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Young, David Andrew. "Discourses on communication technologies." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape11/PQDD_0003/NQ42890.pdf.
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Stargel, Scott. "Communication technologies and missionary stress." Columbia, SC : Columbia Theological Seminary, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.2986/tren.023-0213.
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Branham, Stacy Marie. "Designing Technologies for Empathic Communication." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/51750.
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If you have ever used your phone while on a date to send a text message, or snapped a picture with a friend to upload to Facebook, or cut a sentence down to 140 characters to broadcast on Twitter, you may agree with some leading Social Scientists that technology is changing the way we relate with one another. Our interactions through technology seem to be getting increasingly short with less sophisticated language. More and more, our thoughts are broadcast to everyone instead of intended for someone special. Yet, there is something profoundly human and central to our development that is neglected in these interchanges. Close human relationships---with families, significant others, friends---need complex, intimate, ongoing conversations in order to create and maintain empathic connectivity. In these types of conversations, individuals become part of one another, defined by each other. Together, they change, they grow, they find meaning in life. This is, in essence, what I call Empathic Communication.
Until now, this concern has been largely neglected in the field of Human-Computer Interaction, a community of researchers and technology designers who are arguably best positioned to address it. To suggest one path forward, in this dissertation I raise the question of whether computer technologies can become brokers of Empathic Communication between people who care about each other, with a specific focus on intimate partners. How can we conceptualize Empathic Communication, how can we build tools that support it, and how do we know if we have succeeded?
I address these questions by creating a simplified model of the therapeutic process of intimate reconnection, or the 4Rs framework---Repattern, Reflect, Restory, Reconnect. Using the 4Rs framework as an ideation tool, I designed and field-tested a technology concept for a dyadic journaling application, Diary Built for Two, that might help romantic partners reconnect through deep communication. Using the 4Rs framework as an evaluation tool, I found that Diary Built for Two enabled more intimate, more thoughtful, more Empathic Communication that changed the way partners saw themselves, one another, and their relationship. Unexpectedly, I found that research interviews I conducted with intimate partners had the same type of therapeutic effect. Simply asking partners questions about their relationship caused them to reflect on and change their understandings of their relationship and each other.
To guide other researchers and designers of Empathic Communication Technologies (ECTs), I present a set of specific outcomes of my study. First, I present Symmetric and Asymmetric interface profiles, which identify new human-technology configurations that may better support deep communication---for example, having one shared device between two people, as opposed to one separate device for each. I also share some of the ways in which research interviews may positively and negatively affect study participants towards reconsidering current informed consent practices. Both of these findings showcase the utility of selectively conceptualizing our technology designs as well as our research methods as therapeutic interventions; when we apply the therapy metaphor, new design and research opportunities become apparent.Ph. D.
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Kristiansson, Johan. "On technologies for ubiquitous multimedia communication." Doctoral thesis, Luleå : Division of Information and Communication Technology, Luleå University of Technology, 2006. http://epubl.ltu.se/1402-1544/2006/44/.
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Tosun, Leman Pinar. "Preference For Communication Technologies: Characteristics Of Channels, Users And Communication Situations." Phd thesis, METU, 2010. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12612668/index.pdf.
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In the current study, it was aimed to explore young adults&rsquocommunication technology preferences in friendships. With this aim, two survey studies were conducted on university students. In the first study 178 students and in the second study 343 students were surveyed. The findings of both studies demonstrated that (a) face-to-face communication was the most preferred communication,(b) preference for face-to-face communication was positively associated to preference for auditory communication, and negatively associated to preference for written communication, (c) several individual difference variables contributed to relative preferences for face-to-face over mediated communication in negative situations. General &lsquo
ndividual difference variables in relation to Relative Preferences were found to fit into a two-factor higher-order structure. The higher order constructs were Social Openness (the factors tapping to individuals&rsquo
motivation to engage in interpersonal interactions even when those interactions are challenging) and Individuated Functioning (the factors tapping to individuals&rsquo
motivation for personal growth). Relative Preference increased with increases in Social Openness and in Individuated Functioning. Communicaiton-specific individual difference factors underling the associations among Social Openness, Individauted Functioning and Relative Preferences were explored. Results suggested that Social Openness &ndash
but not Individuated Functioning- was indirectly linked to Relative Preferences via Perceived Difficulty of Communication Situations (Study1)
Social Openness was indirectly, and Individuated Functioning was both directly and indirectly linked to Relative Preferences via Difficulty in Handling Negative Situations (Study 2). Theoretical and practical implications of studies were discussed considering the previous literature.
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Hopkins, Sarah. "Arizona Extension Agents' Use of Communication Technologies." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/292699.
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Arizona Cooperative Extension strives to address community issues and needs through a research based educational process. The specific foci of the Extension agent gradually changed over time. Today's Arizona Extension agents should have good communication skills as they work to identify community resources, form community partnerships, and develop educational materials, among other things.
The study sought to describe how Arizona Extension agents utilize nine communication technologies: cell phones, Smartphones, tablet computers, wikis, blogs, podcasts, YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter. Greater than half of the participants utilized each mobile device included in the study (cell phones, Smartphones, and tablet computers). Facebook was a widely used social media tool.
The researcher suggests that funding and professional development may play key roles in Arizona Extension agent technology adoption. Communication technology use should be considered within Cooperative Extension work in order to help agents better serve the clientele.
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Berber-Irabien, Diana. "Information and communication technologies in conference interpreting." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/8775.
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New technologies, more specifically, Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), are today indispensable in all professions. It is undeniable, however, that some professions have been affected to a greater extent than others. This study describes ICTs used in conference interpreting, in both professional and educational settings. It also records the interpreters' and interpreter trainers' perceptions of ICTs, especially in terms of improving the quality of their performance and their professionalism. The data has been collected through two global surveys, both conducted mainly through questionnaires and personal interviews, and triangulated with in situ observations.
As to the results of the research, it was found that variation in use was not always due to generational or regional differences as had been expected. Conference interpreter trainers, on their part, are identifying different ways to overcome budgetary restrictions to allow students to learn about ICTs in order to better prepare them for the labor market.
Las nuevas tecnologías, especialmente las Tecnologías de la Información y la Comunicación (TICs), son actualmente un componente indispensable de todas las profesiones. Sin embargo, es innegable que hay profesiones que han resultado más beneficiadas por las TICs que otras. La presente investigación describe las TICs utilizadas en la interpretación de conferencias, tanto en el ámbito profesional como en el formativo. Registra asimismo la percepción y actitud de los intérpretes y de los formadores de intérpretes de conferencia hacia las TICs, en cuanto a mejorar la calidad de su desempeño y su profesionalismo. Para recoger la información, se llevaron a cabo dos encuestas a nivel global por medio de cuestionarios, complementadas con una serie de entrevistas y observaciones.
En cuanto a los resultados de la investigación, se encontró que la variación en el uso no era siempre resultado de diferencias generacionales o regionales. Los formadores de intérpretes de conferencia, por su parte, están encontrando nuevas formas de superar las restricciones presupuestales para que sus estudiantes aprendan sobre el uso de las TICs, con el objeto de prepararlos mejor para su inserción en el mercado laboral.
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Andonova, Veneta Stefanova. "Communication technologies: commercial adoption and institutional environment." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/7336.
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Esta tesis contribuye a varios campos del conocimiento. Primero, en ella se estudia el efecto ambiguo que la tecnología de Internet tiene en la estructura de costes de transacción en el caso de las ventas al por menor. En segundo lugar, esta tesis estudia empíricamente que factores determinan la adopción de la tecnología de Internet y la telefonía celular a nivel mundial desde 1980. Se demuestra que las diferencias entre países están determinadas en gran medida por el clima de inversión que afecta los incentivos de adoptar tecnologías basadas en activos específicos. Finalmente de desarrolla y pone a prueba una teoría que relaciona los sistemas electorales y las configuraciones de gobierno con la protección de los derechos de propiedad. Se propone un modelo, que establece una relación negativa entre el número de instituciones de toma de decisión consensual y el grado de protección de los derechos de propiedad.This research contributes to several fields of knowledge. It studies the ambiguous effects that the Internet has on the transaction costs structure in the case of retailing. Next, it presents an empirical study of the determinants of worldwide Internet and cellular phone penetration levels since 1980. It is shown that cross-country differences in the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) are to a considerable extent due to differences in investment climate, which determines the incentives to adopt technologies based on site-specific assets. Finally, this thesis develops and tests a theory regarding the effect that electoral formats and government configurations have on the degree of property rights protection. A formal model is presented, which establishes a negative relationship between the number of institutions of consensual collective decision-making and the degree of property rights protection.
