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Crawford, Candy R. "Social Studies: A user-friendly intervention?" Thesis, Wichita State University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10057/2519.

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Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASDs) are a group of neurodevelopmental disorders involving impairments in social interaction, language and communication, and restricted, repetitive, and stereotyped behaviors (National Institute of Mental Health [NIMH], 2007; Steurnagel, 2005). Deficits in social skills can hinder learning progression and sociability. Social stories are used to teach social skills about a particular event and provide information for better understanding of the expected or appropriate responses within specific situations (Autism Education Network, 2006). They are a means of providin

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Gatian, Amy Elizabeth Williams. "User information satisfaction (UIS) and user productivity: an empirical examination." Diss., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/54361.

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In this research the relationships between user information satisfaction (UIS) and user productivity were examined. Two users groups were used to test the following hypotheses: H₁<sub>A</sub>: There is no relationship between UIS and perceptions of decision-making quality for academic department heads. H₁<sub>B</sub>: There is no relationship between UIS and perceptions of decision-making quality for managers within the controller’s office. H₂: There is no relationship between UIS and objectively measured productivity for managers within the controller’s office. H₃: There is no relationshi

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Dillon, Andrew, Cliff McKnight, and John Richardson. "Reading from paper versus reading from screens." Oxford Journals, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105086.

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This paper reviews the literature on reading continuous text from VDUs. The focus is on the reported nature, and potential causes, of reading differences between paper and screens. The first section outlines the scope of the present review. Section 2 discusses the nature of the reported differences between reading from either presentation medium. Five broad differences have been identified suggesting that reading from VDUs is slower, less accurate, more fatiguing, decreases comprehension and is rated inferior by readers. Evidence for the existence of each of these differences is reviewed and c

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Dillon, Andrew, John Richardson, and Cliff McKnight. "The effect of display size and text splitting on reading lengthy text from screen." Taylor & Francis, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105365.

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This item is not the definitive copy. Please use the following citation when referencing this material: Dillon, A., Richardson, J. and McKnight, C. (1990) The effect of display size and paragraph splitting on reading lengthy text from screen. Behaviour and Information Technology, 9(3), 215-227. Abstract: The present paper reports on an experimental investigation of reader performance and preferences with a screen-presented journal article. The effects of display size (20 lines and 60 lines) and sentence splitting on readers' manipulation, comprehension and subjective impressions are assessed.

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Dillon, Andrew, and Cliff McKnight. "Towards a classification of text types: a repertory grid approach." Elsevier, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/106467.

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This item is not the definitive copy. Please use the following citation when referencing this material: Dillon, A. and McKnight, C. (1990) Towards a classification of text types: a repertory grid approach. International Journal of Man-Machine Studies, 33, 623-636. Abstract: The advent of hypertext brings with it associated problems of how best to present non-linear texts. As yet, knowledge of readers' models of texts and their uses is limited. Repertory grid analysis offers an insightful method of examining these issues and gaining an understanding of the type of texts that exist in the reade

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Dharwada, Pallavi. "Use of personas for user interface design results of field and experimental studies /." Connect to this title online, 2006. http://etd.lib.clemson.edu/documents/1175186133/.

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Jange, Suresh, Lalitha K. Sami, Mallikarjun Angdi, and Jeetender R. Aeri. "The internet as an information source vs. level of satisfaction: Users' learning styles, perceptions, emotions and regression model at National Institutes of Technology in India." School of Communication & Information, Nanyang Technological University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/106331.

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An attempt has been made to promote and optimize the use of the Internet as an information Source among engineering faculty and research scholars of National Institutes of Technology (NITs) in India. A total of 850 questionnaires and interview schedules were distributed to the faculty and research scholars of NITs in India, 665 questionnaires were duly obtained with a response rate of 78.24%. An attempt has been made to develop an instrument of acceptance of Internet technology known as Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) among faculty and Research scholars of National Institutes of Technology (

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Tamada, Hiroshi. "User information satisfaction survey on HealthNet Nepal." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/70292.

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Katayama, Kaoru. "Studies on User Support Mechanisms for Interactive Distance Learning." 京都大学 (Kyoto University), 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/2433/180903.

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Jakubowska, Joanna. "Genome visualisation and user studies in biologist-computer interaction." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2009. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/482/.

