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The objective of this research is to analyze how the demographic characteristics and reported home locations of Cycle Atlanta smartphone app users compare to those of cyclists reflected by other datasets. The findings of this research show that the majority of Cycle Atlanta users are young, white males belonging to either a very high annual income group or a low annual income group, with fewer users belonging to middle-income groups. Most of the app's users live in east-side, ``intown' Atlanta neighborhoods. Other cyclist data for the Atlanta area show similar trends, although less pronounced than the trends exhibited by Cycle Atlanta users. Because smartphone apps such as Cycle Atlanta are a fairly recent innovation, there is still a great deal of uncertainty as to how equitably they can gather bicycle data. The research presented in this thesis has the potential to empower transportation planners to plan bicycle facilities that will benefit many different facets of the cycling community in Atlanta. This has the potential to increase the mode share of cycling in cities, which will reduce congestion and promote healthier lifestyles.

The practice of health self-management offers behavioral and problem-solving strategies that can effectively promote responsibility for one's own wellbeing, improve one's health outcomes, and decrease the cost of health services. Personal informatics applications support health self-management by allowing their users to easily track personal health information, and to review the changes and patterns in this information. Over the course of the past several years, I have pursued a research agenda centered on understanding how personal health informatics applications can further support the strategies of health self-management--specifically those relating to goal-management and behavior change. I began by developing a flexible personal informatics tool, called Salud!, that I could use to observe real-world goal management and behavior change strategies, as well as use to evaluate new interfaces designed to assist in goal management. Unlike existing personal informatics tools, Salud! allows users to self-define the information that they will track, which allows tracking of highly personal and meaningful data that may not be possible to track given other tools. It also enables users to share their account data with facilitators (e.g. fitness grainers, nutritionists, etc.) who can provide input and feedback. Salud! was built on top of an infrastructure consisting of a stack of modular services that make it easier for others to develop and/or evaluate a variety of personal informatics applications. Several research teams used this infrastructure to develop and deploy a variety of custom projects. Informal analysis of their efforts showed an unmet need for data storage and visualization services for home- and health-based sensor data. In order to design a goal management support tool for Salud!, I first, I conducted a meta-analysis of relevant research literature to cull a set of proven goal management strategies. The key outcome of this work was an operationalization of Action Plans--goal management strategies that are effective at supporting behavior change. I then deployed Salud! in two fitness-related contexts to observe and understand the breadth of health-related behavior change and goal management practices. Findings from these deployments showed that personal informatics tools are most helpful to individuals who are able to articulate short-term, actionable goals, and who are able to integrate self-tracking into their daily activities. The literature meta-analysis and the two Salud! deployments provided formative requirements for a goal management interaction that would both incorporate effective goal management strategies and support the breadth of real-world goals. I developed a model of the goal management process as the framework for such an interaction. This model enables goals to be represented, evaluated, and visualized, based on a wide range of user objectives and data collection strategies. Using this model, I was able to develop a set of interactions that allow users of Salud! to manage their personal goals within the application. The generalized goal management model shows the inherent difficulty in supporting open-ended, highly personalized goal management. To function generically, Salud! requires facilitator input to correctly process goals and meaningfully classify their attributes. However, for specific goals represented by specific data collection strategies, it is possible to fully- or semi-automate the goal management process. I ran a large-scale evaluation of Salud! with the goal management interaction to evaluate the effectiveness of a fully-automated goal management interaction. The evaluation consisted of a common health self-management intervention: a simple fitness program to increase participants' daily step count. The results of this evaluation suggest that the goal management interaction may improve the rate of goal realization among users who are initially less active and less confident in their ability to succeed. Additionally, this evaluation showed that, while it can significantly increase participants' step count, a fully automated fitness program is not as effective as traditional, instructor-led fitness programs. However, it is much easier to administer and much less resource intensive, showing that it can be utilized to rapidly evaluate concrete goal management strategies.

