In turning from functional, tool-like systems to ones that should be fun, we open the possibility and need to think carefully about what it means to design experience for human users. Here, I describe my experiences building a set of interactive installations in the domains of interactive computer characters, virtual reality, and affective computing, through which I have tried to support a rich...

Structural DNA nanotechnology is a rapidly emerging field that has demonstrated great potential for applications such as single molecule sensing, drug delivery, and templating molecular components. As the applications of DNA nanotechnology expand, a consideration of their mechanical behavior is becoming essential to understand how these structures will respond to physical interactions. This rev...

Function sharing in mechanical design is the simultaneous implementation of several functions with a single structural element. If automobiles were designed without function sharing they would be relatively large, expensive and unreliable. But because elements like the sheetmetal body implement many functions (electrical ground, structural support, aerodynamic faring, weather protection, and ae...

Lightning strikes to flammable materials in Offshore Oil Installations (OOI) can cause devastating accidents. Explosions from flammable materials are a personnel safety danger. Loss of function and loss of production due to upsets of analog and digital low voltage systems is another. This paper describes the underlying basis for guidance of protection of Offshore Oil Installations (OOI) from di...

The urgent issues for automobile companies today are how to reduce the time and cost required for developing a new car. CAE ( Computer Aided Engineering ) has been regarded as an efficient way to solve these issues, and as a numerical experiment to replace prototypes and experiments. CAE was first introduced to reproduce phenomena that are elusive in regular experiments. Now it is even capable ...

Staging is the creative act of showing something to an audience. When staging, the artist chooses and creates the context, situation and structure of the presented object, play or installation. The chosen context and situation provide background for the audience interpretations. Meaning is co-created between the artist and audience, based on the cultural and individual understanding of the cont...

The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) is presently designing and building the 2.5 MeV front end for the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS). The front end includes a medium-energy beam transport (MEBT) that carries the 2.5 MeV, 38 mA peak current, H beam from the radio frequency quadrupole (RFQ) to the drift tube linac (DTL) through a series of 14 electromagnetic quadrupoles, four rebunc...

Bainitic transformation at low transformation temperatures leads to a microstructure involving fine plates of bainitic ferrite and thin films of retained austenite. This microstructure has shown ultimate tensile strength of about 2.2 GPa, noticeable uniform elongation in the range of 5 to 30%, hardness values of about 600 to 670 HV and impact toughness in the range of 30 to 40 MPa m1/2. With ca...

The article deals with the problem of using various installations for mixing and preparing liquid feed mixtures in animal husbandry. analysis domestic foreign capable performing this function is carried out. But during review process, many shortcomings problems were identified that needed to be solved by developing a new design would eliminate all problems. Therefore, two horizontal vertical ve...

The purpose of this study was to obtain empirical evidence the role work motivation in mediating relationship between interprofessional collaboration and transformational leadership on patient safety inpatient installations using a cross-sectional design. Moreover, make 250 installation nurses with civil servant status as unit analysis. study's results prove that positively significantly affect...