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 ...
Vujovic, Milica (Date of defense: 2021-06-16)
Research has provided relevant advances in evidence-based design for productive learning. For example, in the field of collaborative learning, there is extensive evidence for some key learning design ...
Zamir, Syed Waqas (Date of defense: 2017-05-26)
The cinema and television industries are continuously working in the development of image features that can provide a better visual experience to viewers; these image attributes include large spatial ...
Möller Ferreira, Susan (Date of defense: 2015-09-04)
Within Human-Computer Interaction, older people (60+) are often characterized as a heterogeneous group of consumers of digital content that use ICTs in a limited way due to age-related changes in ...
Amarasinghe, Ishari (Date of defense: 2020-12-16)
Computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) creates avenues for productive collaboration between students. In CSCL, collaborative learning flow patterns (CLFPs) provide pedagogical rationale and ...
Liaghat, Zeinab (Date of defense: 2017-03-09)
Nowadays, the amount of available digital documents is rapidly growing, expanding at a considerable rate and coming from a variety of sources. Sources of unstructured and semi-structured information ...
McMenamin, Conor (Date of defense: 2023-03-17)
In this thesis, we present a set of protocols in areas at the core of current blockchain technology literature; consensus, decentralized finance and distributed computing. These areas are bound by a ...
Tapscott, Alan (Date of defense: 2017-09-20)
Current information technologies allow users to interact and collaborate to create fictional realities. In this thesis, we explore the role of perceived consistency and coherence in the collaborative ...
Mora Guiard, Joan (Date of defense: 2016-09-19)
This thesis focuses on the design, development and evaluation of a series of full-body interaction experiences as tools for intervention on motivation and social initiation for children with Autism. ...
Tudela Pi, Marc (Date of defense: 2022-10-27)
Although the use of volumetric conduction to power wireless implants has been experimentally validated in recent years, a theoretical framework to determine the power and efficiency obtained by minimally ...