Am 15. November 2010 fand an der Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig ein Strategieworkshop mit dem renommierten Informationsexperten Marshall Breeding von den Vanderbilt University Libraries in Nashville statt. Breeding ist „Director for Innovative Technologies and Re search“ – entsprechend stand seine einführende Präsentation unter dem Titel „Advancement of Technology Strategies“. In seinem Vortrag umriss Breeding die gegenwärtige softwaretechnische Situation von Bibliotheken und arbeitete dabei Besonderheiten der deutschen Bibliothekslandschaft heraus. Laut Breeding werde der deutsche Markt insgesamt noch immer von traditionellen mittelständischen Anbietern von Integrierten Bibliothekssystemen (ILS) beherrscht, wobei aber internationale Großfirmen zunehmend signifikante Marktanteile gewinnen. Im Gegensatz dazu teilen sich letztere in den USA den Markt im Wesentlichen bereits auf, ohne dass ein Anbieter klar dominiere. Besonders an den öffentlichen Bibliotheken sei ein Trend zu quellcodeoffenen Systemen (Open-Source-Systeme) zu verzeichnen.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2000. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 120-126). Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Florida State University, 2003. / Advisor: Dr. Gordon Erlebacher, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Dept. of Computer Science. Title and description from dissertation home page (viewed Apr. 8, 2004). Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2000. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 120-126). Also available on the Internet.

Diplominio darbo, kurio tema yra “Informacinių sistemų taikymas technologijų mokymo procese“ (toliau – darbas), tyrimo objektas yra VPU pažangiausių informacinių sistemų taikymas mokymo procese. Tikslas - ištirti taikomąsias programas, kurios gali būti naudojamos technologijų mokymo procese, jų realizavimo galimybes, atsižvelgiant į poreikius ir reikalavimus joms. Siekiant šių tikslų būtina atlikti žemiau išvardintas užduotis. 1. Atlikti VPU darbuotojų ir technologijos specialybes studentų apklausą anketavimo metodu. 2. Nustatyti, kokias taikomąsias programas VPU dėstytojai ir technologijos specialybės studentai naudoja technologijų mokymo procese. 3. Atlikti naudojamų taikomųjų programų paketų apžvalgą. 4. Parodyti taikomųjų programų paketų galimybes technologijų mokymo procese. 5. Pateikti rekomendacijas ir pavyzdžius taikomųjų programų (komercinės, atviros) panaudojimo konkrečių technologijų disciplinų mokymo procese. Darbo metu tiriama taikomoji programinė įranga, kuri galėtų būti panaudota mokymo procese. Tiriant jos galimybes, atliekami braižymo, projektavimo bei skaičiavimo darbai, kurie atskleidžia įrangos panaudojimo galimybes, ruošiant būsimus technologijų mokslo specialistus. / The study subject of the diploma thesis titled „Application of Information Systems in Technology Teaching Process“ (hereinafter „the thesis“) is application of advanced information systems in the VPU educative process. The objective of the research is to explore application programmes that could be used in technology teaching process, their feasibility with consideration to a demand and imposed requirements. In order to accomplish the objective it was necessary to fulfil the following tasks: 2. To carry out a questionnaire survey among the VPU magistral staff and students. 3. To find out what application programmes are currently used by the VPU teaching staff and students in technology teaching process. 4. To make a survey of the application programme packages that are being currently used. 5. To describe the features of application programme packages used in technology teaching process. 6. To make recommendations on use of application programmes (commercial or open source) and suggest examples of such programmes for particlar technology disciplines teaching processes. While drawing the thesis there was also made an investigation of application software that could be used in the teaching process. Exploring its features there were conducted drawing, design and computing works that disclose the software opportunities in training future technology specialists.

Web applications have become a large segment of the software development domain but their rapid rise in popularity has far exceeded the support in software engineering. There are many tools and techniques for web application development, but the developer must still learn and use many complex protocols and languages. Products still closely bind data operations, business logic, and the user interface, limiting integration and interoperability. This thesis introduces an innovative new presentation service to help web application developers create better applications faster, and help them build high quality web user interfaces. This service acts as a broker between web browsers and applications, adding value with programming-language independent object-oriented technology. The second innovation is a generic graphics applet (GGA) component for the web browser user interface. This light component provides interactive graphics support for the creation of business charts, maps, diagrams, and other graphical displays in web applications. The combination of a presentation service program (BUS) and the GGA is explored in a series of experiments to evaluate their ability to improve web applications. The experiments provide evidence that the BUS and GGA technology enhances web application designs.

Thesis (M.S.E.)--University of Wisconsin -- La Crosse, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 44-45).