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Liao, Lijun. "Secure email communication with XML-based technologies." Berlin Bochum Dülmen London Paris Europ. Univ.-Verl, 2009. http://d-nb.info/1000311201/04.
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Bhusate, Arvind M. "Intelligent Communication Technologies for Interactive Museum Exhibits." Thesis, Imperial College London, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.519602.
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Ingham, Jonathan David. "Technologies for multimode-fibre optical communication systems." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.406971.
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Gay, Bellile Danielle. "Liberte d'expression et nouvelles technologies de communication." Paris 2, 1989. http://www.theses.fr/1989PA020073.
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La liberte d'expression dont la libre communication par les nouvelles technologies est l'une des formes, connait un elargissement relatif qui se traduit par une possibilite d'acces aux services nes du cable, du satellite, de la telematique etendue mais toujours soumise a autorisation. La liberte de programmation est plus grande pour les services prives tandis que la categorisation des services limite celle des organismes du secteur public. Par ailleurs, certaines categories de programmes ont un regime juridique particulier (publicite, cinema). Enfin, le recepteur peut desormais recevoir une multitude de messages, beneficiant d'une liberte d'installation qui est toutefois encore soumise a un regime d'autorisations multiples; cette liberte n'aboutit jamais a la creation d'un droit a la reception. En contrepartie de cet elargissement relatif, les obligations des emetteurs telles le pluralisme interne, le respect des droits d'autrui, montrent une inadaptation aux specificites presentees par les nouvelles technologies, en particulier en ce qui concerne la responsabilite editoriale. Quant a l'etat, sa responsabilite n'a pas ete modifiee par l'apparition des nouvelles technologies et ne peut etre engagee que dans les conditions de droit commun. De meme, l'autorite administrative independante, partie integrante de l'etat beneficie de cette reponsabilite limitee et subit les effets de son appartenance. La liberte d'expression est donc elargies mais demeurent des obscurites quant a certains services qui proviennent d'une absence de definitions suffisantesFreedom of expression stretches with cable, satellite and data but this extension is limited. If men can set up facilities to broadcast programs and messages, they need to be authorized by three authorities: cncl, p&t, mayor. Some messages are submitted to specific principles. Furthermore, the receiver can receive a lot of messages. In any cases, this right has to be precise and never become a right to receive. When we examine the counterpart of the right, the obligations of services as respect of the pluralism or respect of the other rights, it prove that new technologies are specifical, notably editorial responsabilities are not very effective because it is difficult to distinguish between audiovisual communication and private "correspondence" the duty of the french state has not been modified by the development of new technolo gies. The legislator and the government has only to compensate somebody for torts in strict conditions of special prejudice. The independant authority (cncl) which is a state organ share this limited responsability but is, in the same time, under the effects of its appartenance. Liberty of expression is larger now but it is necessary to dicern among services, radio and tv and new services. So, it is difficult to recognize a real statute for the new services and an absolute freedom, because laws main tain inexplicit definition
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Auzinger-Hotzel, Kathrin Michaela. "Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and Citizenship." ScholarWorks, 2017. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/3334.
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Democracy depends on the civic and political engagement of individuals. Despite a growing body of research analyzing political engagement in the United States, little attention has been paid to the relationship between information and communication technologies (ICTs) and perceptions of citizens concerning civic participation. The purpose of this quantitative study was to examine the relationship between ICTs, perceptions of citizenship, and participatory preferences for 18- to 35-year-olds in the United States. Applying Olson's theory of collective action, the goal of the study was to understand how ICT use influenced changes in perceptions of citizenship between 2004 and 2014. A repeated cross-sectional design, pooling secondary data retrieved from the U.S. General Social Survey database, was used to answer the research questions on the effect of ICT use on perceptions and actions concerning citizenship and participation. The hypotheses were tested using multiple linear regression analysis. Study findings suggested that ICT use had no notable effect on changes in perceptions of citizenship. More specifically, results indicated that changes in perceptions and actions between 2004 and 2014 were not the result of ICTs, despite increasing ICT usage over the period. These findings indicate that ICTs are just tools, rather than agents of change. Acknowledging ICT use as a form of expression permits practitioners to deploy ICTs as tools to support civic engagement. Benefits from leveraging them as tools are likely to accrue individuals, society, and practitioners alike. The resulting implications for positive social change include increased participation as well as the adoption of democratic practices reflective of modern participatory demands and behaviors.
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Smith, Paige E. "Human-Centered Communication Technologies to Enhance Tutoring." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/36594.
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The goal of this research was to investigate communication media and feedback learning cues for tutoring. A macroergonomic perspective was used to identify three sociotechnical variables associated with tutoring assistance: problem analyzability, communication media, and learning feedback cues. A four-phase problem solving approach was used in all trials. The communication media consisted of collocated communication, email, a chatroom, and video teleconferencing. The learning feedback cue was a non-verbal mechanism for subjects to provide the tutor with immediate information about their understanding throughout the problem. Subjects participated in a total of eight trials over a four-week time period.The analysis accuracy, process time, and user satisfaction indicated that the four-phase problem solving approach was not important in the interpretation of the results. In each problem-solving phase and for the overall tutoring process, technical performance (e.g., accuracy and speed of problem solving) and user satisfaction were measured to determine the most effective communication technology (or technologies) for tutoring students. The results of this study indicated that the accuracy was similar for all experimental conditions. However, the speed of problem solving was generally faster for audio-visual communication than text-based communication. In all phases, subjects were significantly more satisfied in conditions without feedback cues. And in general, satisfaction was higher in collocated communication and the chatroom compared to email; satisfaction was generally higher in collocated communication compared to video teleconferencing.
There was no evidence that computer-mediated communication improved the tutoring process. However, important design implications existed for tutoring systems with limited resources. Through computer-mediated communication, a single tutor could assist many students at one time. The chatroom appeared to be a condition that would be an effective communication medium for spatially dispersed tutoring. Although the tutoring process required significantly more time to complete using the chatroom compared to collocated communication, accuracy and satisfaction measures were similar between collocated communication and the chatroom.
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Anjum, Chaudhary. "Learner’s Interaction With Information and Communication Technologies." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för datavetenskap, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-44994.
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This Master’s thesis aims to explore how children and teen-agers (i.e. learners) interact and create a use for information and communication technology in the classroom during their lectures. The study is based on distributed cognition theory in order to describe a cognitive system which involves interactions among humans (i.e. learners), artifacts which they use (i.e. information and communication technology active boards) and the environment in which they interact (i.e. a classroom). User’s (such as the children, teen-agers and teachers) interaction with information and communication technology can lead towards new and important ways of invention in the classroom. No doubt the ideas, thoughts and vision of these users (such as children and teenagers) are very important which can change an environment that supports learning. The Distributed Cognition Approach is a widely acknowledged approach, but it is less commonly applied in order to observe learner’s (such as children and teen-agers) interaction with information and communication technologies in their learning setting. Therefore this study aims to explore the children and teen-agers interaction with the information and communication technology active boards by using distributed cognition theory which can be expressed as important and interesting for the researchers, designers and developers in evaluating, designing and developing effective interactive technologies that supports better education. Through an empirical case study, qualitative data have been collected using interviews and observations. Based on related research, related theory, qualitative results and analysis, a conclusion is presented which shows that (with the help of the analysis of distributed cognition theory) the information and communication technology active boards seems to engage the children and teen-ager’s to collaborative learning activities which supports collaboration and shared knowledge. It helps to capture their concentration towards learning which can increase the opportunities and possibilities of better learning results related to their education. The distributed cognition approach provides an analytic and investigative methodology in order to examine the learner’s interactions with artifacts which are difficult with other traditional methodologies to the analysis of cognitive-tasks. This approach highlights the complicated interdependencies among learners and artifacts in collaborative learning activities.
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Le, Hir Boris. "Capturing Information and Communication Technologies as a General Purpose Technology." Thesis, Châtenay-Malabry, Ecole centrale de Paris, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012ECAP0046/document.
