Browsing RPI Theses Open Access by Author "Eglash, Ron, 1958-"
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Broadening the applicability of software complexity metrics with biological analogues
Hathaway, Charles (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2018-05)Software metrics represent an application of conventional computer science to itselfin an attempt to quantify the complexity of software systems. Many of the conventional metrics proposed in academia and industry find their ... -
Disability and cyberspace : the politics of inclusion & exclusion in web development groups
Fodness, Kevin R. (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2016-05)This dissertation attempts to answer the question “how can the online experiences of disabled people in the United States be improved?” To that end, it explores why the web is such an inaccessible place, including the ... -
Disruptive enactments: five dimensions of change in sociotechnical ecologies
Weiss, Sabrina M. (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2016-12)This dissertation presents a heuristic analytical framework that examines change in sociotechnical ecologies through five dimensions that diffract through each other. These five dimensions are: agentogenesis/agenticide, ... -
Effects of agent information behavior on network performance
Hughes, David (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2015-05)In today's information rich society, individuals are often faced with the problem of making decisions in the presence of an overwhelming amount of information. Everyone takes on slightly different strategies. Should they ... -
Ethnocomputing : the design and assessment of culture-based learning software for math and computing education
Babbitt, William Edgar (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2014-12)The programmable set of CSDTs represents the development of this software from being focused on ethnomathematics, to ethnocomputing. Ethnocomputing is the reproduction of cultural artifacts in simulation. The CSDTs are ... -
(In)forming : the affordances of digital fabrication in architectural education
Cabrinha, Mark Newell (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2010-05) -
Info@War.Mil: nonlinear science and the emergence of information age warfare in the United States Military
Lawson, Sean T. (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2008-08) -
Interrogating mobiles: a story of Nigerian appropriation of the mobile phone
Odumosu, Toluwalogo B. (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2009-08) -
Metatuning game construction learning: underrepresented youths’ designing for cultural and social transformations
Cooke, Laquana (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2016-08)While K-12 STEM education (STEM Ed) test scores have been steadily improving over the past decade in the United States, achievement gaps remain among minorities and women in STEM courses and careers. Numerous factors ... -
Noise reduction in user generated datasets
Gutierrez, Louis Alberto (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2014-08)The effect of modeling data noise using the Inverse Gaussian Distribution is twofold: first, Normally distributed and Gaussian predicated statistical methods for mining, measuring and analyzing data become less effective, ... -
Sensorcaching : an open-source platform for citizen science and environmental monitoring
O'Keefe, Michael (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2014-05)Sensorcaching is an Open-Source hardware and software project designed with several goals in mind. It allows for long-term environmental monitoring with low cost and low power-usage hardware. It encourages citizens to take ... -
Simulating the pandemic considering international traffic
Yoneyama, Teruhiko (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2010-05) -
Social GIS : creating a mapping tool to engage middle and high school students with their neighborhoods and STEM
Tully, Kathleen (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2015-05)Girls and underrepresented ethnic groups tend to disengage from STEM subjects throughout middle and high school. In order to increase their participation in STEM fields, something has to change before they're deterred. ... -
Socially conscious software development : a case study
Bennett, Kathryn (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2015-05)What does it mean for software to be socially conscious? How can developers make software that avoids negative social consequences? This thesis seeks to answer these questions. Technology does not usually grapple with ... -
The cultural politics of constructionist computing : STS approaches to the critique and design of educational technology
Lachney, Michael (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2017-08)This dissertation aims to fill in this gap by asking: what education research opportunities open up in STS once the loop between STS and CLT is acknowledged? I introduce three ways to approach STS educational research by ... -
Three theories of praxis : sense-making tools for post-capitalism
Banks, David Adam (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2016-08)By evaluating my own projects and sharing what worked and what didn’t I aim to increase the likelihood of achieving successful projects in the future. I have prioritized understanding my case studies and subject position ...