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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"wearable technologies"”.

  1. IceBreakware : designing wearable technologies for spatial awareness and social interactions

    … control. This thesis proposes a perspective at wearable and personal computing devices and the role that their design may play in creating and fighting the epidemic of growing isolation. We hypothesize that the negative social trends that we witness as a result of using smartphones, headphones …

    mit Repository record for IceBreakware : designing wearable technologies for spatial awareness and social interactions (opens in a new tab)

  2. Designing personal systems for mindful decision making

    Today's personal technologies are generally seen as reducing mindfulness. Users are so absorbed in their devices that they behave in more distracted ways, are less engaged in face-to-face social interactions and increase their sedentary behaviors. This often results in behaviors and habits that are …

    mit Repository record for Designing personal systems for mindful decision making (opens in a new tab)

  3. Automatic Page-Turner for Pianists With Wearable Motion Detector

    … performance. We suggested a framework that uses wearable technologies as an alternative solution for solving page-turning problems. The proposed design recognizes the pianist's wrists oscillatory motion with accelerometer sensors and tries to sync them to digital music notes. This system uses …

    carleton Repository record for Automatic Page-Turner for Pianists With Wearable Motion Detector (opens in a new tab)

  4. Portfolio of Electroacoustic Compositions with Commentaries

    … is an investigation into the use of mediation technologies with the aim of circumventing issues relating to the physical performance of electroacoustic music. This line of inquiry has led me to experiment with embedded computers, wearable technologies, and a range of various sensors. The …

    maynooth Repository record for Portfolio of Electroacoustic Compositions with Commentaries (opens in a new tab)

  5. Sustainable Engineering of Polyethylene Fiber Materials: Advancing Functional Properties of Diverse Textile-Based Structures

    … such as intra-vehicular spacesuits and wearable technologies. To understand the broader systems context, the thesis analyzes barriers to integrating recycled polyethylene (rPE) into textile supply chains, identifying economic, legal, institutional, technological, firm-level, and societal …

    mit Repository record for Sustainable Engineering of Polyethylene Fiber Materials: Advancing Functional Properties of Diverse Textile-Based Structures (opens in a new tab)

  6. Efficient CNNs and Energy Efficient SRAM Design for ubiquitous medical devices

    … limiting its usability for next generation wearable technologies. (1) Current systems require skilled manual scanning with attendant measurement variability. (2) Current systems are insufficiently energy-efficient to permit ubiquitous wearable device deployment. We propose to develop an …

    mit Repository record for Efficient CNNs and Energy Efficient SRAM Design for ubiquitous medical devices (opens in a new tab)

  7. Wearable Devices for Improved Equine Welfare

    … popular in equine research. Current applied technologies for livestock are being used to detect pathogens, observe locomotion patterns, determine estrus periods, and measure vital parameters. These sensors leverage global positioning systems, accelerometers, magnetometers, goniometers, …

    vt Repository record for Wearable Devices for Improved Equine Welfare (opens in a new tab)

  8. Visual Imprints: Understanding Location Data Through Information Architecture

    Wearable technologies are creating new ways for people to discover and record personal data. While these devices are raising awareness about biometric information, there is a larger quantified self movement encompassing any type of personal data collected by any means and recorded and shared in a …

    vt Repository record for Visual Imprints: Understanding Location Data Through Information Architecture (opens in a new tab)

  9. Wearables as witness : sensing and categorizing violent forces in a wearable system

    … because of isolation and concealment. Emerging technologies have been adapted by abusers for methods of control and by victims for methods of resistance. This project examines the intimate position wearable technologies have with our bodies and explores the design of a wearable computer system …

    mit Repository record for Wearables as witness : sensing and categorizing violent forces in a wearable system (opens in a new tab)

  10. Preposthuman : an architectural propaedeutic for the digitally-enhanced

    … of personal internet devices and oncoming wearable technologies bring the posthuman closer, and less like science-fiction. Yet despite our advanced technology, our bodies remain legitimate. Spaces remain legitimate. Within posthumanism, singularity does not occur-we do not transcend our …

    mit Repository record for Preposthuman : an architectural propaedeutic for the digitally-enhanced (opens in a new tab)

  11. Measuring Cognitive Load in a Clinical Setting: Medical Learning and Practice

    … load can be measured in a clinical setting using wearable technologies. First, both traditional literature and systematic reviews were conducted to identify the methods by which cognitive load can be measured using psychometric scales, secondary task performance, and physiologic response measures. …

    queens Repository record for Measuring Cognitive Load in a Clinical Setting: Medical Learning and Practice (opens in a new tab)

  12. Tracking individual disease-trajectory of patients with neuromuscular disorders (Duchenne muscular dystrophy and spinal muscular atrophy)

    … outcome measures, along with the use of wearable technologies to monitor motor function, has expanded the possibilities for evaluation. Quantifying progressive motor decline is key to supporting prognosis and informing both care decisions and clinical trial endpoints. However, selecting …

    oxford-brookes Repository record for Tracking individual disease-trajectory of patients with neuromuscular disorders (Duchenne muscular dystrophy and spinal muscular atrophy) (opens in a new tab)

  13. Microtransfer printing of elastomeric active composites

    … soft robotics, flexible electronics, and wearable technologies. This kind of 3D heterogeneous integration of different materials to form a functional membrane is achieved through a novel fabrication process that includes both photolithography and micro-transfer printing. Thus, an active …

    uiuc Repository record for Microtransfer printing of elastomeric active composites (opens in a new tab)

  14. Three Ecologies of Practice: An Intra-active Account of Learning by Doing

    … and 3) Diffractive Methodology. With the use of wearable technologies, the three ecologies of practice produce on-going questions about nature and culture through experimental practices in an urban school. The three methodologies will be discussed in relation to the planning, designing, and …

    toronto-retro Repository record for Three Ecologies of Practice: An Intra-active Account of Learning by Doing (opens in a new tab)

  15. The perception and fears of sharing personal digital data in digital public space

    … of internet connected, mobile devices and wearable technologies that has led to a growing reciprocal trade in personal information in return for online services. In a world of ‘digital narcissism’ and perpetual life-logging brought about by the volume of shared data, modern surveillance is …

    lancaster Repository record for The perception and fears of sharing personal digital data in digital public space (opens in a new tab)

  16. Novel Wearable Technology Methods to Guide and Monitor Endurance Training

    … contemporary testing protocols and integrating wearable technologies to develop novel methods for prescribing training intensity and monitoring training responses. In Chapter Two, we validated the accuracy of an innovative Step-Ramp-Step (SRS) protocol to match running speed and wearable-derived …

    calgary Repository record for Novel Wearable Technology Methods to Guide and Monitor Endurance Training (opens in a new tab)

  17. Development and Evaluation of Methods to Assess Physical Exposures in the Workplace

    … pressure measurement (IPM) systems are emerging wearable technologies, and they can, respectively, facilitate monitoring of body kinematics and external forces on the body in the workplace. Thus, this research examined the potential of such technologies in exposure assessments, and evaluated them …

    vt Repository record for Development and Evaluation of Methods to Assess Physical Exposures in the Workplace (opens in a new tab)

  18. Monitoring Hand Use and Hand Role of Stroke Survivors at Home Using Egocentric Video

    … impact of novel interventions after stroke. Wearable technologies have been used to capture upper limb use ratios outside of clinical environments, however, wrist-worn devices measure arm use rather than hand use, and finger-worn devices may interfere with natural hand movement during …

    toronto-retro Repository record for Monitoring Hand Use and Hand Role of Stroke Survivors at Home Using Egocentric Video (opens in a new tab)

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