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  • Location Privacy-Preserving Strategies for Secondary Spectrum Use

    Creator:
    Grissa, Mohamed
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    The scarcity of wireless spectrum resources and the overwhelming demand for wireless broadband resources have prompted industry, government agencies and academia within the wireless communities to develop and come up with effective solutions that can make additional spectrum available for broadband data. As part of these ongoing efforts, cognitive radio...
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    Dissertation
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    available for broadband data. As part of these ongoing efforts, cognitive radio networks (CRN s) have

  • Low-power successive approximation analog to digital converter with digital calibration

    Creator:
    Li, Wei
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    IC designers are continuously facing the challenges from reduced CMOS feature sizes and supply voltages. ADCs that deliver satisfactory resolutions/speeds while utilizing the state-of-the-art technologies to save power are in high demand. The analog circuits are more and more assisted by various digital calibration techniques to get boosted performances. This...
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    Dissertation
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    dissertation is focused on a low-power 12-bit 12.5- MS/s successive approximation (SAR) ADC with a couple of

  • Novel approaches to promoting end-user programming

    Creator:
    Bahmani, Faezeh
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    End-user programming has become widespread. The increasing size of this population and the prevalence of barriers that they face has sparked the development of approaches that promote end-user programing by helping them overcome barriers and teaching them programming. Despite the fact that these approaches have done well in achieving those...
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    Masters Thesis
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    , especially Jill Cao and Mike Lee. I learned so many lessons from you, it has been great working with you

  • Generalizing the Idea Garden : Principles and Contexts

    Creator:
    Jernigan, William
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    In previous work, the Idea Garden was created to help those relatively new to programming overcome their barriers in CoScripter. The goal of this thesis was to generalize the Idea Garden's success to other users and environments. We present a set of principles on how to help EUPs like this...
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    , helping her students succeed. I thank Jill Cao for all her work on the Idea Garden. Her work gave me the

  • The InclusiveMag Method: A Start Towards More Inclusive Software for Diverse Populations

    Creator:
    Mendez, Christopher
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    How can software practitioners assess whether their software supports diverse users? Although there are empirical processes that can be used to find “inclusivity bugs” piecemeal, what is often needed is a systematic inspection method to assess software’s support for diverse populations. To help fill this gap, this thesis introduces InclusiveMag,...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Thank you as well to Jill Woelfer and Nizar Saqqar for mentoring me through internships and showing me

  • Helping end-user programmers help themselves : the idea garden approach

    Creator:
    Cao, Chen
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    End-user programmers face many barriers in programming. Research has seen many programming environments that attempted to lower or remove the barriers but despite these efforts, empirical studies continue to report barriers users face. To investigate this issue, we took a theory-informed approach. Using theories from design, creativity, and problem solving...
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    Dissertation
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Jill

  • The Effectiveness of Using Robotics for Career Technology Education in a Middle School STE(A)M Course

    Creator:
    Bodle, Ernie
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    Using robotics in education allows students to become familiar with multiple topics in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). With the use of robotic educational tools in the 8th – 12th grade classrooms, such as Sphero, Anki Cozmo, and Lego Mindstorms, few devices allow students to build the robots’ electrical...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Middle School so this research could even be conducted. Thank you to Jill Roshak for supporting my

  • How Should A Deaf Car Drive?

    Creator:
    Grant, Denue, Jr.
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    This thesis seeks to determine whether a self-driving car's behavior should depend on the hearing status of its passengers: namely, hard-of-hearing (including deaf) or hearing. It is believed that auditory deprivation provokes adaptations in visual attention. These adaptations may lead to atypical movement patterns that can translate to different driving...
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    ) or stop (S). 26 1 1 Introduction Predictions for when fully autonomous vehicles (AVs) would be

  • The sum of its parts : investigating the component pieces of GenderMag

    Creator:
    Hill, Charles
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    Previous work introduced the GenderMag method, a software inspection method used to help software creators identify features within their software that are not gender-inclusive. Inclusiveness of software (gender or otherwise) matters because supporting diversity matters—it is well-known that the more diverse a group of problem-solvers, the higher the quality of...
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    Masters Thesis
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    ......................................................................................................... 14 GenderMag’s Persona(s): are they Working

  • Gender differences in robot teleoperation

    Creator:
    Showkat, Dilruba
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    Gender issues have recently received increased attention in human robot interaction (HRI). Because robots are becoming part of our homes and daily lives, it is important to understand how different groups of people use them. To the best of our knowledge, almost no research has been done that investigates gender...
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    audio and video recorded. If a participant was stuck (if the robot hand is stuck or s/he is nervous