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Cette thèse a pour objet l'étude des Technologies de l'Information et de la Communication (TIC) en tant que Technologie Générique (TG) ainsi que leur rôle dans l'évolution de la productivité du travail aux Etats-Unis et en Europe durant les dernières décennies. La thèse est constituée de trois parties axées chacune sur l'une des trois propriétés fondamentales des TG: le progrès rapide de la technologie, l'ubiquité de la technologie et la capacité à créer des opportunités technologiques. La première partie décrit, dans un premier chapitre, l'innovation dans le domaine des TIC, en commençant par un bref historique de ces technologies, suivie d'une analyse des données contemporaines sur l'innovation dans ce domaine. Elle montre en particulier comment les Etats-Unis ont été, jusqu'à présent, plus performants que les pays Européens dans le développement des TIC. Dans un deuxième chapitre, cette première partie inventorie les difficultés de mesures induites par la vitesse et la nature du changement généré par ces technologies. La seconde partie de la thèse traite de la nature ubiquitaire des TIC. Elle décrit d'abord la diffusion des TIC au cours du temps à travers les pays et les secteurs économiques, puis, établit une revue de la littérature sur la contribution directe de la diffusion des TIC à la croissance de la productivité du travail aux US et en Europe. Le second chapitre de cette partie s'intéresse au comportement de demande de facteurs de production dans les secteurs producteurs de TIC ou intensifs en utilisation des TIC. Enfin, la troisième partie de la thèse se concentre sur la capacité des TIC à générer des opportunités d'innovation. Pour cela elle identifie d'abord la nature des innovations complémentaires et les efforts menant à ces innovations. Elle montre alors la nécessité d'améliorer la comptabilité nationale afin de prendre en compte ces efforts comme des investissements. Cette partie révèle ensuite que, dans les onze pays européens étudiés, le problème est particulièrement concentré sur quelques pays qui investissent peu en TIC et en actifs innovants et que ces deux types d'efforts sont complémentairesThis thesis aims to study Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) as a General Purpose Technology (GPT) and their role in the labor productivity evolution in the United States and Europe during recent decades. This thesis is organized in three parts corresponding to the fundamental GPT features: the wide possibilities for development, the ubiquity of the technology and the ability to create large technological opportunities. The first part depicts, at first, the innovation in ICT, beginning with a short historical review of ICT inventions followed by the analysis of current data on innovation in this field. In particular, it shows how the US was better than the European countries in inventing ICT until now. Second, this first part makes an inventory of measurement difficulties due to the rate and the nature of the change created by such technologies. The second part of the thesis deals with the ubiquitous nature of ICT. It first describes the ICT diffusion across countries and industries and reviews the economic literature on the direct contribution of ICT on labor productivity growth in the US and Europe. The next chapter studies the factor demand's behaviour in sectors that are either ICT producers or ICT intensive users. The third part focuses on the ICT ability to create opportunities for complementarity innovations. Firstly, it identifies the nature of ICT complementary innovations and the corresponding efforts. It shows, then, that national accounts must be improved in order to take these efforts into account as investments. Secondly, this part shows that, among the eleven European countries studied, the problem is highly concentrated in a few countries that invest less both in ICT and in innovative assets and that these two types of effort are complementary
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Brandel, Mikael C., and Mohammad H. Syarif. "Improving business to customer communication : Applying lean and information and communication technologies." Thesis, KTH, Industriell produktion, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-50400.
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In this current economical environment business are looking to become more efficient to lower the costs and provide a better service. New technological advances are quickly being integrated to automate or more rapidly perform the task. Most of these technological advances are in the field of information and communication technology (ICT). Nevertheless, the introduction of technologies is not enough, as better management strategies and organization structures are needed to develop the business further. Duroc Machine Tools identified a problem within the sales and service approach, which does not employ ICT tools while communicating with the customer. Therefore, the cost per order is high and a direct one to one communication is the only approach. The project focuses on lowering the cost of each order, without decreasing the customer care and the overall quality of the service. This was firstly done by studying the possibilities of what ICT tools would be applied to enhance the communication processes. Data was collected from statistical sources to give an overall idea. Next case studies of companies within similar industries and region were performed to indicate in more detail the tools used and available. An educated guess was formulated of what ICT tools should be considered, the more infrequent or conflicting ICTs recommended were verified by interviewing employees with a demonstration of the tools application. The second stage was to analyze the organizational structure and applying lean tools to add value to the customer. A customer perspective is at the centre of this theory and several tools were used to improve the system. Finally the ICT tools were integrated with the new organizational structure to demonstrate the developments possibilities in the future vision. The study found that common ICT functions such as information upload have become essential for doing business today. Another trend that was established is that live information or user-generated approach which is a must have factor in the future ICT platform, this was mostly suggested by introducing micro-blogs. The infrequent and conflicting ICTs within the industry that were recommended were: e-commerce, order management and model driven process solving (MDP). The verification showed a strong consent within the company to apply such tools. To finish the project a strategy of implementation was formulated to guide the company towards its vision of a better system.
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Burga-Larco, Gonzalo, Jorge Lucas Vargas-Sardon, and Eliana Gallardo-Echenique. "Use of disruptive technologies in Peru." Associacao Iberica de Sistemas e Tecnologias de Informacao, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10757/656663.
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This paper aims to identify the perceptions of the main stakeholders of IBM about the external communication strategies that have been applied on the potential use of disruptive technologies. A qualitative methodology with a case study approach was applied. Through the homogeneous sampling technique, six semi-structured interviews with stakeholders of IBM and one focus group with 11 university students were conducted. As a result, there is interest in Peruvians to know what disruptive technologies are; however, its dissemination has a commercial focus that is not generating development or relevant solutions in the local market. It is necessary that specialists and the media disseminate information that does motivate their use in a real and effective way.
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Alhayek, Katty. "Activism, Communication Technologies, and Syrian Refugees Women's Issues." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1417784369.
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Summet, Valerie Henderson. "Facilitating communication for deaf individuals with mobile technologies." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/33878.
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Communication between deaf individuals and hearing individuals can be very difficult. For people who are born deaf, English is often a second language with the first language being American Sign Language (ASL). Very few hearing people in the United States sign or are aware of Deafness, Deaf culture, or how to appropriately communicate with people with hearing loss.
In this thesis, I concentrate on the role that mobile technologies can play in ameliorating some of these issues. In formative work with Deaf teenagers in the metro-Atlanta area, I investigate the role that communication technologies play in the lives of many Deaf individuals and examine how these devices have effected their communication patterns and social circles. Specifically, the teens identified problems communicating with hearing individuals such as close friends and family in face-to-face situations.
Having identified sign language use at home as one of the earliest interventions for Deaf children, I investigated the use of mobile phones for learning survival-level ASL. I created a prototype software application which presented short ASL lessons via either a mobile phone or desktop web-browser. The software presented the lessons via one of two different scheduling methods designed to take advantage of the spacing effect during learning. I designed and conducted a study of forty individuals with no prior ASL knowledge which compared the effects of both scheduling algorithm and platform. My results show that individuals who used a mobile phone platform and received a group of lessons at one time performed better on post-test receptive and generative ASL metrics than did participants in the three other conditions.
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Oyekunle, Abiola Taiwo. "Wireless Short Range Communication Technologies for Home Automation." Thesis, Halmstad University, Halmstad Embedded and Intelligent Systems Research (EIS), 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-4017.
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A modern home contains varieties of electronic equipment and systems like: TV, Hi-fi equipment, central heating systems, fire alarm systems, security alarm systems, lighting systems etc. Enabling these devices to communicate is the first step towards the long-predicted smart home, but this requires communication standards to follow. It can be anticipated that the technology must be wireless in order for such network to be feasible. Large set of standards are present for as well wired as wireless communication in between such devices, but today no standard communication interface available.
The goal of this project is to survey available standards for short-range wireless communication, and to evaluate and compare their capabilities to become a general standard for home automation. The evaluation must take such aspects as security, range, network architecture and the heterogeneous set of devices into consideration. Furthermore, this thesis proposes how to interconnect the home network to the external network for remote supervision and control.
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David, Lourdes T. "Introduction to information and communication technologies - Module 1." UNESCO Bangkok, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105247.
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ICT for Library and Information Professionals: A Training Package for Developing Countries (ICTLIP) edited by Andrew Large, McGill University, Canada, and published by UNESCO, Bangkok, Thailand consists of 6 modules, namely, Module 1: Introduction to information and communication technologies; Module 2: Introduction to integrated library systems; Module 3: Information seeking in an electronic environment; Module 4: Database design, and information storage and retrieval; Module 5: The Internet as an information resource; and Module 6: Web page concept and design: getting a web site up and running. This is Module 1 (Teacher's Guide) by Lourdes T. David. Module 1 covers the basic concepts of information and communication technologies, the
impact of ICT on society and the reasons why librarians need to acquire ICT knowledge and
skills.
By the end of the course, students should be able to:
1. Describe how computers process information
2. Use a personal computer system for various tasks in libraries
3. Define how networks (LAN, WAN, intranet, Internet) operate
4. Recognize the significance of computers and networks in the creation, collection,
consolidation and communication of information
5. Be aware of trends and ethical, legal and technological issues concerning the use of ICT
in libraries and information centers
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Ostrove, Geoffrey. "Towards a Political Economy of Urban Communication Technologies." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/20514.
