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Description:: Increasingly, people are engaging online and can participate in activities like searching for information, communicating with family and friends, and self-expression. However, some populations such as older adults, face barriers to online participation like device cost, access, and learnability, which prevent them from reaping the benefits of Internet use. Moreover,...
Keyword:: online communities, IVR, social computing, older adults, and accessibility
Subject:: Technology and Social Behavior
Creator:: Robin Brewer
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 10/09/2018
Date Modified:: 10/09/2018
Date Created:: 2017-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: Beginning in the 1960s, U.S. federal law required ongoing and systematic planning as a condition of federal transportation funding. An ad-hoc system for forecasting future travel, which has come to be referred to as the "four-step" procedure, quickly became established as the ubiquitous analytic tool for transportation planning. The four-step...
Keyword:: destination choice, ACDC, model, tours, accessibility, and travel demand
Subject:: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Creator:: Vincent Louis Bernadin
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 10/01/2018
Date Modified:: 10/01/2018
Date Created:: 2008-12-09
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: This project examines the uneven adoption of therapeutic initiatives within the organizational field of American museums to ask: How do people frame museum-going as “good” for visitors’ health? Existing research on legitimation processes would predict cultural institutions respond similarly to pressures for greater accountability from their external environments, or resist...
Keyword:: disability, senses, therapy, accessibility, art museums, and botanical gardens
Subject:: Sociology
Creator:: Gemma Mangione
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 02/20/2018
Date Modified:: 12/20/2019
Date Created:: 2016-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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