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Showing 1 to 20 of 3918 for “"Interfaces"”.
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Imaginary Interfaces
… In this dissertation, I present Imaginary Interfaces, which return spatial interaction to screenless mobile devices. With these interfaces, users point and draw in the empty space in front of them or on the palm of their hands. While they cannot see the results of their interaction, they …
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Hairy interfaces
Textured surfaces are known to play an important role in water-repellency and uptake for a number of creatures. While the influence of chemistry and surface roughness on the wettability of surfaces has been studied extensively, little is known about the role of larger-scale objects such as hairs. …
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Flexible physical interfaces
… physically shape, construct and modify physical interfaces for interactive systems. The work is centred around the development of a novel platform for flexible user interfaces (called VoodooIO) that allows end-users to compose and adapt physical control structures in a manner that is both …
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Spatial material interfaces
Tangible Interfaces allow us to utilize our natural propensity for kinesthetic manipulation to control digital computation and touch virtual information. As the technology advances, these interfaces are re-envisioned as programmable materials, able to emulate dynamic physical properties to provide …
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Graphene at interfaces
Strong attractive interactions between extended π-systems of graphene in various graphites have been studied for several decades. However, to date, no effective scalable exfoliation mechanism has been reported to exclusively synthesize dispersible single layer graphene in liquid environments. The …
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Physicochemical Interactions at Interfaces: Mass and Charge Transfer at Chemically Reacting Interfaces
Aqueous multiphase interfaces which undergo chemical reactions are crucial interfacial regions for most of human technology and are relevant for many large-scale industrial activities. Using rationally designed surfaces to enhance aqueous physicochemical interactions at these critical interfaces …
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Janus Particles at Interfaces
… their adsorption behavior at liquid-liquid interfaces. The adsorption behavior of Janus cylinders at liquid-liquid interfaces was studied using the pendant drop technique. The interfacial tension decreases with increasing Janus cylinder length and concentration. From the time evolution of …
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Nanoparticles at liquid interfaces
This thesis is concerned with the study of two phase systems stabilised by nanometre sized solid particles. The understanding of how modifying these particles at the oil(air)-water interface can change the properties of the bulk systems they stabilise is important for a number of industrial …
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Interfaces with the Ineffable
… to look at two primary approaches to designing interfaces with the ineffable, one emphasizes reduction and the other openness to interpretation. I discuss issues of control and reification that result from the reduction approach and develop the interpretation approach as a viable alternative …
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Scattering from imperfect interfaces
… of scattering of a focused beam at imperfect interfaces in elastic media should account for the additional complexities due to the anisotropy that may be present.
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Ordering of Curving Interfaces
… examines how materials can order on curving interfaces, resulting in shape changes and pattern formation. Many phenomena that are well-studied in flat space display new behavior when lifted onto a deformable surface: liquid crystals buckle membranes into peaked shapes, diffusing particles can …
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Presentation based user interfaces
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1984.
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Proteins at charged interfaces
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, 1993.
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Characterization of Diamond-Semiconductor Interfaces
The extremely high thermal conductivity of diamond thin films makes them an ideal candidate for heat spreaders that can be integrated with electronic devices. By more effectively dissipating the heat generated during operation device dimensions can be shrunk increasing yield, performance losses due …
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Privacy and Brain-Computer Interfaces
… three distinct fields: privacy, brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), and critical theory (specifically, Habermas’s Theory of Communicative Action). There are two aims. The first is to identify whether BCIs disrupt privacy, and if so, how. The second is to contribute methodological observations and …
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Interfaces in Numerical Relativistic hydrodynamics
… numerical techniques for modelling sharp interfaces<br/>between relativistic fluids. The motivation for this work lies in obtaining accurate<br/>models of neutron star interiors for use in multidimensional simulations<br/>in general relativity. The interior structure of a neutron star is …
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Comparing Interfaces for Image Sorting
Many tasks ask people to make categorization decisions about a large number of items based on images. There are many ways in which this task can be presented to the user, but there is little information available about how the decision technique affects performance. To investigate this topic three …
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Bacteria At Oil-Water Interfaces
… can also become trapped at or near fluid interfaces, impacting bacteria fate and interface mechanics. Here I study bacteria near hexadecane-water interfaces. I investigate films formed by Pseudomonas sp. P62 at initially pristine interfaces using particle tracking and pendant drop …
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