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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Wizard of Oz"”.
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Orphanhood and the Search for Home in L. Frank Baum's "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" and Boris Pasternak's "Doctor Zhivago"
… home is not an easy task. Protagonists Dorothy of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and Yuri of Doctor Zhivago are alike in their search for home. They journey through the texts learning what home means to them, which leads to their own discoveries of home. Through these discoveries, they also learn …
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Orphanhood and the Search for Home in L. Frank Baum's "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" and Boris Pasternak's "Doctor Zhivago"
… home is not an easy task. Protagonists Dorothy of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and Yuri of Doctor Zhivago are alike in their search for home. They journey through the texts learning what home means to them, which leads to their own discoveries of home. Through these discoveries, they also learn …
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America's Lollipop Licking Tease: The Eroticization of the Female Child in 1930s Film
This dissertation examines the eroticization of female children in film during the 1930s as a mechanism for concealing troubling realities of the Great Depression in the United States. The repressed sexuality embedded in the plots of Post Hays Code movies featuring Shirley Temple and characters …
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Modern myth in performance: claiming identity through a reading of fantasy withcraft
… lens to analyze three key fantasy sites: The Wizard of Oz film and stage adaptations (especially the Broadway musical Wicked), The Chronicles of Narnia film and theatrical adaptations, and the Harry Potter films and paratheatrical adaptations. These three fantasy stories have significant …
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The Effects of Human-Computer Communication Mode, Task Complexity, and Desire for Control on Performance and Discourse Organization in an Adaptive Task
… task performance with an adaptive interface. A Wizard-of-Oz simulation (Gould, Conti, & Hovanyecz, 1983) was used to create the impression of a talking and listening computer that acted as a teammate to help participants interact with a computer application.</p> <p>Four levels of communication …
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The power of belief: Innocents and innocence in children's fantasy fiction
<p>The power of belief is a reoccurring theme in fantasy fiction for children and young adults. Oftentimes such belief merely affects the internal make-up of children or child-likecharacters,giving them the confidence that they need to act upon the world, but at other times belief acts to magically …
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Spontaneous speech recognition using HMMs
… speech understanding. The system is composed of (1) a front end acoustic analyzer which computes Mel-frequency cepstral coefficients, (2) acoustic models of context-dependent phonemes (triphones), (3) a back-off bigram statistical language model, and (4) a beam search decoder based on the …
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Catastrophic Christianity: an Iconological Study of the Messianic Idea in American Protestant Christianity Circa 1900-1940
<p>A historically variegated emblem of trust and faith, the messianic idea is the offer of religion to the people for salvation from the coming catastrophe. This dissertation analyzes the messianic idea in "America." The foci of the study are popular messianic figurations that serve as heuristic …
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Designing Parent-Child-Robot Triadic Storybook Reading Interaction
… robot interactions. Contributing to the field of multi-party HRI in educational domain, this thesis presents a novel parent-child-robot interaction paradigm in the context of shared reading. Constructive parent-child shared reading is crucial in children’s early literacy learning, and as a …
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Designing multimodal interaction for the visually impaired
… task type, working memory load, or prevalence of errors in a given modality impact a user's choice. Theories in human memory and attention are used to explain the users' speech and touch input coordination. Among the abundant findings from this research, the following are the most important in …
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Musical interfaces : design and construction of physical manipulatives for musical composition
… floor" for children who want to create a piece of music because they must learn a way of recording and remembering the notes, their sequence, etc, such as musical notation. Our project explores tangible designs that will make music composition simple to learn and practice while also building an …
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Forgetting strength : Coffeyville, the black freedom struggle, and the vanishing of memory
When a white lynch mob of 3,000 stormed the city jail in Coffeyville, Kansas, in 1927, incited by rumors that three "negroes" had raped two white high school girls, the incident ended very differently from so many others in the Jim Crow era. No one was lynched. The mob was driven back, first by …
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Computer-aided space planning for residential layouts: case-based learning and designer-computer interaction
Space planning is an important aspect of architectural design. It is the process by which available space is differentiated into zones for particular purposes. In existing literature, a wide range of computational methods have been applied to space planning with a view to automating the process. …
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Feet That Don't Touch the Floor: Perceptions in Marketing Theatre for Young Audiences
<p>It was once my dream to build the theatre of the future: to develop a new organization in the theatre community that would provide new ideas and imaginative learning. Reality and research, however, have pointed me in a new direction. From my perspective, we do not currently need another …
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Exploring the impact of conversational strategies on user search experience in goal-oriented tasks in a voice-only domain
… information search paradigm. Increasing numbers of people are using smart speakers and virtual personal assistants to access information online. Given the substantial increase in the usage of devices that feature conversational agents, it is timely to explore the implications that they have on …
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Recurrent Neural Network Language Generation for Dialogue Systems
… generation (NLG) is a critical component of spoken dialogue and it has a significant impact on usability and perceived quality. Many commonly used NLG systems employ rules and heuristics, which tend to generate inflexible and stylised responses without the natural variation of human …
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Data-Driven Policy Optimisation for Multi-Domain Task-Oriented Dialogue
… towards that goal is developing an efficient way of learning a dialogue policy in new domains. Secondly, it is important to have the ability to collect and utilise human-human conversational data to bootstrap an agent's knowledge. The work presented in this thesis demonstrates how a neural …
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An On-Road Assessment of Driver Secondary Task Engagement and Performance during Assisted & Automated Driving
Increasingly, many of today’s vehicles offer Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) partially automated driving (PAD) and a limited number of SAE conditionally automated vehicles (CAD) are being developed. Vehicles with PAD systems support the driver through longitudinal and lateral control inputs. …