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Showing 1 to 20 of 299 for “"kitchen"”.
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Reducing kitchen appliance noise
Thesis (B.S.) Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Electrical Engineering, 1956.
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Infrastructure for an intelligent kitchen
… the particular testbed of a networked kitchen is examined. The kitchen provides a dynamic and compelling application domain to explore the Hive system. The kitchen described in this paper is capable of assisting a user in the preparation of recipes, through use of a variety of sensing …
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What! Is This the Kitchen?: Domestic Advice and the Market for a Model Kitchen, 1841-1959
What! Is this The Kitchen? asesses the American middle-class kitchen and its association with domestic advisors, advertisers, and magazine editors at three pivotal moments in its history from 1841-1959. Most importantly, the thesis analyzes how the user, whom these parties assumed was a white …
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Ergonomics evaluation of task demands among kitchen staff
1 PDF file (x, 108 pages)
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Minerva : a smart video assistant for the kitchen
… are decided by the food that one places on the kitchen counter. Thus, it aims to develop new ways of interactivity and control for media that solve the problem of content choice in an innovative and useful manner. In parallel, it is a study of the applicability of a generalized image-matching …
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Examining the Validity of the Preschool Kitchen Task Assessment
… in preschool aged children. The Preschool Kitchen Task Assessment (PKTA) is a new tool that measures EF in preschool aged children. The PKTA was adapted from the Kitchen Task Assessment and The Children Task Assessment by Christine Berg, Ph.D., OTR/L. This study aimed to validate the PKTA …
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Spatial user interface : augmenting human sensibilities in a domestic kitchen
… and augmented reality design. The domestic kitchen is used as a domain to place smart technologies and to study visual attention,multi-tasking, food-preparation and disruptiveness. Human perception in visually complex environments can be significantly enhanced by overlaying intuitive, …
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A Web-based user-oriented tool for universal kitchen design
… to the very wealthy, and thus most of the kitchens in current development housing projects are still generic. With aging baby boomers and an increasing number of survivors of disability, diversified user needs require professional housing design to accommodate all different individuals, …
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The ContexTable: Building and Testing an Intelligent, Context-Aware Kitchen Table
… ContexTable, a context-aware system built into a kitchen table. After establishing the current status of the field of context-aware systems and the hurdles and problems being faced, a functioning prototype system was designed and built. The prototype makes it possible to explore established, …
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The Evaluation of Universal Design Kitchen Features by People in Wheelchairs
… the effectiveness of universal design kitchen features by people using wheelchairs. The study examined the features of the GE Real Life Design Kitchen in the Center for Real Life Design at Virginia Tech and determined which universal design features were beneficial to users in …
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Syntax, Juxtaposition, and Non-Hierarchical Space: A Monastery in Hell's Kitchen
This thesis follows a desire to understand what makes a successful communal housing project, with the assumption that more and better communal housing can lead to more resilient communities. In this case, a monastery in Manhattan is a dual condition to study and explore how space held in common …
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Recipes for Citizenship: Women, Cookbooks, and Citizenship in the Kitchen, 1941-1945
… domesticity, specifically linked to the kitchen, as an obligation for American women in World War II. Building on the work of culinary historians and gender scholars, I argue that the government enlisted women as "kitchen citizens." In contrast to the obligations of male military service, …
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Employee Satisfaction and Performance: A Study of the RC Hotel Company Kitchen Environment
… whether or not this statement is true within the kitchens of The Ritz Carlton Hotel in New Orleans is the basis for this study. By using the corporate mandated tools (the annual employee satisfaction survey and the employee performance appraisals) the determination of this question was confirmed. …
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Kitchen Space, Cauldron Calling: Origins of Psychic Shells and the Poetry of Pain
… In the collection, domestic spaces, particularly kitchens, serve as filters and lenses through which to process anxiety and pain. Conversely, domestic spaces are viewed as areas of both liberation and confinement and the voices of the various speakers throughout the manuscript struggle with this …
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Beyond the kitchen : strategies for overcoming L.A.'s 194X-196X sitcom-suburban domesticity
Beyond the Kitchen aims to propose an alternative view of thinking suburbia by suggesting the cultural and spatial consideration of its domesticity. Therefore, the thesis initiates by hypothesizing upon suburbia's contemporary popularity and proceeds through the understanding of the ranch-style …
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