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By the year 2050, about three quarters of the world’s population will live in cities. Most cities are developed by state or federal governments; however, some cities are developed for the purpose of private interests that plan the city. While the concept of private companies planning and sometimes even owning cities is not a new development, there seems to currently be a rise in this trend, with communication corporations such as IBM, Google, Intel, and Cisco now taking advantage of this growing market.
Known as “smart” or “wired” cities, this new privatized way of planning communities allows major communication corporations to play an important role in shaping the future of our communities. Google, IBM, and Intel are all playing a role in planning the future of Portland, Oregon. By analyzing documents such as planning ordinances, financial reports, and government transcripts, as well as conducting interviews with city planners and corporate employees, this study found that many of the “smart” city efforts being undertaken by these communication corporations are intimately tied to their efforts to bring the Internet of Things (IoT) to fruition. Ultimately, the main goal of these efforts is to utilize urban communication technologies (UCTs) to gather data about community members by tracking their activities. In this emerging personal data economy, identities are the main commodity being fetishized.
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Tewell, J. R. "Augmenting communication technologies with non-primary sensory modalities." Thesis, City, University of London, 2018. http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/20153/.
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Humans combine their senses to enhance the world around them. While computers have evolved to reflect these sensory demands, only the primary senses of vision and audition (and to an extent, touch) are used in modern communication. This thesis investigated how additional information, such as emotion and navigational assistance, might be communicated using technology-based implementations of sensory displays that output the non-primary modalities of smell, vibrotactile touch, and thermo-touch. This thesis explored using a portable atomiser sprayer to deliver emotional information via smell to mobile phone users, a ring-shaped device worn on the finger to display emotional information using vibration and colours, and an array of thermoelectric coolers worn on the arm to create temperature sensations. Additionally, this thesis explored two methods of signalling temperature using the thermal implementation, and finally, used it in a controlled study to augment the perceived emotion of text messages using temperature. There were challenges with using some of these implementations to display information. Smells produced with the scent technology were ambiguous and highly cognitive, and poor delivery to the user produced undesirable cross-adaption effects when smells lingered and mixed in the environment. The device used to communicate vibrotactile and colour lighting cues neutralized emotions in text messages. Furthermore, temperature pattern discrimination using the thermal implementation was difficult due to non-linear interaction effects that occurred on the skin’s surface, as well as latency resulting from the thermal neurological pathway and the technology used to heat and cool the skin. However, the thermal implementation enabled more accurate user discrimination between thermal signals than what a single stimulator design provided. Furthermore, the utility of continuous thermal feedback, in the context of spatial navigation, was demonstrated, which improved user performance compared to when the user was not presented with any thermal information. Finally, temperature was demonstrated to elicit arousal reactions across subjects using the thermal implementation, and could augment the arousal of text messages, especially when the content of the message was strongly neutral. However, no similar statistical significance was observed with valence, demonstrating the complex implications of using thermal cues to convey emotional information.
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Ostrove, Geoffrey Benjamin. "Towards a Political Economy of Urban Communication Technologies." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10142280.
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By the year 2050, about three quarters of the world’s population will live in cities. Most cities are developed by state or federal governments; however, some cities are developed for the purpose of private interests that plan the city. While the concept of private companies planning and sometimes even owning cities is not a new development, there seems to currently be a rise in this trend, with communication corporations such as IBM, Google, Intel, and Cisco now taking advantage of this growing market.
Known as “smart” or “wired” cities, this new privatized way of planning communities allows major communication corporations to play an important role in shaping the future of our communities. Google, IBM, and Intel are all playing a role in planning the future of Portland, Oregon. By analyzing documents such as planning ordinances, financial reports, and government transcripts, as well as conducting interviews with city planners and corporate employees, this study found that many of the “smart” city efforts being undertaken by these communication corporations are intimately tied to their efforts to bring the Internet of Things (IoT) to fruition. Ultimately, the main goal of these efforts is to utilize urban communication technologies (UCTs) to gather data about community members by tracking their activities. In this emerging personal data economy, identities are the main commodity being fetishized.
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Garlapati, Shravan Kumar Reddy. "Enabling Communication and Networking Technologies for Smart Grid." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/56629.
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Transforming the aging electric grid to a smart grid is an active area of research in industry and the government. One of the main objectives of the smart grid is to improve the efficiency of power generation, transmission and distribution and also to improve the stability and the reliability of the grid. In order to achieve this, various processes involved in power generation, transmission, and distribution should be armed with advanced sensor technologies, computing, communication and networking capabilities to an unprecedented level. These high speed data transfer and computational abilities aid power system engineers to obtain wide area measurements, achieve better control of power system operations and improve the reliability of power supply and the efficiency of different power grid operations.
In the process of making the grid smarter, problems existing in traditional grid applications can be identified and solutions have to be developed to fix the identified issues. In this dissertation, two problems that aid power system engineers to meet the above mentioned smart grid's objective are researched. One problem is related to the distribution-side smart grid and the other one is a part of the transmission-side smart grid. Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) is one of the important distribution-side smart grid applications. AMI is a technology where smart meters are installed at customer site which gives the utilities the ability to monitor and collect information related to the amount of electricity, water, and gas consumed by the user.
Many recent research studies suggested the use of 3G cellular CDMA2000 for AMI network as it provides an advanced and cost effective solution for smart grid communications. Taking into account both technical and non-technical factors such as extended lifetime, security, availability and control of the solution, Alliander, an electric utility in Netherlands deployed a private 3G CDMA2000 network for smart metering. Although 3G CDMA2000 satisfies the requirements of smart grid applications, an analysis on the use of the current state of the art 3G CDMA2000 for smart grid applications indicates that its usage results in high percentage of control overhead, high latency and high power consumption for data transfer. As a part of this dissertation, we proposed FLEX-MAC - a new Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol that reduces the latency and overhead in smart meter data collection when compared to 3G CDMA2000 MAC.
As mentioned above the second problem studied in this dissertation is related to the transmission-side grid. Power grid transmission and sub-transmission lines are generally protected by distance relays. After a thorough analysis of U.S. historical blackouts, North American Electric Reliability Council (NERC) has concluded that the hidden failure induced tripping of distance relays is responsible for 70% of the U.S. blackouts. As a part of this dissertation, agent based distance relaying protection scheme is proposed to improve the robustness of distance relays to hidden failures and thus reduce the probability of blackouts.
This dissertation has two major contributions. First, a hierarchically distributed non-intrusive Agent Aided Distance Relaying Protection Scheme (AADRPS) is proposed to improve the robustness of distance relays to hidden failures. The problem of adapting the proposed AADRPS to a larger power system network consisting of thousands of buses is modeled as an integer linear programming multiple facility location optimization problem. Distance relaying protection scheme is a real time system and has stringent timing requirements. Therefore, in order to verify if the proposed AADRPS meets the timing requirements or not and also to check for deadlocks, verification models based on UPPAAL real time model checker are provided in this dissertation. So, the entire framework consisting of AADRPS that aids in increasing the robustness of distance relays and reducing the possibility of blackouts, the multiple facility location optimization models and the UPPAAL real time model checker verification models form one of the major contributions of this dissertation.
The second contribution is related to the MAC layer of AMI networks. In this dissertation, FLEX-MAC - a novel and flexible MAC protocol is proposed to reduce the overhead and latency in smart meter data collection. The novelty of the FLEX-MAC lies in its ability to change the mode of operation based on the type of the data being collected in a smart meter network. FLEX-MAC employs Frame and Channel Reserved (FCR) MAC or Frame Reserved and Random Channel (FRRC) MAC for scheduled data collection. Power outage data in an AMI network is considered as a random data . In a densely populated area, during an outage, a large number of smart meters attempt to report the outage, which significantly increases the Random Access CHannel (RACH) load. In order to reduce the RACH traffic during an outage, this dissertation proposes a Time Hierarchical Scheme (THS). Also, in order to minimize the total time to collect the power outage data, a Backward Recursive Dynamic Programming (BRDP) approach is proposed to adapt the transmission rate of smart meters reporting an outage. Both the Optimal Transmission Rate Adaption and Time Hierarchical Scheme form the basis of OTRA-THS MAC which is employed by FLEX-MAC for random data collection. Additionally, in this work, Markov chain models are presented for evaluating the performance of FCR and FRRC MACs in terms of average throughput and delay. Also, another Markov model is presented to find the mean time to absorption or mean time to collect power outage data of OTRA-TH MAC during an outage.Ph. D.
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Lannabi, Mohammed. "Technologies modernes de communication dans l'enseignement supérieur algérien." Université Stendhal (Grenoble ; 1970-2015), 1987. http://www.theses.fr/1987GRE39034.
