Hakami, Eyad (Date of defense: 2023-02-10)
The accelerating adoption of digital technologies creates a direct relationship between the status of individual and societal well-being on one hand, and the state of the digital technologies that ...
Sáez-Trumper, Diego (Date of defense: 2013-12-05)
The objective of this thesis is to develop novel techniques to find relevant people in Online Social Networks (OSN). To that end, we consider different notions of relevance, taking the point of view of ...
Girardin, Fabien (Date of defense: 2009-07-14)
El uso creciente de dispositivos móviles, infraestructuras inalámbricas e Internet está cambiando nuestra vida diaria, no solo la manera en que nos comunicamos o compartimos información, sino también ...
Xiao, Ping (Date of defense: 2014-07-08)
Behind every good advertisement there is a creative concept, a Big Idea. In contrast to the countless number of ads, a small number of patterns of effective communication (idea templates) have been ...
Vouloutsi, Vasiliki (Date of defense: 2017-11-07)
Due to technological advancements, robots will soon become part of our daily lives and interact with us on a frequent basis. Robot acceptance is important, as it delineates whether users will potentially ...
Apablaza Campos, Alexis (Date of defense: 2019-07-22)
La emisión de vídeos en directo a través de las redes sociales, entendida como Social Media Live Streaming (SMLS), permite a los medios digitales proponer diversas formas de interacción y de engagement ...
Teixeira Fortuna, Paula Cristina (Date of defense: 2023-03-06)
The detection of hate speech in online spaces is traditionally conceptualized as a classification task that uses Machine Learning (ML)-driven Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques. In accordance ...
Aslay, Çiğdem (Date of defense: 2016-12-16)
This thesis constitutes one of the first investigations that lie at the intersection of social influence propagation, viral marketing, and social advertising. The objective of this thesis is to take the ...
Araújo de Siqueira, Matheus (Date of defense: 2018-01-07)
This thesis confronts how, in Vincent Moon’s films, experience takes the spotlight in detriment of signification. I formulate that the director, rather than worrying about imbuing his films with an ...
Schaper, Marie-Monique (Date of defense: 2019-01-25)
This dissertation focuses on better achieving co-design of Full-Body interactive learning experiences with children and experts (teachers, museum curators, pedagogues, etc.). Hence, on the one hand, it ...