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Showing 1 to 20 of 52 for “"Human behaviors"”.
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Assessing the role of human behaviors in the management of extreme hydrological events: an agent-based modeling approach
This thesis aims to assess the role of human behaviors in the management of extreme hydrological events. Using an agent-based modeling (ABM) approach, three specific issues associated with modeling human behaviors are addressed: (1) behavioral heterogeneity, (2) social interaction, and (3) the …
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Influence modeling of complex stochastic processes
A complex stochastic process involving human behaviors or human group behaviors is computationally hard to model with a hidden Markov process. This is because the state space of such behaviors is often a Cartesian product of a large number of constituent probability spaces, and is exponentially …
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HOW TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION, HUMAN BEHAVIOR, AND COST EFFICIENCY INFLUENCE HOSPITAL TASK ALLOCATION: A RESOURCE-BASED VIEW AND TECHNOLOGICAL UNEMPLOYMENT PERSPECTIVE
… for allocating tasks to AL rather than Human Labor (HL), focusing on cost efficiency, negative human behaviors, and the irreversible "lock-in" effect of technology adoption. Adopting Autor’s (2013) definition of tasks and building on Acemoglu and Restrepo’s (2018) framework, this study …
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Towards perceptual intelligence : statistical modeling of human individual and interactive behaviors
… recognition and prediction of different kinds of human behaviors from video cameras and other sensors, via perceptually intelligent systems that automatically sense and correctly classify human behaviors, by means of Machine Perception and Machine Learning techniques. In the thesis I develop the …
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Formalizing operator task analysis
Human operators are unique in their decision making capability, judgment and nondeterminism. Their sense of judgment, unpredictable decision procedures, susceptibility to environmental elements can cause them to erroneously execute a given task description to operate a computer system. Usually, a …
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Multimodal Human Behavior Modeling: From Understanding to Generation
Humans are learning and changing the world through a variety of behaviors in our daily activities. Thus, human behavior modeling is a critical step to develop AI agents that are able to assist us in various tasks. In contrast with learning objects, scenes and textures, human behaviors are …
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Human-black bear interactions in Missoula Montana
The increasing frequency and distribution of human-wildlife interactions is a direct result of a growing human footprint worldwide. Specifically, the effects of urbanization can be significant for many species, including American black bears (Ursus americanus). Human-black bear interactions (HBI) …
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Human-black bear interactions in Missoula Montana
The increasing frequency and distribution of human-wildlife interactions is a direct result of a growing human footprint worldwide. Specifically, the effects of urbanization can be significant for many species, including American black bears (Ursus americanus). Human-black bear interactions (HBI) …
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Three essays on social influence in social advertising using a large-scale randomized field experiment
… products, social influence and network-embedded human behaviors, in the context of social advertising. Social advertising places social cues (e.g., likes) in ads, utilizing the power of social influence (the effects of social cues in ads) to encourage ad engagement. I collaborate with a social …
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A Teleosemantic Theory Of The Deep-Unconscious: A Response To John R. Searle's Account Of The Unconscious
… was to understand and explain various aspects of human behavior that consciousness cannot account for, so any good theory of the unconscious ought to fill this explanatory gap. By oversimplifying the unconscious, Searle's account cannot explain such aspects of human behavior, e.g., the causes of …
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Putting big data in its place : understanding cities and human mobility with new data sources
… record social, mobility, and a variety of other behaviors of their users with extremely high spatial and temporal resolution. This thesis presents a variety of novel methods and analyses to leverage the data generated from these devices to understand human behavior within cities. It details new …
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Human Behavior Modeling and Calibration in Epidemic Simulations
Human behavior plays an important role in infectious disease epidemics. The choice of preventive actions taken by individuals can completely change the epidemic outcome. Computational epidemiologists usually employ large-scale agent-based simulations of human populations to study disease outbreaks …
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Stewarding emotional places: Effects of place and emotion on pro-environmental behaviors in working landscapes
… contribution of social-psychological forces on human behaviors that influence the environment is a vital aspect of understanding and identifying practices and policies that act on these forces to promote conservation of complex social-ecological systems. This research closely examines the …
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Learning Activities From Human Demonstration Videos
… approaches to observe and learn activities from human demonstration videos. We specifically focus on using first-person and close up videos for learning new activities, rather than traditional third-person videos that have static and global fields of view. Since the specific objective of these …
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The Impact of Web-Based Visitor Education on Human-Tibetan Macaque (<i>Macaca thibetana</i>) Interactions at Mt. Huangshan, China
… to higher rates of macaque aggression (macaque-human, intragroup), macaque self-directed behaviors (SDBs), and zoonotic disease transfer. At the Valley of the Wild Monkeys in Mt. Huangshan, China, I made an educational website with site-specific information (e.g., guidelines for conduct, park …
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Enabling Context-Awareness in Mobile Systems via Multi-Modal Sensing
… from simple communication devices to powerful human-centric sensing platforms. Similar trends are influencing other personal gadgets such as the tablets, cameras, and wearable devices like the Google glass. Together, these sensors can provide</p><p>a high-resolution view of the user's context, …
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Collective behavior over social networks with data-driven and machine learning models
… large-scale behavioral data to study collective behaviors over social networks. My dissertation will tackle this area in four directions, revolving around the intricate linkage between individuals' characteristics, actions, and their networks. First, I empirically investigate how social influence …
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Probabilistic latent variable modeling for predicting future well-being and assessing behavioral influences on mood, stress and health
… these studies investigate how stand-alone health behaviors and not a combination of health behaviors influence well-being. Furthermore, these studies do not provide data-backed insights and recommendations to individuals seeking to improve their well-being. In this dissertation, we use a …
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Crossroads of the Earth
… which vividly portrays the adverse effects of humanity's historical disregard for the environment through compelling and urgent imagery. The film prompted me to reflect deeply on contemporary environmental issues over the course of this nine-minute piece. The first section (mm.1-19) employs …
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Wearable sensing analysis : identifying alcohol drinking from daily physiological data
… commonly used. Besides, to study about certain human behaviors such as our subject -- alcohol drinking craving, it usually lasts for several days which could be costing and time consuming, to both researchers and examinees. Previous work in our lab provided a smartphone-client and server based …
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