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L'universite algerienne a interet a promouvoir une technologie moderne de communication (tmc) en vue d'ameliorer ses pratiques pedagogiques. De tels changements interviendront avec la participation de tous les agents pedagogiques interesses. Or cette participation met en jeu divers parametres socio-culturels, en plus de toutes les contraintes materielles et institutionnelles que l'algerie continue d'affronter. Les experiences d'utilisation des tmc appliquees a l'enseignement montrent que les equipements doivent etre integres, sans quoi ils sont gaspilles. Ces tmc ne sont pas seulement des supports d'informations a vehiculer. Ils introduisent des langages et des codes a prendre en compte et a developper dans des processus d'apprentissage et d'enseignement. Pour cela, des programmes de formation pedagogique acceleree sont a lancer a la base. Ils donnent toujours lieu a des transformations qui ne manqueront pas de toucher aux habitudes sociales et aux modes de formation et de pensee. Ce qui explique l'apparition de resistances qui freinent les projets rationnels d'activites pedagogiques d'innovation. Ce volet psycho sociologique et culturel est a l'origine de l'echec de nombreuses experiences de transfert de technologies, tentees dans divers pays, notamment dans des pays du tiers-monde. Or, ces tmc peuvent servir a la creation d'outils pedagogiques qui soient des solutions pedagogiques d'avenir. Des adaptations dictees par les realites locales s'imposent et se precisent avec la participation d'agents pedagogiques algeriens. De plus en plus des recherches s'affinent et portent sur les moyens de rapprochement entre les tmc et la pedagogie. Elles visent une meilleure integration professionnelle et sociale des innovations dans une lutte contre l'alienation materielle et culturelle. Des organismes internationaux et intergouvernementaux apportent leur soutien a des projets qui ont besoin de mouvements d'educateurs pour les mener a bien.
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Weiss, Charles Tabor. "Use of Digital Technologies in Graphic Communication Education." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/27734.
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This study investigated the use of digital technologies in secondary and post-secondary graphic communication education. Specifically it investigated: 1) the extent to which graphic communication educators utilized digital technologies in conjunction with instruction; 2) how selected factors affected graphic communication teachersâ implementation of digital technologies in their instruction; and, 3) how selected factors affected teacher and learner-centered instructional practices.
The Levels of Technology Implementation (LoTi) and â Technology Use Surveyâ instruments were administered to secondary and post-secondary graphic communication educators via the Web to assess: 1) the frequency of use of 17 different digital technologies; 2) the nature and level of digital technology implementation; 3) current instructional practices; and 4) demographic characteristics.
Graphic communication educators (n = 191) responding to the survey utilized a wide variety of digital technologies as part of their instruction. The data indicated that most students in graphic communication classes use computers, page layout software, and the Internet (for accessing digital content) â almost daily.â Most graphic communication students were creating and/or editing vector and raster graphics â several times a week.â Most graphic communication teachers reported student use of digital still cameras, digital instructional tutorials and the Internet (to solve technical problems) was limited to â several times a month,â while most students were creating digital multimedia projects only â several times each year.â Most respondents chose â neverâ to describe studentsâ use of: digital video cameras, digital drawing tablets, creating and/or editing Web pages with a WYSIWYG or HTML editors, digital spreadsheets, digital databases, and digital animations. Findings from this study further indicate graphic communication educators demonstrate high to extremely high skill levels using computers for personal use and implement digital technologies in ways that begin to shift the learning environment from teacher-centered to student-centered, but may not be effectively updating their curriculum to reflect current graphic communication industry workforce needs.Ph. D.
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Laguda, W. B. "Electronic government, information communication technologies and social inclusion." Thesis, University of Salford, 2003. http://usir.salford.ac.uk/26767/.
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The UK's E-Government agenda was found on the principles of improving the quality of services offered to the public by Central and Local Government. This would be made possible through various national projects. Most notable were the use of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and Community Informatics involving the use of public libraries and outreach workers. However there is growing fear on the emergence of inequalities between the information rich and information poor termed the 'digital divide'. This has prompted the subject of research - to explore the reality of e-government in reducing social exclusion. Both qualitative and quantitative research techniques are used to this end. Analysis is made on the use of CRM in 27 Local Authorities including a detailed case study at Newham Council and a public survey in Salford. Universal access and social inclusion is tackled through the analysis of public libraries in Salford offering ICT services. In addition the effects of free ICT courses organised by Salford City Council on a number of community groups was included in the survey. The findings confirm the widespread use of CRM and reveal a series of barriers to its success. These include a lack of skilled CRM staff, inefficiencies in channel management, high emphasis on technology, and low levels of ICT usage. Results from the public library survey also revealed some barriers. Inadequate staffing levels, inappropriate training, and lack of IT support were all identified. In addition the library failed to attract novices and new users. The evaluation of Community Informatics in Salford showed the problems faced by outreach workers. As well as providing some academic research in a field lacking representation in IS research (due largely to recent emergence), the thesis also contributes to E-Government practice by, highlighting issues often over looked in its implementation, addressing its failures, and providing some reasoning on the current situation.
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Brunner, Steven R. "Attachment, Self-disclosure, and New Technologies: Investigating the Connection between Attachment and Self-Disclosure Across Different Communication Technologies." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/566995.
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The purpose of this dissertation was to explore the connection between attachment and self-disclosure behavior across communication technologies. Very little research has explored the connection between attachment and self-disclosure, and no studies have examined the relationship in the context of communication technologies. Drawing on attachment theory, self-disclosure literature, and communication technology research, this dissertation predicted that individuals with high anxious or high avoidance attachment would capitalize on the affordances of communication technologies and be associated with more self-disclosure behavior. Two studies were completed to test these hypotheses. Study one (n = 479) was a cross-sectional survey using participants recruited from Amazon’s Mechanical Turk. Study two (n = 309) was an experiment where participants had their attachment system activated by experiencing a threatening situation hypothetically. Both studies had participants report self-disclosure behavior with their romantic partner in frequency and degree of intimacy. Each participant was randomly assigned one communication channel to report on (e.g., face-to-face, text messaging, email, or social networking sites). The results from the two studies provided mixed results for attachment and self-disclosure behavior across communication technologies. In general, anxious attachment was positively associated with self-disclosure frequency and degree of intimacy regardless of which channel was used, which was expected. Avoidance attachment was negatively associated with self-disclosure frequency, but only when the participant was experiencing a threatening situation. Neither attachment style interacted with the number of cues perceived to be available in a communication channel in the proposed direction when predicting self-disclosure behavior. However, both attachment dimensions interacted with a channel’s perceived expectation for response when predicting self-disclosure intimacy. When participants were not experiencing a threat to their security, those with high anxious or high avoidance attachment reported self-disclosing more intimately in channels perceived to have less expectation for response. Together these findings suggest individuals with high anxious attachment may use self-disclosure as a hyperactivating strategy to connect with an attachment figure. Individuals with high avoidance attachment choose not to self-disclose as a deactivating strategy that prevents intimacy from forming. Additionally, individuals with high anxious or high avoidance attachment can capitalize on a channel’s expectation for response and feel comfortable self-disclosing something intimate in a channel perceived to have a low expectation for response.
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Rivero, Manuel. "Technologie et religionNotes bibliogr. Index : l'impact du confucianisme sur l'usage des technologies industrielles, l'impact du christianisme sur l'usage des technologies de la communication." Aix-Marseille 3, 1995. http://www.theses.fr/1995AIX30082.
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Y a-t-il une relation entre la technologie et la religion ? la religion influence-t-elle l'usage des technologies et l'innovation technologique ? s'agit-il d'un impact positif ou negatif ? le developpement extraordinaire de certains pays de l'asie du sud-est a-t-il quelque chose a voir avec leur religion ? nombreux sont les scientifiques et les sociologues qui se posent aujourd'hui ces questions. Cette recherche concerne le role joue par le confucianisme dans l'usage des technologies industrielles ainsi que l'impact du christianisme sur l'usage des technologies de la communication dans les cinq petits dragons: singapour, hong-kong, taiwan, japon et coree du sud. Il s'agit d'une etude realisee sur le terrain et completee par l'apport theorique des chercheurs
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Berg, Linda. "Communication tools’ impact on project communication efficiency : An evaluation of traditional communication tools and Social Media." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Institutionen för industriell ekonomi, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-14725.
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Collins, Travis Fredrick. "Enabling 5G Technologies." Digital WPI, 2017. https://digitalcommons.wpi.edu/etd-dissertations/35.
