42 research outputs found

    2020 GREAT Day Program

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    SUNY Geneseo’s Fourteenth Annual GREAT Day.https://knightscholar.geneseo.edu/program-2007/1014/thumbnail.jp

    Haptics: Science, Technology, Applications

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    This open access book constitutes the proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Human Haptic Sensing and Touch Enabled Computer Applications, EuroHaptics 2022, held in Hamburg, Germany, in May 2022. The 36 regular papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 129 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: haptic science; haptic technology; and haptic applications

    Challenges for engineering students working with authentic complex problems

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    Engineers are important participants in solving societal, environmental and technical problems. However, due to an increasing complexity in relation to these problems new interdisciplinary competences are needed in engineering. Instead of students working with monodisciplinary problems, a situation where students work with authentic complex problems in interdisciplinary teams together with a company may scaffold development of new competences. The question is: What are the challenges for students structuring the work on authentic interdisciplinary problems? This study explores a three-day event where 7 students from Aalborg University (AAU) from four different faculties and one student from University College North Denmark (UCN), (6th-10th semester), worked in two groups at a large Danish company, solving authentic complex problems. The event was structured as a Hackathon where the students for three days worked with problem identification, problem analysis and finalizing with a pitch competition presenting their findings. During the event the students had workshops to support the work and they had the opportunity to use employees from the company as facilitators. It was an extracurricular activity during the summer holiday season. The methodology used for data collection was qualitative both in terms of observations and participants’ reflection reports. The students were observed during the whole event. Findings from this part of a larger study indicated, that students experience inability to transfer and transform project competences from their previous disciplinary experiences to an interdisciplinary setting

    Gravitational Imagination: Picturing Suspension From Eadweard Muybridge To The Space Age

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    Resisting gravity holds an allure. Situating that appeal within the realm of art history, my dissertation charts modern aesthetic efforts to channel and challenge gravitational force—casting suspension as vital to modernism. I contend that new modes of pictorial time—and, in turn, novel possibilities for embodied engagement—emerged once photographic technology accelerated enough to catch airborne bodies and hold them aloft in the space of an image—documenting a potential which was actualized in the Space Age, when humans first experienced sustained weightlessness. Tracing an ungrounded sensibility that emerged between these nodal points, my project offers a thematic account of how gravitational disruption coheres in pictorial composition and perceptual effects. Drawing upon a range of interdisciplinary sources and period voices, my chapters posit the rise of a form of suspended viewership—which does not presume grounded-ness or fixed coordinates, either within artworks or on our part. From Eadweard Muybridge’s photographs of figures held in momentary flight to artists such as Helen Frankenthaler and Marcel Duchamp enacting an “aerial gesture” that employs and subverts gravity, and from Claude Monet’s “upside down” waterlily paintings to Aaron Siskind’s levitational midcentury imagery, my case studies explore increasingly unbound aesthetic terrain. Once gravity became dislodged in visual representation, I argue, formal axes were opened to more symbolic creative dimensions. With that metaphoric tenor, this dissertation defines a pictorial suspension ripe with potential—and charged with the power to resist seemingly inexorable forces. Materializing a stillness that arose in the face of modern momentum, the objects at its core open space for a “gravitational imagination”—founded in the world but also challenging its limits

    The Increasing Necessity of Skills Diversity in Team Teaching

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    Exploring the practical use of a collaborative robot for academic purposes

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    This article presents a set of experiences related to the setup and exploration of potential educational uses of a collaborative robot (cobot). The basic principles that have guided the work carried out have been three. First and foremost, study of all the functionalities offered by the robot and exploration of its potential academic uses both in subjects focused on industrial robotics and in subjects of related disciplines (automation, communications, computer vision). Second, achieve the total integration of the cobot at the laboratory, seeking not only independent uses of it but also seeking for applications (laboratory practices) in which the cobot interacts with some of the other devices already existing at the laboratory (other industrial robots and a flexible manufacturing system). Third, reuse of some available components and minimization of the number and associated cost of required new components. The experiences, carried out following a project-based learning methodology under the framework of bachelor and master subjects and thesis, have focused on the integration of mechanical, electronic and programming aspects in new design solutions (end effector, cooperative workspace, artificial vision system integration) and case studies (advanced task programming, cybersecure communication, remote access). These experiences have consolidated the students' acquisition of skills in the transition to professional life by having the close collaboration of the university faculty with the experts of the robotics company.Postprint (published version
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