In joint human-automation systems, operators must often supervise the automation and adapt their reliance on it based on judgments of its context-specific reliability. For this to occur, operators should trust the automation appropriately. In the design of a water monitoring decision aid’s display, Ecological Interface Design was used to satisfy design guidelines for supporting appropriate trust. Design focused upon a visualization that made the aid’s use of the Dempster-Shafer theory directly perceptible. The display was evaluated using a signal detection theory-based approach that measured reliance on automation. Results indicated that the ecological display yielded less appropriate reliance and poorer performance than a conventional display for a highly reliable decision aid. However, the experimental task prevented participants from adapting to the aid’s context-specific reliabilities, reducing the validity of the findings. A subsequent study is proposed to further study the effects of ecological displays on automation reliance.

In joint human-automation systems, operators must often supervise the automation and adapt their reliance on it based on judgments of its context-specific reliability. For this to occur, operators should trust the automation appropriately. In the design of a water monitoring decision aid’s display, Ecological Interface Design was used to satisfy design guidelines for supporting appropriate trust. Design focused upon a visualization that made the aid’s use of the Dempster-Shafer theory directly perceptible. The display was evaluated using a signal detection theory-based approach that measured reliance on automation. Results indicated that the ecological display yielded less appropriate reliance and poorer performance than a conventional display for a highly reliable decision aid. However, the experimental task prevented participants from adapting to the aid’s context-specific reliabilities, reducing the validity of the findings. A subsequent study is proposed to further study the effects of ecological displays on automation reliance.

Thesis (M.E.) -- University of Adelaide, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, 1972.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Washington State University, May 2009. / Title from PDF title page (viewed on Apr. 2, 2009). "School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering." Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.S. in electrical engineering)--Washington State University, August 2008. / Title from PDF title page (viewed on Mar. 11, 2009). "School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science." Includes bibliographical references (p. 48-49).

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In this study, the effect of normal stress acting on a model scale pile is determined experimentally. The minimum soil temperature was -5 degrees Celcius. Additional experiments were conducted to determine the adfreeze bond strength of an interface between the Cornwall sand and a galvanized steel plate. These tests were done using a conventional direct shear apparatus. In order to conduct interface tests under freezing temperatures, some modifications were made on the direct shear apparatus. In these experiments, three different normal stresses and three different water contents were used. The present study was extended to investigate whether there was any agreement between the adfreeze strength measured in the present study and the adfreeze strength calculated from the pull-out tests by Villeneuve (2017).