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The increasing demand for connectivity and broadband wireless access is leading to the fifth generation (5G) of cellular networks. The overall scope of 5G is greater in client width and diversity than in previous generations, requiring substantial changes to network topologies and air interfaces. This divergence from existing network designs is prompting a massive growth in research, with the U.S. government alone investing $400 million in advanced wireless technologies. 5G is projected to enable the connectivity of 20 billion devices by 2020, and dominate such areas as vehicular networking and the Internet of Things. However, many challenges exist to enable large scale deployment and general adoption of the cellular industries. In this dissertation, we propose three new additions to the literature to further the progression 5G development. These additions approach 5G from top down and bottom up perspectives considering interference modeling and physical layer prototyping. Heterogeneous deployments are considered from a purely analytical perspective, modeling co-channel interference between and among both macrocell and femtocell tiers. We further enhance these models with parameterized directional antennas and integrate them into a novel mixed point process study of the network. At the air interface, we examine Software-Defined Radio (SDR) development of physical link level simulations. First, we introduce a new algorithm acceleration framework for MATLAB, enabling real-time and concurrent applications. Extensible beyond SDR alone, this dataflow framework can provide application speedup for stream-based or data dependent processing. Furthermore, using SDRs we develop a localization testbed for dense deployments of 5G smallcells. Providing real-time tracking of targets using foundational direction of arrival estimation techniques, including a new OFDM based correlation implementation.
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Lioukas, Constantinos. "Information et communication en alliances stratégiques." Paris 9, 2006. https://portail.bu.dauphine.fr/fileviewer/index.php?doc=2006PA090053.
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Cette thèse traite des aspects informationnels et communicationnels des alliances stratégiques. Elle essaye de nous faire comprendre comment les différents stades d’une alliance stratégique sont influencés par les compétences des partenaires en communication ainsi que par l’interface à travers lequel les partenaires coopèrent. Plus précisement, la thèse traite (i) de l’impact des compétences des partenaires en NTIC (nouvelles technologies d’information et de la communication) sur la structure des alliances, (ii) du choix des médias de communication dans le cadre des alliances stratégiques, (iii) comment le choix des médias de communication peut apporter des changements au niveau de la confiance entre les partenaires, et (iv) des conséquences sur la performance des alliances stratégiques. Pour étudier ces sujets, nous prolongeons les théories de la communication existantes sur le domaine de la communication inter - entreprise et nous insérons ces théories avec les approches contractuelles et les approches par les compétences de l’entreprise. Les arguments sont examinés en adoptant une méthodologie mixte mêlant à la fois étude de cas et approche empirique. Les données de l’approche empirique sont recueillies auprès deux groupes de personnes : membres de l’Association des Professionnels des Alliances Stratégiques et anciens participants du master exécutif en alliances stratégiques de l’INSEAD. L’étude de cas est basée sur des entretiens face-à-face avec des expertsThis dissertation brings to the forefront the informational and communicational aspects of strategic alliances. It examines how different stages of the lifecycle of an alliance are influenced by the communication capabilities of the partners and the interface through which the partners interact. More specifically, the dissertation investigates (i) the impact of firms’ ability to exchange a large information amount (IT capability) on the alliance design, and in particular on the governance structure and the alliance scope, (ii) the choice between information amount and information richness in alliances, (iii) how this choice influences changes in the levels of trust between the partners, and (iv) implications of the above for alliance performance. These issues are examined by extending existing communication media theories to the domain of interorganizational communication and by combining them with contractual and competence perspectives. Evidence for the arguments is provided from a mix of survey and qualitative data. The survey data were collected from two groups of people: Full members of the Association of Strategic Alliance Professionals and alumni participants of the INSEAD executive program on strategic alliances. The qualitative data were collected through face-to-face interviews with key informants
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Mustard, Kimberley Ann. "Organizations and communication technologies, a study of organizational adaptation." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/mq55165.pdf.
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Barnes, Sally-Anne. "Communication technologies at work : organizational cultures and employee narratives." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2002. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/56206/.
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This thesis provides an extensive analysis of new communication technologies (NCTs), which includes email technology, the Internet, intranets, NetMeeting, video-conferencing and audio-conferencing, within an organisational context. These technologies have become ubiquitous in organisational life and work. The implementation, integration and application of NCTs in this setting have both innovative possibilities and negative consequences. Consequently, we need to understand the implications of these technologies on organisational cultures and structures. This is achieved throughout this thesis by focusing upon the context of technology implementation, the transformation of communication and information lines through and within the organisation, and the changing social networks and interactions. 'Communication Technologies at Work' will explain and critically explore the effects of NCTs whilst developing an understanding of the implications for its employment in the work and the training settings of an organisation. It is based upon the ethnographic study of a hi-tech organisation and draws upon the narratives of the organisational members collected through in-depth interviewing. Further data was collected utilising observational and survey methods. The research methodology of this study is distinctive because NCTs were used as methodological tools for carrying out the observations and distributing the surveys. Although a traditional methodological stance was adopted the study will further develop this tradition. It will analyse the relationship between NCTs and organisational cultural responses, by studying and interpreting the personal narratives of organisational employees. This study offers an original understanding of NCTs through the narratives of the organisational members and this forms the basis for its substantive contribution to existing research in this subject area. The importance of the narrated experiences of organisational employees negotiating the introduction of NCTs will be emphasised throughout and will be used to create the framework for the analysis. This thesis will conclude that organisational cultures have been 'technologised' through the application of NCTs. This is characterised by 'the ethos of technology enthusiasts' and 'the ethos of technology sceptics'. These positive and sceptical subcultures are embedded in the dominant organisational culture. Furthermore, this study will demonstrate that organisational communication and information flows have been altered, extended and interrupted with the advent of NCTs in the work setting. Finally, the discussion of the role of these technologies in the work and training settings of the case study organisation suggest that the consequences of their implementation and use vary in these different contexts.
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Hattori-Cocherel, Izumi. "Développement des Technologies de l'Information et Communication en Chine." [S.l.] : [s.n.], 2003. http://www.enssib.fr/bibliotheque/documents/dessid/rrbhattori-cocherel.pdf.
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Rapport de recherche bibliographique Diplôme d'études supérieures spécialisées : Ingénierie documentaire : Villeurbanne, ENSSIB : 2003. Rapport de recherche bibliographique Diplôme d'études supérieures spécialisées : Ingénierie documentaire : Lyon 1 : 2003.
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Brycman, Ariane. "La liberté d'expression dans les nouvelles technologies de communication." Paris 10, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1998PA100172.
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L'objet de cette etude est tout d'abord, de mettre en evidence les modifications profondes subies par le regime juridique de la liberte d'expression sous l'influence des nouvelles technologies de communication et ensuite, d'apprehender les solutions qui s'imposent, afin que le legislateur puisse garantir efficacement la liberte d'expression dans un secteur ou les techniques de communication depassent rapidement le cadre legislatif qui leur est fixe. Des la fin du monopole d'etat dans le secteur de la communication audiovisuelle le regime de la liberte de communication a connu un elargissement certain, favorisant l'acces aux supports de communication, organise par un regime de libre emission et reception des messages. Mais, aujourd'hui, la convergence des nouvelles technologies et le developpement des autoroutes de l'information revelent que le regime juridique actuel connait de nombreuses faiblesses ne permettant plus au legislateur d'encadrer efficacement les nouvelles technologies. De plus, ce processus est accentue par la construction d'un espace europeen de l'audiovisuel qui implique que chaque etat ne conserve pas une conception strictement nationale de la liberte d'expression (premiere partie). Par ailleurs, face a la diversite des moyens de communication, la conception francaise de la liberte d'expression a justifie la sauvegarde de l'objectif du pluralisme des opinions. Par consequent, la reglementation du contenu des services de communication est foisonnante mais aussi de plus en plus complexe, dans un contexte de multiplication des moyens de communication. Elle est regulee par une autorite administrative independants chargee de garantir l'exercice de la liberte de communication. Toutefois, les nouvelles technologies de communication ainsi que les pouvoirs confies au csa remettent en cause la coherence de la regulation du secteur de la communication audiovisuelle. Ce phenomene est renforce par l'avenement d'un reseau de communication mondial, internet, quirenouvelle la problematique de la protection des droits de l'individu face a la liberte d'expression (deuxieme partie).
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WANG, SHU. "THE APPLICATION OF SUBSPACE TECHNOLOGIES IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1065704505.
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Campbell, Joshua Michael. "How Information and Communication Security Technologies Affect State Power." Malone University Undergraduate Honors Program / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ma1462540876.
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Gilmore, James N. "Knowing the Everyday| Wearable Technologies and the Informatic Domain." Thesis, Indiana University, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10808846.
