the exercises that are demonstrated. The art-based curriculum has been shown to enhance innovation and creativity in all academic areas.

Project By:
Kathryn Evans
Gautam Iyer
Ojal Bhatnagar

The phrase “Federated Query” refers to a group of capabilities that allow users and systems to conduct searches across several siloed data sources without the need to transfer all of the data to a single system. A federated system can access data from database systems from several different vendors, in contrast to a distributed database system, which is a single vendor database system and can store data on multiple server instances on different hosts while treating all of the data as one database.

Companies produce tons of data every day and it seems to grow exponentially with time and become more complex. Storing, processing and analyzing such huge unstructured data becomes costlier and tedious process. Many companies shifted their local storages to Cloud services that provides them with advance features to handle and process such huge data and analyze them in an optimized way. Here, this project propose some of the federated queries strategies to query your data stored in different cloud service and in different regions. We have used Amazon Web Services (AWS) as the primary cloud service provider to query data stored in AWS Athena and Redshift, Google BigQuery and Microsoft Azure Synapse. We demonstrated some of the optimized ways to perform SQL join queries that incur less cost and improve query performance.

Project By:
Kirtan Pathak
Judd Bradbury