7 research outputs found
Wrist-worn pervasive gaze interaction
This paper addresses gaze interaction for smart home control, conducted from a wrist-worn unit. First we asked ten people to enact the gaze movements they would propose for e.g. opening a door or adjusting the room temperature. On basis of their suggestions we built and tested different versions of a prototype applying off-screen stroke input. Command prompts were given to twenty participants by text or arrow displays. The success rate achieved by the end of their first encounter with the system was 46% in average; it took them 1.28 seconds to connect with the system and 1.29 seconds to make a correct selection. Their subjective evaluations were positive with regard to the speed of the interaction. We conclude that gaze gesture input seems feasible for fast and brief remote control of smart home technology provided that robustness of tracking is improved
Ultra-fast yttrium hydride chemistry at high pressures via non-equilibrium states induced by x-ray free electron laser
Controlling the formation and stoichiometric content of desired phases of
materials has become a central interest for the study of a variety of fields,
notably high temperature superconductivity under extreme pressures. The further
possibility of accessing metastable states by initiating reactions by x-ray
triggered mechanisms over ultra-short timescales is enabled with the
development of x-ray free electron lasers (XFEL). Utilizing the exceptionally
high brilliance x-ray pulses from the EuXFEL, we report the synthesis of a
previously unobserved yttrium hydride under high pressure, along with
non-stoichiometric changes in hydrogen content as probed at a repetition rate
of 4.5\,MHz using time-resolved x-ray diffraction. Exploiting non-equilibrium
pathways we synthesize and characterize a hydride with yttrium cations in an
\textit{A}15 structure type at 125\,GPa, predicted using crystal structure
searches, with a hydrogen content between 4.0--5.75 hydrogens per cation, that
is enthalpically metastable on the convex hull. We demonstrate a tailored
approach to changing hydrogen content using changes in x-ray fluence that is
not accessible using conventional synthesis methods, and reveals a new paradigm
in metastable chemical physics