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HICSS
2006
IEEE
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A Bridge Home: The Use of the Internet by Transnational Communities of Immigrants
For decades transnational communities of immigrants have used various forms of communication to maintain ties with their places of origin. The Internet constitutes an alternative ...
Celene Navarrete, Esperanza Huerta
ICRA
2006
IEEE
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Practical Kinematics for Real-time Implementation of Continuum Robots
Abstract - This paper introduces new analyses and algorithms which are essential for the practical implementation of continuous backbone continuum robots. Actuator length limits st...
Bryan A. Jones, William McMahan, Ian D. Walker
ICRA
2006
IEEE
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Modeling of the Supporting Legs for Designing Biomimetic Water Strider Robots
— Recent studies on the insect water strider showed that the insect heavily relies on surface tension force to stay afloat. Inspired by this insect, water strider robots have be...
Yun Seong Song, Steve H. Suhr, Metin Sitti
CSCW
2006
ACM
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The human infrastructure of cyberinfrastructure
Despite their rapid proliferation, there has been little examination of the coordination and social practices of cyberinfrastructure projects. We use the notion of "human inf...
Charlotte P. Lee, Paul Dourish, Gloria Mark
NORDICHI
2006
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Designing familiar open surfaces
While participatory design makes end-users part of the design process, we might also want the resulting system to be open for interpretation, appropriation and change over time to...
Kristina Höök