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We surveyed a number of genome visualisation tools used in biomedical research. We recognised that none of the tools shows all the relevant data geneticists who look for candidate disease genes would like to see. The biological researchers we collaborate with would like to view integrated data from a variety of sources and be able to see both data overviews and details. In response to this need, we developed a new visualisation tool, VisGenome, which allows the users to add their own data or data downloaded from other sources, such as Ensembl. VisGenome visualises single and comparative repres

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Khojasteh, Ghamari Zohreh <1986&gt. "A crowdsourced system for user studies in information extraction." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/4318.

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Danas, Ryan. "User Evaluation Framework for Model Finding Research." Digital WPI, 2016. https://digitalcommons.wpi.edu/etd-theses/1009.

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"We report the results of a series of crowd-sourced user studies in the formal-methods domain. Specifically, we explore the efficacy of the notion of "minimal counterexample" -- or more colloquially, "minimal bug report" -- when reasoning about logical specifications. Our results here suggest that minimal counterexamples are beneficial some specific cases, and harmful in others. Furthermore, our analysis leads to refined hypotheses about the role of minimal counterexamples that can be further evaluated in future studies. User-based evaluation has little precedent in the formal methods commun

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Shiri, Ali Asghar, and Crawford Revie. "User-Thesaurus Interaction on a Web-based Database: An Evaluation of Users' term Selection Behaviour." University of Oulu; Infotech Oulu, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105448.

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A major challenge faced by users during the information search and retrieval process is the selection of search terms for query formulation and expansion. Thesauri are recognised as one source of search terms which can assist users in query construction and expansion. As the number of electronic thesauri attached to information retrieval systems has grown, a range of interface facilities and features have been developed to aid users in formulating their queries. The pilot study reported here aimed to explore and evaluate how a thesaurus-enhanced search interface assisted end-users in selecting

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Ching, Albert M. L. (Albert Man Loon). "A user-flocksourced bus intelligence system for Dhaka." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/77836.

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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2012.<br>Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.<br>Includes bibliographical references (p. 76-78).<br>Flocksourcing, or guided crowdsourcing, is an experimental data collection technique where users become the sensors to generate a large amount of information that improves a public service like public transport. In an ideal world, users would self-organize to collect data that would improve their own experience-but in a place like Dhaka, the megacapital of Bangladesh, the technology that enables users t

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Peterson, Christopher E. S. M. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "User-generated censorship : manipulating the maps of social media." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/81132.

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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Comparative Media Studies, 2013.<br>Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. Vita.<br>Includes bibliographical references.<br>The last decade has seen the rise of new technologies for making information more broadly available and accessible. Variously called 'user-generated content,' 'social media,''social news,' 'crowd-curation,' and so on, these design conventions, algorithmic arrangements, and user practices have been widely praised for 'democratizing' media by lowering the barriers to publishing, accrediting, and aggregating infor

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Lodato, Thomas James. "The work of user experience design: materiality and cultures in designing." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/53940.

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At a computational technology company called LTC, a large array of employees worked together to design the user experience (UX) of a variety of products. The empirical case study explores the relationship amongst the work of UX design, the work setting, and the larger strategic claims being made about the value, efficacy, and importance of design methods. The main research question is: How is the activity of design reflected and constructed by a local culture and material environment? By addressing the way designing occurs in a particular setting, the dissertation unpacks assumptions about set

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Michael, David E. "User difference and graphic design : some studies with flow charts." Thesis, Keele University, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.257477.

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Sonnenwald, Diane H., Paul Soloman, Noriko Hara, Reto Bolliger, and Tom Cox. "Collaboration in the large: Using video conferencing to facilitate large group interaction." Idea Publishing Co, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/106015.

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This chapter discusses the social, organizational and technical challenges and solutions that emerged when facilitating collaboration through videoconferencing for a large, geographically dispersed research and development (R&D) organization. Collaboration is an integral component of many R&D organizations. Awareness of activities and potential contributions of others is fundamental to initiating and maintaining collaboration, yet this awareness is often difficult to sustain, especially when the organization is geographically dispersed. To address these challenges, we applied an action researc

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Guidry, Donna M. "Innovation Abandonment| User-Centric vs. Nonuser-Centric Perception of Facebook." Thesis, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10003751.

