Browsing Auburn Theses and Dissertations by Author "Gilbert, Juan"

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The Potential Benefits of Multi-modal Social Interaction on the Web for Senior Users

Singh, Anjeli (2009-12-16)

As the population of senior adults is growing rapidly, there is a high demand for social resources to support them. The Internet has become a key factor in today’s society for improving lifestyle, from entertainment to ...

Promulgating Graduate Research and Disseminating Student Information through Web Applications and Database Management

Chien, Li-Ching (2006-05-15)

ASP.NET-based Web applications provide a means of promulgating graduate research and disseminating student information. Integrated with MS SQL Server databases, they provide on-demand, near-instantaneous access to information ...

Quantitative Risk Assessment Model for Software Security in the Design Phase of Software Development

Mkpong-Ruffin, Idongesit (2009-05-15)

Risk analysis is a process for considering possible risks and determining,which are the most significant for any particular effort. Determining which risks to address and the optimum strategy for mitigating said risks is ...

QueueAdmin: The Effects of an Advance Queue Management System on Barbershop Administration

Gosha, Kinnis (2007-05-15)

Queue Management has been a problem for many years in many domains including the Financial, Health Care, Public and Retail Sectors. In this age of technology it is not only important to organize the existing queue, but to ...

Robot-Object Interaction Language

Shelton, Christin (2012-05-16)

As the world anticipates receiving helper robots into their homes there are still a few more hurdles that the robotics field must leap over in order for us to reach such a goal. The main issues that the discipline faces ...

SimBuilder Science: An Approach to Enhancing Reading Literacy Through Visual Programming

Williams, Alexandria (2006-08-15)

Reading literacy has been a major problem for American students for the past several years. Educators have struggled to find a solution to this problem that will help students while at the same time maintain their interest ...

Simbuilder: An Investigation and Usability Study Of Novice Programming Techniques

Kanakadoss, Sumitha (2005-12-15)

In many existing programming languages, novices always find it difficult to transform their mental plan to terms compatible with the computer. By analyzing the ways users think to solve their daily problems and designing ...

Talking Games: An Empirical Study of Speech-based Cursor Control Mechanisms

Thornton, David (2008-12-15)

This document describes a study of speech-based cursor control mechanisms along with a new proposed approach called NameTags. This research is intended to provide empirical user data to inform the design of future systems ...

A Universally Usable and Anonymous Approach to Voter Write-Ins Using Multimodal Interaction and Prediction Techniques

Dawkins, Shanee (2011-11-30)

The primary objective of the research in this dissertation is to develop a system in which any person, regardless of ability or disability, can efficiently, anonymously, and independently write-in a candidate’s name during ...

Usability Size N

Williams, Andrea (2007-08-15)

In the software development cycle, it is often the practice that developers will hold usability studies to test the accuracy and effectiveness of the software and to retrieve user response as to the satisfaction or usability ...

Using Genetic Programming to Quantify the Effectiveness of Similar User Cluster History as a Personalized Search Metric

Eoff, Brian (2005-12-15)

Online search is the service that pushes the Internet. One must only look at the success of a company such as Google, an idea from a 1998 graduate research paper that has in 2005 not only become a wildly successful company, ...

Voice Interactive System: A Usability Study of the Voice Survey Creator

Wachs, Ashley (2007-05-15)

The voice user interface survey is aimed at providing an easier and more efficient way of creating surveys that is conducive to the entire population. This system allows a person to call and create a survey solely over ...