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Eat This Book: User-centered research and software design using the information diet metaphor to examine media consumption and design an ambient technology display for stashes of to-be-read ebooks
(2013-07-25)There are widespread concerns about how changes in media and technologies are affecting people's media habits. Clay Johnson (2012) proposes using the metaphor of an "information diet" to consider this as a health issue, ... -
Effects of Peer Feedback on Password Strength
This thesis is a study on the effects of peer-feedback on a user’s password strength. Passwords are a common sight in everyday use of an average end user. Text-based passwords are heavily relied upon when it comes to user ... -
Electronic Waste Recycling Programs in the United States: A Comparative Analysis
(2014)Proper recycling of electronic waste (e-waste) allows reuse of finite resources and prevents toxic materials in e-waste from causing harm to humans and the environment. The United States is the only Organization for Economic ... -
Emerging Practices of University Career Centers. What Patterns are Most Conducive to Reducing Underemployment in College Graduates?
(2015)Since the 1970’s concern over underemployment has grown among US college graduates. Contributing factors for underemployment are debated by scholars, yet universities struggle to provide employment prospects that are ... -
Energy-aware Workflow Scheduling and Fuzzy Logic Based Capacity Provisioning in Cloud Environment
The increasing need of large-scale data centers has brought new challenges to the development of energy-efficiency techniques. Although many optimization techniques have been proposed, most of them neglect the characteristics ... -
Environmental Advocacy within Non-Governmental Organizations
(2015)The purpose of this capstone is to understand how non-governmental organizations (NGOs) assess global climate change in their advocacy at the local level. NGOs were identified as participants in political arenas and often ... -
Evaluating the Architecture Centric Traceability for Stakeholders (ACTS) Holistically from the Economic, Social, and Technical Perspectives
Software traceability has the capability of relating various artifacts produced throughout the development to assist with understanding the system from different viewpoints and abstraction levels. The Architecture Centric ... -
An Evaluation of King County School District’s Wellness Policies
(2013)The aim of this study is to evaluate the wellness polices in King County’s nineteen school districts. The evaluation of current wellness policies (2013) was compared to an evaluation done in 2009 by University of Washington ... -
An Exploration of the Relationship Between Perceived Social Support and Academic Achievement Among Former Prisoners
(2015)The literature states the benefits of social support for cognitive and behavioral functioning, personal achievement, academic success, and successful prisoner reentry into the community. However, there are gaps in post ... -
Exploratory Wayfinding in Wide Field Ethnography
This thesis focuses on what wayfinding means in Wide Field Ethnography (WFE), and how to improve wayfinding activities in WFE datasets. WFE datasets are too large, unstructured and complex for researchers to easily understand, ... -
Exploring Issues of Access to Nutritious Foods: Seattle High Schools and Food Environments
(2016)Food-related health problems remain widespread throughout the United States. A growing body of research shows that certain populations are disproportionately affected by issues of access to nutritious foods. Limited access ... -
Eye tracking and game mechanics: An evaluation of unmodified tablet computers for use in vision screening software for children
Binocular vision issues are a primary cause of reading and writing difficulties among children, with as many at 25 percent of school-aged children needing vision therapy. Vision issues are a better predictor of academic ... -
Factors Affecting Genetic Engineering Policy Outcomes
(2015)The safety and sustainability of genetically engineered (GE) crops is an ardently debated topic. Serious concerns have surfaced regarding environmental impacts and health implications (VanHosen, 2015; Diamanti-Kandarakis ... -
Factors in thorium fuel adoption
(2011)The purpose of this study is to determine whether the United States government should support the research, development, and implementation of thorium‐based nuclear reactors as a primary supplier of electricity for the ... -
The Feminology of Spirit
The work of the Feminology, in both process and product, is work born out of sifting through, listening and selecting-out from Hegel’s language in the preface to his Phenomenology of Spirit. The Feminology, then, is poetry ... -
Field-Based Job Dispatch and Migration
(2013-04-17)AgentTeamwork-Lite is a mobile-agent-based job scheduling and monitoring framework that has been developed in the concept of field-based job dispatch and migration where agents migrate over a computing-resource field to ... -
Finding a Better Stove: Cookstove Use in “Last Mile” Villages in Guatemala
(2017)This project aims to explore cooking practice behaviors among indigenous Guatemalan women in select rural villages. Women across Guatemala place their health, and that of their children, at risk every time they prepare a ... -
Fourteen
<italic>Fourteen<italic> takes on difficult topics such as chattel slavery, sexual violence, racism and discrimination. I use music, tangents and a prejudicial preference for the number fourteen as tools to aid my telling. ...