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    Telepresence: Actual and Virtual

    Thomas B. Sheridan

    EARLY HISTORY OF ROBOTIC TELEPRESENCE AND VIRTUAL REALITY. 2. ELEMENTS OF THE TECHNOLOGY. 3. WHAT IS TELEPRESENCE? WHAT IS REALITY?. 4. APPLICATIONS. 5. CHALLENGES FOR ROBOTIC TELEPRESENCE AND VIRTUAL REALITY…

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    Respectful Atheism: A Perspective on Belief in God and Each Other

    Thomas B. Sheridan

    This books considers what it means to respect others’ beliefs and cultural traditions without abandoning a sincere disbelief in a supernatural being.

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    Telepresence: Actual and Virtual: Promises and Perils of Converging New Realities

    Thomas B. Sheridan

    EARLY HISTORY OF ROBOTIC TELEPRESENCE AND VIRTUAL REALITY. 2. ELEMENTS OF THE TECHNOLOGY. 3. WHAT IS TELEPRESENCE? WHAT IS REALITY?. 4. APPLICATIONS. 5. CHALLENGES FOR ROBOTIC TELEPRESENCE AND VIRTUAL REALITY…

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    Humans and Automation: System Design and Research Issues

    Thomas B. Sheridan

    Human factors, also known as human engineering is the application of behavioral and biological sciences to the design of machines and human machine systems. Automation refers to the mechanization and…

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    Telerobotics, Automation, and Human Supervisory Control

    Thomas B. Sheridan (Professor Emeritus)

    This reference brings together a variety of theories and technologies that have emerged in a number of fields of application, describing common themes, presenting experiments and hardware embodiments as examples…

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    Modeling Human System Interaction - Philosophical and Methodological Considerations, with Examples

    TB Sheridan

    This book presents theories and models to examine how humans interact with complex automated systems, including both empirical and theoretical methods.

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    Decision-Aiding and Optimization for Vertical Navigation of Long-Haul Aircraft

    Nicholas J M Patrick,Thomas B Sheridan

    Most decisions made in the cockpit are related to safety, and have therefore been proceduralized in order to reduce risk. There are very few which are made on the basis…

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    Moquis and Kastiilam: Hopis, Spaniards, and the Trauma of History

    Tells the story of the encounter between the Hopis, who the Spaniards called Moquis, and the Spaniards, who the Hopis called Kastiilam, from the first encounter in 1540 until the…

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    Moquis and Kastiilam: Hopis, Spaniards, and the Trauma of History, Volume II, 1680-1781

    The second in a two-volume series, this book continues the story of the encounter between the Hopis, who the Spaniards called Moquis, and the Spaniards, who the Hopis called Kastiilam…

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