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Toward an Understanding of "Weak Signals" of Technological Change and Innovation in the Internet Industry
(University of Waterloo, 2013-08-02)Identifying the emergence and development of new technologies has become an essential ability for firms competing in dynamic environments. Nonetheless, current technology intelligence practices are unstructured and vaguely ... -
Towards a Trait Model of Video Game Preferences
(Taylor & Francis, 2018-04-19)Typologies for understanding players’ preferences toward different gameplay styles have gained popularity in research. However, attempts to model players’ preferences are based on type models instead of trait models, ... -
Towards an Understanding of Board IT Governance: Antecedents and Consequences
(University of Waterloo, 2009-09-09)Board involvement in Information Technology (IT) governance and the antecedents and consequences of such involvement are examined from both a theoretical and practical perspective. Practitioner and academic IT governance ... -
Towards Increased Understanding of Innovation Intermediaries
(University of Waterloo, 2015-04-27)Canada spends almost 2% of its GDP on publicly funded research (OECD, 2009). However, a high percentage of research results is never put to work for the benefit of society. Of the subset of research that becomes protected ... -
Towards Measuring Coherence in Poem Generation
(University of Waterloo, 2023-01-11)Large language models (LLM) based on transformer architecture and trained on massive corpora have gained prominence as text-generative models in the past few years. Even though large language models are very adept at ... -
A Tractable Approach To Inverse Optimization Under Euclidean Norm
(University of Waterloo, 2023-09-11)The conventional optimization assumes that the problem and its parameters are known, and it utilizes this information to determine the optimal solution. Inverse optimization works in reverse by determining different ... -
Trade-off between Innovation and Sustainability: Perceptions from Students from Developed and Developing Countries
(University of Waterloo, 2008-09-26)This study investigated the human perception of certain social values to improve national well-being. It focused on the relative importance of two values, innovation and sustainability. Finally, it examined the possibility ... -
Trade-offs in Design: A Theory Building Qualitative Study on the Role of Problem Formulation and Framing in Resolving Trade-offs in Design
(University of Waterloo, 2021-08-12)Design projects are complex problem-solving endeavors that can involve many goals that are often conflicting. These trade-offs between goals have been primarily studied through the lens of optimization, attempting to create ... -
“Transport Me Away”: Fostering Flow in Open Offices through Virtual Reality
(ACM, 2020-04-21)Open offices are cost-effective and continue to be popular. However, research shows that these environments, brimming with distractions and sensory overload, frequently hamper productivity. Our research investigates the ... -
Tunnel Divisions: Interactive Sound Mapping of Transitory Public Spaces
(ACM, 2016-11-06)We present Tunnel Divisions, an interactive musical installation designed for ephemeral interaction in public spaces. Informed by concepts from cultural and media studies along with existing literature on interactive public ... -
Two-Class M/M/1 Make-to-Stock Queueing Systems with Both Backlogs and Lost Sales
(University of Waterloo, 2014-09-26)We introduce a new simple allocation policy which is a very good approximation of the optimal allocation policy in an inventory system with a single product and two priority classes of customers. A production facility ... -
Two-Echelon Supply Chain Design for Spare Parts with Time Constraints
(University of Waterloo, 2013-09-25)We consider a single-part, two-echelon supply chain problem for spare parts. The network consists of a single manufacturing plant, a set of service centers (SCs) and a set of customers. Both echelons keep spare parts using ... -
Typology of Business Models for Emerging Grid-scale Energy Storage Technologies
(University of Waterloo, 2019-03-26)The main goals of this thesis are to develop, validate, and analyze emerging business models to ensure near-term market success of the grid-scale Energy Storage (ES) technologies. The main research contributions are a ... -
Understanding and Supporting Newcomers to 3D Modelling and Digital Fabrication
(University of Waterloo, 2016-08-31)Interest in understanding and facilitating 3D digital fabrication is growing in the HCI research community. However, most of our insights about end-user interaction with fabrication are currently based on interactions of ... -
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Traffic Network Design with Risk Mitigation
(University of Waterloo, 2024-02-01)As unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology becomes more robust and widespread, more and more retail companies are seeing UAVs as a suitable alternative to ground-based transportation to deliver their packages. As a result, ... -
Usage of Interactive Event Timelines in Collaborative Digital Tabletops with Automation
(Springer, 2016)Tabletop computers are increasingly being used for complex scenarios, such as emergency response. In such scenarios, maintaining situation awareness of dynamic changes automated by the system is crucial for users to make ... -
The Use Of Kullback-Leibler Divergence In Opinion Retrieval
(University of Waterloo, 2008-10-01)With the huge amount of subjective contents in on-line documents, there is a clear need for an information retrieval system that supports retrieval of documents containing opinions about the topic expressed in a user’s ... -
Use of Markov Decision Process Models in Preventive Medicine
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-02)The biggest trade-off when proposing health care policies is about balancing the effectiveness and the practicality of the policies. The optimal policies providing benchmark performances can be driven through using operations ... -
The Use of the Internet in Distributing Packaged Software
(University of Waterloo, 2006)To reflect common practice in the software industry and extend transaction cost theory, this research developed building on previous research and empirically tested a model based on to identify conditions in which software ... -
User-Defined Gestures with Physical Props in Virtual Reality
(ACM, 2021-11-05)When interacting with virtual reality (VR) applications like CAD and open-world games, people may want to use gestures as a means of leveraging their knowledge from the physical world. However, people may prefer physical ...