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Showing 1 to 20 of 50 for “"design task"”.
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Design, cognition, and complexity : an investigation using a computer based design task surrogate
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 2000.
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Exploring the nature of students’ collaborative interactions during a hands-on ill-structured engineering design task
The student, Taylor Tucker, accepted the attached license on 2021-04-19 at 19:44.
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Deafhood and exclusion: a study of deaf adolescents perceptions of Love Life's HIV and AIDS communication campaigns
… interviews and a HIV and AIDS campaign design task. The findings reveal that, firstly, the participants are aware of what Love Life is and what they aim to do, and; secondly, participants have very limited access to Love Life’s print and television campaigns.
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Performance and Usability of Force Feedback and Auditory Substitutions in a Virtual Environment Manipulation Task
… in which they completed a VE manipulation task involving the assembly and disassembly of 5 interconnecting parts. Performance for the manipulation task was measured through completion time and the number of collisions made, as well as subjective measures of usability. Results indicated that …
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Control and design of a single degree-of-freedom magnetic levitation demonstration
… magnetic suspension systems is a difficult design task because several non-linearities and noise in both magnet physics and sensor performance can cause instability. This thesis investigates methods of building and controlling a stable, single degree-of-freedom magnetic suspension system …
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Tangible augmented reality intervention for a product dissection task
… decomposition is a process used by engineers and designers for identifying functions in various design tasks. The concepts of function and functional decomposition are important in engineering to understand for converting complex problems into abstractions.</p> <p>However, research results …
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CHARTMAKER: a "true consultant" expert system for designing charts
… the knowledge engineer and the expert at system design time. A "true consultant" on the contrary, applies domain knowledge to solve a problem not previously seen. For example, a graphic design consultant must accept the statement of almost any problem from a client and turn it into a visual …
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Effects of Practice Type and Task Difficulty on Visuospatial Performance
… different types of practice, and levels of task difficulty affect visuospatial performance. Seventy-eight undergraduate students participated in the Block Design Task (extracted from the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale) in which they had to construct a design with the blocks based on a …
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Design Squad seasons 1 and 2 : an engineering perspective
This thesis describes the engineering tasks associated with production of Design Squad, a reality-based television program on WGBH. In Design Squad a client gives two teams of high school students an engineering design task for them to complete over two days of building. In order to facilitate …
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Development and Evaluation of a Decision Support Tool to Incorporate Redundancy in the Development of Instructional Materials
Novice Instructional Designers (IDs) often struggle to perform at the same level as experts. Specialized knowledge and experience are needed to discover the challenges and device appropriate solutions. Scaffold, guides, and heuristics can help novice when needing to perform tasks that require …
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Optimizing acoustic design and schematic architectural layouts of office buildings
… optimizing the schematic architectural layout designs to maximize their functional and operational performances. First, the acoustic quality in office buildings has been reported to suffer from noise level problems that adversely affect the productivity of building occupants and cause human …
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Perspectives of the role of the body in the design process : observations from an experiment
This thesis explores the role of the body in the design process. Its underlying assumptions are that there is bodily thinking in the design process, and that observing what designers draw, tell and do/gesture, can tell us something of the design process at large. A design-task-based experiment …
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Regulating the anterior medial prefrontal cortex : exploratory investigation of real-time fMRI training
… target brain region while engaging in a blocked-design task involving alternating blocks of attempted up-regulation and down-regulation of the target brain region. A transient negative emotional state was induced prior to each scanning session. Subjects completed 6 scanning sessions (a …
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The Impact of the Design Process on Student Self-Efficacy and Content Knowledge
… the effects of participation in the design process on student self-efficacy and content knowledge gains in an undergraduate anatomy and physiology laboratory. Over fifty students participated in a design task that paralleled the topic being studied in a given semester and were given …
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Wind farm simulation modelling and control
… essential dynamics for the wind farm controller design and load analysis. To achieve this main aim, a mathematic wind farm model has been developed which offers sufficiently fast simulation for iterative controller design task, and contains a suitable wind-field model that provides a suitable …
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Design outcomes : how designers and tools influence design quality and creativity : a study of individual designers
The design process can be seen as a complex, ambiguous, ill-defined problem with no clearly correct answer. At the same time, the early stages of the design process carry importance with regard to design outcomes, sometimes with far reaching consequences. With the proliferation of computer …
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Information to iteration : using information and communication technologies [ICT] in design for remote regions
Remote design comes with significant challenges. A major barrier to designing in remote regions is the lack of communication between designers and users. As a result, the lack of information flow leads to assumptions about the community's needs- an inherent weakness in the design process. This …
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A Functional Cerebral Systems Approach to Hostility: Changes in Frontal Lobe Delta Activation and Fluency Performance as a Function of Stress
… of emotions and expressive fluency (verbal or design), have historically been associated with the frontal lobes. Moreover, research has demonstrated the importance of cerebral laterality with a prominent role of the right frontal regions in the regulation of negative affect (anger, hostility) …
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Concept generation methods in highly constrained design problems
… in engineering solutions, yet engineers and designers must also grapple with complex design problems which are highly constrained by requirements, regulations, and limited resources. This research seeks to understand the relationship between design constraints and concept generation methods …
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An Integrated Real-Time and Security Scheduling Framework for CPS
… (RTS), security has often been overlooked in the design process. However, with the emergence of the Internet of Things and Cyber-Physical Systems, RTS are now frequently used in interconnected applications where data is shared regularly. Unfortunately, this increased connectivity has also led to a …
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