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Woodard, Colin – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2006
This article describes the latest advancement in the development of prosthetic arms. Bionic researchers are making significant advances in creating more agile prosthetics that users can control via their own nervous system. The bionic arm, which is still under development, can not only execute complex, thought-controlled movements, but also can…
Descriptors: Assistive Technology, Biophysics, Cybernetics, Science and Society
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MacKinnon, Laurie Katherine; Miller, Dusty – Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 1987
Explores the sociopolitical implications of the new epistemology and the Milan approach, concluding that, while second order cybernetics has greater potential to incorporate a radical social analysis, it has, nevertheless, failed to do so. The application of second order cybernetics in family therapy appears to be constrained by the sociopolitical…
Descriptors: Counseling Techniques, Counseling Theories, Cybernetics, Epistemology
National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa (Ontario). – 1972
A Symposium was held in May of 1972 to assist in the resolution of the varied problems effecting the advance of educational technology. Most of the papers presented at the symposium dealt with the current situation of various aspects of computer assisted instruction (CAI) throughout Canada. Other papers covered CAI centralization, minicomputers,…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Communications, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Oriented Programs