{"id":41182,"date":"2015-12-16T08:08:32","date_gmt":"2015-12-16T18:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=41182"},"modified":"2021-06-09T15:25:04","modified_gmt":"2021-06-10T01:25:04","slug":"student-builds-enormous-ipad-like-table-device","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2015\/12\/16\/student-builds-enormous-ipad-like-table-device\/","title":{"rendered":"Student builds enormous iPad-like table device"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"676\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RnZD6jDdKaM\" title=\"Youtube video player\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The &ldquo;CreaTable&rdquo; is a one of a kind interactive table top display designed and built by <strong>Noel Kawano<\/strong>, an electrical engineering student at the <a href=\"http:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M&#257;noa<\/a>. The CreaTable resides in the <a href=\"http:\/\/lava.manoa.hawaii.edu\/\">Laboratory for Advanced Visualization and Applications<\/a> or <abbr>LAVA<\/abbr> belonging to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ics.hawaii.edu\/\">Computer Science<\/a> Professor <strong>Jason Leigh<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Leigh and two co-investigators just got a grant from the National Science Foundation to build the best data visualization and virtual reality system in the nation. He designed the current top system called the <abbr>CAVE2<\/abbr> when he was at the the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uic.edu\/\">University of Illinois at Chicago<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Related<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2015\/12\/14\/data-visualization-expert-to-build-the-top-system-in-the-nation-at-uh\/\">&ldquo;Data visualization expert to build the top system in the nation at the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>,&rdquo;<\/a> December 14, 2015<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>&#8217;s new system will be called the Cyber-enabled Collabration Analysis Navigation and Observation Environment or Cyber<abbr>CANOE<\/abbr>. That&#8217;s where the CreaTable and Kawano come in.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_41266\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41266\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/manoa-creatable.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"365\" class=\"size-full wp-image-41266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/manoa-creatable.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/manoa-creatable-260x153.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-41266\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left, Computer Science Professor Jason Leigh and CreaTable designer Noel Kawano<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Over the summer, Leigh asked him to build a coffee table for the <abbr>LAVA<\/abbr> lab, but not just any coffee table. Something that would be suitably interactive and would inspire creativity in the lab&#8217;s students.<\/p>\n<p>Kawano rose to the occasion, designing the CreaTable using autocad and building it out of extruded aluminum pieces in three days.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It was kind of like a learning experience for me and I also built something really cool for the lab and Jason&#8217;s students,&rdquo; said Kawano.<\/p>\n<p>While the CreaTable is definitely cool, like an enormous iPhone with a huge touch screen that angles on gas shocks, it&#8217;s serving an even greater purpose.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The fundamental knowledge that he learned to build this table is exactly what we need to build the new Cyber<abbr>CANOE<\/abbr>,&rdquo; said Leigh.<\/p>\n<p>Kawano will be going from this summer project to helping to design and build the best data visualization and virtual reality system in the nation. Fitting, really, when you understand the vision for the Cyber<abbr>CANOE<\/abbr>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;If you think of the really hard problems in the world today, it&#8217;s not about just the chemistry problem or the physics problem or the biology or the education problem, it&#8217;s really all these things interconnected,&rdquo; said Leigh. &ldquo;And so the Cyber<abbr>CANOE<\/abbr> sort of provides that platform for these other disciplines to think differently, work together in different ways that they never thought of before.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212;By Kelli Trifonovitch<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>More on the Cyber<abbr>CANOE<\/abbr><\/h2>\n<p><span class=\"wpex-responsive-media\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Data visualization expert to build the top system in the nation at the University of Hawaii\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/142950350?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\"  allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Noel Kawano prepares to help build <abbr>UH<\/abbr>&#8217;s Cyber<abbr>CANOE<\/abbr><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,12],"tags":[308,541,1183,620,182,484,831,9,56],"class_list":["post-41182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","category-video","tag-college-of-natural-sciences","tag-computer-science","tag-cybercanoe","tag-data-visualization","tag-engineering","tag-information-and-computer-science","tag-laboratory-for-advanced-visualization-and-applications","tag-uh-manoa","tag-video-2","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41182"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143496,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41182\/revisions\/143496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}