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What is ‘woman’s work’?
Money & Business

What is ‘woman’s work’?

...interface are constructed as conflicts and/or whether they are also viewed as opportunities for professional and personal enrichment. In exploring these experiences of work–family interface the chapter will also discuss the specific factors that affect the balance between work and life. Read the chapter: De Simone, S., & Priola, V. (2015). 24. What’s ‘woman’s...
Cyborgs and cybernetics
Science, Maths & Technology

Cyborgs and cybernetics

...interfaces that communicate between man and machine are developing rapidly and to Prof. Kevin Warwick at Reading University, cyborgs are a technological evolutionary step forward from humans. With increasingly intelligent robots and nano-technologies, can man keep up with the machines? This material forms part of The Open University course T209 Information and...
Can design by committee work? Making a case for open source design
Science, Maths & Technology

Can design by committee work? Making a case for open source design

...interface has consistently been a point of failure. How come the networked collaboration that transformed code production and encyclopedia-writing fails to translate to graphic and interface design? The following is an investigation into the difficulties of extending the open-source collaboration model from coding to its next logical step: interface design. While we’ll...
Digital Film School
Science, Maths & Technology

Digital Film School

...interface and also the first steps to importing media and building your first sequence. Getting started Windows Live Movie Maker This track is designed to introduce you to the Windows Live Movie Maker user interface and also the first steps to importing media and building your first sequence. Getting started with Adobe Premiere Pro This track is designed to introduce you...
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Wild Weather Kitchen Experiments: Avalanches
Science, Maths & Technology

Wild Weather Kitchen Experiments: Avalanches

...interfaces between them can be lubricated by finer powder snow. Avalanches can be deadly, but sadly far more people are killed by mudslides and landslides. The processes involved are similar, with layers of rock or soil being lubricated by water. In this video we will see why avalanches begin and investigate how different conditions affect the point at which they occur....
The Future of Language
Languages

The Future of Language

...over the coming decades. Transcript Will machine translation make learning a foreign language redundant? Will a mixture of brain-computer interfaces and artificial intelligence mean that we’ll soon be able to talk to each other via computer-enabled technology? And what will all this mean for issues such as privacy, surveillance and the future shape of society?...
Animal-Computer Interaction and dogs
Digital & Computing

Animal-Computer Interaction and dogs

...interfaces of operant chambers, now evolved into sophisticated electronic devices. In the 1980s, Apple designed Koko’s Mac II, a touch-screen computer that allowed the famous resident of The Gorilla Foundation to learn language and communicate with human researchers using symbolic icons called lexigrams; nowadays, the residents of the Bonobo Hope Great Ape Trust...
Impossible Peace 2: An everyday kind of miracle
OpenLearn Ireland

Impossible Peace 2: An everyday kind of miracle

...interface riot, or charting the rise of dissident republican organisations, or interminable political stand-offs, I would often be reminded of F Scott Fitzgerald’s famous phrase in The Great Gatsby; “so we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” In the end, though, we came through. Perhaps the greatest achievement of the last three...