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Showing 1 to 20 of 42 for “"Crowd Sourcing"”.
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Democratic Play : crowd-sourcing through games for architectural design
… formal composition, details, and finishes. This crowd-sourcing occurs both implicitly and explicitly while the game is being played, and the collected feed-back informs the architect about design development. This thesis questions the role of the architects in a democratic process of design: Are …
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The Causal Impact of Information Crowd-sourcing Platform on Agricultural Supply Chain
… through distributed price promotions or through crowdsourcing, can further improve market performance. By leveraging transactions data of an information-sharing platform used by micro-firms in informal supply chains in a developing country and data from a pre-intervention survey, we seek to …
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Crowd sourcing energy poverty data in South African informal settlements: the opportunity of mobile phone technology
Energy poverty undermines development at a large scale. It is most overtly experienced in informal settlements, where the use of fuels like paraffin, charcoal and wood prove hazardous and harmful to health and wellbeing. The expenditure on and use of energy services in informal settlements are …
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Complex Personalities: An Original Composition For Virtual Wind Ensemble And An Accompanying Exploration Of The Effects Of The Internet On Music Collaboration And Composition
… the internet. A virtual ensemble was created by crowd-sourcing from social media. Participants played different parts that were combined by computer manipulation into a final product.</p>
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An exposition of the nature of volunteered geographical information and its suitability for integration into spatial data infrastructures
… of content, applications and services (mashups); crowd sourcing and new geographical theories (psychogeography, social theory, social justice, ethics, etc) all challenge the traditional business models of SDIs. However, metadata, quality, classification and standards can be challenges for VGI. …
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Creating a cliché library for social applications
… for social applications (e.g. planning events, crowd-sourcing opinions, etc.). The catalogue of clichés and their actions were evaluated by replicating student projects from an undergraduate web development course. Most of the core functionality was replicated for each sample. The applications …
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The bits and bytes of food : study of emerging Internet-based food businesses
… important trends like growth in mobile devices, crowd sourcing, online marketplaces etc., consumers have welcomed these emerging online food businesses. Companies like Grubhub Seamless have successfully leveraged the growing use of smartphones while Instacart has gained popularity for applying …
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C-IMAGE : city cognitive mapping through geo-tagged photos
… However, enabled by the proliferation of crowd sourcing technology, this thesis tries another angle to detect, measure, and analyze people's perceptions through geo-tagged photos. Using Python scripting language, the project downloads photos of 26 cities (an average of 100,000 photos per …
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Design, implementation and effectiveness of ClassTranscribe
… in real-time using Artificial Intelligence and Crowd-Sourcing, and Searchability for efficient student-directed learning. It is an open-source, cross-platform system, built using modern web-technologies with a microservice architecture enabling scaling to thousands of users and sync with popular …
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Indoor Scene Localization to Fight Sex Trafficking in Hotels
… information available on the Internet, a crowd-sourcing approach to gathering additional images, and explore a variety of matching approaches based both on hand-tuned features such as SIFT and learned features using state of the art deep learning approaches. We concentrate on …
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Knit architecture : low tech fabrication techniques in modern design : thesis
… the approachability of knitting by exploring crowd-sourcing. It postulates that using knitting as a means of fabrication will allow people to actively intervene in their communities, giving them a way to construct solutions to problems in their own neighborhoods.
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Developing a Psychometric Tool to Measure the Emotional Impact of Visual Content
… to sequences of visual images. We f irst use crowd-sourcing and a novel nine-point psychometric scale to estimate human valence responses to individual images from the OASIS image set with high reliability (split-half Spearman rank-correlation ρ = 0.95). In a separate group of human …
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Crowdsourcing traffic data for travel time estimation
… smartphones carried by millions of road users. Crowd-sourcing GPS data will allow building traffic monitoring systems that utilize this opportunity for the purpose of accurate and real-time prediction of traffic measures. However, the effectiveness of these systems have not yet been proven or …
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Artwitter : the reinterpretation of social networks
… space. Artwitter also releases the power of crowd-sourcing physical spaces to explore the potential of reconstructing the physical world with virtual objects.
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Machine mediated human perception
… as the experimental site, the thesis designs a crowd-sourcing platform to collect residents' perception of streets in Shanghai by evaluating street spaces displayed in the form of rendered 3D model scenes and panoramic videos. I revisit urban study principles to define a matrix of spatial …
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Creative destruction in multi-source marketplaces : exploring factors influencing success or failure in multi-sided marketplaces
… This work builds on previous research in crowd-sourcing and multi-sided marketplaces by examining previously' discovered factors in the marketplace to understand their impacts, especially as they act as determinants to an MSP's success or failure. Eleven key factors of business strategy, …
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Designing Robot Non-Verbal Behaviour: Using Performing Art Techniques as Frameworks for Human–Robot Interaction
… we employed media tools such as video in a crowd-sourcing online survey to further examine the importance of interaction context in HRI. We asked participants to reconstruct the meanings of robot behaviours and to identify the shared contexts in which these interactions were more likely to …
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Indoor localization using place and motion signatures
… indoor localization, combines the idea of crowd-sourcing, encouraging end-users to contribute place signatures (location RF fingerprints) in an organic fashion. Based on prior work on organic localization systems, we study algorithmic challenges associated with structuring such organic …
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A study in human attention to guide computational action recognition
… of studies, including those performed on online crowd-sourcing markets (e.g. Amazon's Mechanical Turk). With my human experiments, I demonstrate that there is consistency of visual behavior among multiple subjects when they are asked to report the occurrence of a verb. Further, I demonstrate that …
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