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<p> Facebook is stable and growing in users; however, the social networking site has seen a drop in certain areas of user participation. This study considers the reasons for potential user abandonment of Facebook with a complex analysis into not only the reasons cited by users as to why they abandon Facebook, but also the compilation of those reasons as part of an overall perception formulated about Facebook. Such reasons contribute to the perception of Facebook as user centric or nonuser-centric. The study hypothesizes that through a process of diffusion of innovation, a non-user-centric perc

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Okoe, Mershack B. "Supporting Web-based and Crowdsourced Evaluations of Data Visualizations." FIU Digital Commons, 2016. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/2566.

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User studies play a vital role in data visualization research because they help measure the strengths and weaknesses of different visualization techniques quantitatively. In addition, they provide insight into what makes one technique more effective than another; and they are used to validate research contributions in the field of information visualization. For example, a new algorithm, visual encoding, or interaction technique is not considered a contribution unless it has been validated to be better than the state of the art and its competing alternatives or has been validated to be useful t

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Schneider, Matthias H. M. "The determinants and outcomes of user commitment to mandatory information system change." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11352.

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Includes abstract.<br>Includes bibliographical references (p. 248-287).<br>Winning the commitment and support of employees for organisational transformation is a major objective of the leaders of organisational change. However, the determinants and outcomes of employee commitment to organisational change (Herscovitch & Meyer, 2002) are still not yet fully understood, especially with regard to a mandatory information system change in a non-Western environment.

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Lundkvist, Anders. "Conversational realities : five studies of user interactions as sources of innovation /." Online version, 2003. http://bibpurl.oclc.org/web/32829.

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Buie, Elizabeth. "Exploring techno-spirituality : design strategies for transcendent user experiences." Thesis, Northumbria University, 2018. http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/33799/.

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This thesis presents a study of transcendent experiences (TXs) — experiences of connection with something greater than oneself — focusing on what they are, how artefacts support them, and how design can contribute to that support. People often find such experiences transformative, and artefacts do support them — but the literature rarely addresses designing artefact support for TXs. This thesis provides a step toward filling that gap. The first phase of research involved the conduct and analysis of 24 interviews with adults of diverse spiritual perspectives, using constructivist Grounded Theor

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Wang, David Chin-Fei. "Alight : enriching bus rides with user-generated, location-based audio content." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/117830.

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Thesis: M.C.P., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, 2018.<br>This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.<br>Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis.<br>Includes bibliographical references (pages 101-107).<br>The advent of mobile data, social networks, and sharing economies have disrupted the way we experience place. Whereas many projects of placemaking have focused on a top-down, centralized discourse of landmark-making, I propose th

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Chudamani, K. S., and H. C. Nagarathna. "A model of information use behavior by scientists." School of Communication & Information, Nanyang Technological University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105351.

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Poster paper<br>The services that are provided in a library are at various levels and varieties. Library automation services such as computerized OPAC, e-mail based reference service etc., are be-ing provided. Also, Web based services like Web Opac, E-Journals, CD-ROM Collection search, Bibliographical database services such as Engineering village 2, Compendex, Chemi-cal Abstract, Web of science, are being provided.

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Xiao, Jun. "Empirical Studies on Embodied Conversational Agents." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/14080.

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A great deal of effort has been put into developing Embodied Conversational Agent (ECA) systems that provide a human-like assistant in the user interface. However, little is known whether improvements to ECA interfaces made by such efforts can ever be significant from the users point of view. I studied user experiences with ECA interfaces and evaluated the ECA style of interaction with respect to user expectation, perception, behavior and performance. I introduce a conceptual framework that offers a holistic view of the design space of ECA systems. I also have created a middleware toolkit that

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Dillon, Andrew, and Michael G. Morris. "User acceptance of new information technology: theories and models." Medford, N.J.: Information Today, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105584.

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This item is not the definitive copy. Please use the following citation when referencing this material: Dillon, A. and Morris, M. (1996) User acceptance of new information technology - theories and models. In: M. Williams (ed.) Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, Vol. 31, Medford NJ: Information Today, 3-32. ABSTRACT: Understanding the factors that influence user acceptance of information technology is of interest both to researchers in a variety of fields as well as procurers of technology for large organizations. The present chapter reviews literature which demonstrat

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Schalekamp, Hertzog Venter. "Towards a user-oriented approach in the design and planning of public transport interchanges." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/5002.

