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Showing 1 to 20 of 360 for “"User study"”.
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A User Study on 2D Wind Visualization Methods
… data they represent. In fact, lack of empirical user studies has been identified as one of the major problems within the field of scientific visualization. This thesis contributes to this area by comparing the effectiveness of several commonly used visualization methods for 2 dimensional wind …
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A User Study on 2D Wind Visualization Methods
… data they represent. In fact, lack of empirical user studies has been identified as one of the major problems within the field of scientific visualization. This thesis contributes to this area by comparing the effectiveness of several commonly used visualization methods for 2 dimensional wind …
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A user study of an educational video system
This thesis describes the creation of an educational video system and the results of introducing it in a large MIT class. Experience shows that there is a high demand for recorded, course-specific, educational content. While there are several solutions for recording and sharing general …
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Social Networking and Privacy Perception : A User Study of Facebook & LinkedIn
… ones that do not support privacy requirements of users, thereby leaving them exposed to invasion of their privacy and personal information to external elements. This is specifically a case with Facebook. At the same time Facebook is constantly addressing these privacy issues to the extent it is …
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City browser : a user study to optimize a naturalistic voice navigation system
… a distraction than a benefit. Specifically, the user interaction associated with navigation systems has not been perfected. In response, the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT has created City Browser, an in-vehicle naturalistic navigation system that allows the user …
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Expansion and user study of CoolVent : inclusion of thermal comfort models in an early-design natural ventilation tool
… dimensioning scheme, feedback on the validity of user inputs and thermal comfort modeling (custom, ASHRAE and adaptive). These results now allow the architect to understand how their design choices have not only affected the temperature and airflow in each of the zones of their building design but …
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Enhancing Layout Understanding via Human-in-the-Loop: A User Study on PDF-to-HTML Conversion for Long Documents
… in improving object detection accuracy through user studies, including 8 participants, comprising a balanced number of four STEM and four non-STEM researchers, all with some background in ETDs. Each participant was assigned correction tasks on a set of ETDs from both STEM and non-STEM …
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Evaluating data classification methods for choropleth maps in South Africa : a usability study
… and visualisation techniques that enable users to quickly and effortlessly visualise spatial patterns in data. Choropleth maps are among the oldest and still one of the most frequently used techniques for visualising quantitative data in a GIS. The challenge with using choropleth maps in …
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Design of an automated cocktail mixing experience
… of an automated cocktail mixing device and user interface that is capable of dispensing a variety of alcoholic and non-alcoholic ingredients to produce a myriad of drink recipes. The design consists of twelve containers, each connected to an electronically controlled valve, mounted over a …
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Exploring design alternatives in game development engines using visual programming
… Visual Scripting System. BPAlt allows the user to create, save, organize and swap Blueprint alternatives for rapid testing and experimentation. We conducted a user study with 10 moderately skilled participants where we compared BPAlt to Unreal Engine alone for prototyping alternatives of …
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A network approach to topic summary and knowledge discovery in social tagging
This doctoral research focuses on studying the semantic relations between social tags, items and content creators through co-occurrence analysis, social network analysis and information visualization, thus revealing the role played by social tags in representing and classifying contents and …
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StoryPass: a system and study for memorable secure passphrases.
The goal of this thesis is to study the implementation of a passphrase system that implements new creation policies, called StoryPass. We are motivated to do this research as current text-based authentication methods, such as the password, fail to provide adequate security and usability. We call …
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Me, Myself, and ID: Towards Usable, Privacy-Preserving, Fraud-Resistant Digital Identity Services for Smartphone Users
… secure, and privacy-preserving manner.Our first user study examines the discoverability of participants' personally identifiable information (PII) to determine what information is suitable for identity proofing. We found that many different types of PII could be obtained by an imposter and that …
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Towards Immersive Virtual Environments using 360 Cameras for Human Building Interaction Studies
… and compared by the means of a preliminary user study in order to evaluate whether it is an adequate representation of the built environment regarding HBI, and how it is compared to commonly used benchmarked Graphical based IVEs. Ultimately, participants of this user study reported a strong …
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InReach : navigating and manipulating 3D models using natural body gestures in a remote collaboration setup
… as interior design, visiting virtual cities and studying 3D structures remotely. We report on results from a user study, which compares face-to-face and side-by-side arrangements for a sorting task. The user study demonstrates that different arrangements of collaborators and different level of …
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A Mobile Augmented Memory Aid for people with Traumatic Brain Injury
… the brain. The 2010/2011 population-based study shows that the total incidence of TBI in New Zealand has increased to 790 per 100,000 population. Memory impairment is the most common symptom and affects most TBI survivors. Memory impairments resulting from TBI take many forms depending on …
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Automatic Knowledge Acquisition for Critiquing-Based Recommender Systems
Many recommender systems rely heavily on user ratings and historical data to produce recommendations. When lacking such data, these systems do not perform well. Knowledge-based recommender systems on the other hand are ideal for naive and casual users. However, the challenge for these systems lies …
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