Exertion Interfaces: Sport over a Distance for Social bonding ...
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A C K N O W L E D G E M E N T S
Acknowledgements
Firstly, I would like to thank Tom Walter for coming all the way
from Australia just to help me "building a wall. That can't take
longer than a week", he said. I proved him wrong. Secondly, I would
like to thank Rosalind Picard who helped me by becoming my
advisor when I needed help the most. She really knows what the
word advice means (and how motivating little comments like "Hah!"
in your drafts can be). Furthermore, thanks to Stefan Agamanolis for
his supervision at Media Lab Europe and his excusing me from other
tasks during the last weeks of this thesis. Thanks to Ted Selker for
his support when I needed some crazy ideas, like tug-of-war over a
distance. If the New York Hall of Science hadn't done it already, I
would have built it, I promised Ted. Special thanks to Beth Veinott
from CREW at University of Michigan, who gave me ideas from a
psychology point of view, and was just simply superfriendly. Thanks
to Andrew Moran who encouraged me to make the questionnaire
entertaining for the participants, for me, and hopefully for you when
you read the questions. Thanks to Joe Paradiso for his help with the
detection system. Thanks to 56 volunteers who came into the lab on
a weekend and kicked a ball against a wall like maniacs. Thanks to
Cian Cullinan for looking after them. Thanks to Darran Hughes for
helping me making a ball fly realistically when hit with a shoe. Ian
Oakley for statistical advice and endless proofreading and his famous
Scottish chili. Tom Walter again for sparking the initial idea in a
squash court in Fiji, as cheesy as it sounds. Kim Schneider for
proofreading lots and the nice smilies she puts at the end. Everybody
at Media Lab Europe. Katharina Müller for helping me with the
graphics. If you like the colors, she deserves all the praise. Thanks to
Mama und Pappa. Thanks to Thomaz Edison (aka Edison Thomaz),
for throwing a red bra with me. Thanks to Andrea Lockerd for
helping me having a life outside the lab. Thank you Surj Patel for
taking care of my apartment and bed and money. Thanks to Byron
Stigge for the best apartment 5 tequila and white russian parties.
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A C K N O W L E D G E M E N T S Acknowledgements Firstly, I would like to thank Tom Walter for coming all the way from Australia just to help me "building a wall. Secondly, I would like to thank Rosalind Picard who helped me by becoming my advisor when I needed help the most.
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