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Getting in touch with text: Designing a mobile phone application for illiterate users to harness SMS

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PopTouch: A Submillimeter Thick Dynamically Reconfigured Haptic Interface with Pressable Buttons

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Lean synthesis and application to lower-limb exoskeletons

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