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Public transport provision in South Africa is set to change dramatically in the coming years if the plans and strategies of Government come to fruition. Policy clearly states that the needs of the end user of public transport services and facilities have to be prioritised, and that transport systems will be overhauled to provide a range of integrated trunk and feeder services, in emulation of the successes achieved in the so-called public transport 'model cities' of South America. However, it is not certain whether the range of public and private institutions involved in the planning, implemen

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Wu, Meng-Hui Margaret 1962. "Clothing for the female crutch user: Case studies of the clothing worn by the middle class American female crutch user." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/291750.

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The preferred clothing styles, and consideration factors of selected female underarm crutch users were investigated along with the comparison of body measurements between permanent and temporary crutch users. Results indicated permanent crutch users with strong function orientation preferred set-in sleeves, buttoned cuffs, enlarged jewel neckline, shawl collar and bloused silhouette. This was different from the temporary crutch users preference. The measurement difference of the same weight category showed that the proportion of permanent crutch users, with larger upper torso, was different to

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Koskela, T. (Timo). "Community-centric mobile peer-to-peer services: performance evaluation and user studies." Doctoral thesis, Oulun yliopisto, 2011. http://urn.fi/urn:isbn:9789514296000.

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Abstract The popularity of social networking services emphasises the importance of user communities. As the next evolutionary step, social networking will evolve towards user communities that are dynamically established according to contextual aspects such as the shared location and/or activities of people. In this vision, distributed peer-to-peer (P2P) technologies provide a respectable alternative to the centralised client-server technologies for implementing the upcoming community-centric mobile services. This thesis focuses on the development of enabling techniques and methods for a commun

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Bell, Linda. "Linguistic Adaptations in Spoken Human-Computer Dialogues - Empirical Studies of User Behavior." Doctoral thesis, Stockholm : KTH, 2003. http://www.speech.kth.se/~bell/linda_bell.pdf.

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Janajreh, Isam M. "A device-independent graphical user interface for theoretical studies of surface temperatures generated by friction /." This resource online, 1992. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-12232009-020548/.

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Kang, Youn Ah. "Informing design of visual analytics systems for intelligence analysis: understanding users, user tasks, and tool usage." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/44847.

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Visual analytics, defined as "the science of analytical reasoning facilitated by interactive visual interfaces," emerged several years ago as a new research field. While it has seen rapid growth for its first five years of existence, the main focus of visual analytics research has been on developing new techniques and systems rather than identifying how people conduct analysis and how visual analytics tools can help the process and the product of sensemaking. The intelligence analysis community in particular has not been fully examined in visual analytics research even though intelligence anal

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Borbey, Daniel. "Mediating Social Media: Examining User Risk Perception on Facebook." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/19680.

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This thesis explores how social networking sites are changing the way individuals socialize in everyday life, and how users mediate this social media. The hypothesis explored is that Facebook user’s perception of risk, when using the site, is related to how they frame the technology. Drawing on conceptual and theoretical tools from science studies and the sociologies of friendship, risk and surveillance, interview data is collected and analysed in order to identify the dynamics that structure Facebook use. It is concluded not only that, as hypothesized, participant’s awareness and perception

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Wilkie, Alex. "User assemblages in design : an ethnographic study." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 2010. http://research.gold.ac.uk/4710/.

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This thesis presents an ethnographic study of the role of users in user-centered design. It is written from the perspective of science and technology studies, in particular developments in actor-network theory, and draws on the notion of the assemblage from the work of Deleuze and Guattari. The data for this thesis derives from a six-month field study of the routine discourse and practices of user-centered designers working for a multinational microprocessor manufacturer. The central argument of this thesis is that users are assembled along with the new technologies whose design they resource,

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Deng, Hui M. C. P. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "The real estate user charge and its impact on housing development in China." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/37657.

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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2006.<br>Includes bibliographical references (p. 101-103).<br>Off-budget public finance in China is an informal system of levies that emerges in response to local fiscal needs. Off-budget funds serve as part of local government revenue and help finance local government expenditures. In the real estate sector, local governments raise off-budget funds by charging many types of user fees on housing development. The user charge revenue is an important revenue source to finance urban public service expendit

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Shiri, Ali Asghar, Crawford Revie, and Gobinda Chowdhury. "Assessing the Impact of User Interaction with Thesaural Knowledge Structures: a Quantitative Analysis Framework." Ergon Verlag, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105090.

