Ergonomic design: the hidden persuader

The Goldtouch Ergonomic Mouse An Overview of Design How the Mouse Design Provides Optimal Ergonomic Benefits

Bio-urban design and the Hidden Rules of Nature

There was a turning point in each period of time which human has discovered a new sight about the world and nature order in a way, and then has presented this relation by numeral, artful and industrial language. Biourbanism focuses on the urban organism, considering it as a hyper complex system, according to its internal and external dynamics and their mutual interactions. Nowadays when it is t...

Ergonomic Design of a Portable Musical Instrument

A handheld electronic musical instrument, named the BentoBox, was developed. The motivation was to develop an instrument which one can easily carry around and play in moments of free time, for example when riding public transportation or during short breaks at work. The device was designed to enable quick learning by having various scales programmed for different styles of music, and also be ex...

Ergonomic Design of Future Production Systems

Increasing global competition and the resulting cost pressures call for premium-quality products and highly effective manufacturing processes. Moreover, in the face of short product life cycles and customers’ demand for variety, markets demand flexible adaptation to changing conditions. In order to stay competitive, it is crucial for companies in high-wage countries to anticipate customer-speci...

Top Persuader Prediction for Social Networks

Our proof is built on Perron-Frobenius theorem, a seminal work in matrix theory (Meyer 2000). By Perron-Frobenius theorem, the power iteration algorithm for predicting top K persuaders converges to a unique C and this convergence is independent of the initialization of C if the persuasion probability matrix P is nonnegative, irreducible, and aperiodic (Heath 2002). We first show that P is nonne...