Counting clicks and beeps: Exploring numerosity based haptic and audio PIN entry

Haptic and audio cues now appear commonly in computer interfaces, partially due to inherent advantages such as their support for eyes-free interaction. Their invisible, unobservable nature also makes them ideal candidates for security interfaces in which users have to enter secret information such as passwords. In particular, researchers have explored this idea through the design of PIN entry authentication systems based on multi-modal combinations of visual and non-visual content or on the recognition of small sets of unimodal haptic or audio stimuli. This paper highlights the benefits and performance limitations of these approaches and introduces an alternative based on unimodal audio or haptic temporal numerosity – the ability to accurately and rapidly determine the number of cues presented in rapid temporal succession. In essence, in a numerosity interface, rather than recognizing distinct cues, users must count the number of times that a single cue occurs. In an iterative process of design and evaluation, three prototypes implementing this concept are presented and studies of their use reported. The results show the fastest PIN entry times and lowest error rates to be 8 s and 2%, figures that improve substantially on previous research. These results are attained while maintaining low levels of workload and substantial resistance to observation attack (as determined via camera attack security studies). In sum, this paper argues that unimodal audio and haptic numerosity is a valuable and relatively unexplored metaphor for non-visual input and demonstrates the validity of this claim in the demanding task of unobservable authentication systems.     

Room temperature oxidation of lead-indium alloy films

The kinetics of growth of thin (14 to 40Å) oxide layers on lead-indium alloys was investigated ellipsometrically, using: 3000Å thick films at 23°C; and oxygen exposures at 760 torr for times ranging from five minutes to five days. Assuming that the oxide layer is comprised of a two-phase mixture of PbO and In₂O₃ having a negligible extinction coefficient made it possible to estimate the oxide composition from the ellipsometrically-obtained oxide refractive index. Under these oxidizing conditions, the volume fraction of PbO in the oxide mixture decreases from a value of unity for pure lead to zero for alloys containing more than 30 at. percent In, in agreement with the Auger Electron Spectroscopy results of Chou and coworkers. The oxidation rate equals a exp (X₁/X), where α and X₁ will be seen to vary complexly with alloy composition. A theoretical explanation of these results is also presented.     

DTM320／580型磨煤机传动齿轮轴断裂原因分析及防范措施

介绍了DTM580/320型磨煤机传动齿轮轴断裂的情况,并进行了分析;找到了断裂的原因,提出了防范措施。     

A miniature UWB planar monopole antenna with 5-GHz band-rejection filter and the time-domain characteristics

A planar monopole antenna with a staircase shape and small volume (25/spl times/26/spl times/1 mm/sup 3/) is proposed in this paper. With the use of a half-bowtie radiating element, the staircase-shape, and a modified ground plane structure, the proposed antenna has a very wide impedance bandwidth measured at about 11.6 GHz (2.9-14.5 GHz, bandwidth ratio about 1:5) below VSWR 2 including the WLAN band notched in the vicinity of 5 GHz. An omnidirectional radiation pattern is obtained. The group delay which is an indication of linearity between two proposed antennas is less than 1 ns. The electrical characteristics in terms of frequency and time domains and physical ones of the proposed antenna make it attractive for use in ultrawideband (UWB) systems.     

Operation, system architectures, and physical Layer design considerations of distributed MAC protocols for UWB

Impulse-based ultra wideband (I-UWB) is an attractive radio technology for large ad hoc and sensor networks due to its robustness to harmful multipath effects, sub-centimeter ranging ability, simple hardware, and low radiated power. To scale to large sizes, networks often implement distributed medium access control (MAC) protocols. However, most MAC protocols for I-UWB are centralized, and they target small wireless personal area networks and cellular networks. We propose three distributed MAC protocols suitable for I-UWB. Two multichannel protocols, called multichannel pulse sense multiple access (M-PSMA) and multichannel ALOHA achieve high aggregate throughput. A busy-signal protocol, called busy-signal multiple access (BSMA), reduces the energy wasted from re-transmitted packets. This paper describes the three protocols in terms of the protocol's operation, the supporting system architecture, and the I-UWB physical layer. Physical layer simulations confirm the feasibility of implementing the proposed systems and also provide parameters for network simulations. Network simulations show that the throughput of M-PSMA exceeds that of a centralized time-division multiple-access protocol and that the energy efficiency of BSMA far surpasses that of other distributed protocols.     

XML技术在控制回路识别中的应用

介绍了一种基于XML的可视化软集成电路系统,给出其设计思想和体系结构。并在总结前人控制回路识别方法的基础上,推出XML技术在回路识别方法中的应用。     

Dynamic deformation behavior of ultrafine-grained low-carbon steels fabricated by equal-channel angular pressing

The dynamic deformation behavior of ultrafine-grained low-carbon steels fabricated by equal-channel angular pressing (ECAP) was investigated in this study. Dynamic torsional tests, using a torsional Kolsky bar, were conducted on four steel specimens, two of which were annealed at 480 °C after ECAP, and then the test data were compared in terms of microstructures, tensile properties, and adiabatic shear-band formation. The equal-channel angular pressed specimen consisted of very fine, equiaxed grains of 0.2 to 0.3 μm in size, which were slightly coarsened after annealing. The dynamic torsional test results indicated that maximum shear stress decreased with increasing annealing time, whereas fracture shear strain increased. Some adiabatic shear bands were observed at the gage center of the dynamically deformed torsional specimen. Their width was smaller in the equal-channel angular pressed specimen than in the 1-hour-annealed specimen, but they were not found in the 24-hour-annealed specimen. Ultrafine, equiaxed grains of 0.05 to 0.2 μm in size were formed inside the adiabatic shear band, and their boundaries had characteristics of high-angle grain boundaries. These phenomena were explained by dynamic recrystallization due to a highly localized plastic strain and temperature rise during dynamic deformation.     

微振动对空间实验室微重力环境的影响研究

针对大型刚柔组合体空间结构(空间实验室)的特点,建立系统的动力学方程,并对机柜内设备、太阳阵的转动、宇航员活动产生的激扰力进行了简化。利用计算机建立组合体的简化模型,对空间组合体在各种微振动激扰下的加速度响应进行了仿真研究,并将这些仿真结果用于空间实验室微重力环境的预测。     

油田单井数据自动化远程采集系统

从系统结构、硬件构成、网络结构和软件设计等几个方面 ,介绍了针对偏、散、远的油田单井的数据采集系统 ,并简述了系统软件的开发思想 ,给出了远程数据采集模式———利用电话线路作为传输通路 ,PC作为监控中心 ,实现单个油井无人值守的自动数据采集。