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Showing 1 to 20 of 132 for “"Digital Information"”.
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KidsQuestions: Assisting Children’s Digital Information Seeking
… in this thesis aims at supporting children’s digital information seeking. Children are known to have difficulties effectively using the information technologies that are available to them. We hypothesize that an interaction model specifically designed to align with the inquiry-based pedagogies …
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Designing kinetic objects for digital information display
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Media Arts & Sciences, 1998.
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Tangible interfaces for manipulating aggregates of digital information
… represent and interact with aggregates of digital information. These support the concept of Tangible User Interfaces (TUIs), a genre of human-computer interaction that uses spatially reconfigurable physical objects as representations and controls for digital information. The thesis supports …
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Infofield : an aura recognizing digital information of everyday environment
Many ubiquitous computing scenarios are enabled by the ability to detect and identify objects in a user's environment, and recently Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) has been considered an affordable technology for providing such ability. However, RFID approaches have been flawed: when they …
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Characterization of an experimental VideoDisc for digital information storage.
Thesis. 1978. M.S.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
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Essays on the impact of digital information on innovation
… might affect the diffusion of newly, digitized information. To evaluate this question, I focus on the digitization of a magazine as a part of the Google Books digitization project and estimate the impact of copyright on magazine issues on subsequent reuse of creative material on Wikipedia. I …
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Business strategy of nucleic acid memory for digital information storage
Nucleic acid memory (NAM) is the storage of digital data by encoding the information into the medium of nucleic acids. This is often called DNA storage, as typically, but not necessarily, the information is stored in the nucleobases that comprise DNA. Baum first introduced this idea in 1995, but it …
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Effective, Efficient Retrieval in a Network of Digital Information Objects
… authors mean different thing by the term "digital libraries," one common thread is that they include or are built around collections of digital objects. Digital libraries also provide services to large communities, one of which is almost always search. Digital library collections, however, …
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An Evaluation of a Digital Information Course at a Secondary School
… at Ambition High School (pseudonym) called digital information. The students’ success rate was low, based on the Microsoft Office specialist industry exams taken throughout the year. This evaluation reviewed the course curriculum and expectations and found ways to achieve student success …
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Aggregating suburbia : digital information storage as catalyst to intensify urbanity in suburban Iowa
… with enormous big boxes to house the world's digital information. Central Iowa is now home to enormous buildings by Google and Microsoft, consuming an exponentially growing amount of Iowa's renewable energy as it exhausts the waste heat into Iowa's rural flatlands. This thesis offers a design …
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What do we mean by 'preserving digital information'? Towards sound conceptual foundations for digital stewardship
Digital preservation is fundamental to information stewardship in the 21st century. Although much useful work on preservation strategies has been accomplished, we do not yet have an adequate conceptual framework that articulates precisely and formally what preservation actually is. The intention of …
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Analysis of the digital information literacy skills of geoscientists at the Geological Survey of Namibia
… geosciences, the symbiotic relationship between digital information literacy skills and the geoscientists is not evidenced by literature. The purpose of the study was to critically analyse the digital information literacy skills of the geoscientists at the Geological Survey of Namibia at the …
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Metadata creation and management in the preservation of digital information in selected libraries in Cape Town
Metadata describes and organizes resources in the digital environment for users to discover. Metadata plays an integral part in the digital preservation of information resources even though inadequacies exist in its creation and management. Challenges that affect creation and management of metadata …
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A hypermedia based system for digital information archiving and retrieval in A/E/C project management
… of the high volume and different types of information that characterize its projects, has traditionally posed a constant challenge to the architecture, engineering and construction industry. The distribution and communication of such information to project participants, who are often …
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The challenges in the capture and storage of digital information by rural clinics in Hammarsdale, KwaZulu-Natal Province
… examined the capture and storage of patient information by rural health care clinics in Hammarsdale in KwaZulu-Natal. The study was supported by the Digital Curation Centre Life Cycle model and the primary aim of the study was to identify the nature and scale of the challenges faced in the …
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Digital Literacy in the Workplace Begins in School: A Research Study on Digital Information Literacy Pedagogies for FYC Classrooms
… <li>How can instructors take students’ current digital literacy knowledge and work them into a curriculum designed to help them build their digital information skills?</li> <li>How can instructors teach digital information in a way that gives students the ability to adapt their skills into …
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Navigating new terrain: Designing blended learning to develop digital literacies for students in a tertiary institution
… Māori and non-Māori students and enhance digital information literacy. Within this study, digital information literacy is identified as being intertwined with content learning and, as such, digital information literacy has become a vital component of students' tertiary learning. I found …
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Voltage-to-digital converter design
This thesis treats broad aspects of voltage-to-digital converter design. Particular emphasis is placed on material related to designing a converter to satisfy a set of converter specifications that is given in the introduction of the thesis. The converter design is first considered in terms of …
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Simulating transparency and cutaway to visualize 3D internal information for tangible Uls
… experience for manipulating and reviewing 3D digital information than conventional graphical user interfaces (GUIs). Although current TUIs for CAD enable users to intuitively manipulate and directly perceive 3D digital information via physical objects, they limit users to obtain only external …
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