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Showing 1 to 20 of 107 for “"Tabletop"”.
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The future of tabletop games
Tabletop games and digital games offer designers divergent affordances and provide players with different kinds of pleasures. Tabletop games excel at creating rich and immediate social interactions. They require players to enact game mechanics themselves resulting in powerful internalization of a …
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Design of a tabletop lathe educational kit
The purpose of this research is to create and characterize an educational kit for the mechanical engineering courses, 2.75: Precision Machine Design and 2.72: Elements of Machine Design. This kit is intended to provide instructors with a means to create a positive learning experience by (1) …
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Surface Gesture & Object Tracking on Tabletop Devices
In this thesis, we are interested in the use of tabletop surfaces for interactive manipulations. We focus on the implementation of Image Processing algorithms and techniques in two projects exploiting a horizontal surface: "Tangram Project" and "MirrorTrack". The "Tangram Project" studies …
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Curriculum modules in support of tabletop cybersecurity games
The number of bachelor degrees in computer science has continued to decline over the past decade. These trends similarly affect cyber security sub-discipline of computer science. The non-digital computer security board game [d0x3d!] aims to teach cyber security concepts to a young, non-CS audience, …
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Tabletop Tangible Interfaces for Music Performance: Design and Evaluation
… a new generation of collaborative systems: tabletop tangible interfaces (TTIs) for music performance or musical tabletops. Musical tabletops are designed for professional musical performance, as well as for casual interaction in public settings. These systems support co-located …
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The actuated Workbench : 2D actuation in tabletop tangible interfaces
… This mechanism is intended for use with existing tabletop Tangible User Interfaces, providing computer-controlled movement of the physical objects on the table, and creating an additional feedback layer for Human Computer Interaction (HCI). Use of this actuation technique makes possible new kinds …
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Musical composing on pitch time table based tangible tabletop interface
… paper introduced the MusicPatterns, a musical tabletop application that enables both novice and musically trained users to compose and play music in a creative and intuitive way. We begin with exposing the demanding value to adopt human computer interaction (HCI) into music creation especially …
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Building a Language Conditioned System for 6-DoF Tabletop Manipulation
… present a full-stack modular system for solving tabletop manipulation tasks from natural language task descriptions. The tasks that the system can perform include everyday pick-place tasks, such as sorting, or rearrangement, and the ability to learn new skills. The system primarily consists of …
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Tabletop robot to aid in arm rehabilitation of stroke patients
The aim of this project was to design and build a tabletop robot that could move the arm of a patient with limited motor function around on a table in any given trajectory to aid the patient in regaining function. The design that resulted from bench level experiments was that of an arm brace …
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Haptic cinema: an art practice on the interactive digital media tabletop
… for viewers. The interactive digital media tabletop is identified as one platform on which to develop haptic cinema. This platform supports a subgenre of haptic cinema called tabletop cinema. Expanded cinema practices are analyzed for their contributions to haptic cinema. Based on this …
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The Dragon's Eye: A Quest for Tabletop Role-Playing's Visual Culture
<p>The world of Tabletop Role-Playing Games (TRPGs) has always been defined and dominated by <em>Dungeons & Dragons (D&D)</em>, the game that pioneered the industry in the 1970’s. Meanwhile during this time, independent games have consistently innovated new ways of utilizing this highly creative …
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Liberty, Post-Colonialism, and RuneQuest: the discourse of Imperialism in tabletop RPGs
<p>Post-colonial scholarship on Tabletop RPGs observes a clear problem with Dungeons & Dragons; that its system, setting, and rules utilize and reinforce colonial frameworks, primarily race and civilization, for the purpose of entertainment and storytelling. Developing fields of scholarship on …
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Development of an in-line putter for handicap friendly tabletop golf games
The market for handicapped tabletop games is severely untapped. The students of the Red Team in the course 2.009 (Product Engineering Processes, a capstone design project course in the Mechanical Engineering Department) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology attempted to produce a tabletop …
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Changing the Rules of the Game: Rule-Adjustment Mechanics in Tabletop Games
In most tabletop games, the rules of the game are typically defined and agreed upon by all players before play begins. However, there are some games which allow players to change the rules of the game during play. Through an exploratory design research methodology, the author defines a …
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Shock compressing liquids on a tabletop microscope, with special focus on detonating nitromethane
… condensed-phase explosives, is explored using a tabletop microscope. The shock is produced using a spatially homogenized laser to launch flyer plates, 0.5 mm diameter, 18 – 37 µm thick disks of Al-1100 at velocities up to 4.5 km/s. Upon impact the flyer transmits a shock wave into the desired …
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Tabletop Role-Playing Games and the Actual Play Show: Author, Audience, and Adaptation
Though tabletop role-playing games, or TRPGs, have received some scholarly attention since the creation of Dungeons and Dragons in the 1970s, very few scholars have considered how TRPGs function as a vehicle for long-form narrative. As an inherently collaborative form of narrative, the TRPG …
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