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CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Home, habits, and energy: examining domestic interactions and energy consumption
This paper presents findings from a qualitative study of people’s everyday interactions with energy-consuming products and systems in the home. Initial results from a large onli...
James Pierce, Diane J. Schiano, Eric Paulos
TEC
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
The Self-Organization of Interaction Networks for Nature-Inspired Optimization
Over the last decade, significant progress has been made in understanding complex biological systems, however there have been few attempts at incorporating this knowledge into natu...
James M. Whitacre, Ruhul A. Sarker, Q. Tuan Pham
BC
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
Neural control of Caenorhabditis elegans forward locomotion: the role of sensory feedback
Abstract This paper presents a simple yet biologicallygrounded model for the neural control of Caenorhabditis elegans forward locomotion. We identify a minimal circuit within the C...
John Bryden, Netta Cohen
INTERACTIONS
2010
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13 years 5 months ago
The climate change habitability index
rate, the CCHI is defined abstractly as a metric that can be stated in ordinary language and diagrams that allows people to answer the following three questions related to sustaina...
Yue Pan, Chit Meng Cheong, Eli Blevis
ACMDIS
2010
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
Materializing energy
Motivated and informed by perspectives on sustainability and design, this paper draws on a diverse body of scholarly works related to energy and materiality to articulate a perspe...
James Pierce, Eric Paulos