Dissertação (mestrado)—Universidade de Brasília, Faculdade de Economia, Administração, Contabilidade e Ciência da Informação e Documentação, 2007. / Submitted by Luis Felipe Souza (luis_felas@globo.com) on 2008-12-16T16:33:37Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao_2007_GeraldoTorrecillas.pdf: 597142 bytes, checksum: 85eed513b3d33b90152f10ac5ccb54ee (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Georgia Fernandes(georgia@bce.unb.br) on 2009-02-19T18:08:29Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao_2007_GeraldoTorrecillas.pdf: 597142 bytes, checksum: 85eed513b3d33b90152f10ac5ccb54ee (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2009-02-19T18:08:30Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao_2007_GeraldoTorrecillas.pdf: 597142 bytes, checksum: 85eed513b3d33b90152f10ac5ccb54ee (MD5) / Pesquisar, em uma instituição de ensino superior (IES), as barreiras à implantação da Educação a Distância e o nível de satisfação dos alunos com a realização de disciplinas nessa modalidade de ensino-aprendizagem constituiu o objetivo geral de pesquisa estabelecido neste trabalho. Dois objetivos específicos foram definidos: a) Investigar a existência de barreiras institucionais e pessoais à implantação da Educação a Distância em uma IES e b) Analisar o nível de satisfação dos alunos com a realização de disciplinas a distância. A pesquisa foi de caráter exploratório e envolveu as abordagens qualitativa e quantitativa, sendo realizada em uma instituição de ensino superior do Distrito Federal. A pesquisa qualitativa usou como instrumento a entrevista individual semi-estruturada e contou com a participação de 18 sujeitos distribuídos em cinco grupos: 1) quatro diretores da IES; 2) dois coordenadores de curso; 3) dois tutores das disciplinas; 4) quatro alunos das disciplinas on-line; 5) quatro alunos das disciplinas presenciais. A pesquisa quantitativa usou dois instrumentos, um de “Avaliação de Reação de Curso a Distância” e o outro de “Avaliação de Reação Gráfica”. Os dois instrumentos foram respondidos por 251 sujeitos, por meio eletrônico e impresso. Os dados da pesquisa qualitativa foram analisados por meio da técnica de “Análise de Conteúdo”. Com os dados da pesquisa quantitativa foram feitas estatísticas descritivas e inferenciais, além de análises fatoriais e de consistência interna dos itens dos dois instrumentos utilizados. Os resultados apontaram a presença de barreiras do nível institucional e pessoal que dificultaram o processo de implantação da Educação a Distância na IES. O nível de satisfação dos alunos com as disciplinas a distância também não foi muito alto, dando indícios de que ocorreram problemas que interferiram numa melhor avaliação do desenho das disciplinas, do trabalho dos tutores e do próprio desempenho dos alunos. _______________________________________________________________________________________ ABSTRACT / This work aims to search the barriers to the implantation of distance education in a superior education institution, and the level of students' satisfaction on a courses in this modality. The research was carried through in an superior education institution in Distrito Federal, Brazil, using exploratory, qualitative and quantitative methods. The qualitative part used a half-structuralized individual interview of eighteen citizens distributed in five groups: 1) four directors of the superior education institution; 2) four coordinators; 3) two tutors of distance course; 4) four students distance courses; 5) four students of presencial courses. The quantitative part used two types of evaluation: "Reaction Evaluation of Distance Courses" and "Evaluation of Graphical Reaction". They had been answered by 251 citizens, by electronic and printed mean. The data of the qualitative part had been analyzed by the technique "Analysis of Content". The data of the quantitative part was used to descriptive and inferential statistics, factorial analyses and internal consistency. The results showed institutional and personal barriers. The students’ level of satisfaction with distance discipline was not very high, indicating that there are problems that had intervened with the course design, the work of the tutors and the performance of the students.

The aim of this thesis is to characterize the foundational aspects of the Java programming language and the development of applications with it. As an exemplary application on which to demonstrate the findings, we will use Nand2Tetris playground, a simple education application, some of which's aspects will be analyzed within the thesis. The aim of the Nand2Tetris Playground project will be to propose and implement a graphical user interface for the first part of the Nand2Tetris computer architecture course, created by Noam Nisan, Ph.D. and Simon Schocken, Ph.D. In this part of the course, the student is tasked with assemblig all the basic boolean logic gates and several other basic parts using only NAND gates. Software for this part already exists, but can be user unfriendly, especially for a student not well versed in computer science. This is why the GUI that will be proposed and implemented will make the course more accessible even to students not very proficient in the area.

Submitted by Diana Alves (ppgdancaufba.adm@gmail.com) on 2013-01-16T12:29:45Z No. of bitstreams: 1 UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DA BAHIA (2) corpointerface.pdf: 3108887 bytes, checksum: 5eb8c213d9fb554ff400ee5b7f4c5a79 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2013-01-16T12:29:45Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DA BAHIA (2) corpointerface.pdf: 3108887 bytes, checksum: 5eb8c213d9fb554ff400ee5b7f4c5a79 (MD5) / FAPESB / Esta dissertação se propõe a criar um conceito de dança intitulado corpointerface, em que, o corpo é uma interface que une sua condição biológica humana a estruturas de procedência maquínicas através da dança. Entendemos a dança como um fazer técnico do corpo; uma lin-guagem artística que pode ser pensada dentro de uma organização sistêmica. Nosso recorte está focado nas danças que possuem interfaces com a imagem audiovisual. Para isso obser-vamos os produtos/processos da dança realizados com os suportes técnicos das câmeras foto-gráficas, cinematográficas e videográficas, para constatarmos que a imagem do corpo tem sido continuamente transformada e ressignificada. As novas tecnologias da comunicação e da imagem introduziram na arte, diferentes formas para lidar com processos criativos em dança. A teoria cibernética nos orienta rumo ao mergulho na cultura digital, para entendermos que tais relações só se tornaram pertinentes, devido à troca de informações entre humanos e máquinas. O resultado dessa empreitada está pautado nas imagens de corpos recortados, frag-mentados, virtualizados e atualizados que a dança na contemporaneidade tem produzido. / Programa de Pós Graduação em Dança - Escola de Dança