Browsing by Author "Chapman, Richard"

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Optimization of Split Keyboard Design for Touchscreen Devices

Alamdar Yazdi, Mohammad Ali (2018-04-27)

While many large touchscreen devices have a split keyboard option to enable two-thumb typing, there are significant differences in the design which affect users’ text entry rate. A mixed integer-programming model is developed ...

Popularity-Aware Storage Systems for Big Data Applications

Cao, Ting (2022-07-11)

Recommendation algorithms play an increasingly dominant role in big data services like Netflix and YouTube. In streaming applications, it becomes unavoidable that trillion tons of personal and industrial data are flooded ...

A Quantitative Study of Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) Over Internet Protocol (IP) Protocols

Williams, James (2005-12-15)

The research, which is discussed in this dissertation, consists of the development and testing of a suite of ten Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and reliable Real Time Protocol (RTP) MIDI over IP (MOIP) protocols, and ...

Regressing Object-Oriented Principles to Achieve Performance Gains on the Java Platform, Micro Edition

Cook, Sean (2006-12-15)

Object-Oriented Programming is a software design method that models the characteristics of abstract or real objects using classes and objects [Sun Microsystems 2006b]. The Java language is intrinsically object-oriented; ...

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 ...

Smart Kids Application to Develop the Potential Interests for Children

Li, Guorui (2018-04-23)

Children today are growing up in a rapidly developing world filled with quickly evolving technologies, such as the Internet, smartphones, and smart mobile devices, etc. As a result, more applications designed with children ...

Smart Sensing and Context-Cognitive Networking In and Beyond mmWave Band: Efficiency, Reliability, and Security

Hu, Xueyang (2024-04-12)

The demand for mobile data rates has grown tremendously in recent years, but the current low-frequency spectrum is insufficient to support the rapidly growing demand for data rates. Therefore, the upcoming 5G and future ...

Study of deep neural networks on graph data in a generative learning regime

Jiang, Chao (2022-08-04)

Graph-formatted data is ubiquitous among different domains from social networks and academic citation networks to drug-target interactions and others. Graph neural networks (GNNs) have achieved outstanding performance in ...

A Technological Framework to Teach Music Online via Machine Learning with the Focus on Automated Chord Detection

Jamshidi, Fatemeh (2021-12-01)

This thesis proposes possible approaches to adding technology to music courses and examines the impact online music courses may have on music teaching and practicing. The main question in this research is: How can we ...

UAV Collision Avoidance Utilizing ADS-B and TCAS with Independent Ranging

Henshall, Andrea (2018-07-20)

With the proliferation of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), their integration into the National Airspace System (NAS) is becoming increasingly imperative. To accomplish such integration, UAVs must be able to ''sense and ...

UAV Obstacle Avoidance by Applying Deep Learning

Zhu, Wenyu (2021-08-03)

In the last decades, many algorithms in the artificial intelligence field, including machine learning, deep learning, and so on, have been implemented for not only computer vision, but also in mobile vehicles. Thus, to ...

Using Tweets Sentiment Analysis to Predict Stock Market Movement

Almohaimeed, Abdulaziz (2017-05-17)

Research shows that news affects stock market movement and indicates the possibility of predicting the market by using the news as a signal to a coming movement with an acceptable accuracy percentage. In this research, we ...

A Virtual Reality Framework to support Rheumatoid Arthritis Education: The Impact of Different Immersion Levels on the Empathy and Engagement of College Students

Richardson, Alexicia (2023-04-19) ETD File Embargoed

The use of Virtual reality (VR) has increased within the medical field. Its uses include assisting physicians and patients through medical education, medical training, patient rehabilitation, surgery simulations, and many ...