HIVE: Harmony, Interaction, and Versatile Exploration Lab

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The HIVE (Harmony, Interaction, and Versatile Exploration) Lab in the department provides necessary facility to build a product and enable interaction by human users. It focuses on Human Machine/Computer Interaction research in the domains of Automotive, Robotics, Music, AR/VR and accessibility. The facility is equipped with SOTA sensors, actuators, trackers and simulators.

PI: Gowdham Prabhakar

Avilable Facilities

  • AR/VR Headsets – Meta Quest Pro, Meta Quest 3
  • Gaming Workstation PC – RTX4070Ti, i7-13th Gen, 32GB, 3TB
  • Driving Simulator – Logitech
  • Flight Simulator – Thrustmasters
  • Robots – TurtleBot3, Tortoise bot
  • Computer Vision sensors – Depth cameras, LIDAR
  • Eye Trackers – Tobii Pro Glasses 3, Tobii Eye tracker 5
  • Body motion tracker – Kinect V2, Leapmotion
  • Single Board Computer – NVIDIA Jetson Nano, RaspberryPi 4B, Arduino, Seeduino
  • Displays – SONY 4K 55”, SONY 4K 65”, LG QHD 24”, Holographic LED Fan Display
  • Projectors – BENQ 4K
  • 3D printer – Creality Ender 5 Plus
  • NAS – Asustor 20 TB
  • Computers – Alienware m15 R7, IdeaPad Flex 5i Touch, Mac Studio
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Our Recent Research Works

2023

Automotive UI

Multimodal Interaction, Driver Distraction, Cognitive Load Estimation By Gowdham Prabhakar.
2023

Autonmous Navigation Rover

Navigation robot with object recognition and obstacle avoidance and path planning By Gowdham Prabhakar.
2023

Music Techology

Design Musical intruments to liverage novel interaction techniques and musical expressions By Gowdham Prabhakar.