Michos, Konstantinos (Date of defense: 2019-03-26)
The notion of teachers as designers of learning environments has emerged with the increasing use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in Education. Research in Learning Design (LD) studies ...
Colomer Canyelles, Marc (Date of defense: 2019-10-02)
Much of the information infants acquire they learn it by observing and interacting with others. However, not all individuals provide information that is functionally and/or culturally relevant. Infants’ ...
Palacín Mateo, Manuel (Date of defense: 2015-10-23)
The analysis of the interconnection status-quo between content providers and Internet Service Providers (ISPs) is essential to understand the evolution of the Internet ecosystem. In the last years we ...
Nur, Kamruddin Md. (Date of defense: 2016-01-11)
In this thesis, two approaches of information presentation on indoor view have been presented using Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) and camera sensors on a robot. The goal is to capture images of ...
Bernardino, Gabriel (Date of defense: 2019-12-16)
We present a statistical shape analysis framework to identify cardiac shape remodelling while accounting for individual´s natural variability and apply it in two clinical applications: comparing triathletes ...
Pérez López, Andrés (Date of defense: 2020-10-23)
Due to the recent advances in virtual and augmented reality, ambisonics has emerged as the de facto standard for immersive audio. Ambisonic audio can be captured using spherical microphone arrays, ...
Cirujeda Santolaria, Pol (Date of defense: 2015-11-12)
En aquesta tesi s’explora l’ús de descriptors basats en la covariància per tal de traslladar la observació de característiques dins de regions d’interès a un determinat espai descriptiu que utilitzi les ...
Lorini, Valerio (Date of defense: 2022-07-07)
The interactions among people on social media are a form of distributed intelligence, as they allow people to make sense of a developing event collectively. Social media users can contribute to creating ...
Durany Vendrell, Jaume (Date of defense: 2016-09-14)
L’acústica de sales és la ciència encarregada d’estudiar la propagació del so en entorns tancats. La informació acústica de qualsevol entorn, coneguda com la resposta impulsional, s’expressa en termes ...
Öktem, Alp (Date of defense: 2019-02-25)
In this dissertation, I study the inclusion of prosody into two applications that involve speech understanding:~automatic speech transcription and spoken language translation. In the former case, I ...