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Showing 1 to 20 of 64 for “"technology design"”.
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Centering Communities in Research and Technology Design
… experienced urban segregation, online platform design, and algorithmic management. First, the study on urban segregation highlights how individual mobility behaviors can contribute to city-wide measures of income inequality, and provides an example of how large-scale data analysis can prioritize …
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Evaluating civic technology design for citizen empowerment
Civic technology should empower us as citizens. Despite its breadth as a field, civic technology often takes its lead from Silicon Valley companies that espouse design goals potentially hazardous to participatory democracy. In this dissertation, I explore: How might we design civic technologies for …
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Functional application of iron-based metallic glasses in catalysis technology: Design and mechanism
… mg/g, respectively. The results suggest that the designed Fe78Si9B13 and Fe73.5Si13.5B9Cu1Nb3 MGs present a superior catalytic performance making them more desirable than the commercial used crystalline Fe-based catalysts. Therefore, this research demonstrates that through proper elemental and …
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Investigation of Molecular FCN for Beyond-CMOS: Technology, design, and modeling for nanocomputing
L'abstract è presente nell'allegato / the abstract is in the attachment
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Advancing high power microwave spark-gap technology : design and analysis of a coaxial ringdown oscillator
… high-power electromagnetic pulses. Current CRO designs can only withstand breakdown voltages up to 100 kV, which limit peak output voltages, and a suboptimal Q-factor (Q) values, which reduces the amount of energy coupled to a target at a specific frequency. Therefore, the aim of this thesis is …
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Methodology to determine performance of a group technology design cell on the basis of performance measures
There are a large number of Group Technology (GT) based cell formation techniques in the literature, but their applications rare. It is hypothesized that the reason behind the lack of applications of these techniques in practice, is "fear of the unknown”. There have been a very limited number of …
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Machinery monitoring technology design methodology for determining the information and sensors required for reduced manning of ships
Thesis (Nav.E.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Ocean Engineering; and, (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 2000.
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Enhancing the accessibility and usability of motion capture technology: design and development of indoor MoCap hardware system
Motion capture technology (MoCap) is a revolutionary method to translate real-world subjects’ movements into digital content across various industries, including robotics, medical devices, gaming, and biomechanics. This paper investigates how to make MoCap more accessible and usable to a broader …
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Health technology : design of bandage-sized wireless sensors and effect of ambient displays on social support and diabetes management
Health-Zero refers to health technology design that focus on interaction with an individual as a whole to promote well-being. This thesis presents two explorations in the discipline. The first exploration involves the design of a wireless bandage-sized ECG sensor to create a personal and …
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A Phenomenological Approach to User-Centered Design: Conceptualizing the Technology Design Space to Assist Military Veterans with Community Reintegration
The current best practices of user-centered design (UCD) may not be optimal with respect to eliciting information from representative users from special populations. This research extended elicitation approaches traditional focus on user needs and context to include criteria describing obstacles …
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Moving fiction : novelists, technology designers, and the art of the exchange
How can concepts from literature and technology design combine to create new forms of storytelling on mobile devices? This paper examines the theory and practice of bringing literary techniques into mobile technology design. First I present a model of media technology evolution which is not …
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Talking Shop: Worker Voice and Representation in the Digital Age
… a particular focus on the role of third-party technology vendors. By drawing on a 31-month ethnographic study of a digital production monitoring technology used by manufacturing firms, I examine the barriers, facilitators, and processes that guide how frontline workers are considered during …
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How do we design robots equitably?: Engaging design justice, design fictions, and co-design in human-robot interaction design and policymaking processes
… in society, which stakeholders have a say in technology development or policy development, and whose voices are heard in technology design. There is limited engagement with these questions in human-robot interaction where there is a greater need to understand how human-centered design …
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Social construction of pedagogical ICT discourse: the case of a university of technology in South Africa
… the ways in which Information Communication Technology (ICT) was structured in a teacher education institution to prepare pre-service students for effective ICT integration in their future classrooms. The study investigated how a particular subject, viz. Information Communication Technology …
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Incorporating users into sanitation technology innovation: Challenges to knowledge coherence between disciplines
… into sanitation interventions and sanitation technology design is required but how to go about this process is uncertain. Three primary methods for incorporating users into technology design have been popular in engineering sciences: user centered design, multiple criteria decision analysis, …
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Contesting Design: Ancestral Technology as Portal to Post-Design(s)
Nowadays, designers and technologists are constantly exposed to increasingly technocentric views of the future, primarily fueled by dominant ideologies—scalability, universal applicability, and profit, among others. Many of these future makers are preparing in the present, often at institutions …
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Community knowledge sharing : an Internet application to support communications across literacy levels
… Internet-enabled asynchronous messaging system designed for use in the developing world. The system is motivated by a desire to expand the benefits of network connectivity deeply into rural areas, breaking down barriers within and between communities. Recognizing that large segments of the …
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Investigating successful implementation of technologies in Developing nations
… have devoted great effort to Appropriate Technology design over the last two decades, but few comprehensive case studies currently exist examining factors that lead to technology success. Existing studies of appropriate technology were summarized and a quantitative model was created to …
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