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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"user characteristics"”.
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Exploring the Effect of User Characteristics in Word Cloud Visualizations
… understanding how individual differences among users may impact their performance. This thesis aims to bridge this gap by answering two key research questions: What user characteristics are impacted by different variations of word clouds, and how word clouds could be adapted to different user …
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The influence of body position and user characteristics on peak skin pressure in elite wheelchair racers
… the relationship between body position and user characteristics on peak skin pressures in elite wheelchair racers. Additionally, semi structured interviews were conducted to gain insight into participants’ knowledge, history and opinions of pressure-related injuries. 26 individuals with …
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"Can I get a second opinion?" How user characteristics impact trust in automation in a medical screening task
… has focused primarily on how design features and characteristics of the automation influence human trust. Less research has explored the role that user characteristics—such as personality and dispositional traits—play in developing trust. User responses to automation may warrant adaptation in how …
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User fee for wilderness recreation: a comparison of user characteristics and travel cost demand functions for Linville Gorge wilderness area and Grandfather Mountain backcountry, North Carolina
User fees for federal Wilderness have been suggested as a way to reduce deficit spending on Wilderness recreation and supplement decreasing management budgets. This study examines the users of Linville Gorge Wilderness, a federal free area, and Grandfather Mountain Backcountry, a nearby private fee …
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Survey of Bicycle Trail-Users in New Orleans: Characteristics, Attitudes and Implications for Planning
… trail in the City of New Orleans. Understanding user characteristics and perceptions of bicyclists will help inform planning, policy, and design related to bicycle infrastructure. This thesis uses a review of the relevant literature, intercept surveys of bicyclists, and automatic bicycle counts …
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Sampling characteristics of the bus route survey technique in the James River, Virginia
… are conducted at access points to collect user characteristic and catch data from arriving, mid-trip, or departing anglers. This technique was modified to sample total recreational use on 306 km of the James River from Glen Wilton to Richmond, Virginia. The river was spatially stratified …
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Understanding MapSwipe: Analysing Data Quality of Crowdsourced Classifications on Human Settlements
… impact on data quality were examined: agreement, user characteristics and spatial characteristics. Additionally, a novel mechanism based on machine learning techniques was presented to aggregate data provided from multiple users. The results have shown that a random forest based aggregation of …
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User's Influence on Energy Consumption with Cooking Systems Using Electricity
The research purpose was to explain the user's influence on energy consumption with cooking systems using electricity. This research was conducted in two phases. The research objective of Phase I was to determine if relationships exist that explain the user's influence (i.e., user …
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Exploring the relationship between social network sites and the consumption of cultural goods through the lens of affordances
… people to connect, interact, discover, and share user-generated content. They have transformed communication practices and are facilitating users to present their identity online through the disclosure of information on a profile. SNS are especially effective for propagating content far and wide …
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Hypertext navigation, goal (dis)orientation, and the role of mental models : an empirical investigation
… and disorientation in terms of relevant user characteristics. 75 2nd year psychology students from the University of Cape Town participated in a study in order to investigate the claim that the motivational theory of goal orientation has the greatest utility in accounting for the …
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Self-Reported Arrest and Dark Web Use: an Examination of Offline Risk Factors
Research into Dark Web user characteristics is limited, and there is still much to be explored, including potential offline risk factors for online risky behavior. This study examines secondary data to determine whether self-reported arrest predicts Dark Web use, hypothesizing that individuals who …
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Efficient scheduling of multi-antenna broadcast systems
… we study the problem of efficiently scheduling users in a multi-antenna Gaussian broadcast channel with 1M transmit antennas and K independent receivers each with a single receive antenna. We first focus on a scenario with two transmit antennas and statistically identical users, and analyze the …
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Model based approach for context aware and adaptive user interface generation
User interface design and development for ubiquitous software applications is challenged by the presence of varying contexts. Context comprises of user's computing platform, the environment in which the user is interacting with the application and user characteristics which comprise of user's …
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Assessing human performance trade-offs of a telephone-based information system
… the effects of system parameters and user characteristics on human behavior in an interactive telephone-based information system. The research method utilized a centraI-composite design to study four variables at five levels each. The four factors manipulated were: synthesized speech …
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Physical Activity and Usage Patterns in Community Sport and Recreation Spaces in Guadalajara, Mexico
… site quality (PARA) and collect information on user characteristics and physical activity levels (SOPARC). Pearson’s correlations and Mann-Whitney U tests were used in analyses. Results: Users were primarily male (66.6%), adult (48.4%), and sedentary (51.7%). There was a strong, significant …
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Are Online Catalogs for Children Giving Them What They Need? Children's Cognitive Development and Information Seeking and Their Impact on Design
… between the cognitive abilities of young users and catalog design. The study looked at search success on the 3 catalogs in relation to the catalog characteristics and individual user characteristics and makes 3 significant contributions to the field of library and information science. The …
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User-centered Virtual Environment Assessment And Design For Cognitive Rehabilitation Applications
… the VE system technology utilizing a user-centered approach should precede the VE construction. Further, user performance baselines should be measured throughout testing as a control for adaptive effects that may confound the metrics chosen to evaluate the rehabilitation treatment. To …
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Performance analysis and resource allocation in CDMA wireless networks for multimedia services
… to support sources with a variety of traffic characteristics and quality of service requirements. This requires algorithms for admission control and resource allocation at the session, burst and packet levels. The purpose of this research is to develop and analyze optimal resource allocation …
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