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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"People-centric"”.
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PoolView: Towards a people centric sensing world
… we focus on a category of sensing, called people centric sensing, where the sensing devices are owned by individuals. We present various novel generic data analysis tools that are necessary to enable people centric sensing applications. We take a systems approach and exemplify these tools …
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Analyzing VC influence on startup success : a people-centric network theory approach
In this thesis, we study the impact of venture capitalists on startup success using social network analysis. Using multiple sources, we compile a unique dataset of 3199 US-based technology startups and their board members, from which we generate and analyze the interlocking directorates network …
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Mind the Skills Gap: A Conceptual Framework for Integrating Technology-mediated Learning in People-centric Production Systems
… around scalability, effectiveness, and people-centricity. iTML comprises a range of methods – for instance microlearning, AR, or VR training – that promise to facilitate lifelong learning as an integral part of production systems. However, it remains largely unclear which factors …
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Rurality and the people-centric approach to public service delivery in the digital age–a study of South African rurality as a proxy for low- and middle-income country contexts
Based on a pragmatist worldview, I employed an exploratory sequential mixed-methods research design to enhance our understanding of the public value of information and communication technology (ICTs) and the nature of services delivered in low- and middle-income settings. Understanding the …
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Location reliability and gamification mechanisms for mobile crowd sensing
People-centric sensing with smart phones can be used for large scale sensing of the physical world by leveraging the sensors on the phones. This new type of sensing can be a scalable and cost-effective alternative to deploying static wireless sensor networks for dense sensing coverage across large …
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Rethinking health care financing models: the case of Zimbabwe's health sector
… development attributed to community buy-in and people-centric empowerment approaches.
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Rocks for the homeless: the health conditions of Spokane homeless people
… numbers of homeless. Upward of half a million people in the United States experience homelessness per night. This thesis discusses causes and conditions of homelessness in Spokane, Washington. Specifically, the thesis focuses on the causes of homelessness, the homeless people’s lived …
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Political economy of bioenergy in developing countries: a case study of Punjab, India
… and serve as an “exemplar” on the conduct of people centric bioenergy policies in developing regions of the world.
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Implementing change in higher education : resolving change management deficiencies and its effects on process and employee efficiency.
… with the challenges of aligning technical and people-centric change. For these individuals within a fast-growing organization in a complex and rapidly evolving higher-education marketplace change is mandatory and relentless. With constant change and the resulting challenges, effective project …
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Seeing the State with Transgender People: Gender, Caste, and Neoliberal Development in Kerala, India
… state of India. It asks what trans-queer people can tell us about the changing shape of postcolonial developmentalist governance and the welfare state in the late-capitalist era. In the past decade, Indian LGBTQIA+ politics has seen a distinct, if ambivalent, shift towards reckoning with …
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Contextualising energy justice in low-income built environment: Towards data-driven policy interventions for addressing distributive injustices in slum rehabilitation housing of the Global South
Around a billion people live in slums today globally, and rehabilitating them to formal housing is a significant challenge. Slum rehabilitation housing is a policy effort to solve this crisis and alleviate urban poverty. However, the question of whether slum rehabilitation programmes are …
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Toward a network graph-based innovation cluster density index
… this thesis is a bottoms-up perspective, with people as the core drivers of innovation. This paper seeks to supplement existing methods, by implementing an innovation cluster density index (CDI) as an indicator, ("Cluster Rank") enabling broader comparisons within clusters (intra-cluster), as …
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Next generation analytics for open pervasive display networks
… we identified the importance of viewer-centric analytics that use traditional display-oriented analytics data combined with viewer mobility patterns to produce entirely new sets of analytics reports. We explored a range of approaches to generating viewer-centric analytics including the …
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Augmented Workforce Canvas: Towards a Tool for Integrating Operator Assistance Systems in Industry
… technology is an important pillar in industry, people remain essential on shop floors and will continue to be so in the future. Where total automation is not the preferred option, augmentation technologies and operator assistance systems (OAS) have the potential to realise an optimal combination …
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An investigation into contemporary hotel general managers behaviour and activity in the context of private, franchise and chain ownership/business models.
… are different. The extreme cases being the people centric, long term focus of the private sector manager juxtaposed with the short financial term focus by the chain HGMs. At the practical level, accepting that hotel general management is not homogeneous, and driven by the business model, …