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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"kiosk"”.
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Agnostic Testing Kiosk for Remote Vitals Sensing
… system was developed from Ivan Goryachev’s Kiosk for Non-Contact Vital Sign Detection to incorporate RGB camera, thermal camera, radar, and auxiliary sensors for the measuring of heart rate, respiratory rate, body temperature, blood oxygen saturation, motion performance, ambient temperature …
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Small population face recognition for a kiosk interface
Thesis (M.Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1999.
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Multimedia kiosk interface evaluation: an analysis of usage
Although the Umultimedia computer kiosk" is a relatively new phenomenon, a great deal of academic research has been conducted on the programming of the systems. Little research has been conducted on the effectiveness of kiosk interface design, however, perhaps due to the lack of a formalized …
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Kiosk Engine: A Platform Independent Solution For Multimedia Kiosks
… purpose, there are interactive devices called kiosks, which display multimedia data on a display and are quite often attached to other input/output hardware like keyboard, mouse, printer, etc. Most of today's kiosks are custom made and are designed for specific set of target platform. The task …
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Multimodal integration in embodied conversational kiosk with augmented reality
Thesis (M.Eng. and S.B.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2001.
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SKINNI : the smart kiosk information navigation and note-posting interface
… relevant information from smart digital kiosks in public spaces. These platforms will not only enable information exchange from public spaces, but will also support more complex tasks like enterprise integration, informal collaboration, and public need servicing. To test the effectiveness …
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Intelligent environments for informal public spaces : the Ki/o Kiosk platform
Thesis (M.Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2003.
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The Kiosk Culture: Reconciling The Performance Support Paradox In The Postmodern Age Of Machines
… gas station? Or an airline e-ticket kiosk? How did you know what to do? Although you never received any formal instruction in how to interact with the self-service technology, you were likely able to accomplish your task (e.g., withdrawing or depositing money) as successfully as an …
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The LinkNYC Kiosk: Phone Booths, Urban Culture, and the Neoliberal Dream for New York City
… incarnation of the phone booth, the LinkNYC Kiosk, reveals important problems around the relation between land-use and capital, the capacity for New Yorkers to have autonomy in their city, and the limitations of technological progress to achieving social and political improvements. Second, I …
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DomeView : community-based digital bulliten boards and mobile phone interaction
Our thesis is that a networked public display/kiosk system, that provides information for a local community, functions best when it is decentralized and interactive. We deployed such a system at MIT that has two aspects, DomeView for distributed decentralized display and content distribution, and …
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A Grocery Store Intervention Designed to Increase Fruit, Vegetable, and Healthy Snack Purchases among Parents of Young Children
… intervention that included a point-of-purchase kiosk featuring fresh fruits, vegetables, and healthy grab-and-go snacks; and a sampling pod, comprised of food items from the kiosk. Design: An observational uninterrupted time-series design was used in one intervention grocery store. The …
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The Young Women Resource Room: An Implementation of a DVD-Based Training Station Instructional Program
… development and implementation of a DVD-based kiosk for the Young Women (YW) organization of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. The Young Women desired to implement a public kiosk to display several multimedia-based presentations relating to the YW program. This paper describes …
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Kiosks for Non-Contact Vital Sign Detection
… for contact-less vital sign detection. The kiosk is intended collect users’ vital sign data to track changes over time and try to identify periods of illness. It is modular and transportable, able to be deployed and moved quickly, and reconfigured with different sensors if needed. In this …
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Wildlife: Stories
… mutant, demon ghost, televised prophet, kiosk salesperson, vengeful aunt—in new and surprising settings across time and space. London and Marjorie occupy two very distinctive functions in fiction writing, using different points of view and narrative arcs.</p>
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Mobile companion to the glass infrastructure
… utilizing the RFID readers at each kiosk to determine users' locations. GI Mobile is a mobile application that acts as a companion to the Glass Infrastructure. It incorporates the MessageMe messaging system to deliver a suite of location-aware features that complement the Glass …
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Scan your life : integrating OCR into your personal haystack!
… the game. The mindless convenience of my $6000 kiosk suggests OCR will become a regulated munition* in the coming intellectual property and privacy wars. As OCR proliferates into cheap PDA's, neither publisher nor individual may ever again rely on humanity's oldest form of copy protection: …
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T Talk : a local communication channel for subway riders
… major components for users participation: a kiosk installed on subway platforms for riders to post new messages and browse/reply to messages left by others; an in-house produced daily newspaper whose contents are the collection of messages and replies submitted during the previous day; an SMS …
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Issues concerning an assisted-access information model for Africa
… needs assessment, design and operation of the kiosk. To this end. further study is necessary to verify the effectiveness of the model and identify obstacles. This evaluation could be undertaken on a limited scale by providing assisted-access services from existing telecenters.
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Private sector provision of Internet access in rural India
… profitable network of rural internet kiosks, however, its success at providing broad access to a diverse segment of communities is limited. Two important findings emerge from this study. First, though access to computers and the internet is still limited in absolute numbers, computer …
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