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Graduate  //  Theses

Complete thesis documents are available through the SFU Library

→  2011 Theses and Dissertations

Technology Self-Perceptions: The Effects of Gender, Education Program and Job Type

Haizley Trevor-Smith, November 28, 2011

Alternatives in Visual Analytics and Computational Design

Victor (Yingjie) Chen, November 23, 2011

Using Transparency in Visualization

Billy Chi-kai Cheung, November 22, 2011

The Beatback System: Exploring Interactive Percussion for Promoting Rhythmic Practice

Andrew Hawryshkewich, September 23, 2011

Parameter Spaces, Spacetime Control and Motion Graphs for Automating the Animation of Videogame Characters

Lorne McIntosh, September 12, 2011

Visually exploring player strategies with Pathways, a visual analytics tool.

Andre Gagne, August 23, 2011

Visual Analytics for Aviation Safety: A Collaborative Approach to Sensemaking

Andrew Wade, August 22, 2011

Bird's Eye Vancouver: Mapping time, culture and biosphere

Lynda Nakashima, August 19, 2011

A Guiding Hand: Augmenting Novice Gameplay with Haptic Feedforward Guidance

Katie Seaborn, August 16, 2011

Investigating the Effects of Bimanual Multitouch Interaction on Creativity

Allen Bevans, August 12, 2011

Exploring Creative Decision-Making in Choreographic Practice: A Phenomenological Study of Situated Cognition

Kristin Carlson, August 11, 2011

Aesthetics of Immersion in Interactive Immersive Environments: A phenomenological case study of Light Strings

Jinsil Seo, July 28, 2011

Snap/Shot: Identity, Memory and the Digital Mediation of Experience

Erin Ashenhurst, July 14, 2011

Turkish LIminal Sexualities: A Case Study of Social Transformations beyond the 'Real' and the 'Virtual'

Veronika Tzankova, June 10, 2011

Gender Differences in Virtual Route Learning

Hector Larios, May 27, 2011

Interactive Installation: Authorial control and narrativized design strategies

Majid Bagheri, April 26, 2011

Advances in Multi-agent Polygonal Area Coverage

Alireza Davoodi, April 12, 2011

The Effect of Avatar Realism and Location Awareness of Social presence in Location-based Games

Pooya Amini Behbahani, March 29, 2011

The Strange Dance: "9 Evenings: Theater & Engineering" as Creative Collaboration

Robin Oppenheimer, March 18, 2011

Semantic Zoom View: A Focus+Context Technique for Visualizing a Document Collection

Dustin Dunsmuir, March 11, 2011

Visualizing the analysis process: CZSaw's History View

Nazanin Kadivar, February 28, 2011

Residential resource use feedback: Exploring ambient and artistic approach

Johnny Rodgers, February 22, 2011

Understanding and Evaluating Cooperative Video Games

Bardia Aghabeigi, February 21, 2011

Analyzing the Game Narrative: Structure and Technique

Huaxin Wei, February 16, 2011

→  2010 Theses and Dissertations

Supporting Information Handovers: Lessons From First Response

Shannon Coates, December 13, 2010

The Evolution of Fun: A Generic Model of Video Game Challenge for Automatic Level Design

Nathan Sorenson, December 8, 2010

Comparing Tangible and Multi-Touch Interfaces for a Spatial Problem Solving Task

Sijie Wang, December 7, 2010

Emotion Depiction: Expressive Characters sequences using painterly rendering

Hasti Seifi, December 3, 2010

Acquisition of Directional Knowledge in Virtual Environments Created by Panoramic Videos

Arefe Dalvandi, December 2, 2010

The Effect of Previous Gaming Experience on Game Play Performance

Mona Erfani Joorabchi, November 26, 2010

EmailTime: Visualization and Analysis of Email Dataset

Minoo Erfani Joorabchi, November 25, 2010

TANGIPLAY: Prototyping Tangible Electronic Games

Jason Boileau, November 22, 2010

Social Presence in a Co-Located Networked Audio Art Installation

Jack Stockholm, November 15, 2010

Neo-Modernist Visual Design of Avatars in Second Life

Jeremy Turner, November 12, 2010

Supporting Sensemaking in Exploratory Information Seeking

Mona Haraty, September 3, 2010

Designing Distributed Collaborative Visual Analytics Systems

Syavash Nobarany, September 3, 2010

Modelling Girls' Activities, Making IT Relvant: An Exploratory Approach to Promoting Technology Fluency Through Non-Formal Learning Design

Wendy Foster, August 19, 2010

Gamers' Personality and Their Gaming Preferences

Veronica Zammitto, July 29, 2010

→  2009 Theses and Dissertations

Transcoding Place

Victoria Moulder, December 21, 2009

Designing a Wearable Social Network

Yin He, December 15, 2009

Remembering Design

David Botta, December 11, 2009

Analysis of Current and Future State of 3D Facial Animation Techniques and Systems

Chen Liu, December 2, 2009

ReciproCity: Construction of Identity and Social Experiences in Online Environments

