Luvizotto, André Luiz (Date of defense: 2012-09-17)
The mammalian visual system has a remarkable capacity of processing a large amount of information within milliseconds under widely varying conditions into invariant representations. Recently a model of ...
Giusti, Giovanni (Date of defense: 2014-11-14)
This thesis is composed of three essays. In the first essay (joint with Janet Jiang and Xiping Xu) we study asset price bubbles in a laboratory experiment. By introducing interest payments on cash we ...
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 ...
Araújo de Siqueira, Matheus (Date of defense: 2018-01-07)
This thesis confronts how, in Vincent Moon’s films, experience takes the spotlight in detriment of signification. I formulate that the director, rather than worrying about imbuing his films with an ...
Schaper, Marie-Monique (Date of defense: 2019-01-25)
This dissertation focuses on better achieving co-design of Full-Body interactive learning experiences with children and experts (teachers, museum curators, pedagogues, etc.). Hence, on the one hand, it ...
Yuan, Chenjie (Date of defense: 2022-02-01)
This dissertation studies the inferential articulation of speech acts (in particular, assertions and questions) in dialogue, drawing upon two theoretical frameworks, a normative Question Under Discussion ...
Cabré-Riera, Alba (Date of defense: 2011-11-20)
The use of mobile communication devices (e.g. mobile phones, tablets, and laptops) increased during the last few years, especially in preadolescents and adolescents. In order to function, mobile ...
Lorente Galdós, Maria Belén (Date of defense: 2011-11-11)
Identification of signatures of positive selection has long been a major issue for understanding the unique features of any given species. However, only a fraction of human genes have been interrogated. ...
Rodríguez Espigares, Ismael (Date of defense: 2018-04-04)
In this thesis, we present GPCRmd, an online repository with a submission system and visualization platform specifically designed for storing and providing easy access to molecular dynamics (MD) data ...
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 ...