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Artificial arm checkout procedures.

1 Engineer, Artificial Limbs Project, University of California, Los Angeles. The story of civilization's slow but steady march of progress from the days of the Roman Empire, through the Industrial Age, and into the present Technological Age is the story of measurements. The standardization of such common units as the inch and the foot required thousands of years, but once that was accomplished,...

Public Feedback for Publicly Used Information Systems - Supporting Adoption of a Mobile Self-Checkout Application

As the physical and digital world increasingly merge, more and more information systems are being used publicly. This paper outlines current gaps in information systems adoption and usage literature with respect to applications where usage happens in public and users can be observed. We present how a purely mobile self-checkout system can be supported with public feedback channels that are desi...

The effect of different supermarket checkout workstations on trunk kinematics of checkout operators.

OBJECTIVES This study analyzed the effect of a standard and a modified checkout workstation during a simulated task on trunk postures of a supermarket checkout operator. METHODS Eight participants performed a task involving grasping, scanning and depositing products, while 3D images of the trunk were collected. RESULTS A number of kinematic changes were observed in trunk posture. A greater ...

A Public Digital Library based

The NZDL aims to impose structure on anarchic and uncataloged repositories of information, providing information consumers with effective tools to locate and peruse what they need. Our goal is to produce an easy-to-use digital library system that runs on inexpensive computers at information providers’ own sites and offers an information service that information providers themselves maintain. Ne...

Public library use of free e-resources