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2013 Theses and Dissertations
- Integrating Annotative Notes and Data in the Analysis Process
- Eric Lee, April 3, 2013
- Technology Preferences and Routines for Distributed Families Coping with a Chronic Illness
- Carolyn Pang, April 2, 2013
- Propogation of Change and Visualization of Causality in Dependency Structures
- Saba Alimadadi Jani, March 27, 2013
- Semantic Web-Enabled Interventions to Support Workplace Learning
- Melody Siadaty, January 29, 2013
- The Effects of Intuitive Interaction Mappings on the Usability of Body-Based Interfaces
- Anna Macaranas, January 18, 2013
- Painting Time: Metaphor in creative process
- Suk Kyoung Choi, January 14, 2013
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2012 Theses and Dissertations
- Sonic Cradle: Evoking Mindfulness through Immersive Interaction Design
- Jay Vidyarthi, November 30, 2012
- User Perceptions of Adaptivity in Ubiquitous Systems: A Critical Exploration
- Karen Tanenbaum, November 20, 2012
- Visualizing Mutations of a Virus Sequence
- Mahshid Zeinaly Baraghoush, November 9, 2012
- How Bicycle Maps and Trip Planners Can Represent Experience
- Evan Dickinson, October 30, 2012
- The Style of Video Game Graphics: Analyzing the Functions of Visual Styles in Storytelling and Gameplay in Video Games
- Yin Wu, October 9, 2012
- Enhancing Change Detection and Model Comprehension in Parametric Design Systems
- Diliara Nasirova, September 21, 2012
- Dance Illusioning the Cyborg: Technological Themes in the Movement Practices and Audience Perception of Three Urban Dance Styles
- Diego S Maranan, September 11, 2012
- DiNA Framework: Supporting Collaboration in the Wild
- Andy Huang, September 7, 2012
- How Wii™ Play: Incorporating Wii Fit Plus™ into a Physical Activity Program for Midlife and Older Women
- Lorna Boschman, July 31, 2012
- Towards Automated Feature Model Configuration With Optimizing The Non-functional Requirements
- Samaneh Soltani, July 6, 2012
- Utilizing the Natural Environment for the Exhibition of New Media
- Laura Lee Coles, June 27, 2012
- A Study of Everyday Repair: Informing Interaction Design
- Leah Maestri, June 22, 2012
- Everyday Design: Comparing Families, Hobbyist Jewellers, and Steampunk Enthusiasts
- Audrey Desjardins, June 22, 2012
- SACRED MEDIA - Immersive Architecture & the Aesthetics of Technosacred Space
- Amir Ghahary, April 30, 2012
- A Whole Body, Kinaesthetic Digital Drawing Tool of Art Therapy
- Chang Hao Wang, April 4, 2012
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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