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Creating information systems that sense and respond to the physical environment is a complex activity, requiring technical skills from disparate areas of practice, such as computer programming and electronic circuitry. ...

Information retrieval research for informal conversational settings differs in important ways from the more traditional goal of document retrieval. The goal of this research is to build an information retrieval test ...

Virtual reality is becoming mainstream in areas such as entertainment, medicine and training. However, the affect on a user’s perceived states are still to be fully understood. This study aims to add to the existing body ...

Technology design education does not yet teach students how to effectively avoid embedding their unconscious social and cultural biases into artifacts they design and build, despite widespread critical examination of the ...

Many people with mental health disorders face significant challenges getting the help they need, including the costs of obtaining psychological counseling or psychiatry services, as well as fear of being stigmatized. As a ...

When users don’t understand how their data is stored, managed, and deleted in the cloud, it can leave that data vulnerable to hacking, privacy breaches, and other losses. How aware are users of what data they have in their ...

University students are often known for their poor sleeping habits, which have ill-effects on various aspects of their lives. However, causes for this lack of proper sleep are underexplored. In this thesis, I focus on ...