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Showing 1 to 20 of 74 for “"everyday objects"”.
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ReachMedia : on-the-move interaction with everyday objects
… try to integrate digital information into our everyday experiences but usually require more attention than is appropriate and often fail to do so in a natural and socially acceptable way. In this thesis we present "ReachMedia," a system for seamlessly providing just-in-time information for …
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The Materiality of Memory: Everyday Objects in Post-Socialist Literatures and Cultures
This dissertation argues that material objects—narrated and exhibited—play a crucial role in acts that question and maintain historical divisions. This project showcases numerous adaptations and obfuscations of material objects for coming to terms with divisions, ruptures, and changes after 1989 in …
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Introducing perovskites to the IoT world using photovoltaic-powered ID tags
Billions of everyday objects could benefit from being augmented with sensors and wireless data transmitters. The prospect of developing advanced battery-powered sensors and smart devices with on-board radio and computing power has been a recent research direction for the Internet of Things (IoT). …
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Advancing In-hand Dexterous Manipulation via Machine Learning
… Using tools requires dexterously manipulating everyday objects like hammers, scissors, knives, screwdrivers, etc. While simple for humans, manipulating everyday objects remains a long-standing challenge that requires breakthroughs in robotic hardware, sensing, perception, and control …
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Using surface particles to interact with complex everyday surfaces
… potential comes the opportunity to transform everyday passive objects into interactive display surfaces, freeing content from the confines of a flat monitor display. In this thesis, I explore interacting with everyday objects by representing content as interactive surface particles. Users can …
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The Reconciliation of Art + Sci
… between art and science.) The interviews use everyday objects as prompts to build a baseline to the investigation. The instrument consisted of seven questions that investigated if the use of quotidian, everyday, objects as prompts expose the false dichotomy between art and science. …
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Lens x block : World as construction kit
… they live in and re-purpose and re-combine these everyday objects from their life. I formalize this type of construction kit, explaining how it takes the constructive aspect of a traditional wooden block, and the world-transforming multiplicative aspect of the traditional looking glass lens, to …
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The Visible Invisible Object: A Photographic Enquiry 'Recording' A Lived Life
… is centred upon a photographic ‘recording’ of everyday ‘objects’, which has been built up since 2004. I have ‘recorded’ everyday ‘objects’ that I have experienced using the camera lens, selected because of the form of the ‘thing’ and to act as a vehicle to signify the ‘encounter’, or a related …
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The Alchemy of the Everyday
Everyday objects inspire and inform what I do. The personal histories and associations we may have with ordinary things are of great personal interest to me. Often times, these items reflect the social class, education, and background of the owners. I am drawn to these objects and the possibility …
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Learning articulated motions from visual demonstration
… must be capable of interacting with articulated objects on a daily basis. They should be able to infer each object's underlying kinematic linkages purely by observing its motion during manipulation. This work proposes a framework that enables robots to learn the articulation in objects from …
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A PORTFOLIO OF THREE COMPOSITIONS AND TWO ESSAYS
… enable practitioners to aurally perceive space, objects, and social interaction by detecting the position of objects and generating sounds whose amplitudes and frequencies change in response. Third, Etude No.1 Reassembling the Social (2019-2021) is a composition for ensemble, everyday objects, …
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The Solipsism of Daily Experience and the Unequal Body: The Social Construction of Ableness
… to think about their bodies in interaction with everyday objects. I argue that this able-bodied solipsism is heightened in advanced industrial societies where discourses and practices created by Human-Factors Engineering compile knowledge based on the assumption that the able body is the norm. …
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Self-* properties of multi sensing entities in smart environments
… sensors are more and more often embedded into everyday objects, woven into garments, "painted" on architecture or deployed directly into the environment. They monitor the environment, process the information and extract knowledge that their designed and programmers hope will be interesting. As …
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Objects of architecture
… exist as beauty in this world. The design of everyday objects becomes architecture to me, whether it be of a building, a piece of jewelry, or a piece of pottery. My undergraduate thesis was a study of the interaction of a curved wall and a straight wall, as autonomous elements. I proposed not …
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The Role of the Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex in Mnemonic Discrimination and Generalization
… to distinguish previously learned images of everyday objects (targets) from unstudied, highly similar images (lures) and dissimilar images (foils). Relative to controls, vmPFC-lesioned participants showed intact discrimination of lures from targets but a propensity to mistake similar lures …
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Integrated model based on TPM and SMED to increase the efficiency in a plastic SME in Peru
… medicine, food, agriculture, construction, and everyday objects. The great value of the plastics industry in Peru is reflected in its contribution to the industrial GDP of 4%, in addition to the 200,000 jobs that are generated annually. The objective of the research was to analyze and develop …
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Aesthetic typicality and sustainable design
… cognitive economy during recognition of designed objects. Psychological science can shed light on the way our minds process everyday objects visually, providing a platform for designers to create an enduring aesthetic experience in products, thereby extending product lifetime. An exercise to …
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Robot manipulation in human environments
… guidance and assistance of a human collaborator. Everyday objects exhibit common, task-relevant features that reduce the cognitive load required for the object's use. Many tasks can be achieved through the detection and control of these sparse perceptual features. And finally, a robot is more than …
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Žaidimas avangardiniame mene: hermeneutinis ir semiotinis požiūriai /
… "Fluxus" art, and play. Avant-garde art uses everyday life itself (everyday objects, everyday spaces, etc.) as creative material. The paper argues that "Fluxus"'s main creative principle is play, gags. The basis of play in "Fluxus" art shows aspects of everyday life that would not appear …
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