C. Andrew Paulin, December 2, 2009

Meaning from motion: Exploring the affective properties of simple animation

Ai Nakatani, December 1, 2009

Enhancing Believability: Evaluating the Application of Delsarte's Aesthetic System to the Design of Virtual Humans

Michael Nixon, November 24, 2009

Development of an Instrument to Assess Pedagogical Utility in e-Learning Systems

Sharon Bratt, November 12, 2009

Towards Utopia: The Role of Ambient Sound in Children's Tangible Interaction With a Sustainability Tool

Kristine Nielsen, November 10, 2009

Satisfaction with Web-based Meetings for Idea Generation and Selection: The Role of Instrumentality, Enjoyment, and Interface Design

Alexander Ivanov, September 28, 2009

An information model for visualizing critical infrastructure interdependencies

Congcong (Coco) Jiang, September 24, 2009

Design Patterns: Augmenting Design Practice in Parametric CAD Systems

Zhenyu Cheryl Qian, July 29, 2009

Critical Thinking in a Synchronous Online Discourse: The Pedagogical Role of Instant Messaging in Higher Education

Susan Olubunmi, July 3, 2009

You Can Get More Than You Make

Roham Sheikholeslami, April 28, 2009

→  2008 Theses and Dissertations

The Utility of Role-Playing Methods in Design Ideation

Melahat Hosseini, December 18, 2008

Homeless: It's No Game - Measuring the Effectiveness of a Persuasive Videogame

Terrance Lavender, August 26, 2008

Mechanisms Underlying Expert Perceptual-motor Skill in Ice Hockey: Implications for the Design of Training Solutions

Desmond Mulligan, August 18, 2008

Believability, Adaptivity, and Performativity: Three Lenses for the Analysis of Interactive Storytelling

Joshua Tanenbaum, July 29, 2008

Lost Cause: An Interactive Movie Project

Kirsten Johnson, July 22, 2008

Exploring Composition-based Group User Modeling in an Embedded Interaction System

Ying Jiang, July 18, 2008

Modeling the Role of Fear of Crime in Pedestrian Navigation

Andrew Park, July 10, 2008

Language of Touch: Aesthetics, Experience and Technologies for Next Generation Touch Interfaces

Nima Motamedi, June 27, 2008

Memory Association Machine:An Account of the Realization and Interpretation of an Autonomous Responsive Site-Specific Artwork

Ben Bogart, June 27, 2008

The Blue Bubble: Design and Construction of an Interpersonal Communicator Prototype

Qi Zhu, March 13, 2008

Comparing Children's Enjoyment and Engagement Using Physical, Graphical and Tangible User Interfaces

Zhen (Lesley) Xie, March 11, 2008

→  2007 Theses and Dissertations

Visualizing Causality with Context using Animation

Miao (Emily) Yao, December 10, 2007

The return of the gift society: Traditional Relations of exchange and trust in contemporary technological society

Efrat Ben-Yehuda, December 3, 2007

Characteristics of Early Narrative Experience: Connecting Print and Digital Game

Krystina Madej, November 19, 2007

Discovering Causal Models of Self-Regulated Learning

David Brokenshire, September 19, 2007

Model Tracing of Coding Styles of Programmers: A Formative Approach

Shilpi Rao, August 10, 2007

Beyond Ambient Experience: An Auditory Display Design Framework for Ubiquitous Computing Environments

Milena Droumeva, July 30, 2007

A Gaming Framework for Modelling Competitive Service Industries

Amit Kanwal, July 24, 2007

On becoming a director: Constructing voice from within a marginalized community

Lorna Boschman, July 23, 2007

Fertile Synthesis: Emotion in online digital poetry

William David (Jhave) Johnston, July 20, 2007

Web rules to interchange policies

Nima Kaviani, July 16, 2007

Optimal Defensive Player Positioning with Collaboration in Digital Soccer Simulation

Eddie (Chin-Yih) Hou, July 10, 2007

Narrative Interface Design: The Use of Interface Elements to Enhance The Narrative Experience in Videogames

Ben Lin, May 28, 2007

DPA-RNAPredict: A Dynamic Programming Algorithm for RNA Secondary Structure Prediction

Jagdeep Poonian, May 14, 2007

A Three-Dimensional Computational Model for the Growth of Multicellular Tissues and Its Parallel Implementation on a Cluster

Lenny Tang, May 10, 2007

Federation Modeler: A Tool for Engaging Change and Complexity in Design

Davis Marques, May 3, 2007

Observing Cassette Culture Online: User Interface Implications for Digital Music Libraries

Jason Toal, April 16, 2007

Depth Perception in Real and Virtual Environments: An exploration of individual differences

Caitlin Akai, March 21, 2007

Sensate skins: unfolding an affective responsive aesthetics

Dennis Humphrey, March 16, 2007

→  2006 Theses and Dissertations

Software-Supported Self-regulated Learning Strategies in an Academic Setting

Wei Wang, December 6, 2006

Revealing hidden structure: Visualizing bibliographic coupling and co-citation relations in multimedia collections

