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Inventing disruptive technologies for nanoelectronic devices and creating new paradigms for life-machine symbiosis
Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
Converting the patterns of nature and the human body into beneficial signals and energy
Looking beyond smart cities
PCB debugging can be tricky sometimes. Normally we should check which signal we want to measure in the schematic, switch to PCB layout to s…
Space Exploration Initiative
Open Ocean
Open Agriculture Initiative (OpenAg)
Creating technology for social change
Changing storytelling, communication, and everyday life through sensing, understanding, and new interface technologies
Designing for, with, and by nature
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Designing Systems for Cognitive Support
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Exploring new forms of social justice through art
Beyond the Cradle
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He was recognized for his innovative contributions to wireless sensing and for networking advances in challenging environments.
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Engaging people in creative learning experiences
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Audio-visual data set containing around 21.6 hours of parent-child interaction during story reading.The DAMI-P2C dataset consists of audi...
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Seamlessly coupling the worlds of bits and atoms by giving dynamic physical form to digital information and computation
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Enhancing human physical capability
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The more social behaviors a voice-user interface exhibits, the more likely people are to trust it, engage with it, and think it competent.
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