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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"User Perspective"”.
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Distributed multimedia quality: The user perspective
… i.e. the ability to transfer information to the user, yet also provide the user with a level of satisfaction. As multimedia is ultimately produced for the education and / or enjoyment of viewers, the user’s-perspective concerning the presentation quality is surely of equal importance as objective …
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Telephone street triage : a service user perspective
… have become the default environment for service users seeking help during a mental health crisis. Simultaneously, the Police have reported concerns about the expectations placed on their officers in dealing with the rising numbers of people experiencing a mental health crisis. In 2014 the Home …
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Bitcoin adoption in South Africa, an end user perspective
… institutions, merchants and the behaviour of end users. The usage of Bitcoin in developing countries for especially for international remittances and transfers has shown significant benefits such as lower transaction fees. The already prevalent use of mobile money in developing countries may aid …
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Quality standards in services for people with learning disabilities: a user perspective
… notion of standards was an obstacle to effective user participation. Second the experience of people with learning disabilities may detract from their having high expectations of services or believing that they might determine what they receive from those services. Neither obstacle is considered …
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Website Success: An Integrated Theoretical Model
… upon the website type. As a result, from the user perspective, this results in varying ideas of satisfaction as well as success. Thus, from the user perspective determining success across websites is both goal and context specific. This dissertation investigated five variables which were …
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Spatial Orientation Training in Virtual Reality: Designing for Cognitive Load and Spatial Ability
… Purdue Spatial Visualization Test: Rotations and perspective-change via Santa Barbara Solids Test) to extend gaze-based measures across transformation types. Gaze metrics (encoding, transformation, confirmation, strategy ratio) revealed a large difference between the two spatial reasoning tasks in …
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Remote service provision for connected homes.
… service delivery system from three distinct perspectives: connected home environments (user perspective), remote service delivery platform (service enabler), and remote service providers (service provider perspective); to establish a holistic view on the requirements of remote service …
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Digital Libraries with Superimposed Information: Supporting Scholarly Tasks that Involve Fine Grain Information
… from a theoretical as well as a practical/user perspective. From a theoretical perspective, we developed a formal metamodel that precisely defines the components of an SI-DL, building upon related work in DLs, SI, annotations, and hypertext. From the practical/user perspective, we developed …
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Design framework for the graphical user interface of a terminal area air traffic advisory system
… and methodology for the design of a graphical user interface to be used by air traffic controllers. The interface is intended to be only a part of a complete Advisory System designed to supplement the tasks of terminal area air traffic controllers. This research addresses many of the human …
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Microfinance in rural Ghana : a view from below
The thesis investigates, from a contextual and user perspective, the implementation processes of microfinance interventions and the effect of the implementation processes on households and businesses. The thesis’ central argument is that microfinance discourse has neglected the perspective of …
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Domain Modeling Theory and Practice
… schema and standards from various types of user communities and organizations. The main challenge in this scenario lies in the integration of such diverse data and on the generator of knowledge from the existing sources. Various methodology for data modeling has been proposed by different …
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Electric Car Cultures: An ethnography of the everyday use of electric vehicles in the UK
… of electric vehicles (EVs) in the UK to add a user perspective to current knowledge of the developing technology of EVs. EVs have had a revival in popularity since their near extinction in the early twentieth century. There is interest from support industries in how a further resurgence in …
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Regional food security in south-central Appalachia: Connecting diet, land requirement, and agricultural carrying capacity
… these studies contribute information from a data-user perspective for stakeholders and planners interested in quantifying the capacity of regional food systems to meet total food needs.
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A Framework for Grid-Enabling Scientific Workflow Systems. Architecture and application case studies on interoperability and heterogeneity in support for Grid workflow automation.
… overlooked, particularly from a scientific end user perspective. The lack of domain focus in this area has led to a slow uptake of Grid technologies. This thesis aims to design a framework for Grid-enabling workflows, which identifies the essential technological components, how these components …
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Spatial Computing for Building Performance and Design
… building performance from an environmental and user perspective relates to spatial design. The dissertation surveys existing computational methodologies for design automation and identifies new opportunities and value propositions for architectural computing in design guidance, feedback, and …
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An exploration of counselling and support services as experienced by adult male survivors of child sexual abuse
… for CSA in the United Kingdom from a service user perspective. This study makes an original contribution to the knowledge base regarding the counselling experiences and effectiveness of therapy for male CSA survivors and will help to inform professional counselling, mental health practice, and …
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Becoming part of behind the scenes: patients' experiences of co-learning with primary health care teams.
… debates about the involvement of health service users in service delivery, research and education focus on the purpose of their involvement, the methods of their involvement, barriers to their involvement and the impact of their involvement. There is little reported about the experience of …
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Cognitive Radio Network Testbed: Design, Deployment, Administration and Examples
… live spectrum — in the presence of real primary users. Testbeds are a widely used tool in the wireless and networking fields, and VT-CORNET expands the concept through a focus on CR research and education. This thesis describes the construction and deployment of the CORNET testbed in detail. …
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An explorative study of acceptance and usage of on-demand car functions technology
… to explain behavioral intentions from an end-user perspective. Given the limited research on end-user responses to ODCF and the potential for adverse reactions¿where users may feel misled to pay for activating pre-installed features¿understanding the determinants influencing end-users' …
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The Information Asymmetry with SME Tax Disclosures: Should they Stay, or Should They Go?
… costs to prepare these disclosures and their users must endure added training to comprehend the information provided. Many thought the convergence between GAAP and International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) would provide relief. However, given the convergence to IFRS is seemingly …
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