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1. THE EFFECTS OF VARIATIONS IN INTER-MODAL HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERFACE DESIGNS ON ACCURACY, TIMELINESS, AND SITUATIONAL AWARENESS OF USERS

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Open Access
Author:
Jones, Arthur Charles
Title:
THE EFFECTS OF VARIATIONS IN INTER-MODAL HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERFACE DESIGNS ON ACCURACY, TIMELINESS, AND SITUATIONAL AWARENESS OF USERS
Graduate Program:
Information Sciences and Technology
Keywords:
audio interfaces
inter-modal interfaces
HCI
File:
Download Dissertation_-_FINAL.pdf
Committee Members:
Mike Mc Neese, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael David Mcneese, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David J Hall, Committee Member
Frederico T Fonseca, Committee Member
Robert N Pangborn, Committee Member

2. Increasing Regulatory Capacity: the Role of the Region in Shaping National ICT Policy in Southern Africa

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Open Access
Author:
van Gorp, Annemijn Fleur
Title:
Increasing Regulatory Capacity: the Role of the Region in Shaping National ICT Policy in Southern Africa
Graduate Program:
Information Sciences and Technology
Keywords:
regional economic community
regulators association
telecommunications policy
Africa
regionalization
regulation
File:
Download VanGorp_Dissertation_2008_04_14.pdf
Committee Members:
Carleen Frances Maitland, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Watson Bagby, Committee Member
Andrea H Tapia, Committee Member
Richard Denny Taylor, Committee Member

3. AN ANALYSIS OF THE INFLUENCE OF HUMAN INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES ON WEB SEARCHING BEHAVIOR AMONG BLACKS AND WHITES: A CASE OF HEALTH INFORMATION SEARCHING

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Open Access
Author:
Morgan, Allison Janeice
Title:
AN ANALYSIS OF THE INFLUENCE OF HUMAN INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES ON WEB SEARCHING BEHAVIOR AMONG BLACKS AND WHITES: A CASE OF HEALTH INFORMATION SEARCHING
Graduate Program:
Information Sciences and Technology
Keywords:
Human information behavior
Individual differences
Race
Health information
Web searching
Diversity
Human variation
File:
Download MorganDissertation_vFinal2008.pdf
Committee Members:
Eileen M Trauth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eileen M Trauth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Lynette Kvasny, Committee Member
Bernard James Jansen, Committee Member
Dr. Ronald Jackson II, Committee Member

4. NETWORK ACCESS CONTROL LIST SITUATION AWARENESS

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Open Access
Author:
Reifers, Andrew Lee
Title:
NETWORK ACCESS CONTROL LIST SITUATION AWARENESS
Graduate Program:
Information Sciences and Technology
Keywords:
Situation Awareness
Network Access Controls
Visualization
File:
Download A_Reifers_PhD_Final_Submission.pdf
Committee Members:
Michael Mc Neese, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael Mc Neese, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David J Hall, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Xiaolong Zhang, Committee Member
Susan Mohammed, Committee Member

6. Towards Ontology-Driven Information Systems: Guidelines to the creation of new methodologies to build ontologies

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Open Access
Author:
Soares, Andrey
Title:
Towards Ontology-Driven Information Systems: Guidelines to the creation of new methodologies to build ontologies
Graduate Program:
Information Sciences and Technology
Keywords:
Ontology-Driven Information Systems
Ontology
Information Systems
Methodologies
Scenarios
File:
Download Andrey_Dissertation_2009.pdf
Committee Members:
Frederico T Fonseca, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Frederico T Fonseca, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Beth Rosson, Committee Member
David J Hall, Committee Member
Timothy William Simpson, Committee Member

7. The impact of platform certification on a platform-based product market: The case of mobile applications

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Open Access
Author:
Tarnacha, Ankur
Title:
The impact of platform certification on a platform-based product market: The case of mobile applications
Graduate Program:
Information Sciences and Technology
Keywords:
Market Entry
Vertical Compatibility
Complementary Products
Computing Platforms
Software Certification
Mobile Application Ecosystem
File:
Download Tarnacha_Dissertation_Final.pdf
Committee Members:
Carleen Frances Maitland, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Steven B Sawyer, Committee Member
Irene Johnston Petrick, Committee Member
Thomas F Laporta, Committee Member