Yingjie Chen, November 21, 2006

Can We Afford Narrative? A Design Approach to Interactive Film

Douglas Grant, November 15, 2006

Appreciative Inquiry: Designing for Engagement in Technology-Mediated Learning

Denise Withers, October 30, 2006

Learning to Play: The Design of In-game Training to Enhance Video Game Experience

Brad Paras, October 16, 2006

Using Paper Prototyping as a Usability Testing Methodology for Web Application Development

Margaret Tam, September 26, 2006

Generic model for federated security enabled software systems

Ashok Shah, August 18, 2006

Eliciting Pedagogical Metadata for Ontological Description of Learning Resources

Wenting Ma, July 24, 2006

The communication Middleware for Collaborative Learning Object Repository Network

Ty Mey Eap, July 20, 2006

Mapping Local Ontologies: Authentic Semantics for Learning Object Evaluation

Jerry Li, July 20, 2006

Learning by Doing: Co-Designing with End Users to [En]vision a Personal Computer Based Memory Aid

Gilly Mah, July 19, 2006

Optimal Offensive Player Positioning and Collaboration in a Digital Soccer Game

Serguei Razykov, June 30, 2006

Fields of Interaction: From Shadow Play Theatre to Media Performance

Aleksandra Dulic, June 8, 2006

COMPSOFT - A Platform for Online Problem-Based Learning for Health Care Professionals

Chun Wai Chan, May 29, 2006

MovementXML: A Representation of Semantics of Human Movement Based on Labanotation

Jonathan Hatol, May 26, 2006

Assemble To Order Learning Management System

Baljeet Dhaliwal, May 24, 2006

Performance Evaluation of SIP Based Voice Conferencing over the IEEE 802.11 Wireless Networks

Yufen Jiang, May 23, 2006

Comparative Analysis of Software Piracy Determinants among Pakistani and Canadian University Students: Demographics, Ethical Attitudes and Socio-Economic Factors

Arsalan Butt, April 17, 2006

Understanding

So-young Park, April 7, 2006

Interpretive practice in laptop music performance

Michelle Irving, April 6, 2006

Customer E-Learning

Robert MacKie, April 5, 2006

Travels In Intertextuality: The Autopoetic Identity of Remix Culture

Joel Flynn, March 17, 2006

→  2005 Theses and Dissertations

The design, development and assessment of an educational sports-action video game: Implicitly changing player behaviour

Chad Ciavarro, December 12, 2005

Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Dissemination in a Mixed-Initiative Ontological Framework

Jurika Shakya, November 25, 2005

Towards a Multimedia Simulation for Interprofessional Learning: Using Activity Theory to Inform Design

Daniel Ha, November 15, 2005

Particle Swarm Optimization for Solving Constraint Satisfaction Problems

I-Ling Lin, August 30, 2005

CADIA: Combinatorial Auction Winner Determination Using Item Association

Chi Hong (Andy) Law, August 4, 2005

Towards Browsing Distant Metadata with Semantic Signature

Andrew Shek-Ting Choi, August 3, 2005

Dynamic Concept Maps As Knowledge Representation Tools For Learning

Olusola Adesope, July 26, 2005

The Dynamical Updating Location Information Scheme (DULIS) – A Novel Routing for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

Xiaodong (Phil) Wang, July 15, 2005

Ontological Model for Representation of Learning Objectives

Lai Kuen (April) Ng, July 11, 2005

A parallel evolutionary algorithm for RNA secondary structure prediction

Andrew Hendriks, July 4, 2005

Iterative Model-Based System for Learning Object Review

Rui Wang, May 9, 2005

A Genetic Algorithm for RNA Secondary Structure Prediction using Stacking Energy Thermodynamic Models

Alain Deschenes, April 18, 2005

Emergent soundscape composition: reflections on virtuality

Mark Brady, April 8, 2005

Examining Stem-loops as a Sequence Signal for Identifying Structural RNA Genes

Kirt Noel, March 21, 2005

The Refeatured Landscape: Notes on the Aesthetics of Digital Video

Susan Clements-Vivian, February 25, 2005

→  2004 Theses and Dissertations

Design Promotions: Elevate Design Reuse Interactively

Wilson Chang, July 27, 2004

Quality Rating of Learning Objects Using Bayesian Belief Networks

Kate Han, July 19, 2004

Effects of Self-Regulated Learning in Programming

Behzad Samin, June 30, 2004

Beyond Usability: A Statistical Validation of Website Design Related to E-loyalty

Yalcin Joe Ilsever, May 21, 2004

A Pattern Approach to Support Digital Interpretation

Zhenyu (Cheryl) Qian, April 2, 2004

Internal Networks: Telepathy Meets Technology in the Non Local Dream Pod

Camille Baker, March 24, 2004

A Process for Creating Autostereoscopic Displays of Historic Stereoscopic Photographs

Rick Gibson, March 19, 2004

→  2003 Theses and Dissertations

Player as Author: Digital Games and Agency

Cindy Poremba, August 13, 2003

Object-Oriented Interactive Cinema

Adrian Jones, April 11, 2003