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    An Alternative view of ICTs use by older people in human-computer interaction: similarities, digital content creation and perceived well-being 

    Möller Ferreira, Susan (Date of defense: 2015-09-04)

    Within Human-Computer Interaction, older people (60+) are often characterized as a heterogeneous group of consumers of digital content that use ICTs in a limited way due to age-related changes in functional abilities. By ...

    An ID-based mutually authenticated edge-to-edge security architecture for bridged provider networks to secure layer-2 communications 

    Ferdous Wahid, Khan (Date of defense: 2011-05-26)

    IEEE standardized a Layer-2 security, named Media Access Control security (MACsec), for interoperability. It provides link-based security through hop-by-hop operation. The link-constrained security of MACsec eliminates the ...

    Analysis of ensemble expressive performance in string quartets: a statistical and machine learning approach 

    Marchini, Marco (Date of defense: 2014-11-27)

    Computational approaches for modeling expressive music performance have produced systems that emulate human expression, but few steps have been taken in the domain of ensemble performance. Polyphonic expression and ...

    Analysis of human mobility for architecture and urban studies 

    Yoshimura, Yuji (Date of defense: 2016-11-25)

    The goal of this dissertation is to provide insights into spatial analysis for architecture and urban studies through examining human mobility in the built environment based on large-scale datasets. Three studies are ...

    Analysis of interaction design and evaluation methods in full-body interaction for special needs: collaborative virtual environments for improving socialization in children with autism 

    Crowell, Ciera (Date of defense: 2019-09-20)

    This thesis is focused on the specific properties and evaluation of full-body interaction design of multi-user mixed reality environments to aid in intervention strategies for children with autism, to improve their ...

    Applicability of wireless injectable microstimulators based on volume conduction for high density neuromuscular stimulation 

    Eladly, Ahmed Fayed (Date of defense: 2021-04-28)

    This thesis was conducted within the framework of the eAXON project that is aimed at developing injectable wireless sub-millimetric single-channel addressable microstimulators based on volume conduction called eAXONs ...

    Aspects of implicit and explicit human interactions with ubiquitous geographic information 

    Girardin, Fabien (Date of defense: 2009-07-14)

    El uso creciente de dispositivos móviles, infraestructuras inalámbricas e Internet está cambiando nuestra vida diaria, no solo la manera en que nos comunicamos o compartimos información, sino también cómo nos relacionamos ...

    Aspects of personal information valuation in web browsing and mobile communication 

    Carrascal Ruiz, Juan Pablo (Date of defense: 2015-01-26)

    The goal of this dissertation is to provide insights into how web and mobile phone call users assign value to their personal information. Two user studies are presented. The first one used a refined Experience Sampling ...

    Assessing creativity in computer music ensembles: a computational approach 

    Comajuncosas, Josep M. (Date of defense: 2016-01-22)

    Over the last decade Laptop Orchestras and Mobile Ensembles have proliferated. As a result, a large body of research has arisen on infrastructure, evaluation, design principles and compositional methodologies for Computer ...

    Assessing the digital well-being of educational technologies supported by learning analytics 

    Hakami, Eyad (Date of defense: 2023-02-10)

    The accelerating adoption of digital technologies creates a direct relationship between the status of individual and societal well-being on one hand, and the state of the digital technologies that underpin human life ...

    Assessing the impact of music recommendation diversity on listeners 

    Porcaro, Lorenzo (Date of defense: 2022-12-16)

    This thesis focuses on assessing the impact that music recommendation diversity may have on listeners. In the music domain, diversity is one of the values that recommender systems should preserve, because the world music ...

    Audio content processing for automatic music genre classification : descriptors, databases, and classifiers 

    Guaus, Enric (Date of defense: 2009-09-21)

    Aquesta tesi versa sobre la classificació automàtica de gèneres musicals, basada en l'anàlisi del contingut del senyal d'àudio, plantejant-ne els problemes i proposant solucions. Es proposa un estudi de la ...

    Audio source separation for music in low-latency and high-latency scenarios 

    Marxer Piñón, Ricard (Date of defense: 2013-09-09)

    Aquesta tesi proposa mètodes per tractar les limitacions de les tècniques existents de separació de fonts musicals en condicions de baixa i alta latència. En primer lloc, ens centrem en els mètodes amb un baix cost ...

    Audio-visual deep learning methods for musical instrument classification and separation 

    Slizovskaia, Olga (Date of defense: 2020-10-21)

    In music perception, the information we receive from a visual system and audio system is often complementary. Moreover, visual perception plays an important role in the overall experience of being exposed to a music ...

    Automated cardiac MR image analysis for population imaging 

    Albà, Xènia (Date of defense: 2017-04-21)

    La pràctica clínica i la investigació generen grans quantitats de registres mèdics, incloent-hi imatges. No obstant això, molta informació que podria millorar l'assistència sanitària continua sent inaccessible. Es necessiten ...

    Automated processes and intelligent tools in CG media production 

    Romeo, Marco (Date of defense: 2016-02-05)

    La producció moderna dels mitjans descansa de forma important sobre continguts generats per ordinador, tals com animacions 3D, i efectes visuals digitals. Aquests actius complexos poblen videojocs, pel•lícules, televisió, ...

    Automatic and deliberate control of action: an embodied perspective of artificial and biological brains 

    Maffei, Giovanni (Date of defense: 2018-05-04)

    Animals evolved to survive in dynamic environments by developing multiple behavioral strategies to adapt and to learn from their interaction with the world. Associative mechanisms and internal representations are at the ...

    Automatic assessment of singing voice pronunciation: a case study with Jingju music 

    Gong, Rong (Date of defense: 2018-11-23)

    Online learning has altered music education remarkable in the last decade. Large and increasing amount of music performing learners participate in online music learning courses due to the easy-accessibility and boundless ...

    Automatic characterization and generation of music loops and instrument samples for electronic music production 

    Ramires, António (Date of defense: 2023-02-08)

    Repurposing audio material to create new music - also known as sampling - was a foundation of electronic music and is a fundamental component of this practice. Currently, large-scale databases of audio offer vast collections ...

    Automatic Classification of musical mood by content-based analysis 

    Laurier, Cyril François (Date of defense: 2011-09-19)

    In this work, we focus on automatically classifying music by mood. For this purpose, we propose computational models using information extracted from the audio signal. The foundations of such algorithms are based on ...