Paolo Ferrari Knihy

Focusing on the design of accessible sailing yachts, the book introduces innovative strategies based on "Design for All" principles. It analyzes current pleasure boats to identify barriers faced by users with disabilities and other marginalized groups. The author presents a range of design solutions tailored to enhance usability in both external and internal yacht spaces, adhering to anthropometric guidelines. This work aims to establish a new standard for inclusive nautical design, highlighting the advantages of creating barrier-free sailing experiences for everyone.

This book thoroughly reviews the present knowledge on silicon micromechanical transducers and addresses emerging and future technology challenges. Readers will acquire a solid theoretical and practical background that will allow them to analyze the key performance aspects of devices, critically judge a fabrication process, and then conceive and design new ones for future applications. Envisioning a future complex versatile microsystem, the authors take inspiration from Richard Feynman’s visionary talk “There is Plenty of Room at the Bottom” to propose that the time has come to see silicon sensors as part of a “Feynman Roadmap” instead of the “More-than-Moore” technology roadmap. The sharing of the author’s industrially proven track record of development, design, and manufacturing, along with their visionary approach to the technology, will allow readers to jump ahead in their understanding of the core of the topic in a very effective way. Students, researchers, engineers, and technologists involved in silicon-based sensor and actuator research and development will find a wealth of useful and groundbreaking information in this book.

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