This paper proposes two methods for a rapid prototyping of top-down System-on-Chip(SOC) design using laser programmable gate arrays (LPGAs). The first one is a design flow of SOC consisting of four steps: concept-making, virtual-world prototyping, synthesis, and real-world prototyping. The steps can be undertaken individually or in tandem and provisional product models are transformed from uppe...

This article presents a new approach to the management of evolutionary prototyping projects. The prototyping approach to systems development emphasizes learning and facilitates meaningful communication between systems developers and users. These benefits are important for rapid creation of flexible, usable information resources that are welltuned to present and future business needs. The main u...

Interaction designers often have difficulty understanding people’s real-world experiences with ubiquitous systems. The automobile is a great example of these challenges, where onroad testing is time-consuming and provides little ability for rapid prototyping of interface behavior. We introduce WoZ Way, a system to connect designers to remote drivers. We use live video, audio, car data, and Wiza...

Nowadays, virtual prototyping helps the development of modern products in many ways. However, the increasing complexity of modern mechatronic products brings a great challenge to their virtual prototyping design. Especially, it becomes nearly impossible to compose the multi-disciplinary components into a mechatronic system in virtual environments. In order to resolve that problem, this paper pr...

There are many similarities between prototyping for traditional computer games and prototyping for other interactive systems, for example, applications for the work place. In most cases, pen and paper are used to initially test design ideas and feasibility. However, in audio games pen and paper can be rather useless for sketching the user experience of sound. In this paper, we argue that conven...

Graduate Students C. Coelho, Research Assistant (Graduated), EECS, B. Kim, Research Assistant, S. Kuo, Research Assistant (Graduated), EECS, J.H. Lee, Research Assistant, EECS, L. Proctor, Research Assistant, ME, H. Reid, Research Assistant, Physics, L.H. Tan, SMA Student, D. Vasilyev, Research Assistant, EECS, L. Zhang, Research Assistant, EECS, Xu Song, Research Assistant (Graduated), CDO, Br...

Rapid prototyping is a group of methods used to rapidly manufacture a scale model of a physical part or assembly using three-dimensional computer aided design (CAD), Computed Tomography (CT) and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) data. Construction of the part or assembly is usually done using 3D printing technology. Rapid prototyping techniques are often referred to solid free, computer automate...