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Nicoletta Adamo-Villani
Associate Professor and Co-Director of the IDEA Laboratory
Campus: West Lafayette
Contact Form
Department: Computer Graphics Technology
Office: Knoy 315
Phone: 765.496.1297
Fax:765.494.9267
Mailing Address:
Department of Computer Graphics Technology, Purdue University, Knoy Hall
401 N. Grant Street
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2021
Biography:
Nicoletta is Associate Professor of Computer Graphics Technology and Purdue University Faculty Scholar. She has an MS in Architecture from University of Florence, Italy and she is a certified animator and instructor for Autodesk.
Prof. Adamo-Villani is an award-winning animator and graphic designer and creator of several 2D and 3D animations that aired on national television. Her area of expertise is in character animation and character design and her reserach interests focus on the application of 3D animation technology to education, HCC (Human Computer Communication), and visualization. Nicoletta is co-founder and co-director of the IDeaLaboratory.
COURSES Spring 2011: CGT341; CGT581A
Research interests:
- Character Animation
- HCC
- Visualization
- Educational Technology
RESEARCH PROJECTS
VELS - A Virtual Learning Environment for Learning Surveying (NSF-TUES) 2012-2014
IA Game - Building a serious game for teaching secure coding to introductory programming students (NSF-CCLI) 2010-2014
Mathsigner - Software for Math Education for the Deaf (NSF-RDE) 2006-2010
SMILE - Science and Math in an Immersive Learning Environment (NSF-RDE) 2006-2010
The ASL System - Animation Speaks Louder (Dr. Scholl Foundation) 2009-2010
NANOFACTOR (Mancef) 2007-2010
21st Century World (Mancef) 2007-2010
Istanbul Visualization (Envision Center) 2008
Leonardo's Universe (Museo Leonardiano, Vinci, Italy) 2008
Future of Flight (FoF) Animation (Boeing) 2006
Virtual lab for undergraduate instruction in microcontroller technology (ItaP TLT grant) 2005-2006
3D Simulator of Ocular Motion and Expression (PRF Summer Grant) 2005
Endocyte Visualization (Endocyte, Inc.) 2004
