Browsing Computer Science (Theses and Dissertations) by Title
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Game-Based Learning of Data Structures Based onAnalogies: Learning Gains andIntrinsic Motivation in Higher Education Environments
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Computer Science & Statistics. Discipline of Computer Science, 2022)Many researchers have considered video games as effective learning tools. According to them, video games can increase intrinsic motivation and promote active learning. However, video games are a flexible medium, and they ... -
Gender Effects in Interactive Interface Design
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Computer Science & Statistics. Discipline of Computer Science, 2021)The growing interest in the impact of gender on technology brings attention to some concerns with regard to gender bias in design and its implications for the user experience. A first exploration with users of dating ... -
Generating sentiment lexica : evaluating approaches with genetic algorithms and particle swarm optimization
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2014)This thesis examines the application of sentiment analysis towards financial news. The primary goal within the field of sentiment analysis is to develop a methodology by which the sentiment or emotional view being expressed ... -
A Generic Architecture to Control Jini Services over the Internet
(Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 2001-09)Distributed computer systems have brought many advantages over traditional centralised systems. However these systems have innate complications such as partial failure, lack of system wide knowledge, concurrency etc. ... -
Genetic Programming Bias with Software Performance Analysis
The complexities of modern software systems make their engineering costly and time consuming. This thesis explores and develops techniques to improve software by automating re-design. Source code can be randomly modified ... -
Group communication for cooperative automated vehicles
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2014)The automotive industry has increasingly adopted computer technology to enhance the safety and efficiency of vehicles. Using sensors and electronic control systems, vehicles can become partially or fully automated, taking ... -
Hard real-time communication for mobile ad hoc networks
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2007)The increasing availability of wireless local area networking, particularly ad hoc networking, has lead to the evolution of new application domains, such as inter-vehicle communication and communication between autonomous ... -
Hardware support for power and area efficient construction of high-quality bounding volume hierarchies
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2014)Rendering methods basal on ray-tracing hold the promise of great realism for interactive applications. However, these algorithms still involve a considerable computational cost relative to the capabilities of today�۪s ... -
High performance scientific computing using FPGAs for lattice QCD
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2007)The recent development of large FPGAs combined with the availability of a variety of FPGA-based non-integer arithmetic cores has made it possible to implement high performance matrix kernel operations on FPGAs. This thesis ... -
Hop.Skip.Jump.Games. The design, development, deployment and evaluation of video games to support locomotor acquisition in a classroom setting
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Computer Science & Statistics. Discipline of Computer Science, 2017)Sedentary video gameplay is typically described as a contributing factor to poor locomotor skills (hop, skip and jump etc.) observed in the modern day child. Further, poor locomotor skills are a significant predictor of ... -
HOUSe-KEEPER, A Vendor-independent Architecture for Easy Management of Smart Homes
(Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 2001-09)Home-networking is gaining momentum. In a couple of months, Windows XP will be launched with the connected home experience as one of its core areas of interest. In the medium term at least, there will be more than one home ... -
How professional learning communities create and sustain teacher change in practice - A grounded theory study of conditions and context
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Computer Science & Statistics. Discipline of Computer Science, 2020)This United States-based study uses a grounded theory approach to develop a theoretical understanding of change in teacher practice. This change in practice is mediated through a specific type of community of practice ... -
Human-Computer Interaction Methodologies Applied in the Evaluation of Haptic Digital Musical Instruments
(UCC, 2016)G. W. Young, “Human-Computer Interaction Methodologies Applied in the Evaluation of Haptic Digital Musical Instruments,” Ph.D. dissertation in Digital Arts & Humanities, supervised at the Department Computer Science and ... -
A Hybrid Software and Hardware System for Collision Detection
(University of Dublin, Trinity College, University of Dublin, Trinity College, 2010)Collision detection is a fundamental problem in myriad applications, spanning a wide variety of fields. Although the core concept is relatively straightforward, significant complexities result from the demand for interactive ... -
Identification and interpretation of figurative language with computational semantic models
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2014)This thesis is about the automatic extraction of metaphors as they appear in English text. This task is important to research in information retrieval, corpus linguistics and computational linguistics. The work was ... -
Identification and Retrieval of WWW-based Courseware: A Metadata Approach
(Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 1999-09)Information retrieval is often a tedious and time consuming task on the Internet, as information is stored in an unstructured manner. There is no guarantee that what you find is relevant to your needs, on the correct topics, ... -
Identifying translation effects in English natural language text
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2013)With the rise in popularity of applying machine learning methods to problems in textual stylometry, the increased availability of machine-readable corpora and the emerging benefits of research on corpora of translated text ... -
An Implementation and Evaluation of the Ad-hoc On-demand Distance Vector Routing Protocol for Windows CE
(Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 2003-09)There are a number of implementations of the Ad-hoc On-demand Distance Vector (AODV) routing protocol available for the Linux platform, but not for any other platform. Development of ad-hoc routing protocols has been slow ... -
An Implementation of a Parasitic Routing Algorithm
(Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 2004-09)Portable personal computers with low-power requirements are fast becoming a necessity as access to up to date information is required by users no matter what their location. Unfortunately the ability to deliver this ... -
Implementation of SAMPLE Protocol
(Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 2005-09)Wireless networks are pervasive in our society. With an increased interest shown by the general public in wireless technologies, protocols and hardware are being actively developed by academic and industrial groups alike. ...