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This dissertation investigates how wearable technologies have come to matter for a variety of individuals, companies, and governments in the decade from 2007-2017. In particular, this dissertation argues that these devices are part of larger efforts to capture, know, and quantify the mundane practices of everyday life through an array of computation-based technologies. In doing so, they implicitly suggest that everyday life is no longer defined by its traditional theoretical conceptions of a domain of “excess,” unknowability, and qualitative character. Through four different case studies that emphasize different elements of life and bodily activity, this dissertation analyzes how the interactions between technologies and bodies legitimate some forms of knowing—such as the supposed certainty of big data’s predictive analytics—at the expense of other forms of knowing—such as the memory-oriented “recall” of diary writing. Each chapter, though based on concerns of experience and routine, explores how power, control, and resistance manifest in the routines of everyday life, and how these devices are designed, implemented, and discussed in ways that encourage the transformation of living into analyzable information. In each of my case studies—the hearing aid (and in particular the Soundhawk smart hearing system), the fitness tracker (in particular Fitbit), the wearable camera (in particular GoPro), and the identification band (in particular Disney Magic Band)—I treat wearable technology as an idea. Looking at advertisements, online blogs, magazine features, interviews, popular culture texts, and other sites of discourse, I examine how different organizations have promoted or critiqued these technologies for different goals, explaining how wearable technology has served as a means for 1) generating knowledge about how people live, 2) turning that knowledge into information that can be automatically analyzed by algorithms and other computational programs, and 3) use information as the basis to arbitrate decisions on what constitutes a normal or productive way of living. In analyzing the relationships between technologies, cultural discourses, and everyday life, I argue that media studies should consider the ways in which such bodily technologies mediate the everyday, taken-for-granted experiences of environments and social relationships.
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Munthe, Victor. "Implementing voice communication technology in patient applications." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för informationsteknologi, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-417993.
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AstraZeneca as a biopharmaceutical company performs clinical trials on human volunteers every day. It is crucial that these participants complete the trial to maximise the medical learning from the trial but also to decrease the cost for AstraZeneca. Dropout's from clinical trials can not be eliminated but as a part of the work that AstraZeneca is doing to reduce dropouts, this thesis investigates the possibility to implement voice control into patient applications. The goal is to increase the usability of the systems used in clinical trials and in return reduce dropouts and increase medical knowledge. This thesis results in a discussion that can be used for future work on this topic. Opportunities that a voice-controlled system brings, together with its limitations are presented and results in a discussion regarding "data ownership". One of the main conclusions is that a voice-controlled system would bring a lot of positive features but that either the technology or the authorities are ready for such a system today. A suggested way forward can be to start trying clinical trials, where free-text responses are used for some questions, instead of fixed responses. This can help show the authorities the benefits of such a system and motivate them to open up for more technology.AstraZeneca är ett läkemedelsbolag som utför kliniska studier på frivilliga deltagare varje dag. Det är avgörande att deltagarna avslutar studien för att maximera utfallet av medicinsk kunskap men även ur ett kostnadsperspektiv. Den här rapporten undersöker möjligheten att implementera röststyrning i kliniska studier för patienter som en del i arbetet AstraZeneca gör för att minska avhoppen. Målet är att öka användbarheten av systemen som används i kliniska studier idag som i sin tur minskar antalet avhopp och bidrar mer till medicinsk kunskap. Rapporten resulterar i en diskussion som kan användas i ett fortsatt arbete inom ämnet. Möjligheterna som ett röststyrt system medför tillsammans med dess begränsningar presenteras och slutar i en diskussion kring ägandeskap av data. En tydlig slutsats som arbetet resulterar i är att implementationen av ett röststyrt system medför många positiva aspekter men att myndigheterna och teknologin inte har kommit lika långt. Ett föreslaget sätt att fortsätta är att börja testa kliniska studier med frågor där svaret består av fri text istället för svarsalternativ. Resultatet från studien kan då i sin tur användas i diskussion med myndigheterna för att visa på alla positiva följder som ett röststyrt system medför.
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El, Fellah Reda. "Les interactions entre Internet, les nouvelles technologies de communication et d'nformation et la problématique du développement." Nice, 2006. http://www.theses.fr/2006NICE0049.
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Les technologies de communication et d'information pénètrent et provoquent des changements dans tous les aspects de l'activité économique tout en véhiculant un nouveau sens d'une société en réseaux de plus en plus débarrassée des contraintes espace/temps. L'objet de la thèse est de démontrer la double dialectique de la révolution de l'information en cours, aussi bien pour ce qui est de sa diffusion que pour ses finalités dans les pays en développement. Dans ce sens, la première démonstration consiste à élucider les divergences entre les mécanismes objectifs et subjectifs d'une réception active et maîtrisée de ces technologies et la réalité de leur diffusion qui prend peu en compte leur appropriation pérenne et autonome par les populations des pays en développement. La seconde dialectique, celle des finalités s'intéresse d'une part aux potentialités pratiques des applications de ces techniques dans les secteurs de développement durable (exemple : éducation, santé et agriculture ) et dans certains aspects de la structure économique et sociale des pays en développement ( exemple: tourisme, médias et questions de genre). D'autre part, les finalités prescrites par la logique de la libéralisation économique et de la mondialisation imposent aux pays en développement de se conformer à des contraintes juridiques et économiques spécifiques. A cet égard, l'examen préalable de la notion de la fracture numérique s'avère nécessaire. Le problème central relatif à ce débat consiste à dégager la véritable signification de cette notion et à considérer son instrumentalisation par les organisations internationales et les multinationales afin d'imposer des applications particulières (exemple : téléservices) qui consacrent une insertion subalterne de ces pays dans la nouvelle division internationale du travail. L'utilité réelle des TIC dans une optique de développement ne se situe pas dans une course au rattrapage technologique selon les standards et mesures des pays développés. Elle est conditionnée par la mise en place sur le long terme d'une politique d'innovation ascendante (adoption, adaptation et création) qui sera basée en priorité sur la construction des capacités humaines, gage d'intégration dans la nouvelle économie du savoir mondialisée.
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Khandekar, Rahul M. "Advanced wavefront manipulation technologies in optical systems." Diss., Online access via UMI:, 2008.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--State University of New York at Binghamton, Thomas J. Watson School of Engineering and Applied Science, Department of Electrical Engineering, 2008.Includes bibliographical references.
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Ben, Marzoug Mohamed. "Vers l'intégration des Technologies d'Information et de Communication (TIC) dans le procès civil." Thesis, Montpellier 1, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014MON10023.
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L'institution judiciaire en général et le procès civil en particulier ne sont pas épargnés par le mouvement de la dématérialisation qui touche de nombreux secteurs du service public. En effet, l'introduction des TIC dans le procès civil a été motivée principalement par la quête de la célérité et de l'efficacité de ce dernier. Toutefois, il faudrait contrebalancer ces deux objectifs recherchés avec l'exigence du respect des garanties procédurales et institutionnelles des justiciables. Car, la recherche d'accélération du temps judiciaire et la réalisation d'économie de moyens alloués à ce service ne doivent pas l'emporter sur la qualité des jugements civils. La conciliation de ces trois exigences se révèle comme l'obstacle majeur qui freine le processus d'intégration des TIC dans le procès civil. Néanmoins, tout est question d'équilibre : la technique informatique ne doit pas l'emporter sur la technique juridique et sur l'esprit même de la justice. L'essentiel, c'est que authenticité et modernité riment ensembleThe justice system in general and the civil suit in particular not been spared by the movement of dematerialisation wich has affected many areas of public service. In fact, the introduction of ICT in the civil suit was fueled primarily by the quest for speed and efficiency. However, the need arose to balance these two objectives with the requirement of compliance with procedural and institutional guarantees for a fair trial. This is because the quest to accelerate judicial time and save resources allocated to this service sould not undermine the quality of civil judgments. Reconciling these three requirements is revealed as the major obstacle hindering the process of ICT integration in civil suits. Nevertheless, it is all about balance: computer technology should not prevail over the legal system and the spirit of justice. It is essential the authenticity and modernity go hand in hand
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Smoreda, Zbigniew. "Sociabilités ordinaires, réseaux sociaux et médiation des technologies de communication." Phd thesis, Université Paris-Est, 2008. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00469439.
