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Acknowledgements
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Many individuals have contributed to this work in many ways.
Thanks to our teachers and mentors, both formal and informal.
Graduate courses were offered at the University of Southern
California and the University of Waterloo, based on earlier drafts of
The Grasping Hand, and we had lively discussions with
colleagues also at Simon Fraser University. We wish to thank our
students, teachers and colleagues for enriching both the seminars and
the book. Thanks to the following individuals for providing feedback
on earlier queries or drafts of the manuscript: Fran Allard, Michael
Arbib, Denise Beattie, George Bekey, Reinoud Bootsma, Phil
Bryden, Heather Carnahan, Sheril Desjardins-Denault, Marcus
Devanandan, Virginia Diggles, Claude Dugas, Andy Fagg, Ken
Goldberg, Evan Graham, Suzanne Halliday, Bruce Hoff, Marc
Jeannerod, Linda Kalbfleisch, Susan Lederman, Gary Lindquist, Ron
Marteniuk, Sean Maw, Chris McManus, John Medley, Ted Milner,
Jacques Paillard, Shahram Payendah, Don Ranney, Eleanor Robbins,
Marg Savage, Barb Sivak, S.T. Venkataraman, Patricia Weir, Richard
Wells, Evelyn Yeo, and Ruth Zemke. For any oversights, we offer
our apologies and thanks.
Thank you to Nikos Apostolopoulos, Elizabeth Carefoot, and
Kathleen Maraj for contributing artwork and graphics, and to Ron
Long and Greg Ehlers for their photographic expertise. Special thanks
to Evelyn Yeo, who, as a summer research student at Simon Fraser
University, cheerfully and competently assisted in compiling
references and figures, and provided model hands. All these
individuals helped to add the aesthetic dimension we wanted.
We wish to acknowledge the support and working environment of
the Departments of Kinesiology and Computer Science at the
University of Waterloo, where this work was initiated. With moves to
the West Coast, we wish to acknowledge at Simon Fraser University
the support of the School of Kinesiology, Centre for Systems Science,
and Instructional Media Centre, and at the University of Southern
California, the Department of Computer Science.
Publishing this work in the Advances in Psychology Series
published by Elsevier Science is, for us, an honor and we wish to
thank George Stelmach and Kees Michielsen for their support and
encouragement.