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ICRA
2003
IEEE
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14 years 23 days ago
Wet Shape Memory Alloy Actuators for Active Vasculated Robotic Flesh
− A new type of actuator is presented where Shape Memory Alloy (SMA) wires are embedded within artificial “blood vessels.” Fluid flowing through vessels allows the SMA wires ...
Stephen A. Mascaro, H. Harry Asada
AMAST
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Implementing a Categorical Information System
The authors have proposed using category-theoretic sketches to enhance database design and integration methodologies. The algebraic context is called the Sketch Data Model (SkDM) a...
Michael Johnson, Robert D. Rosebrugh
DASC
2006
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Service Clouds: A Distributed Infrastructure for Constructing Autonomic Communication Services
Abstract— This paper describes Service Clouds, a distributed infrastructure designed to facilitate rapid prototyping and deployment of services that enhance communication perform...
Philip K. McKinley, Farshad A. Samimi, Jonathan K....
INTERACT
2003
13 years 8 months ago
Interactive Immersive Design Application: Analysis of Requirements
: In this paper we report on the progress of an international EU/IMS research project to develop an Immersive free-form Design Application using Virtual Reality and Haptic Immersio...
Urs Künzler, Roger Wetzel, Martin Iseli
MTA
2007
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13 years 7 months ago
Toolkits and interface creativity
Interface toolkits in ordinary application areas let average programmers rapidly develop software resembling other standard applications. In contrast, toolkits for novel and perhap...
Saul Greenberg