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La forte croissance des Technologies d'Information et de Communication (TIC) constitue un défi, tant pour les études qui portent sur la sociabilité que pour celles qui traitent des usages de ces technologies. Elle oblige en fait à réinterroger des méthodologies et des analyses sociologiques qui se sont jusqu'alors principalement fondées autour de la sociabilité en face-àface. Le travail présenté retrace l'historique des recherches conduites par l'auteur depuis dix ans sur les pratiques de communication outillées par les TIC. Il pose les hypothèses développées autour des liens entre la sociabilité et le téléphone fixe, puis il examine les effets de la popularisation des moyens de contact mobiles et individualisés tels que le téléphone cellulaire sur les pratiques de communication interpersonnelle. Il s'achève avec des questions méthodologiques et un regard sur des recherches plus récentes qui s'efforcent de saisir la sociabilité à travers l'ensemble des contextes et des moyens technologiques de communication largement diffusés ces dernières années. L'articulation entre médias de communication et sociabilités est modifiée par la transformation du paysage technologique actuel. Même s'ils ne les conditionnent ni ne les déterminent, les outils de communication posent les cadres d'interaction dans lesquels sont entretenus les liens sociaux. Les manières de construire, d'administrer et d'alimenter ces liens sont étroitement entrelacées avec l'outillage qui médiatise les contacts. Au même moment, une forte corrélation entre rencontres en face-à-face et appels échangés avec les proches est observée. Ce constat reste d'ailleurs valable pour l'ensemble des nouveaux outils de communication. Les recherches montrent que chaque nouveau service de communication adopté s'inscrit dans l'économie relationnelle globale, en augmentant le nombre des possibilités de tisser le lien. Il n'y a donc pas de substitution entre les différents outils de contact, mais des agencements continuels au fur et à mesure que les nouveaux instruments de communication apparaissent et sont insérés dans la partition qui fait vivre les liens interpersonnels. L'inscription des TIC dans les pratiques sociales est aujourd'hui si forte qu'il devient difficile de pouvoir analyser des interactions, des liens ou des réseaux sociaux, sans prendre en compte les outils techniques qui les épaulent, les orientent et les cadencent. En particulier, le passage vers les outils de communication mobiles et délocalisés, par rapport aux lieux habituels de présence outillée (maison, bureau.), transforme en partie notre accessibilité aux autres. Les nouveaux usages relationnels, lourdement instrumentés en outils de communication, favorisés par le recours aux dispositifs de communication portables, particulièrement adaptés à des enjeux de coordination, s'appuient sur le développement et le recours croissant aux messageries (email, SMS, IM). Même si ces technologies allègent les contraintes de disponibilité que les TIC font peser sur les acteurs en permettant une réponse différée aux sollicitations, la multiplication des échanges médiatisés fait croître la pression d'une nouvelle cadence relationnelle. Cette imbrication du " réel " et du " virtuel " dans la sociabilité de tous les jours risque de produire des formes de contrôle et des manières de gérer sa propre joignabilité inédites et à terme reconstruire les rythmes et les normes relationnels
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Bragg, Eileen Mary. "College managers' strategies for learning and using computer communication technologies." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape7/PQDD_0020/NQ45667.pdf.
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Panagiotopoulos, Panagiotis J. C. "An institutional perspective on information and communication technologies in governance." Thesis, Brunel University, 2011. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/6437.
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Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are becoming increasing relevant in policy making and governance activities. However, the broad effects of digital governance have not been adequately conceptualised; conflicting assumptions vary from rather optimistic accounts of empowered citizens to even completely dismissing the potential of engagement through technical means. This research attempts to reposition the impact of ICTs on policy making and political communities. Drawing from institutional studies, an integrated perspective is synthesised to guide case investigations in three main directions: (1) the way influences from the institutional environment are understood and balanced locally, (2) the co-evolution of institutional and technological configurations and (3) the dynamic response of institutional actors to the challenge of online engagement. The empirical part focuses on two different contexts (local government authorities and a trade union federation) that cover the holistic objective of this study. The findings inform on the extent to which ICTs are actually merging with existing governance structures. Both studies show that policy making is fundamentally different from other activities at the general intersection of Internet and politics. Citizens form online communities to organise ad hoc around single issue movements. However, this does not necessarily translate into sustainable and meaningful participation in formal politics. Hence, adapting institutional structures emerges as a complicated challenge beyond fitting technical means into existing engagement activities. On this basis, the thesis questions the extent to which policy making mechanisms are able to enact engagement from the grassroots, as for example encouraged by the social media collaboration philosophy. Implications for practice show how the alignment between new tools and the existing norms has the potential to identify paths of least resistance, and then exploit them to accomplish positives changes whose beneficial effects should not be taken for granted.
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Douglas, Alexander D. "STATUS OF COMMUNICATION AND TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES IN UNDERGROUND COAL MINES." UKnowledge, 2014. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/mng_etds/13.
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In 2006, Congress passed the MINER Act requiring mine operators to submit an emergency response plan that included post-accident communications and tracking systems to MSHA within three years of the Act. These systems were required to be designed for maximum survivability after a catastrophic event, such as a fire or explosion, and to be permissible (meets MSHA criteria for explosion-proof). At that time, no commercially available systems existed that met these standards. Several companies undertook developing new, or enhancing existing, technologies to meet these requirements. This research presents the results of a study that was conducted to determine the present day types of systems being used, along with their average annual worker hours, coal production, number of mechanized mining units, and type of communications and tracking systems installed. Furthermore, 10 mines were visited to obtain detailed information related to the various technologies. It was found the most influential parameters on system selection include MSHA district, mining method, and number of underground workers.
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Zhu, Ming. "High-capacity communication systems using advanced optical and wireless technologies." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/53525.
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The increasing traffic demand from the use of 3G/4G, streaming, and other broadband wireless services exposes existing bottlenecks in the communications infrastructure and the coordination between the wireless network and its wired counterpart. While wireless systems are constantly evolving to newer generations and higher capacities, their supporting wired networks urgently require advancements in both architecture design and enabling technologies. New optical access systems specifically tailored for the unique natures of various wireless standards are investigated. This dissertation presents the design and experimental verification of high-capacity optical-wireless communication systems using advanced electrical and optical technologies.
Technologies such as high level modulation and multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) to increase the spectral efficiency is approaching the Shannon limit. New frequency bands with larger bandwidth are to be explored; for example, millimetre wave (mm-wave) spectrum range (30-300 GHz), especially the license-free spectrum located in 60 GHz. Although fiber-optic systems excel in the high-bandwidth core network, as bandwidth demand increases, more and more progress has been made towards the usage of fiber in the last mile. Radio-over-Fiber (RoF) technology has been proposed as a cost-effective optical access solution to support high-speed wireless communications, especially at the mm-wave band. Signal processing and coordination are centralized at the central office (CO), making the system economical and simple to build, operate, and maintain. Moreover, RoF systems are capable of delivering radio signals with different frequencies and protocols simultaneously. Therefore, the advantage of integrated fiber wireless systems leads to the first research topic of this dissertation: multi-band multi-service RoF systems. With an emphasis on the uniformity of the RoF platform that accommodates both legacy wireless services and advanced mm-wave services, the first part of the dissertation presents two schemes - analog all-band RoF and band-mapped 60-GHz RoF - to cover distinct application scenarios. In the all-band RoF access architecture, lower RF signals, such as Wi-Fi and cellular signals, and 60-GHz signal are transmitted at their original carrier frequencies for both indoor and outdoor coverages. On the other hand, the band-mapped mm-wave RoF scheme, fully utilizing the wide 7-GHz bandwidth at 60 GHz, delivers multiple converged high-speed services only through 60-GHz wireless link, which is especially suited for in-building broadband wireless access. The experimental verification of an all-band RoF system featuring relaxed component requirement is introduced, followed by a real-time multi-service demonstration in the proposed band-mapped 60-GHz RoF system.
This dissertation also presents the design, analysis, and experimental demonstration of next-generation high-capacity cellular networks to keep up with the ever-growing bandwidth demand and performance requirements. New mobile backhaul (MBH) architectures based on orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) are proposed along with a simple and low-latency clock distribution and recovery scheme. The transmission of OFDMA signals in the dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) network with flexible clock rates and DSP-free clock recovery is implemented. Also, a spectrally-efficient, low-complexity clock distribution and recovery scheme for OFDMA-based MBH in coherent ultra-dense WDM (UDWDM) system is demonstrated. Finally, mobile fronthaul (MFH) architectures based on subcarrier multiplexing (SCM) technology, which significantly reduces the requirements on both the number of wavelengths per cell site and the optical bandwidth of the optical transceivers, are systematically investigated. Additionally, two upstream schemes, tailored for the uplink (UL), are introduced to maintain low complexity, and more importantly, to achieve high spectral efficiency by wavelength sharing.
Therefore, Internet-access-oriented optical-wireless systems using Wi-Fi and other emerging mm-wave technologies are developed along with the optical fronthaul and backhaul for cellular networks in this dissertation. Moreover, with the proposed techniques, heterogeneous networks can be seamlessly provided even with different services, radio nodes, and performance requirements.