the design of everyday things

... lies in the information available from the appearance of the objects the psychology of everyday things And part comes from the ability of the designer to make the operation ... conscious of them I call the use of natural signals natural design and elaborate on the approach throughout this book 4 The Design of Everyday Things. .. affordances: they allow the ... Design of Everyday. .. was visiting the University of Michigan and I asked about the new 6 The Design of Everyday Things 1.4 Plate Mounted Over the Dial of the Telephones

Ngày tải lên: 26/05/2014, 07:46

... faster if the thermostat is turned all the way to the maximum setting? Trang 17• Two 'folk' theories of thermostats • timer theory - thermostat controls the relative proportion of time that the device ... It examines the effect of poor design and equipment failure on human behavior • It covers user-centered design, on everyday things and on everyday actions Trang 7Design of Everyday Things• “I ... Interface Design and ProgrammingCS422 Luc Renambot renambot@uic.edu The Design of Everyday Things Week 1 Trang 2The purpose of this assignment is to give you a bit of practice with the material

Ngày tải lên: 10/05/2015, 14:31

... given the state of the a r t , the only v i a b l e solution for the designer of software tools for MT, is to provide the linguists building the MT system with a generator of highly specialized, theory ... presence of a software framework will provide a formal language for expressing the MT theory, either explicitly or heavy responsibility on the shoulders of the software designers, since they will ... u c h a software system is that it is the user of the system, in our case the linguist, who knows the structure of the problem domain, but is very often unable to articulate it until the language

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 18:20

... the source of this pleasure of “seeing the whole,” of looking down on, totalizing the most immoderate of human texts To be lifted to the summit of the World Trade Center is to be lifted out of ... They can already be recognized in the functions of proper names: they make habitable or believable the place that they clothe with a word (by emptying themselves of their classifying power, they ... types, which they call the “map” and the “tour.” The first is of the type: “The girls’ room is next to the kitchen *’The second: “You turn right and come into the living room.” Now, in the New York

Ngày tải lên: 10/03/2014, 08:20

... people The seed for the writers’ workshop as we now know it was planted at the end of the nineteenth century at the University of Iowa The result was the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, which is one of the ... twice the content in half the time com-The format of the workshop is designed to simulate the impossible situation of a group of very friendly, intelligent people discussing the piece, with the ... parts of the process in which the public—the other in the guise of colleagues and strangers—is invited in For the writer new to the writers’ workshop, it appears to be a forum in which the writer,

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 21:20

... part of the growing up of the Internet or the fencing of the West, they are happening It is not possible to turn back the clock to regain the circumstances of the early ... For most of the history of the telephone system, the called telephone (and thus the person answering the phone) had no idea what the number of the caller was Then the “caller ... the core of the network—that part of the Internet implemented in the routers 390 themselves, which provide the basic data forwarding service. Another version applies to the 391 design of applications.

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 03:20

... involved in the specificity of the enzymes compared. According to the descriptions of the active sites of DPP-IV [3,18–22] and PepX [9], the residues involv- ed in the positioning of the substrate ... be the reference); 2, docked into the active site of the human DPP-IV; 3, docked into the active site of the crystalline structure of PepX from L. lactis;and4, docked into the active site of the ... the comparison of the active and specificity site- s of the two X-PDAP enzymes, the bacterial PepX (green) and the human DPP-IV (orange). (B) Superposition of the active and specifi- city sites of the S9

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 13:20

... to the changes introduced in the redox cofactor environment upon complex formation They are therefore related to the specificity and the strength of the protein–protein interaction Therefore, the ... point out the different arrangement of the [2Fe)2S] centres of these Fds The cyanobacterial Fd presents an increased shielding from the solvent of the active Fe in ET when compared with that of Adx ... and support the hypothesis of the existence of a ternary ET [Adx:Adx:AdR] complex in the physiological AdR/P450 system [16,36,37] Therefore, our experimental data for the reduction of Adx by FNRrdcould

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 07:20

... the duration of the current user program Because queriescan be stored as the value of a field, the scope of tuple variable definitions must be constrained.The From-clause makes the scope of the ... describes the design rationale, the features of POSTGRES, and our proposedimplementation for the system The next section discusses the design goals for the system Sec-tions 3 and 4 presents the query ... onthe design and implementation of a new generation of DBMS’s, based on the relational model,that will provide the facilities required by these applications This section describes the majordesign

Ngày tải lên: 28/04/2014, 13:31

... use of) the will of another (the audience).22 For these two reasons, rhetoric, the science of the "ways of speaking," offers an array of figure-types for the analysis of everyday ways of ... in the everyday practices of language The first two parts of the present volume are the more theoretic They envision the definition and the situation, in the context of current research, of the ... reality, the activity of reading has on the contrary all the characteristics of a silent production: the drift across the page, the meta-morphosis of the text effected by the wandering eyes of the

