Welcome to UWSpace
UWSpace is the University of Waterloo's institutional repository for the research and scholarship produced by its faculty, students, and staff. A service of the Library, UWSpace provides researchers with a free, secure, and long-term home for the presentation, dissemination, and preservation of their research and scholarship. By utilizing UWSpace researchers ensure their work achieves compliance with the Tri-Agency Open Access Policy on Publications.
Looking for Waterloo theses and dissertations? UWSpace contains all theses and dissertations published from October 2006 on, and a subset from 1996 through 2006, when electronic submission was optional. Older theses can be accessed by searching the library catalogue by title or author last name.
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From Motivating to Manipulative: The Use of Deceptive Design in a Game’s Free-to-Play Transition
(Association for Computing Machinery, 2024-10-10)Over the last decade, the free-to-play (F2P) game business model has gained popularity in the games industry. We examine the role of deceptive design during a game’s transition to F2P and its impacts on players. Our analysis ... -
A systematic mapping review of algorithms for the detection of rhymes, from early digital humanities projects to the rise of large language models
(University of Waterloo, 2024-07-08)We survey fifty years of algorithms to discover rhymes in natural language text, focusing largely on rhymes in English, but also in Italic and other Germanic languages. Using a systematic mapping review, we filtered from ... -
Cybersecurity in the Hardware Supply Chain
(University of Waterloo, 2024-07-15)Globalization in the hardware supply chain has increased sophisticated hardware security breaches.~Once considered safe and secure in the early phases of the manufacturing life cycle, the semiconductor supply chain has ... -
Exploring Young Women’s Conceptualization of Sexuality: A Narrative Inquiry
(University of Waterloo, 2024-07-15)Sexual health is an important part of public health’s mandate, especially when working with young adults who are experiencing great physiological and psycho-social development and change. The World Health’s Organization’s ... -
Low-Frequency Acoustic Source Detection and Localization
(University of Waterloo, 2024-07-15)In aviation, clear-air turbulence (CAT) is a major cause of in-flight injuries. It occurs in cloudless skies and cannot be detected by the onboard weather radar. Studies have predicted the extent of CAT to increase ...