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Virtual communities of practice in simulation-based healthcare education: participation factors and content value assessment
(2016-01-01)This study is the first known formative analysis of simulation-based healthcare education virtual communities of practice (VCoPs). The goal of this study was to analyse the frequency of participation, factors that influence ... -
Virtual drilling haptics perception from auditory cues employing low-end haptic devices
(2018-12-01)Simulation-based training is being widely adopted in medical education because it allows exposing trainees to safe and controlled simulated scenarios otherwise impossible to reproduce in real life. Current advances in ... -
Virtual machine detection through Central Processing Unit (CPU) detail anomalies
(2022-12-01)Malware analysts commonly use virtual machines to provide safe environments to study malware. Malware authors in response, include virtual machine detection functions in their malware so it changes its behavior should a ... -
Vision, culture, and image: a systematic review of higher education online branding
(2022-03-01)Guided by The Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA), the primary objective of this study was to gain insight into higher education online branding. An integrated mixed-method synthesis ... -
A Vision-Based System For Non-Intrusive Posture Correction Notifications
(2021-05-20)Sedentary lifestyle and the prolonged sitting associated with it may have negative health consequences and poor sitting posture only exacerbates that. In this thesis I propose a software application for monitoring a computer ... -
Visual Analytics for Topic Model Optimization based on User-Steerable Speculative Execution
(IEEE, 2018-09-18)To effectively assess the potential consequences of human interventions in model-driven analytics systems, we establish the concept of speculative execution as a visual analytics paradigm for creating user-steerable preview ... -
Visual encoding quality and scalability in information visualization
(2019-02-01)Information visualization seeks to amplify cognition through interactive visual representations of data. It comprises human processes, such as perception and cognition, and computer processes, such as visual encoding. ... -
Visualization and the Digital Humanities: Moving Toward Stronger Collaborations
(IEEE, 2018-12-01)For the past two years, researchers from the visualization community and the digital humanities have come together at the IEEE VIS conference to discuss how both disciplines can work together to push research goals in their ... -
Visualization, Digital Humanities, and the Problem of Instrumentalism
(2021-06-01)In this paper we present the concept of “slow analytics” that attempts to ridge the gap between humanities tasks and visualization. Often within Technological disciplines the pursuit of speed and efficiency are paramount. ... -
Vixen: a games user research tool for collection and interactive visualization of usertesting data
(2017-08-01)Visualization techniques can facilitate the understanding and exploration of relationships in usertesting data. For example, data from players' in-game movement can be combined with interview data or questionnaire results. ... -
The waging of a virtual war against Islam: an assessment of how post-9/11 war-themed video games stereotype Muslims
(2019-02-01)Research suggests that American popular culture represents Muslim peoples, places, and cultures in ways that perpetuate Islamophobic ideas, and scholars have examined how fictional television shows and films communicate ... -
"Walking the talk" in the integration of chronic disease prevention management: dietitians' perspectives regarding diabetes management in adult peritoneal dialysis programs in Ontario
(2011-08-01)Ontario’s Chronic Disease and Prevention Framework (CDPM) is a framework aimed at improving health outcomes and reducing costs. Currently, there is a paucity of data examining diabetes management (DM) in peritoneal dialysis ... -
Water quality and biotic community response to an urban – rural land-use gradient in the Lake Simcoe watershed
(2020-06-01)Most research in the Lake Simcoe watershed (LSW) has focused on how the lake has responded to changes in nutrients sourced by agriculture, particularly after mitigation measures have been put in place to remedy the lake’s ... -
Webcasting Made Interactive: Persistent Chat for Text Dialogue During and About Learning Events
(Springer, 2007)This paper presents a “persistent chat” extension to the ePresence Interactive Media webcasting infrastructure to support real-time commenting on and discussing of issues that arise during a learning event, followed by ... -
Well-to-wheel greenhouse gas emissions and energy use analysis of hypothetical fleet of electrified vehicles in Canada and the U.S.
(2010-12-01)The shift to strong hybrid and electrified vehicle architectures engenders controversy and brings about many unanswered questions. It is unclear whether developed markets will have the infrastructure in place to support ... -
What lies beneath: an examination of the underlying components of deception detection
(2022-12-01)Little is known about the underlying components that are responsible for the processes involved with decision-making in deception detection. Throughout this dissertation, I explored previous (mis)conceptions about ... -
What role does technology play in cyber bullying
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What’s in a name?: Revealing the function of the criminal pseudonym through a content analysis of ten characters in twelve films
(2015-05-01)At times, individuals articulate their criminal identity with the construction of a pseudonym derived from within their subculture. This study assumes there is a value and/or purpose in the construction, cultivation and ... -
A whole new world: the experiences of adolescents with beta-thalassemia major as they transition to adult care
(2018-04-01)Beta-thalassemia Major (b-TM) is a chronic medical condition. Effective illness management requires adherence to arduous medical treatment to ensure a life free of life-threatening complications. This qualitative study ... -
Why would someone send me that?! Exploring the prevalence, contexts, motivations, and predictors of sending unsolicited sexual images
(2021-08-01)Technology has afforded the development of new ways to perpetrate non-consensual sexual acts, one being sending unsolicited sexual images (USIs). This thesis examined this underexplored act by examining the prevalence, ...