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2. Swimming Upstream: The Case of Black Males in Information Technology (IT) Higher Education

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Open Access
Author:
Cain, Curtis
Title:
Swimming Upstream: The Case of Black Males in Information Technology (IT) Higher Education
Graduate Program:
Information Sciences and Technology
Keywords:
Black males
career choice
diversity
digital inequality
ethnicity
race
IT workforce
theory development
File:
Download Cain.Thesis.Final.03.29.2016.pdf
Committee Members:
Eileen M Trauth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eileen M Trauth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Lynette Marie Yarger, Committee Member
Suzanne Adair, Committee Member
Michael Mc Neese, Committee Member
Kshiti (K D ) Joshi, Special Member

3. Visual Characteristics for Computational Prediction of Aesthetics and Evoked Emotions

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Open Access
Author:
Lu, Xin
Title:
Visual Characteristics for Computational Prediction of Aesthetics and Evoked Emotions
Graduate Program:
Information Sciences and Technology
Keywords:
Image Aesthetics Assessment
Emotion Prediction
Deep Learning
File:
Download phd_dissertation_xinlu.pdf
Committee Members:
James Z Wang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James Z Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Beth Rosson, Committee Member
Reginald Adams Jr., Committee Member
Michelle Gayle Newman, Committee Member
Jia Li, Committee Member

4. Understanding Human Spatial Navigation Behaviors: A Cognitive Modeling Approach

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Open Access
Author:
Zhao, Changkun
Title:
Understanding Human Spatial Navigation Behaviors: A Cognitive Modeling Approach
Graduate Program:
Information Sciences and Technology
Keywords:
Cognitive Modeling
ACT-R
Navigation
Spatial
Cognitive Model.
File:
Download Thesis_Zhao_final.pdf
Committee Members:
Frank Edward Ritter, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Xiaolong Zhang, Committee Member
John Yen, Committee Member
Richard Alan Carlson, Special Member

5. Occupy MOOCs: Understanding Users' Motivations, Perceptions and Activity Trajectories

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Open Access
Author:
Zheng, Saijing
Title:
Occupy MOOCs: Understanding Users' Motivations, Perceptions and Activity Trajectories
Graduate Program:
Information Sciences and Technology
Keywords:
MOOCs
Massive Open Online Courses
Motivation
Perceptions
mix-method
File:
Download Dissertation-Saijing_Zheng-Final_Version2.pdf
Committee Members:
John Millar Carroll, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Millar Carroll, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Beth Rosson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kyle Leonard Peck, Committee Member
Zhenhui Li, Committee Member
Mary Beth Rosson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

7. Extracting Discriminating Features from Contextual Domain Knowledge for Enhancing Topic Discovery of Online Forums

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Open Access
Author:
Zhou, Chong
Title:
Extracting Discriminating Features from Contextual Domain Knowledge for Enhancing Topic Discovery of Online Forums
Graduate Program:
Information Sciences and Technology
Keywords:
Information Theory
Topic Modeling
Online Forums
File:
Download thesis_Chong_Zhou.pdf
Committee Members:
John Yen, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Prasenjit Mitra, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Matthew Joseph Ferrari, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor