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Improving the Management of Controllers’ Interruptions through the Working Awareness Interruption Tool: WAIT
(University of Waterloo, 2014-04-24)Interruptions in time-critical, dynamic, and collaborative environments, such as air traffic control (ATC), can provide valuable, task-relevant information. However, they also negatively impact task performance by distracting ... -
In Search of Lost Time
(University of Waterloo, 2012-05-16)In Marcel Proust's most famous novel, In Search of Lost Time, a Madeleine cake elicited in him a nostalgic memory of Combray. Here we present a computational hypothesis of how such an episodic memory is represented in a ... -
In Vitro Cornea Models in Contact Lens Based Ocular Drug Delivery
(University of Waterloo, 2016-07-28)The development of suitable in vitro release and diffusion models for contact lens-based drug delivery may lead to the establishment of in vitro/in vivo correlations. It is evident that an in vitro model that can reproduce ... -
In vitro evaluation of bone cell response to novel 3D-printable nanocomposite biomaterials for bone reconstruction
(University of Waterloo, 2022-01-25)Critical-sized segmental bone defects are a challenging problem for orthopedic surgeons. These defects are unable to heal spontaneously within a patient’s lifetime. Thus, biomaterials are used to repair such defects and ... -
Incorporating Biologically Realistic Neuron Models into the NEF
(University of Waterloo, 2017-09-18)Theoretical neuroscience is fundamentally concerned with the relationship between biological mechanisms, information processing, and cognitive abilities, yet current models often lack either biophysical realism or cognitive ... -
Incorporating Misperception into the Graph Model for Conflict Resolution
(University of Waterloo, 2017-07-21)A flexible hypergame methodology is designed and implemented for modeling misperceptions by participating decision makers (DMs) in a conflict having two or more DMs within the framework of the Graph Model for Conflict ... -
Incorporating Water Demand Management into a Cooperative Water Allocation Framework
(Springer, 2016-07-01)The impact of a water demand management plan on a water system and its users is investigated within a comprehensive cooperative water allocation framework. In particular, a demand management plan is incorporated into a ... -
Incorporation of Pressure Insoles into Inverse Dynamic Analysis
(University of Waterloo, 2022-01-27)Estimation of body loads during industrial tasks, such as lifting and weight bearing, is central to workplace ergonomics and the study of the safety and risk factors in work techniques. Evaluating those loads requires data ... -
Increasing Passersby Engagement with Public Large Interactive Surfaces
(University of Waterloo, 2016-08-17)Despite the proliferation of Public Large Interactive Surfaces (PLISs), and their potential to provide a more engaging and interactive user experience, these surfaces often go unnoticed by passersby, or not immediately ... -
Inertial MEMS Sensors
(University of Waterloo, 2015-01-07)In this work, novel electrostatic micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) sensor and sensors are introduced and demonstrated. First, a novel bifurcation-based MEMS ethanol vapor sensor is demonstrated. In contrast to ... -
Influence of dual-tasking with different levels of attention diversion on characteristics of the movement-related cortical potential
(Elsevier, 2017-11-01)Dual tasking is defined as performing two tasks concurrently and has been shown to have a significant effect on attention directed to the performance of the main task. In this study, an attention diversion task with two ... -
INFORMATION THEORETIC CRITERIA FOR IMAGE QUALITY ASSESSMENT BASED ON NATURAL SCENE STATISTICS
(University of Waterloo, 2010-01-12)Measurement of visual quality is crucial for various image and video processing applications. It is widely applied in image acquisition, media transmission, video compression, image/video restoration, etc. The goal ... -
INFORMATION THEORETIC CRITERIA FOR IMAGE QUALITY ASSESSMENT BASED ON NATURAL SCENE STATISTICS
(University of Waterloo, 2006)Measurement of visual quality is crucial for various image and video processing applications. <br /><br /> The goal of objective image quality assessment is to introduce a computational quality metric that can predict ... -
Initial State Stabilities and Inverse Engineering in Conflict Resolution
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-23)Two original contributions are made which extend the Graph Model for Conflict Resolution: one is a new family of solution concepts, while the other is a novel methodological approach. In addition to theoretical contributions, ... -
Integrated Computational Measurement System for Enhanced Polarimetric Measurements
(University of Waterloo, 2015-04-30)Polarimetry is an useful tool in chemical identification and characterisation both inside and outside the lab. It is a modality where the effects of chiral molecules, water impurities and cancerous cells are noticeable ... -
Integrated Decision Support System for Infrastructure Privatization under Uncertainty using Conflict Resolution
(University of Waterloo, 2007-04-03)Infrastructure privatization decisions have an enormous financial and social impact on all stakeholders, including the public sector, the private sector, and the general public. Appropriate privatization decisions, however, ... -
Integrated Fluorescence Detection System for Lab on a Chip Devices
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-20)This thesis focuses on the design of a versatile, portable, and cost-effective fluorescence detection system for LOC devices. Components that are widely available are used, such as LEDs for excitation and a microcontroller ... -
An Integrated Model of Contex, Short-Term, and Long-Term Memory
(University of Waterloo, 2018-07-27)I present the context-unified encoding (CUE) model, a large-scale spiking neural network model of human memory. It combines and integrates activity-based short-term memory with weight-based long-term memory. The ... -
Integrated Robust Design Using Response Surface Methodology and Constrained Optimization
(University of Waterloo, 2008-12-19)System design, parameter design, and tolerance design are the three stages of product or process development advocated by Genichi Taguchi. Parameter design, or robust parameter design (RPD), is the method to determine ... -
Integrating Affective Expressions into Robot-Assisted Search and Rescue to Improve Human-Robot Communication
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-13)Unexplained or ambiguous behaviours of rescue robots can lead to inefficient collaborations between humans and robots in robot-assisted SAR teams. To date, rescue robots do not have the ability to interact with humans on ...