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User-Defined Gestures with Physical Props in Virtual Reality
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-01)When building virtual reality (VR) environments, designers use physical props to improve immersion and realism. However, people may want to perform actions that would not be supported by physical objects, for example, ... -
A User-level, Reliable and Reconfigurable Transport Layer Protocol
(University of Waterloo, 2009-08-20)Over the past 15 years, the Internet has proven itself to be one of the most influential inventions that humankind has ever conceived. The success of the Internet can be largely attributed to its stability and ease of ... -
User-specific explanations of AI systems attuned to psychological profiles: a user study
(University of Waterloo, 2023-05-24)In this thesis, we design a model aimed at supporting user-specific explanations from AI systems and present the results of a user study conducted to determine whether the algorithms used to attune the output to the user ... -
Users, Queries, and Bad Abandonment in Web Search
(University of Waterloo, 2021-11-18)After a user submits a query and receives a list of search results, the user may abandon their query without clicking on any of the search results. A bad query abandonment is when a searcher abandons the SERP because they ... -
Using a collaborative research approach to develop an interdisciplinary research agenda for the study of mobile health interventions for older adults.
(JMIR Mhealth Uhealth., 2015-02-10)Background: Seniors with chronic diseases are often called on to self-manage their conditions. Mobile health (mHealth) tools may be a useful strategy to help seniors access health information at the point of decision-making, ... -
Using a Credibility Classifier to Improve Health-Related Information Retrieval
(University of Waterloo, 2020-08-19)In this thesis, we address improving the credibility and correctness of information retrieved by search engines in health-related searches. Health misinformation presented in the search engine results pages (SERPs) is a ... -
Using a hierarchy of climate models to investigate snow processes influencing surface albedo
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-16)Northern Hemisphere (NH) extratropical land has experienced dramatic warming over the past century, a trend that is expected to continue in the coming decades. There is however, significant uncertainty surrounding projections ... -
Using a Remotely Piloted Aircraft System to Investigate the Relationship between Canopy Temperature Depression and American Beech Health in Southern Ontario
(University of Waterloo, 2022-05-30)The unprecedented spread of invasive pest and pathogens, along with climate change and human activity/development is degrading forest system health. American beech trees are a principal tree species that dominates Ontario’s ... -
Using AASHTOWare Pavement ME Design Tools to Evaluate Flood Impact on Concrete Pavement Performance
(University of Waterloo, 2019-08-21)The resilience of concrete pavement to flood impact has remained positive based on previous experimental investigations and overtime recommended as a pre-flood adaptation strategy in countries such as Australia and the ... -
Using AI-Supported Onboarding Systems in Video Games to Improve Player Experience
(University of Waterloo, 2024-04-15)Video games face the challenge of providing onboarding that motivates new players to engage with a game beyond their initial experience. Interactive media inherently influences players’ cognitive load during the learning ... -
Using an interactive website to disseminate participatory ergonomics research findings: an exploratory study
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-21)Introduction: Researchers traditionally present the results of their research in academic journals and through conference presentations. Typically, individuals working outside of academia do not have access to traditional ... -
Using Automata Theory to Solve Problems in Additive Number Theory
(University of Waterloo, 2018-04-30)Additive number theory is the study of the additive properties of integers. Perhaps the best-known theorem is Lagrange’s result that every natural number is the sum of four squares. We study numbers whose base-k representations ... -
Using Available Information in the Assessment of Diagnostic Protocols
(OMICS International, 2015-02-20)A new binary screening or diagnostic test may be combined sequentially with an existing test using either a believe the positive or believe the negative protocol. Interest then lies in estimating the properties of the new ... -
Using Black Hole Environments as Laboratories for Testing Accretion and Gravity
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-29)With the advent of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), we have the ability to observe the lensed emission from hot plasmas near event horizons. It contains entangled information about the turbulent magnetohydrodynamic ... -
Using Building Data Models to Represent Workflows and a Contextual Dimension
(University of Waterloo, 2009-08-31)The context-workflow relationship is often poorly defined or forgotten entirely. In workflow systems and applications context is either omitted, defined by the workflow or defined based on a single aspect of a contextual ... -
Using cell lines to study factors affecting transmission of fish viruses
(University of Waterloo, 2014-01-02)Factors that can influence the transmission of aquatic viruses in fish production facilities and natural environment are the immune defense of host species, the ability of viruses to infect host cells, and the environmental ... -
Using Chemical Crosslinking and Mass Spectrometry for Protein Model Validation and Fold Recognition
(University of Waterloo, 2006)The 3D structures of proteins may provide important clues to their functions and roles in complex biological pathways. Traditional methods such as X-ray crystallography and NMR are not feasible for all proteins, while ... -
Using Crowd-Based Software Repositories to Better Understand Developer-User Interactions
(University of Waterloo, 2023-05-17)Software development is a complex process. To serve the final software product to the end user, developers need to rely on a variety of software artifacts throughout the development process. The term software repository ... -
Using Decision Tree Voting to Select a Polyhedral Model Loop Transformation
(University of Waterloo, 2013-11-28)Algorithms in fields like image manipulation, sound and signal processing, and statistics frequently employ tight loops. These loops are computationally intensive and CPU-bound, making their performance highly dependent ... -
Using Decision Trees to Examine the Influence of the School Environment on Youth Mental Health
(University of Waterloo, 2022-12-22)Youth mental health is a current public health priority in Canada, with nearly one in four young people living with a mental illness. The contextual school environment can be particularly influential given the considerable ...