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 ...
Mora Guiard, Joan (Date of defense: 2016-09-19)
This thesis focuses on the design, development and evaluation of a series of full-body interaction experiences as tools for intervention on motivation and social initiation for children with Autism. ...
Gong, Rong (Date of defense: 2018-11-23)
Online learning has altered music education remarkable in the last decade. Large and increasing amount of music performing learners participate in online music learning courses due to the easy-accessibility ...
Sanabria-Russo, Luis (Date of defense: 2016-10-21)
Using a deterministic backoff after successful transmissions as a distributed contention mechanism for access to the channel can draw benefits from scheduled operation, like the elimination of simultaneous ...
Cengarle, Giulio (Date of defense: 2012-11-29)
La llegada del sonido 3D está imponiendo cambios en varias etapas del flujo de trabajo, desde los sistemas de captación hasta las metodologías de postproducción y las configuraciones de altavoces. Esta ...
González-Caro, Cristina (Date of defense: 2011-09-27)
As the Web continues to increase both in size and complexity, Web search is a ubiquitous service that allows users to find all kind of information, resources, and activities. However, as the Web evolves ...
Trevisiol, Michele (Date of defense: 2014-10-15)
This thesis explores in depth how to use the user browsing behavior, and in particular the referrer URL, in order to understand the interest of the users. The aim is, first, to understand the preferences ...
Aragón, Pablo (Date of defense: 2019-11-22)
This thesis constitutes one of the first investigations focused on characterizing online participation in civic technologies, a type of platform increasingly popular on the Internet that allows citizens ...
Cao Minh, Trang (Date of defense: 2014-09-25)
Through advances in sensor, networking, semiconductor and energy storage technologies, Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are increasingly being deployed in many important applications to enable users to ...
Rodríguez Fernández, Sara (Date of defense: 2018-03-19)
Suele admitirse que las colocaciones en el sentido de coocurrencias idiosincráticas de palabras son un reto en el aprendizaje de lenguas. Los estudiantes producen frecuentemente combinaciones “agramaticales”' ...