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  • The commentator information system : understanding journalists' needs to overcome cognitive load and navigation issues

    Creator:
    Midy, Marie-Anne
    Abstract:
    Nowadays, sports events are a significant part of the every-day entertainment with local, national, and international championships. A lot of money is invested by broadcasting companies to attract new and more viewers, acquire broadcasting rights, or send entire crews on site to cover such events. Journalists are among the few...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    Marie-Anne Midy for the degree of Master of Science in Computer Science presented on October 1, 2007

  • Deep crustal and mantle inputs to North Sister Volcano, Oregon High Cascade Range

    Creator:
    Schmidt, Mariek E.
    Abstract:
    The Central Oregon High Cascade Range is an anomalously mafic segment of the Cascade Arc due to ongoing intra-arc extension, which allows most magmas to traverse the crust without stalling and evolving to more evolved compositions. North Sister, a composite volcano in this arc segment, has produced a seemingly monotonous...
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation

  • Investigating the Effect of Using Mobile Touchscreen Device on Children's Tactile Skills

    Creator:
    Almurshed, Rana
    Abstract:
    To users, mobile touchscreen devices have appealing characteristics; among these characteristics is intuitiveness, which leads to mobile devices being used almost everywhere by almost everyone to accomplish almost anything. This statement, to some degree, holds for children too. Despite touchscreen devices’ intuitiveness and popularity, we don’t know much about how...
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation

  • Enabling Virtual Globes for A Visual-Auditory User Experience of Spatial Data

    Creator:
    Gune, Aditya N.
    Abstract:
    Geographical datasets are large, complex, and can be difficult for users to navigate and derive meaning from. These datasets, as well as the unique insights derived from them, provide tremendous opportunity for social change -- many of the global challenges humankind is currently facing can benefit from analytics or visualization...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    grateful to my graduate committee: Dr. Margaret Burnett, Dr. Christopher Sanchez, and Dr. Kyle Niemeyer

  • Gender differences in robot teleoperation

    Creator:
    Showkat, Dilruba
    Abstract:
    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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    Masters Thesis
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    deadlines and coordinating with others. I would like to thank Dr. Margaret Burnett for her continuous

  • Identifying Design Discussion Topics in Open Source Software

    Creator:
    Chatterjee, Amreeta
    Abstract:
    When contributing to a software system, developers need to understand the rationale for previous design decisions so that they can adhere to the system’s design. Not doing so can lead to erosion of the overall design quality of the system. However, discussions embedded in a large volume of communication on...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis

  • Interactive visualization of diversity in multivariate data sets unified across fields of study

    Creator:
    Pham, Tuan N. T.
    Abstract:
    The study of the diversity of multivariate objects shares common characteristics across disciplines, including ecology and organizational management. Nevertheless, experts in these two disciplines have adopted somewhat separate diversity concepts and analysis techniques, limiting the ability of potentially sharing and cross comparing these concerns. Moreover, while complex diversity data may...
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
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    other OSU professors who have served on my PhD committee: Pro- fessor Margaret Burnett, Professor

  • An automated web crawl methodology to analyze the online privacy landscape

    Creator:
    Sarkar, Chandan
    Abstract:
    Protecting end-users privacy and building trust are the two most important factors needed to support the growth of ecommerce. The increased dependence on the Internet for a wide variety of daily transactions causes a corresponding loss in privacy for many users, as virtually all websites collect data from users directly...
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    Masters Thesis
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    would also like to thank Dr. Margaret Burnett not just for serving as a committee member in my thesis