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On Birthing Dancing Stars: The Need for Bounded Chaos in Information Interaction
While computers causing chaos is acommon social trope, nearly the entirety of the history of computing is dedicated to generating order. Typical interactive information retrieval tasks ask computers to support the traversal and exploration of large, complex information spaces. The implicit assumption is that they are to support users in simplifying the complexity (i.e. in creating order from chaos). But for some types of task, particularly those that involve the creative application or synthesis of knowledge or the creation of new knowledge, this assumption may be incorrect. It is increasingly evident that perfect orderâand the systems we create with itâsupport highly-structured information tasks well, but provide poor support for less-structured tasks.We need digital information environments that help create a little more chaos from order to spark creative thinking and knowledge creation. This paper argues for the need for information systems that offerwhat we term âbounded chaosâ, and offers research directions that may support the creation of such interface
Variable geometries of connection: Urban digital divides and the uses of Information Technology
This paper proposes a new way of conceptualising urban âdigital dividesâ. It focuses on the ways in which Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) unevenly affect the pace of life within the urban environment. Based on a detailed case study of how ICT s are being used in an affluent and a marginalised neighbourhood in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, the paper suggests that urban digital divides need to be understood as more than uneven patterns of access. They emerge in this work as more than the presence or absence of specific technological artefacts. Rather, it is argued that different styles and speeds of technologically mediated life now work to define urban socio-spatial inequalities. The paper distinguishes between two such key styles and speeds. First, the paper argues that affluent and professional groups now use new media technologies pervasively and continuously as the âbackgroundâ infrastructure to sustain privileged and intensely distanciated, but time-stressed, lifestyles. Second, more marginalised neighbourhoods tend to be characterised by instrumental and episodic ICT usage patterns which are often collectively organised through strong neighbourhood ties. For the former, mediated networks help orchestrate neighbourhood ties; for the latter it is those neighbourhood ties that enable online access
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Post-Processing of Additively Manufactured Covid-19 Nasopharyngeal Swabs at Scale
A methodology to post-process oral/respiratory Additively Manufactured
medical components methods is presented. The system involves PostPro3DÂź
smoothing machine by AMT, picking/racking module, industrial robot, conveyors and
is used to smooth the surfaces of Covid-19 Nasopharyngeal Swabs manufactured at-scale using powder-based methods. The presented process for large scale postprocessing of Additively Manufactured articles has undergone all necessary medical
verifications and has been already deployed in the field.Mechanical Engineerin
Bonefish ( Albula vulpes
A spatial approach to coastal management, such as marine protected areas, is being increasingly used to address biodiversity and fishery declines resulting from habitat loss, degradation, and overfishing. This approach is especially applicable in regions and fisheries that are data poor, and which often lack regulations and adequate capacity for enforcement. In dataâpoor situations, species that have economic, cultural, and charismatic value can provide leverage for ecosystem protection.
In this study, acoustic telemetry was used to confirm a preâspawning aggregation site, acting as critical information for protection of essential habitat for bonefish. Additionally, data sharing with an acoustic telemetry study on smalltooth sawfish (Pristis pectinata) documented linkages between the preâspawning aggregation site and bonefish home ranges â„70Â km distant, thus providing an estimate of the catchment area.
These data provided post hoc support for a marine national park designated in 2002, and demonstrate that the park is of the appropriate spatial scale