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Description:: Every day, we communicate through computers on projects ranging from a group lunch order to booking a flight to learning critical medical information. And every day, we also miscommunicate through computers: We don’t pick up on an intentionally humorous response, or we miss the criticality of a request. This is...
Keyword:: Social Science, Computer-Mediated Communication, Human-Computer Interaction, Cognitive Science, and Keystroke Dynamics
Subject:: Communication
Creator:: Goodkind, Adam Nathaniel
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 05/31/2023
Date Created:: 2023-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_962518 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16417

Description:: Every day, we communicate through computers on projects ranging from a group lunch order to booking a flight to learning critical medical information. And every day, we also miscommunicate through computers: We don’t pick up on an intentionally humorous response, or we miss the criticality of a request. This is...
Keyword:: Social Science, Computer-Mediated Communication, Human-Computer Interaction, Cognitive Science, and Keystroke Dynamics
Subject:: Communication
Creator:: Goodkind, Adam Nathaniel
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 03/24/2023
Date Created:: 2023-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_962518 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16417

Description:: Depression is a challenging mental illness that requires individuals to manage their moods and emotions over time. While past mental health literature describes how individuals seek and share support on social media and within online communities, the ways that offline and one-on-one supportive interactions unfold is less clear. To address...
Keyword:: Self-Management, Human-Computer Interaction, Sociality, Mental Health, Communication Technology, and Depression
Subject:: Mental health, Design, and Communication
Creator:: Burgess, Eleanor R.
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 06/28/2021
Date Created:: 2021-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15512 and etdadmin_upload_811409

Description:: Social media and online forums provide spaces where people can gather beyond restrictions of geographic proximity. For some individuals with mental illness, these spaces are vital; providing outlets and communities where a multitude of experiences are accepted and understood, rather than judged against normative, often ableist standards. For nearly three...
Keyword:: Social Computing, Human-Computer Interaction, Digital Ethnography, Mental Illness, Eating Disorders, and Anti-Oppressive Care
Subject:: Information science, Computer science, and Communication
Creator:: Feuston, Jessica
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/01/2021
Date Created:: 2020-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_768803 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15315

Description:: Greater interest in self-directed professions, like entrepreneurship, have led to a growth in informal workplace communities and social technologies that support new ways of working. However, we have little understanding of how these socio-technical environments support opportunities for professional skill development. The goal of this dissertation is to understand how...
Keyword:: Online communities, Social computing, Human-Computer Interaction, Makerspaces, Crowdfunding, and Online learning
Subject:: Mechanical Engineering
Creator:: Julie Hui
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 01/25/2019
Date Modified:: 01/25/2019
Date Created:: 2017-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: Technology users are technology observers as well, monitoring for problems or opportunities that might arise. Designing interfaces to support the monitoring of technology presents unique challenges for everything from detecting situations to responding to situations to changing the tools to match a changing operating environment or the observer's changing knowledge....
Keyword:: Gizmometer, Human-Computer Interaction, Fuzzy Logic, Heed, Monitoring, and Situation Awareness
Subject:: Computer Science
Creator:: Conrad Albrecht-Buehler
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 09/20/2018
Date Modified:: 09/20/2018
Date Created:: 2008-12-03
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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