8. BARRIERS TO COLLABORATIVE INFORMATION SEEKING IN ORGANIZATIONS

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Open Access
Author:
Karunakaran, Arvind
Title:
BARRIERS TO COLLABORATIVE INFORMATION SEEKING IN ORGANIZATIONS
Graduate Program:
Information Sciences and Technology
Keywords:
temporality
horizonatal coordination.
barriers
collaboration
information seeking
cis
collaborative information seeking
File:
Download Barriers_to_CIS_Thesis_Final_ArvindKarunakaran.pdf
Committee Members:
Dr Madhu Reddy, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Madhu Reddy, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

9. EVOLUTION OF LOCAL E-GOVERNMENT IN CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA. HISTORY OF DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE STATE COLLEGE BOROUGH GOVERNMENT WEBSITE

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Open Access
Author:
Levy, Anna
Title:
EVOLUTION OF LOCAL E-GOVERNMENT IN CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA. HISTORY OF DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE STATE COLLEGE BOROUGH GOVERNMENT WEBSITE
Graduate Program:
Information Sciences and Technology
Keywords:
content management system
website evaluation
e-participation
e-government
municipal government
sociotechnical theory
maturational model
File:
Download MasterThesis_ALevy_711.pdf
Committee Members:
Andrea H Tapia, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Andrea H Tapia, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Watson Bagby, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

10. An Investigation of Data Overload in Team-Based Distributed Cognition Systems

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Open Access
Author:
Hellar, Ben Benjamin
Title:
An Investigation of Data Overload in Team-Based Distributed Cognition Systems
Graduate Program:
Information Sciences and Technology
Keywords:
simulation
data overload
teams
File:
Download hellar_thesis_final_revisions.pdf
Committee Members:
David J Hall, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David J Hall, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michael Mc Neese, Committee Member
Xiaolong Zhang, Committee Member
Susan Mohammed, Committee Member

11. Collective Action Situated in Virtual Worlds

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Open Access
Author:
Blodgett, Bridget Marie
Title:
Collective Action Situated in Virtual Worlds
Graduate Program:
Information Sciences and Technology
Keywords:
Protest
Virtual Worlds
IBM
Second Life
EVE Online
File:
Download BBlodgett_Dissertation_Collective_Action_Situated_in_Virtual_Worlds_v2.pdf
Committee Members:
Andrea H Tapia, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Andrea H Tapia, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Beth Rosson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Angsana Techatassanasoontorn, Committee Member
John David Mccarthy, Committee Member

12. Topic Oriented Evolution and Sentiment Analysis

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Open Access
Author:
Chen, Bi
Title:
Topic Oriented Evolution and Sentiment Analysis
Graduate Program:
Information Sciences and Technology
Keywords:
text mining
topic modeling
sentiment analysis
File:
Download Dissertation_bchen.pdf
Committee Members:
Dongwon Lee, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dongwon Lee, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Xiaolong Zhang, Committee Member
Prasenjit Mitra, Committee Member
Daniel Kifer, Committee Member
Ji Fang, Committee Member

14. BEYOND THE DIGITAL DIVIDE INTO COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATIONS: A CONTENT ANALYSIS OF THE ROLE OF COMMUNITY WEBLOGS IN BUILDING OLDENBURG’S VIRTUAL THIRD PLACES IN BLACK AMERICA

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Open Access
Author:
Igwe, C. Frank
Title:
BEYOND THE DIGITAL DIVIDE INTO COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATIONS: A CONTENT ANALYSIS OF THE ROLE OF COMMUNITY WEBLOGS IN BUILDING OLDENBURG’S VIRTUAL THIRD PLACES IN BLACK AMERICA
Graduate Program:
Information Sciences and Technology
Keywords:
content analysis
social support
third place
community
blogs
HIV/AIDS
African-American
File:
Download Igwe_Dissertation_Final4.pdf
Committee Members:
Lynette Kvasny, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Steven Sawyer, Committee Member
Andrea H Tapia, Committee Member
Russell Richard Barton, Committee Member

