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

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AADMLSS Practice: A Culturally Relevant Algebra Tutor

Wang, Lingyan (2009-12-16)

This thesis presents an online web-based culturally relevant algebra tutor system. It is designed for African American students to improve their mathematical skills through practice on this platform. As a critical part of ...

Academic Virtual Advisor

Nobles, Kathryn (2007-05-15)

With the increasing aptitude of artificial intelligence and expert systems, new and innovative uses are being discovered. The objective of this research was to examine the use of an expert system to solve the problem of ...

Alleviating Escape Panic Using Evolutionary Intelligence

Darnell, Shelby (2006-05-15)

Reducing damage, danger, and panic by evolving room designs is possible with artificial intelligence. Escape panic, brought on by groups of people being in a life-threatening situation, increases the fatality rate and ...

Analysis of Embodied Conversational Agents in SecondLife for Speech Recognition

Moses, Wanda R. (2009-08-12)

A virtual world is a computer simulated environment that's interactive and allows the user to become a participant in the computational space, entering a computer world that they have created. This participation gives the ...

An Approach for Anonymous Spelling for Voter Write-Ins Using Speech Interaction

Dawkins, Shanee (2009-10-23)

Today, the technology used for voting does not fully address the issues that disabled voters are confronted with during elections. Every voter, regardless of disability, should be able to vote and verify his or her ballot ...

A Class-Specific Ensemble Feature Selection Approach for Classification Problems

Soares, Caio (2009-04-20)

This research proposes a new feature selection algorithm, Class-specific Ensemble Feature Selection (CEFS), which finds class-specific subsets of features optimal to each available classification in the dataset. Each ...

Classifying Speakers Using Voice Biometrics In a Multimodal World

Rouse, Kenneth (2009-07-30)

The following dissertation document is a research study conducted to determine whether a classi cation for a person is obtainable by using the person's voice. The intent of this work was to investigate a collection of ...

Clustering and Predictive Modeling: An Ensemble Approach

Williams, Philicity (2008-08-15)

Today’s data storage and collection abilities have allowed the accumulation of enormous amounts of data. Data mining can be a useful tool in transforming these large amounts of raw data into useful information. Predictive ...

A Clustering Rule-based Approach for Classification Problems

Williams, Philicity (2010-05-24)

CSSE Document Management System: Implementation and Usability Evaluation

Wang, Chao (2006-08-15)

The design and implementation of an application like CSSE Document Management System (CSSEDMS) involves many considerations. Among all these considerations, usability is the key for success. “If you could build a system ...

Culture Based Computing For Adult Learners (C-CAL)

Eugene, Wanda (2011-04-28)

This dissertation presents the design, implementation, and evaluation of the novel Cultural based Computing for Adult Learners (C-CAL) system, a self-directed online learning application utilizing culture to support adult ...

Distributed Listening in Automatic Speech Recognition

McMillian, Yolanda (2010-06-30)

While speech recognition systems have come a long way in the last forty years, there is still room for improvement. Although readily available, these systems are sometimes inaccurate and insufficient. The research presented ...

Human Coordination of Robot Teams: An Empirical Study of Multimodal Interface Design

Cross , E. Vincent, II (2009-05-04)

Human Robot Interaction is an emerging area of interdisciplinary research that requires contributions from the areas of robotics, human computer interaction, cognitive sciences, multimodal interfaces and others. Due to ...

Improving Prediction Accuracy Using Class-specific Ensemble Feature Selection

Soares, Caio (2010-08-03)

As data accumulates at a speed significantly faster than can be processed, data preprocessing techniques such as feature selection become increasingly important and beneficial. Moreover, given the well-known gains of ...

In Election Voting, Do People Touch the Objective or Not?

Rogers, Gregory (2009-05-05)

Election technologies have been constantly evolving since the first election in the United States of America. In 2008, during the early voting election one problem that occurred was vote switching in West Virginia and ...

iTech: An Interactive Technical Assistant

Wilson, Dale-Marie (2006-08-15)

This dissertation concentrates on the problem of designing and developing a conversational technical assistant. The main focus is to identify and address issues related to producing a system that allows for conversational ...

A Model for Building Trustworthiness in Online Stores

Lanford, Patricia (2007-08-15)

More and more research is being done everyday in the world of e-commerce as consumers and merchants alike realize how powerful a selling tool the internet has become. Research shows that trust is key to the success of ...

A New Approach to Voting: An Accessible Voter Verifiable Paper Ballot

McClendon, Jerome (2009-07-28)

The 2000 U.S. Presidential Election brought national attention to electronic voting when an estimated 50,000 ballots were discarded and not counted. The body of research presented in this thesis will describe a method ...

PineHill: A Novel Approach to Computer Aided Language Learning

Koh, Kyuhan (2007-05-15)

Teaching language involves understanding the way people perceive words and utilizing methods of instruction that they can easily comprehend. Computer assisted instruction is of great benefit and more interesting to learners ...

Post-Speech-Recognition Processing in Domain-Specific Text-Corpus-Based Distributed Listening System: Analysis, Interpretation and Selection of Speech Recognition Results

Lee, Spencer (2006-12-15)

Achieving usable recognition rates has been an almost never-ending quest in speech recognition research for more than three decades. Recently speech recognition rates have dramatically improved in conjunction with the rapid ...