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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"Prototyping Process"”.
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Tailoring the prototyping process to achieve customer value
The main objective for prototyping is to get the most value out of the opportunity. Value may take the form of information, performance, displaying production readiness or proving capability for the amount of resources consumed and time required. The extents to which the aforementioned variables …
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Increasing the bandwidth of social navigation during the prototyping process
… navigation to help people during the design and prototyping process. Prototyping requires one to understand core product requirements, learn new skills quickly, and make choices about materials. We identify situations where we can use technology to increase social navigation and demonstrate …
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Evaluation and improvement of the prototyping process in electronic product development
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, 1995, and Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1995.
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Examining the haptic prototyping process using a novel open source haptic creation tool
Haptics have advanced rapidly in the past decade and are increasingly used by AAA game developers. They are an essential way of delivering tactile information in everything from watches to theatre seats. Our research aims to improve how haptic effects can be prototyped and iterated on by …
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Integration and visualization of rapid prototyping and reverse engineering.
Rapid prototyping, where a part is built gradually by adding materials layer-by-layer, is fully automatic and it offers many advantages over traditional manufacturing processes. Integrating reverse engineering and rapid prototyping technologies can facilitate the process of product development. …
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Blu Security BluLock Smart Lock
… Financial considerations as well as the prototyping process is included in this document.
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Design and manufacture of an ultra-high field ex vivo coil assembly
… low-cost tools to enhance the medical instrument prototyping process: a desktop vacuum casting system, and an automatic tool-path generation program for machining directly from STL files. Finally, an improved method and apparatus for degassing the tissue samples is developed and implemented …
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The design of a compliant underwater angle sensor to investigate the kinematics of burrowing razor clams
This paper presents the detailed design process for a compliant underwater angle sensor to be used in analyzing the precise burrowing motions of razor clams in order to aid in the development of intelligent anchoring devices. The angle sensor was developed using a set of specific functional …
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StoryTIME: development of a tangible interface for storytelling
… of 3D digital animated sequences is an iterative process where ideas are scrutinized by members of the production team until they are finalized. Production teams are comprised of many individuals with varying levels of expertise in a broad spectrum of disciplines such as screen writing, animating …
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Additive assembly of digital materials
… of press-fit digital materials as a new rapid-prototyping process. Digital materials consist of a finite set of parts that have discrete connections and occupy discrete space. Part geometries were designed and fabricated at different scales from different materials, including hierarchical …
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Design of an adaptive 3-dimensional display enabled by a swarm of autonomous micro air vehicles
… as vehicle designs are considered. The vehicle prototyping process is described, with specific emphasis on electronic design and hardware integration. Several problems associated with the flight of numerous vehicles in close proximity are addressed. Simulation and laboratory testing is described …
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Automated Optimal Ultrasound Transducer Simulator
… devices has been increasing. However, the prototyping process of ultrasound devices can be incredibly costly. In order to save time, many researchers run simulations in order to analyze the performance of their prototypes to help guide their manufacturing decisions. Unfortunately, many of …
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Softwear: A Flexible Design Framework For Electronic Textile Systems
… circumvent the need for the expensive physical prototyping process. This work discuss the effectiveness and appropriateness of the deployed event-driven hierarchical service model for application development. Additionally, this work explores the results of providing fault tolerance and quality …
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An investigation into the planning, organisation and control of rapid software development and prototyping
Software development involving prototyping has been widely written about since the early 1980s. This project has been carried out with the intention of investigating the various claims made about it. The first section of the research examines the background to software development and the emergence …
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[mu]Jawstures : jaw-teeth microgestures for discreet hands-and-eyes-free mobile device interaction
… eyes when already being devoted to other ongoing processes (i.e., biking, driving, etc), and socially, by making certain interaction modalities inappropriate given social norms, etiquette, and rules of engagement. Researchers have investigated using jaw and teeth microgestures as a discreet …
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Design and measurement analysis of hot embossing system for high aspect ratio microfluidics
… This work investigates hot embossing as a prototyping process for Daktari's microfluidic device. A hot embossing machine was designed and built for the purpose of prototyping a critical feature of their microfluidic network. The machine was designed for an embossing area of 6 square inches, …
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Centrifugal casting and fast curing of polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) for the manufacture of micro and nano featured components
… this thesis is to outline a viable manufacturing process for thermosetting resins such as PDMS that could be scaled-up for the large-scale production of micro/nano featured components. With respect to rate of PDMS device production, the two time-limiting steps in the typical prototyping process …
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Credibility of a Person-Centered Design Decision-making Prototype: Spaces for Older Persons with Vision Loss
… visually impaired into account in their design process, or simply do not think of doing so. The researcher designed and feasibility-tested a prototype person-centered tool to help architects judge how appropriate a designed space will be for visually impaired people. The study was conducted as a …
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Fabrication and Testing of a Heat Exchanger Module for Thermoelectric Power Generation in an Automobile Exhaust System
… and was fabricated using a metal-based rapid prototyping process. The temperatures from the CFD model are validated through thermocouple measurements, which provide the distribution of the temperatures across the TEG. All of these measurements are compared to the CFD model for trends and …
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A model and decision support mechanism for software requirements engineering
… automated support for the early part of the prototyping process. The model is used to capture user reactions to the demonstrated behavior of a prototype and map these reactions into the model objects to be used in synthesizing a set of open issues to be resolved. The issues are resolved by …
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