15. Intelligent Coaching Agents for Enhancing Helping Behavior in Human Teamwork

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Open Access
Author:
Chen, Cong
Title:
Intelligent Coaching Agents for Enhancing Helping Behavior in Human Teamwork
Graduate Program:
Information Sciences and Technology
Keywords:
Feedback Generatioin
Diagnosis
Agent-based Coaching
Performance Assessment
Intelligent Training
Teamwork
File:
Download cchen_dissertation_final.pdf
Committee Members:
John Yen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Millar Carroll, Committee Member
Brian K Smith, Committee Member
Tracy Mullen, Committee Member
Guohong Cao, Committee Member

17. The Ontologization of Tags

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Open Access
Author:
Saab, David J
Title:
The Ontologization of Tags
Graduate Program:
Information Sciences and Technology
Keywords:
tags
ontologies
cultural schemas
folksonomies
phenomenology
Heidegger
File:
Download SaabDavid_IST_Dissertation_Ontologization_of_Tags_20110618.pdf
Committee Members:
Frederico T Fonseca, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Frederico T Fonseca, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Andrea H Tapia, Committee Member
Michael Mc Neese, Committee Member
Richard Doyle, Committee Member

18. IT POLICIES FOR DEVELOPMENT: ANALYSIS AND RECOMMENDATIONS OF FREE LIBRE OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE INITIATIVES OF THE BOLIVARIAN REPUBLIC OF VENEZUELA

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Open Access
Author:
Maldonado Rangel, Edgar Armando
Title:
IT POLICIES FOR DEVELOPMENT: ANALYSIS AND RECOMMENDATIONS OF FREE LIBRE OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE INITIATIVES OF THE BOLIVARIAN REPUBLIC OF VENEZUELA
Graduate Program:
Information Sciences and Technology
Keywords:
Open Source Software
Public Policy
Information Science
Latin America
File:
Download Maldonado_2009_V36.pdf
Committee Members:
Andrea H Tapia, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Andrea H Tapia, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Lynette Marie Yarger, Committee Member
Frederico T Fonseca, Committee Member
Richard Matthew Doyle, Committee Member

19. CHALLENGES SUPPORTING COGNITIVE ACTIVITIES IN DYNAMIC WORK ENVIRONMENTS: APPLICATION TO POLICING

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Open Access
Author:
Glantz, Edward J.
Title:
CHALLENGES SUPPORTING COGNITIVE ACTIVITIES IN DYNAMIC WORK ENVIRONMENTS: APPLICATION TO POLICING
Graduate Program:
Information Sciences and Technology
Keywords:
cognitive systems engineering
ethnography
knowledge elicitation
participatory design
policing
File:
Download ThesisMaster_24Aug06_.pdf
Committee Members:
Michael David Mcneese, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David J Hall, Committee Member
Irene Johnston Petrick, Committee Member
Ling Rothrock, Committee Member

20. INTELLIGENT GROUP INTERFACES: ENVISIONED DESIGNS FOR EXPLORING TEAM COGNITION IN EMERGENCY CRISIS MANAGEMENT

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Open Access
Author:
Connors, Erik Shaw
Title:
INTELLIGENT GROUP INTERFACES: ENVISIONED DESIGNS FOR EXPLORING TEAM COGNITION IN EMERGENCY CRISIS MANAGEMENT
Graduate Program:
Information Sciences and Technology
Keywords:
intelligent interfaces
cognitive systems engineering
team mental models
team cognition
File:
Download Connors_Final_Document.pdf
Committee Members:
Michael David Mcneese, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David J Hall, Committee Member
Guoray Cai, Committee Member
Ling Rothrock, Committee Member