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Showing 1 to 20 of 82 for “"Buttons"”.
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Gnarly Buttons: Composer-Performer Collaboration in Contemporary Accordion Music
Collaboration between composers and performers is a common practice in contemporary classical music, a genre in which the accordion is becoming increasingly popular. Collaboration between accordionists and composers is particularly significant because of relative novelty of the instrument; …
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"Sometime There is Breath": Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons as Maternal Lexicon
… of Gertrude Stein's poetry collection Tender Buttons, this thesis uncovers and explores the text's covert maternal trope. Although Stein staunchly evaded categorization as a feminist, the employment of maternal imagery and the exploration of a language predicated by the feminine space of the …
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Environmental analysis of the habitat (biotic and abiotic factors) associated with Broadleaf Barbara's Buttons (Marshallia trinervia)
… the habitat associated with Broadleaf Barbara's Buttons (Marshallia trinervia) along Bird's Creek in Vernon Parish, LA. Twenty two plots were sampled for all vascular plants. Of these, 17 samples were from the area where M. trinervia was present and 5 samples were from the area where M. trinervia …
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The Effect of Communication Style on Task Performance and Mental Workload Using Wearable Computers
… under five different communication styles (buttons, command line, icon buttons, icon text menus, and text menus). The goal of this thesis was to determine which communication style would be best allow wearable computer users to simultaneously perform other non-computer tasks. Thirty subjects …
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Early stage product design process : a case study of an educational building kit
… a final intuitive UI with a single panel of buttons was converged upon. This UI utilized one button to switch through the four possible light modes instead of having a separate button for each mode. This UI will be employed in a future prototype that will be further tested with children in …
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Multimedia kiosk interface evaluation: an analysis of usage
… design. Many graphic techniques, such as buttons that change colors and generate an audible click when pressed and "windows" on the screen used for displaying images or text, have become commonplace with the increasing popularity of video games, information kiosks, automated teller …
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The representation of numbers in space : a journey along the mental number line
… varied the spatial arrangement of the response buttons (vertical vs. horizontal) and the instruction (handrelated vs. button-related). For vertically arranged buttons and a buttonrelated instruction we found a button-related SNARC effect. In contrast, for a hand-related instruction we …
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FlexiGesture : a sensor-rich real-time adaptive gesture and affordance learning platform for electronic music control
… inertial sensing, five isometric buttons, two digital buttons, two-axis bend sensing, isometric rotation sensing, and isotonic electric field sensing of position. Software was written to handle the incoming serial data, and to implement a trainable interface by which a user can …
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Effects of Mastery of Auditory Match-to-Sample Instruction on Echoics, Emergence of Advanced Listener Literacy, and Speaker as Own Listener Cusps by Elementary School Students with ASD and ADHD
… button at the top center of the screen and two buttons below it in the bottom corners of the screen. The top button produced the sample word or phrase, and the two buttons located below produced the exemplar and non-exemplar word or phrase. In the advanced auditory match-to-sample instruction, …
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Analysis of platinum, palladium and rhodium at trace concentrations in lead using the time resolved spark emission technique called SAFT
… sample with a litharge-based flux. These lead buttons require an homogenising remelt and rapid cast before direct determination of the noble metals can be made using a time resolved form of spectroscopy called SAFf, or Spark Analysis for Traces. The unique characteristics of this technique is …
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Bone Artifacts at Mont Repose: Possible Motivationos for Production and Trade
… bone artifacts unearthed from this site are bone buttons, bone toothbrushes, bone handfan parts, bone lice combs, and artifacts thought to be parts of a needle case or a Yoruba status item. These items display a high degree of manipulation and offer many interesting hypotheses regarding slave …
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The development of an ancillary textile industry waste treatment process
… trimmings factory producing polyester and casein buttons. The effluent has a high pH and COD; contains metallic poisons; and is highly coloured. It exceeds the limitations for effluent quality promulgated by the Cape Town Municipality before discharge to the sewers. A certain measure of …
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Design of a pneumatically assisted shifting system for Formula SAE® racing applications
… use of the clutch). Shifts are initiated through buttons on the steering wheel and controlled through the car's engine control processor. An ergonomic clutch was also designed in order to help shift more easily and provide more control of the vehicle. This document describes, from beginning to …
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Wordify! Morphology Meets Ludology
… game screen consists of a grid of buttons, each one hosting a root word or affix. Underneath the grid of tiles is a picture that is revealed piece by piece as correct matches are made and buttons are removed from the grid. Each time a tile on the grid is clicked, the tile is moved …
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Imaginary Interfaces
… voice commands or a small number of physical buttons. By abandoning the screen these devices also abandon the currently dominant spatial interaction style (such as tapping on buttons), because, seemingly, there is nothing to tap on. Unfortunately this design prevents users from transferring …
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Improving target acquisition in Web applications with link prediction
… considerable time clicking on hyperlinks and buttons to complete frequent tasks. Individual application developers can optimize their interfaces to improve typical usage; however, no single task model will accurately reflect the needs of a wide audience of users. This thesis describes …
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Reducing complexity of consumer electronics interfaces using commonsense reasoning
… the device can perform to controls like buttons and menu items. That leaves the users with the difficult cognitive task of mapping their goals onto the devices' capabilities - a frustrating and error-prone process. Our hypothesis is that we can provide better assistance to the user using …
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An affordance-inspired tool for automated web page labeling and classification
… to automatically label the input fields and buttons on the web page using a gradient boosting classifier. It outputs its results in a format that can be easily consumed by the LARIAT system at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, greatly reducing the human labor required to incorporate new web pages into …
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Semiotics & Syringe Pumps
… We found that the layout of the numerical buttons on a number-pad had little to do with how the number-pad was perceived, and that the users based their assumptions about the use of the interface based entirely upon the extra contextualizing non-numerical buttons. The wish to use a semiotic …
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Citizen engagement: Politics and digital media in Namibia
… changer: this gadget could switch on the right buttons for sparking an interest in political participation and civic engagement among the youth. This is the main idea to which the present study is dedicated.
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