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Thesauri have been important information and knowledge organisation tools for more than three decades. The recent emergence and phenomenal growth of the World Wide Web has created new opportunities to introduce thesauri as information search and retrieval aids to end user communities. While the number of web-based and hypertextual thesauri continues to grow, few investigations have yet been carried out to evaluate how end-users, for whom all these efforts are ostensibly made, interact with and make use of thesauri for query building and expansion. The present paper reports a pilot study carri

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Khoo, Christopher S. G., Karen Ng, and Shiyan Ou. "An exploratory study of human clustering of Web pages." Ergon-Verlag, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/106057.

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This study seeks to find out how human beings cluster Web pages naturally. 20 Web pages retrieved by the Northern Light search engine for each of 10 queries were sorted by 3 subjects into categories that were natural or meaningful to them. It was found that different subjects clustered the same set of Web pages quite differently and created different categories. The average inter-subject similarity of the clusters created was a low 0.27. Subjects created an average of 5.4 clusters for each sorting. The categories constructed can be divided into 10 types. About 1/3 of the categories created wer

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Pikas, Christina K. "Personal Information Management Strategies and Tactics Used by Senior Engineers." American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/106236.

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This paper reports the results of an exploratory qualitative study of how senior engineers in a research laboratory environment do personal information management (PIM). Responsive, semi-structured interviews were conducted with four senior engineers. Thirteen themes in four groupings emerged. The four groupings are: organization and retrieval, un-organized aspects, information keeping and preservation, and use of specialized tools. Themes not seen in other studies are: writing to remember and reporting to retrieve, and personal handbooks. The themes are described in detail. Implications for

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Keller, Margaret S. "Perceptions of unaffiliated users in academic libraries and other issues associated with this user group." Thesis, School of Information and Library Science, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1901/403.

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This study describes a questionnaire survey of seven university libraries across the country. The study was conducted to determine the perceptions of librarians in regards to unaffiliated users, and how well librarians understand the policies at their institutions. The results show that while affiliated patrons are seen most in instructional sessions and at the reference desk, there is no dominating area of interaction with unaffiliated patrons. And despite the multitude of opinions surrounding how unaffiliated users are and should be treated compared to those associated with an institution

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Owen, Jennifer. "Women, office work and computerisation : case studies in user-involvement during systems development." Thesis, Sheffield Hallam University, 1992. http://shura.shu.ac.uk/3148/.

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This thesis examines the area of user-involvement in the development of computerised office information systems, with particular reference to gender relations and to initiatives in 'Human-Centred' systems design. it is based on a review of literature in computer science and in social science, and on case-study research. The thesis forms a contribution to the interdisciplinary work of the Human-Centred Office Systems Project, at Sheffield Polytechnic. Interdisciplinary research into information systems development is expanding, partly in response to evidence that many systems fail to meet their

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Johansson, Erik, Martin Olofsson, and Aida Cvetojevic. "Lead user-involvering i produktutvecklingen : en studie om kaffeförvaring." Thesis, Karlstad University, Division for Business and Economics, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-223.

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<p>Syftet med uppsatsen är att studera beteende hos lead users angående deras förvaring och</p><p>konsumtion av kaffe. Genom att göra en jämförelse med icke lead users har vi undersökt</p><p>om lead users uppvisar ett avvikande beteende. Vi har även utifrån svaren kunnat ge</p><p>förslag på lösningar om hur kaffeförvaring kan utformas och förbättras.</p><p>Utifrån 40 intervjuer med kaffekonsumenter har vi försökt urskilja lead users. Vi har</p><p>utgått från en modell som vi utvecklat tillsammans och som bygger på tidigare teorier. Vi</p><p>har poängsatt alla frågor och multiplicerat med viktn

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Ahmed, Syed Adeel. "Usability Studies with Virtual and Traditional Computer Aided Design Environments." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2006. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/477.

