How an accelerator can catalyse your ecosystem

Many industries from IT to car manufacturing, robotic and biotechnology, competition is moving from the product level to the ecosystem level. The creation of an ecosystem by a rival and the consequent shift to ecosystem competition can be quite challenging for product-focused incumbent organisations who may find that they have a challenge to establish the reputation and legitimacy of their own new ecosystem. This article discusses the ways and means an incumbent organisation can adopt and mobilise their own ecosystem

Automated precision passing system

Athletes are always seeking ways to improve their performance. Down time and a lack of capable throwers prevent athletic receivers from practicing their skills. We hope to aid athletes in receiving drills within their respective sports and increase practice efficiency. In order to achieve this, the machine has one major axis of rotation driven by a motor. This enables it to adjust where the ball is being thrown. Using an Arduino Uno coupled with a Roboteq AX1500 motor driver, the Automated Precision Passing System is able to throw a ball to a specified point in space by adjusting both the azimuth and ball-throwing motor speed. Our testing shows that our prototype has the ability to position itself in three different orientations as well as adjust the launch motor speed, but we were unable to launch the ball the original distance that we desired. From this project, we gained valuable knowledge in the areas of machine design, control systems, and project management. In order to continue the project and create a functional consumer product there are several improvements that need to be made to the system. The Automated Precision Passing System needs to be more rigid, have more power, and include more throwing positions

Design of a Wearable Sensor System for Prevention of Fatigue-Induced Injuries in Baseball Pitching

Ulnar collateral ligament (UCL) injuries are increasingly common in baseball pitchers of all levels and often are career ending. The aim of this project was to develop a wearable sensor system to quantify risk of UCL injury in baseball pitchers through correlation with fatigue indicated by deviations in forces and torques in the throwing arm during pitching. The outcome of this project was a wearable sensor and data analysis system which could be applicable to predicting risk of injury

Spartan Daily, February 6, 2003

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Lacrosse Ball Passing Machine

Design and build a lacrosse ball passing machine that utilizes an automated ball sorting mechanism to shoot balls up to 60 mph with 80 percent accuracy at a 1 square yard target

Cross-Cultural Redesign Based on the Cultural Differences Between Finland and China

With the rapid development of world economic and technology, more and more multinational companies, international business, cross-cultural designs have appeared in people’s lives. However, the cultural differences among different cultures affect numerous aspects of economic cooperation and design direction. In this thesis, based on Hofstede’s cultural dimensions, Finnish and Chinese were chose as 2 culture groups which were used to analyze how cultural differences influence on human mindsets and the design-related work, especially website user interface design. A Finnish company’s website (including its design style and the related website content) were redesigned to meet Chinese users’ needs and preferences. 8 Chinese website design implications were summarized at last. At the beginning of this thesis, the theoretical background and related work of crosscultural design and website design were provided. Website design principles and current design trends were presented. Then, the Geert Hofstede’s culture dimensions were introduced. According to the results of the Hofstede’s model, the cultural differences between Finland and China were summarized. By comparing the cultural differences and design differences, totally 24 UI design differences were concluded to support the following design work. Subsequently, semi-structured interviews and online questionnaire investigation were conducted to study on how Chinese users feel about using Finnish websites and participating in Finnish projects, as well as local Chinese users’ preferences and website using habits. Combining the results of cultural model analysis and user research work, as well as the design principles and trends summarized in the related work, the Finnish company - Demola’s website and project concept was redesigned. After redesigning work, user evaluation (including 3 focus groups, totally 6 participants) was conducted to examine whether the redesigned website conforms to the usage habits of Chinese local users. After completing the redesign work and user evaluation, design implications for Chinese web service design are summarized in order to help designers from other cultures to create the website for Chinese users

Psychological Strategies in the Process of Pitching New Business Opportunities

This article reviews psychological strategies that lead to revealing the potential of new business opportunities. One of the most effective means of finding investments is the art of right pitching. The procedure of persuading one to invest into a project is a soft skill with an interdisciplinary approach. One of the factors of successful pitching is choosing the right strategy. This theoretical paper addresses the question by analysing the strategies and psychological factors of a successful pitching process. The purpose of this article is to give the directions of how to build soft skills of pitching in the most efficient way. There has been made an analysis of the recent research in the field of pitching strategies and psychological factors. The findings of this paper show the effectiveness of uniting all the pitching strategies into one and contributes to the practical field of pitching.This article reviews psychological strategies that lead to revealing the potential of new business opportunities. One of the most effective means of finding investments is the art of right pitching. The procedure of persuading one to invest into a project is a soft skill with an interdisciplinary approach. One of the factors of successful pitching is choosing the right strategy. This theoretical paper addresses the question by analysing the strategies and psychological factors of a successful pitching process. The purpose of this article is to give the directions of how to build soft skills of pitching in the most efficient way. There has been made an analysis of the recent research in the field of pitching strategies and psychological factors. The findings of this paper show the effectiveness of uniting all the pitching strategies into one and contributes to the practical field of pitching

Honeywell Enhancing Airplane State Awareness (EASA) Project: Final Report on Refinement and Evaluation of Candidate Solutions for Airplane System State Awareness

The loss of pilot airplane state awareness (ASA) has been implicated as a factor in several aviation accidents identified by the Commercial Aviation Safety Team (CAST). These accidents were investigated to identify precursors to the loss of ASA and develop technologies to address the loss of ASA. Based on a gap analysis, two technologies were prototyped and assessed with a formative pilot-in-the-loop evaluation in NASA Langleys full-motion Research Flight Deck. The technologies address: 1) data source anomaly detection in real-time, and 2) intelligent monitoring aids to provide nominal and predictive awareness of situations to be monitored and a mission timeline to visualize events of interest. The evaluation results indicated favorable impressions of both technologies for mitigating the loss of ASA in terms of operational utility, workload, acceptability, complexity, and usability. The team concludes that there is a feasible retrofit solution for improving ASA that would minimize certification risk, integration costs, and training impact