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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"user survey"”.
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Analysis of barriers to the utility of general aviation based on a user survey and mode choice model
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2002.
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Learning common sense knowledge from user interaction and principal component analysis
… should contain. The inferred knowledge, which a user survey shows is often correct, is used as part of a feedback loop that shows contributors what the system is learning and guides them to contribute useful new knowledge.
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Generating multiple summaries based on computational model of perspective
… team perspectives. I will present an initial user survey that validated the hypothesis that content ordering has a significant effect on the users' perception of perspective. I will also discuss collecting and analyzing a parallel corpus of baseball game data and summary articles showing local …
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Fusion Tables : new ways to collaborate on structured data
… and visualizations and share them with other users. In addition, this thesis initiates a discussion about data collaboration on different platforms outside the Data Management System (DMS), and the implementation of the Fusion Table - Google Wave gadget that provides this functionality. To …
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Boycott Toolkit : collaborative research for collective economic action
… project was released to media attention, and a user survey indicated an appreciation for the careful differentiation between targets, revealing an enthusiastic, though small, set of active contributors.
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Transcription of the Bleek and Lloyd Collection using the Bossa Volunteer Thinking Framework
… and the accuracy of transcriptions. The user survey revealed that volunteers found the transcription process enjoyable, though it was difficult. Results indicate that volunteer thinking can be used to crowdsource intellectually-intensive tasks in digital libraries like transcription of …
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Refactoring meets spreadsheet formulas
The number of end-users who write spreadsheet programs is at least an order of magnitude larger than the number of trained programmers who write professional software. We studied a corpus of 3691 spreadsheets and we found that their formulas are riddled with the same smells that plague professional …
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Musicpainter : a collaborative composing environment
… aims to provide a social environment where users can gather and learn from each other. Our approach is based on sharing and managing music creation in small and large scale. At the small scale, users are encouraged to begin composing by conceiving small musical ideas, such as melodic or …
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An Investigation into Code Search Engines: The State of the Art Versus Developer Expectations
… releases, and open-source projects. We then survey more than a 100 software developers to ascertain their usage of and preferences for code search engines. Finally, we juxtapose the results of our study and survey to synthesize a call-for-action for researchers and industry practitioners to …
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A Machine Learning Model for Understanding How Users Value Designs: Applications for Designers and Consumers
… (ML) model of how designs are valued by their users. The model can be used to better understand the implications of furniture design decisions, as well as for commercial strategy. Existing ML systems have been trained on the physical and aesthetic features of completed furniture designs. We …
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Essays on the Economic Analysis of Transportation Systems
… of the theoretical model using a toll facility user survey in the New York City area was performed. The results show that the theoretical model explain more than 50 percent of the trip frequency behavior observed in the New York City toll facility users. Travel demand for facility users increase …
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Access barriers : an investigation into the availability and accessibility of high-demand materials in the Short Loan Centre of an academic library
… quantitative simulation study, and a qualitative user survey. Generally, the availability rates determined were high, which suggests a high degree of collection adequacy. However, the user study confirmed that many SLC users experienced difficulties in using the system, indicating a need for …
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Towards better gameplay in educational computer games: a PhD thesis
… used to refine the list, before carrying out a user survey to identify the important features offered by different game genres, and to determine whether game quality improves as more of the features are met. The survey results show that some key requirements separate the genres significantly, …
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The Effects of Sitting and Standing Hygiene on Posture in Dental Hygiene Students
… score was utilized for data analyses. An end-user survey was also completed by participants at both sessions to gather participant perceptions of posture and pain. Results: Thirty-four female second year dental hygiene students completed the study and had useable images for data analyses. …
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Evaluation of the KanchanTM Arsenic Filter under various water quality conditions of the Nawalparasi District, Nepal
… flow rate, installation date, location, and user survey results were recorded. A total of 100 filters, of ages from less than one year to seven years, from 79 groundwater sources and 15 villages - primarily in the Nawalparasi District - were tested. Data showed that poorly performing KAFs …
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Intelligent Goal-Oriented Feedback for Java Programming Assignments
… Tech that is widely used by many universities. A user survey was collected after the students have utilized this feedback for a couple of programming assignments and we obtained promising results to claim that our intelligent feedback is effective.
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Adoption of a visual model for temporal database representation
… of database schemas is challenging for users both in the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) domain. The primary way to resolve this issue, in both domains, is to use a model that is concise, interpretable and clear to understand, yet …
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A systems analysis and technology roadmap for fall mitigation systems for the elderly
… to prevent the long-lie. Current FMS have poor user adoption and are not as effective in preventing the long-lie. This thesis uses a systems approach to analyze architectures for a fall mitigation system architecture that can detect falls, reduce injury and issue emergency alerts to reliably …
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An investigation and evaluation into the 'usibility' of human-computer interfaces using a typical CAD system
… tools and techniques for evaluation, and user and interface modelling. An investigation into the implementation of voice recognition technologies examines how voice recognisers may be evaluated in commercial software. A prototype system was developed with the collaboration of FEMVIEW Ltd. …
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An investigation of contemporary public building design with particular reference to disabled peoples' design needs and designer awareness.
… education incorporated a more holistic and user-responsive syllabus. The research project, designed to test the above proposition, falls into two principal Sections. Section 1, developed as an inter-disciplinary study, drew documentary and research evidence from a wide variety of fields. The …
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