Pérez Sanagustín, Maria del Mar (Date of defense: 2011-07-01)
Portable and interactive technologies are changing the nature of collaborative learning practices. Learning can now occur both in and beyond the classroom and furthermore combine formal and informal ...
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. ...
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 ...
Tapscott, Alan (Date of defense: 2017-09-20)
Current information technologies allow users to interact and collaborate to create fictional realities. In this thesis, we explore the role of perceived consistency and coherence in the collaborative ...
Xiao, Ping (Date of defense: 2014-07-08)
Behind every good advertisement there is a creative concept, a Big Idea. In contrast to the countless number of ads, a small number of patterns of effective communication (idea templates) have been ...
Bahrehmand, Arash (Date of defense: 2016-09-16)
Designing interior layouts is one of the most common elements of the immersive computer graphics projects (e.g., games, virtual reality and special effects). The design of 3D virtual environments aims ...
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 ...
Righi, Valeria (Date of defense: 2016-02-03)
This dissertation analyses, reflects on, and re-thinks the way in which Human-Computer-Interaction (HCI) research is conducted with a growing ageing population. This dissertation draws upon a 5-year ...
Rosales, Andrea (Date of defense: 2014-09-03)
De acuerdo a los estudios sociales, la vida cotidiana ha reducido las oportunidades de que los niños puedan disfrutar del juego libre, lo cual a largo plazo, puede perjudicar su desarrollo social y ...
Melero Gallardo, Javier (Date of defense: 2014-04-10)
Over the past few years the use of computer-supported games for learning purposes has reported many educational benefits in terms of students’ motivation and engagement towards learning. However, the ...