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Showing 1 to 20 of 135 for “"physical interaction"”.
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Human physical interaction with a circular constraint
… humans are incredibly dexterous and excel at physical interaction with complex objects. In this work we developed an upper limb crank turning experiment to study the human controller used to manage physical interaction. Subjects turned a crank with and without visual feedback, in two …
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A Dynamic Primitives Hypothesis: a Descriptive Model of Human Physical Interaction
Physical interaction is a key aspect of activities of daily living. These tasks require simultaneous regulation of both force and motion. For example, even a task as simple as opening a door presents a challenge to the development of prosthetics, exoskeletons, and human-robot interaction. Motor …
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Touching the Gods: physical interaction with cult statues in the Roman world
„Touching the Gods: physical interaction with cult statues in the Roman world‟ explores different forms of physical interaction with cult statues in the many cults and beliefs evident across the Roman world, and proposes wide-ranging implications of this for the understanding of Roman religions and …
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Shells and Stages for Actuated TUIs: Reconfiguring and Orchestrating Dynamic Physical Interaction
… Interfaces (TUIs) in the field of Human Computer Interaction (HCI) has been explored widely to design embodied interactions using digital computation has been explored widely. While advanced technical approaches, such as robotics and material science, have led to many concrete instances of …
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Investigation of the Environmental Effect of Unit Load Design Optimization Using Physical Interaction Between Pallets and Corrugated Boxes
… but also the unit load form. We can use the interactions between the unit load components to reduce the environmental burdens generated in the supply chain system. Past studies discovered that pallet top deck thickness has a huge effect on corrugated box compression strength. Using this …
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Towards a non-invasive measurement of human motion, force, and impedance during a complex physical-interaction task : wire-harnessing
… humans out-perform robots in tasks that require physical interaction, especially physical interaction with non-rigid objects. This performance gap is ever-present in the manufacturing process known as wire-harnessing. Generally, on an assembly line, robots can be used to quickly and accurately …
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The development of assistive technology to reveal knowledge of physical world concepts in young people who have profound motor impairments.
… learning, communication, personal development, physical interaction and play experiences, compared to their typically developing peers. Physical interaction (and play) are known to be important components of child development, but this group currently has few suitable ways in which to …
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System Architectures for Cooperative Teams of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Interacting Physically with the Environment
… special attention to applications that require physical interaction with the environment, which is typically unstructured. First, we implement some layers to abstract the high-level components from the hardware speci cs. Then we propose increasingly advanced architectures, from a single-UAV …
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Non-Invasive Vision-Based Measurement of Hand Kinematics and Interaction
… better understanding how the hand behaves during interaction tasks. Study of physical interaction requires measurement of hand kinematics and interaction forces. Unfortunately, current methods involve cumbersome sensors or external forces that inherently change the way that the subject behaves. In …
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Physical one-way functions
… to invert. This dissertation introduces physical one-way firnctions and physical one-way hash functions as primitives for physical analogs of cryptosystems. Physical one-way functions are defined with respect to a physical probe and physical system in some unknown state. A function is …
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Human Interaction with Various Elliptical Constraints
… in a number of tasks, including tool use and physical interaction. In order to study the human controller, this work explores interaction with three different elliptical kinematic constraints. The shapes of these constraints were based on prior work: the circle was the same size as a previous …
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MOTION-CONTACTO
… the viewers to explore the possibilities of physical interaction.</p>
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Regulation of the histone H3K36 methyltransferase Set2 by the histone chaperone Spt6
… studies of active Set2 demonstrated a direct physical interaction between Set2 and Spt6. These results suggested a model in which Spt6 directly interacts with Set2 to relieve autoinhibition of Set2 activity by the Set2 AID. However, there is little evidence of how Set2 autoinhibition …
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Regulation of DNA damage tolerance : studies of the translesion synthesis DNA ploymerase eta in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
… to its human counterpart, and mediating a physical interaction with ubiquitinated PCNA to promote pol eta's association with damaged DNA. Another eukaryotic TLS polymerase is Rev1, which is thought to play a structural role in TLS by binding the other TLS polymerases. In mammals, Rev and …
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Optical turntable as an interface for musical performance
… of programming, graphics, sound generation, and physical interaction. An interface for manipulating these elements is suggested, based on the concept of a disk-jockey turntable as a performance instrument. A system is developed around this idea, enabling optical pickup of visual information from …
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Building Intelligence that can Interact with the Physical World
… meaningfully beyond the digital realm into the physical world. Developing AI for physical interaction poses challenges such as limited grounding, scarce physical data, and high reliability demands in safety-critical settings. This thesis takes a holistic approach to building intelligence that …
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Instruction of throwing events in track and field : an historical analysis
… Ireland and Scotland, require complex physical interaction. An historical analysis of the features of traditional media which have been used as coaching tools in these events - books, video, audio, diagrams, photographs and hypertext - provides the foundation on which future multimedia …
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Materiality in suspense : exploring radical interfaces capable of representing multiple physical property transformations to enable computational, physical material perception
… biological and micromechanical to enable radical physical interaction with computation. With an increasing multi-modal complexity in such interfaces, this thesis explores a new methodologies and frameworks to designing input/output coincident and physically embodied computers. New types of Shape …
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Extra robotic legs for augmenting human payload and positioning capabilities
… a proprioceptive transmission to allow for close physical interaction with the human operator. The linkage and actuator design minimizes the maximum required actuator torque by exploiting torque redistribution using a closed kinematic chain. A prototype was fabricated utilizing insights gained …
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The illuminated design environment : a 3-D tangible interface for landscape analysis
… interfaces that allow a greater degree of physical interaction and it describes previous work that has attempted this goal. It describes the implementation of the Illuminated Design Environment as a platform that combines the advantages of physical and digital representation for the …
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