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Conferences

USABILITY STANDARDS ACROSS THE DEVELOPMENT LIFECYCLE

Author(s)
Mary F. Theofanos, Brian C. Stanton
In 2005 the International Standards Organization published ISO/IEC 25062 “Common Industry Format (CIF) for Usability Test Reports”. This standard focused on...

Fate of nanoparticles during life cycle of polymer nanocomposites

Author(s)
Tinh Nguyen, Bastien T. Pellegrin, Coralie Bernard, Xiaohong Gu, Justin M. Gorham, Paul E. Stutzman, Deborah S. Jacobs, Walter E. Byrd, John W. Hettenhouser, Joannie W. Chin
Nanoparticles are increasingly used in consumer and structural polymeric products to enhance a variety of properties. Under the influences of environmental...

IEEE TC-10: Update 2011

Author(s)
Nicholas G. Paulter Jr., Thomas E. Linnenbrink, W. B. Boyer, S. J. Tilden, Travis Ellis
There is a world-wide need to standardize terms, test methods, and the computation of performance parameters for devices that generate, measure, and analyze...

Model Based Enterprise for Manufacturing

Author(s)
Simon P. Frechette
A Model-Based Enterprise (MBE) is an organization that applies modeling and simulation technologies to integrate and manage its technical and business processes...

APPLICATIONS OF HIGH-THROUGHPUT SCREENING TOOLS FOR THERMOELECTRIC MATERIALS

Author(s)
Winnie K. Wong-Ng, Howard L. Joress, Joshua B. Martin, Yonggao Y. Yan, Jihui Yang, Makoto Otani, Evan L. Thomas, Martin L. Green, Jason Hattrick-Simpers
The increased research and development on thermoelectric materials in recent years has been driven primarily by the need for improved efficiency in the global...

An Analysis of the Performance of Smoke Alarms

Author(s)
Thomas G. Cleary
Test results from the NIST 2008 Smoke Alarm Sensitivity Study were used in a smoke alarm performance analysis to examine the effects of pre-movement time...

Frequency-comb based approaches to precision ranging laser radar

Author(s)
Nathan R. Newbury, Tze-Ann Liu, Ian R. Coddington, Fabrizio R. Giorgetta, Esther Baumann, William C. Swann
The output of pulsed femtosecond lasers can be controlled to generate pulse trains with very precise timing and optical frequency. This source can be used in...

CFD Simulations on Extinction of Co-Flow Diffusion Flames

Author(s)
Randall J. McDermott, Jukka Vaari, Jason E. Floyd
An improved flame extinguishing criterion is implemented to the Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS) for gaseous suppressants under the lumped species model with...

Parametric study of micropillar array solar cells

Author(s)
Heayoung Yoon, Yu A. Yuwen, Haoting Shen, Nikolas J. Podraza, Thomas E. Mallouk, Elizabeth C. Dickey, Joan A. Redwing, Christopher R. Wronski, Theresa S. Mayer
Micro/nano pillar arrays can be a promising architecture for high efficiency solar cells based on less expensive photovoltaic materials with short minority...

Can Crowdsourcing Improve HCI?

Author(s)
Serge M. Egelman
Much of HCI research focuses on improving the user experience by using data from human subjects experiments. Designing a laboratory study, observing...

A Roadmap for STEP-NC Enabled Interoperable Manufacturing

Author(s)
Fiona Zhao, Frederick M. Proctor, Martin Hardwick, Sid Venkatesh, David Odendahl, Xun Xu
STEP-NC is the result of a ten-year international effort to replace the RS274D (ISO 6983) G and M code standard with a modern associative language. The new...
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