Copyright is held by the author. Golan Levin’s Interactive Art and Computational Design class. Spring 2012, Carnegie Mellon University. Abstract We present “Gesture of In-Kindness,” an interactive art project comprising four household devices that respond in-kind to observers’ gestures. These devices include a fan that blows air at the observer only when the observer is actively blowing his or ...

Evolutionary art has a long and distinguished history, and genetic programming is one of only a handful of AI techniques which is used in graphic design and the visual arts. A recent trend in so-called ‘new media’ art is to design online pieces which are dynamic and have an element of interaction and sometimes simple game-playing aspects. This defines the challenge addressed here: to automatica...

this paper presents theoretical and numerical state-of-the-art information in the field of hygro-thermo-mechanical deformation simulation in structural concrete. the aspects discussed include coupled hygro-thermo-mechanical performance of porous materials including concrete, multi-scale simulation of concrete properties especially the volumetric and structural deformation performance, and the m...

Background: A study to assess the effectiveness of patient education program focused on improving knowledge in reducing stress among primary infertile couples undergoing ART in Royan Institute. Materials and Methods: In total, 50 primary infertile Couples fulfilling the inclusion criteria undergoing ART, 25 each in experimental and control groups completed the intervention. A well educated and ...

In the last decade, several research efforts have been directed to integrating performance analysis in the software development process. Traditional software development methods focus on software correctness, introducing performance issues later in the development process. This approach is not adequate since performance problems may be so severe that they may require considerable changes in the...

The power of high performance computing systems is largely obtained by executing several computations in parallel. Full use of these systems can only be made if application programs are implicitly or explicitly characterized by a sufficient amount of parallelism of the kind the computing system offers. When programming high performance systems one has not only to consider the structure of the h...

BACKGROUND In resource-limited countries, CD4 T-cell (CD4) testing continues to be used for determining antiretroviral therapy (ART) initiation eligibility and opportunistic infection monitoring. To support expanded access to CD4 testing, simple and robust technologies are necessary. We conducted this study to evaluate the performance of a new Point-of-Care (POC) CD4 technology, the MyT4, compa...

The performance measurement revolution started in the late 1970s with the dissatisfaction of traditional backward looking accounting systems. Since then the literature in this field is emerging. Most of the focus was on designing performance measurement system (PMS), with few studies illustrating the issues in implementing and using PMS. Although Management Information Systems (MIS) and change ...