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 12:44

... was defined The bit i of the binary chromosome specified whether or not the fea-ture i was selected by the GA A value of "1" indicated the presence of feature i and a value of "0" ... comparing the members of the population In our case, the average of over the validation sets was first selected as the objective function with the highest priority The chromosomes were then ranked ... applying the hybrid feature selection algorithm. Trang 9ther decrease the number of channels used for the opera-tion of the system This approach would rank the channels according to the number of selected

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 10:20

... error-detecting. Their design properties guarantee for detecting the onset of errors because of failures, regardless of any error-free region following the begin- ning of a burst of errors. Consider designing ... Page 3 of 12 define the parity values. The data processing operations are combined with the parity generating function to provide one set of parity values. The k is the basic block size of the input ... http://asp.eurasipjournals.com/content/2011/1/90 Page 5 of 12 The n columns of H 0 are designed as an n-dimen- sional subspace of a full (2n)-dimensional space compar- able with the size of the row space. Using this notation, the syndrome

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 22:20

... In the first design step this procedure is used either for the design of the SFB or the AFB prototype filter (3) For the second and final design step (cf Section 4), we use the deviation of the ... properties are designed and their performances are compared Moreover, the effect of the number of subbands, the oversampling factors, and the length of the prototype filter are also studied Using the multicriteria ... However the coefficients of the AFB prototype filter are regarded as constants in this design step, due to the fact they are fixed to the design result obtained in the first algorithm Therefore the distortion

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 19:20

... cryptanalysis, the design should restrict the probability of difference propagation to 21− n b The weight of a differential trail is the sum of the weights of the difference patterns of the trails [12] As the ... use of linearity in the cipher to obtain the key bits The success of linear cryptanalysis is related to the weight of a linear trail [12], which is the product of the sum of the weights of its ... but the last round of the cipher Additional bits of round keys are removed using the key truncation operationχ, which simply reduces the size of the round key to the size of the cipher state 3.2

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 22:20

... es- timation of the probability that the target is in each of them, µj[k]. One of the basic elements in this methodology is the interacting process, which keeps all of them engaged to the most probable ... coming in the future. 3.2. Design of an IMM filter The two basic aspects involved in the design of an IMM tracking system which determine its performance are the following: the number and type of models ... with the rate of change from any mode to the rest. They have a very deep impact in the tracker behaviour during transitions and the “purity” of output during each type of motion, so the design

Ngày tải lên: 23/06/2014, 00:20

... of these metrics is optionally a component of the VM, the end-point monitor can keep statistics on the components that are in VM. Together with the vector of weights, these statistics allow the ... improving the latency of the other branch will have no observable effect at the output). In the case that no information is available from the end point monitor concerning the source of the problem, then ... values of the message in place of the orig- inal values during the replay. 1 To minimize the number of output tuples generated, the box would replay the original diagram history as well as the revised

Ngày tải lên: 27/06/2014, 23:20

... significantly different from the results of all the other cases Testing of the four placebo products using the ASTM method showed both of the lipid products failed to meet the acceptance criteria ... of the colon in comparison to the more limited size of the vaginal cavity is another pro-blem In addition, vaginal microflora is predominately Lactobacilli with acidic pH 4-5, while that of the ... of viability to 21.4% of the control, untreated explants The lipid gel was 140% ± 64, the lipid fluid was 105% ± 26, the aqu-eous gel was 122% ± 66, and the aquaqu-eous gel was 122% ± 39 of the

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 05:22

... location 3) at the coupling end of the input shaft and the spher-ical roller thrust bearing 29464E (bearing location 9) at the output end of the output shaft Based on the index of dynamic stressing ... Output shaft Trang 7The effects of basing the bearing dimensions on attain-able life become evident in the case of the two bearings dimensioned for the least load carrying capacity: the spherical roller ... by counterbending of rolls 2 and 4 Moreover, the narrow tolerance of the foil thickness requires a high radial runout accuracy of the bearings and adequate radial guidance of roll 3 which is

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:22

... relu-bricated if necessary Openings in the sealing lip and the elasticity of the sealing material ensure the escape of the spent grease. The clearance between the knuckle and the cross member is compensated ... cones The sleeve is somewhat longer than the maximum distance between the two bearing cones Depending on the width tolerance values of the bearings there will be some elastic deformation of the ... dimensioning For the fatigue life calculation of wheel bearings, the static wheel load, the dynamic tyre radius rdynand its coefficient of adhesion, as well as the speeds of the ve-hicle in the operating

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:22

... 119 pcf Example 4. Design the steel lying in the East-West direction of the mat shown below with external dimensions of 42 feet by 74 feet. The columns are all 15”by 15”, the LF = 1.6, f c ’ ... being designed for a small office building with a total live load of 250 kips and dead load of 500 kips. Find: (a) the depth D f for a fully compensated foundation, (b) the depth D f if a soft ... in the x and y values, which these values are found by using the x-y coordinate system off the mat foundation. Determine the average soil reaction. (92.34(78.8)69.8) 79 6 avg qpsf ++ ∆== Therefore,...

Ngày tải lên: 16/10/2012, 10:43