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Documenting dreams : patient-centered records versus practice-centered records
This thesis explores how doctors and nurses use documents to share their knowledge within and across healthcare settings. In addressing this question I draw on a 15-month, multi-sited ethnographic study in several pediatric health care settings, following patients from primary care clinics, to …
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Well-Centered Meshing
A well-centered simplex is a simplex whose circumcenter lies in its interior, and a well-centered mesh is a simplicial mesh in which every simplex is well-centered. We examine properties of the well-centered simplex and well-centered meshes, present experimental results from an optimization method …
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Well-centered meshing
A well-centered simplex is a simplex whose circumcenter lies in its interior, and a well-centered mesh is a simplicial mesh in which every simplex is well-centered. We examine properties of the well-centered simplex and well-centered meshes, present experimental results from an optimization method …
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Human-centered fashion
… large fashion corporations slowly adopt human centered design (HCD) process to connect with end users. For example, Levi used this design process to find out what kind of feelings that a new line of jacket should elicit in humans. And at retail sales point, the handbag iconic brand Kate Spade …
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User-Centered Adaptive Information Retrieval
Information retrieval systems are critical for overcoming information overload. A major deficiency of existing retrieval systems is that they generally lack user modeling and are not adaptive to individual users. Personalization is expected to break this deficiency and significantly improve …
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Nap box: Human centered design
This paper explores the benefits of napping during the workday and different designs for creating private space in public places, specifically in an office environment for office workers. Napping is explored in terms of different cultures around the world, and the health risks and benefits are …
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Towards Human-Centered Optimality Criteria
… models failing to recognize and support human-centered (HC) criteria are abundant. In this thesis, I conceptualize the space of human-machine collaboration with respect to two components: interpretation of people by machines and interpretation of machines by people. I develop several tools that …
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Teaching Science Through Multimedia: Transitioning from a Technology-Centered Approach to a Learner-Centered Approach
… classroom can be transformed from a technology-centered approach to a learner-centered approach.
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Student-Centered Statistics for Algebra II
Statistics is offered as a full course in some high schools while other schools focus on statistical topics integrated into courses such as Algebra. In the case of the later, teachers may feel unprepared to teach isolated statistical topics. This curriculum project was developed to provide support …
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Change centered leadership and various correlates
Please read the abstract in the section 00front of this document
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Trends in family-centered early intervention
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Evaluating human-centered approaches for geovisualization
… small group of domain experts I evaluate human-centered approaches to application development which are applicable to geovisualization, following an ISO13407 taxonomy that covers context of use, eliciting requirements, and design. These approaches include field studies and contextual analysis of …
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Designing Experience-Centered Planning Support Systems
The use of the DAISY methodology will be illustrated in the design of a planning support system, Fox, for use by expert military planners. It is intended to assist them by rapidly generating alternative Friendly Course of Action (FCOA) options. This is a complex and difficult decision making task …
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UDesign : toward a user-centered architecture
… online configuration tools, a new kind of user-centered business model emerges. One of the outcomes of this transformation, is the restructuring of a company's products - from a one-size-fits-all to a kit-of-parts - allowing customers to mix-n-match. A similar process is taking place in …
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Preoperative Education: A Patient-Centered Care Approach
<p>Abstract</p> <p> This project addresses the need for delivering high quality preoperative education to the Arabic speaking patient population served by Sharp Healthcare’s orthopedic service line. A goal set during the institution’s 2015 The Joint Commission Disease-Specific Care survey is to …
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User-centered intrusion detection using heterogeneous data
… evaluation. In this thesis, we adopt a user-centered anomaly detection perspective to address selected challenges of intrusion detection, through a real-world use case in the identity and access management (IAM) domain. In addition to the previous challenges, salient properties of this …
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HUMAN CENTERED DESIGN APPLIED TO PERCEPTUAL PARADIGMS
… that apply knowledge from areas such as human centered design, computer science, and psychology to study sensation and perception. All three of these projects were created to gather information on how humans interact with their surrounding environment and the world. For instance the first area …
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Three fundamental pillars of decision-centered teamwork
… paradigm in artificial intelligence: decision-centered teamwork. Decision-centered teamwork is the analysis of agent teams that iteratively take joint decisions into solving complex problems. Although teams of agents have been used to take decisions in many important domains, such as: machine …
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