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For both the CAVETM and the adaptable technology possessed by the University of New Orleans, crystal eye glasses are used to produce a stereoscopic view, and an ascension flock of birds tracking system is employed for tracking of the user's head position and position of a wand in 3D space. It is argued that with these immersive technologies along the use of gestures and hand movements should provide a more natural interface with the immersive virtual environment. This allows a more rapid and efficient set of actions to recognize geometry, interaction with a spatial environment, the ability to

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Meier, Tess Bisbee. "Mechanical Redesign and Implementation of Intuitive User Input Methods for a Hand Exoskeleton Informed by User Studies on Individuals with Chronic Upper Limb Impairments." Digital WPI, 2019. https://digitalcommons.wpi.edu/etd-theses/1291.

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Individuals with upper limb motor deficits due to neurological conditions, such as stroke and traumatic brain injury, may exhibit hypertonia and spasticity, which makes it difficult for these individuals to open their hand. The Hand Orthosis with Powered Extension (HOPE) Hand was created in 2018. The performance of the HOPE Hand was evaluated by conducting a Box and Blocks test with an impaired subject. Improvements were identified and the HOPE Hand was mechanically redesigned to increase the functionality in performing grasps. The original motor configuration was reorganized to in

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Schulz, Melissa F. "Time course of perceptual grouping in user interface displays." [Tampa, Fla.] : University of South Florida, 2004. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/SFE0000320.

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Masango, Charles Akwe. "User preferences in the use of Law Library collections : a case study of the Brand van Zyl Law Library of the University of Cape Town." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13397.

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Bibliography: leaves 129-134.<br>Law libraries are specialised libraries consisting primarily of printed and electronic legal literature which assist their patrons in legal research and the teaching of law. The use of the law library by the entire university often causes concern on the part of the legal patrons and staff who use and manage the library and its collection. This dissertation investigates the nature and purpose of the law library of the University of Cape Town, with a view to establishing patterns of use and revealing the problems encountered by patrons and members of staff in the

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Greim, Lea, and Catharina Sauvolainen. "Användarupplevelsen på en hälsowebbplats : En user experience studie av Närhälsans webbplats." Thesis, Högskolan i Borås, Akademin för bibliotek, information, pedagogik och IT, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-12433.

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The purpose of this bachelor thesis is to examine the user experience of Narhalsan.se, the website of the regional public primary healthcare organisation, as well as forward suggestions on how different aspects on the website can be developed to improve the user experience. To evaluate the user experience on Närhälsans website we’re using both quantitative and qualitative methods, such as a survey as well as Contextual Inquiry in combination with think-aloud. The methods used are followed out from a usability perspective, and are focused on the needs, preferences and user experience of the tar

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David, Lourdes T. "Information seeking in an electronic environment - Module 3." UNESCO, Bangkok, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105635.

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This is Module 3 of the ICT for Library and Information Professionals (ICTLIP) Training Package for Developing Countries. This Package is intended to provide the knowledge and skills required to deal with the application of ICT to library and information services. It is meant for library and information personnel who may become trainers in the area. The Package has been developed by the UNESCO Asia & Pacific Regional Office with funding from the Japanese Fund in Trust for Communication and Information. It contains six modules: Module 1 - Introduction to Information and Communication Tec

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Gwizdka, Jacek, and Mark Chignell. "Individual Differences in Personal Information Management." University of Washington Press, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105751.

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In an increasingly complex world where people routinely handle large amounts of information, individuals are constantly challenged to manage and effectively use the information that they are responsible for. While email is the canonical example of an information overloading application, other well known PIM applications and tasks cited in earlier chapters of this book include maintaining addresses and contacts, scheduling, and organizing the various documents and bookmarks that one is interested in. Not surprisingly, there are individual differences (ID) in how, and how well, people cope with

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Ling, Zhang, Cong Wang, and Austin McCarthy. "Knowing our users and responding to their needs-The impact of research on services in two university libraries." School of Communication & Information, Nanyang Technological University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/106105.

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In an earlier paper the authors discussed reference services in two university libraries and suggested changes to the services based on a user survey. They also quoted research into staff and student use of information resources. Although libraries have no difficulty in compiling quantitative data, the use of such qualitative research to delve beyond the statistics, in order to better understand user needs, perceptions and behaviours, is a recent development at Harbin Engineering University Library, China. However, at the Library of the University of Northumbria in England there is a long hi

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