Garreta Domingo, Muriel (Date of defense: 2018-07-25)
To improve and innovate education, a novel conception of the role of design in this realm is needed. Human-centered design (HCD), a problem-solving framework underpinned by the user perspective in ...
Oliver Parera, Maria (Date of defense: 2018-10-17)
In this thesis we aim at analyzing images and videos at the object level, with the goal of decomposing the scene into complete objects that move and interact among themselves. The thesis is divided in ...
Herrera Boyer, Perfecto (Date of defense: 2018-12-12)
This tesis reports on research carried out and published during the last twenty years on different problems of Music Information Retrieval (MIR). We organize the text as a personal account and critical ...
Gong, Rong (Date of defense: 2018-11-23)
Online learning has altered music education remarkable in the last decade. Large and increasing amount of music performing learners participate in online music learning courses due to the easy-accessibility ...
Rello, Luz (Date of defense: 2014-06-27)
Worldwide, 10% of the population has dyslexia, a cognitive disability that reduces readability and comprehension of written information. The goal of this thesis is to make text more accessible for people ...
Sheang, Kim Cheng (Date of defense: 2023-11-02)
Reading is an essential skill that plays a crucial role in our daily lives. It allows us to access information, gain knowledge, expand our understanding of the world around us, and build the foundation ...
Della Valle, Fabio (Date of defense: 2021-11-29)
This thesis presents a study of blockchain impacts for supply chain (SC) application. By conducting explorative research, the thesis presents a grounded theory analysis based on eighteen interviews with ...
Colombaro, Ivano (Date of defense: 2022-06-17)
This doctoral thesis aims to find a connection between two different disciplines. On the one hand, the electromagnetic theory, one of the most known and most applied theories in physics, properly ...
Ramires, António (Date of defense: 2023-02-08)
Repurposing audio material to create new music - also known as sampling - was a foundation of electronic music and is a fundamental component of this practice. Currently, large-scale databases of audio ...
Doste Beltrán, Rubén (Date of defense: 2019-11-18)
The purpose of this thesis was to develop personalised cardiovascular therapy guided by multimodal noninvasive imaging and simulations, combined with artificial intelligence tools, for the management ...