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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Everyday Technologies"”.
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Exploring Selfhood in an Era of Computational Optimization
… to strive for. Promoted and dispersed via everyday technologies, the subtle enforcement of the self-optimization ideal often goes unnoticed. My research aims to bring these things to the fore, asking: How can design unsettle the ideal of computational self-optimization upheld by …
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The Mechanical Arts and Poiesis in the Philosophy and Literature of the Twelfth-Century Schools
… that while this category designated a set of everyday technologies, it also had a more covert, imaginative currency for certain authors – as an image or exemplum for the process of learning. Its procedures and activities could be held up as a mirror to those of the liberal and especially …
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The modification of graphene band structure by periodic potential perturbation
… patterns. Ferroelectrics is widely applied in everyday technologies, such as non-volatile memories and medical imaging, due to the presence of spontaneous polarisation in the material and that being reversible by an externally applied electric field. A ferroelectric material PZT (PbZrxTi1−xO3), …
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Provoking Technophilia: The Umfundisi Tech Centre & Portable Fundi Labs
… find it harder and harder to understand even the everyday technologies around us. It is argued that despite the seemingly limitless opportunities for self-learning in the ‘information age’, an interest for the technological is still not fostered within our society. This dissertation is inspired by …
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Computer gesture therapy for adults with severe aphasia
… the effects of two purpose-built gesture therapy technologies: GeST and PowerGeST. The latter of these was developed for the purposes of the thesis. Following completion of a range of candidacy measures examining gesture comprehension, language, cognition and praxis, participants undertook a …
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Feeling Time Differently: Autistic Temporality, Self-Care Technologies & Social Imaginaries of the Good Life
… digital self-tracking tools, assistive technologies, and alternative communication strategies, I argue that autistic individuals engage in an ongoing (re)configuration of temporal experiences – both accommodating and resisting neurotypical pressures of immediacy, synchronisation, and …