This paper introduces the Icehotel, the world’s first and largest hotel to be constructed entirely of ice and snow, as a unique and generative organizational trope. As a trope, it both supplements and complements Morgan’s seminal book “The Images of Organization” and generates unique insights with regard to surprise, unifinality, purity, eco-coreness, and rebirth. The Icehotel also serves as a ...

Temporal simulations are increasingly performed in wind effects analysis of flexible structures. By comparison with classical techniques such as spectral methods, temporal simulations provide the advantage of easily combining different kinds of loads, can take nonlinearities into account and also provide the onlyway to reproduce transient behaviors. In that context this study deals with the tra...

A mvkrr is made of the techniqws that have been developed or are being developed in the United Kilngdon for flight vibration testing and flight flutter testing aircraft. This includes a description of the instnznentation used for recotiing the Vibratioml response, and a comparative assessment of the vaious methods used for exciting the aircraft in i'lipht flutter tests.

Exclamatives like What a dump!, Wow!, and Boy, you’ve grown! are, when uttered in context, rich in information about the speaker’s attitudes. Drawing on evidence from about 100, 000 online product reviews with associated meta-data, we develop a frequency-based characterization of this pragmatic contribution. This allows us to make precise predictions about the exclamativity that inheres in thes...

This paper describes an automated process for designing electrical circuits in which "What You Want Is What You Get" ("WYWIWYG" – pronounced "wow-eee-wig"). The design process uses genetic programming to produce both the topology of the desired circuit and the sizing (numerical values) for all the components of a circuit. Genetic programming successfully evolves both the topology and the sizing...

To build a platform for (high, sustainable) use, we need to know what will thrill users. Finding the right concoction of technology, functionality and design to delight users takes a thousand decisions, pivots and changes. The JSTOR Labs team has been using Flash Builds – high-intensity, short-burst, user-driven development efforts – in order to prototype new ideas and get to a user saying “Wow...

For Augmented Reality to reach beyond novelty (the simple “wow” factor) and become utilitarian and enjoyable regardless of where the user works or plays, there will need to be: • a nearly infinite amount of content, just as there is today on other digital platforms (e.g., the Web), • an easy system for the owners of content to build or find complementary digital data and have their content be v...

The IFTAC is a special purpose analog computer designed to take the direct Fourier transform of a recorded function C(t). The system uses a recorded time base generated by a monochromatic source in the interferometer to correct for any changes in velocity of motion of the movable mirror, and to compensate for wow and flutter and changes in velocity of the tape transport drive system. Introducti...

What are the situations in everyday life that people enjoy and cherish? This paper presents a content and user study with two simple mobile phone applications called PosiPost to investigate this question and learn what people express as their pleasures in everyday life. Drawing from a corpus of 379 PosiPost messages that users shared, this paper presents an analysis of users’ pleasurable moment...