Browsing Master's Theses and Projects by Issue Date
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OBJECT ORIENTED ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK SIMULATOR IN TEXT AND SYMBOL RECOGNITION
(1993)Objected oriented languages and artificial neural networks are new areas of research and development. This thesis investigates the application of artificial neural networks using an object oriented C++ backpropagation ... -
Adoption of the Smart Cart: An Instructional Technology
(2004-05-01)The intention of this study is to discover and understand how Instructional Technology is adopted into the classroom. The study also determined what is needed to meet the goals intended for it. The Rome City School District, ... -
Information Design and Technology
(2004-05-01)This case study analyzes the effects of transforming a static HTML-based website into a dynamic database-driven one. As part of the study, a small computer company’s static website was redesigned, making it dynamic and ... -
The Hybrid Course Experience
(2005-05-01)This phenomenology analyzes the experience of students and teachers in hybrid (blended) courses in a community college and a university located in central New York.The Constructivist Learning Theory is applied to the hybrid ... -
Nursing Home Website Review: Are they accessible, usable, and do they meet consumer needs?
(2005-05-01)This study addresses a two-part research question: Are nursing home websites easily accessible and used and do they offer enough information for consumers to make informed choices? Research indicated that generally, ... -
The Impact of Staff Development on Middle School Technology Integration
(2005-05-01)This case study describes the impact of technology staff development in two Central New York Middle Schools. The staff development program was implemented under the federally funded Enhancing Education Through Technology ... -
How is GIS used in a Community College Setting for Architectural Identification
(2005-05-01)This case study analyzes how students use an Architectural Identification GIS Application in a community college setting. -
The Process of Redesigning and Redeveloping a University Website in the Face of Organizational Change
(2005-05-01)This case study analyzes the process of redesigning and redeveloping a university website. An in-depth exploration of decision-making processes, organizational structure, working relationships, communication during change, ... -
The Influence of College Web Sites on the College Selection Process
(2005-12-01)This case study examines the use and influence of college web sites by high school seniors as they move through the college selection process through interviews, directed observations, and focus groups. It discovers and ... -
Discovering the meaning of Internet Safety
(2005-12-01)An in-depth analysis was conducted with the purpose of discovering the meaning of Internet safety. A case study was used to derive themes from multiple sources of data (documents, interviews, observations, artifacts). Data ... -
The Use of Multimedia Math Lessons to Establish a Learning Community
(2006-05-01)This case study illustrates the process by which one school district will implement multimedia lessons in the math classroom to establish a learning community. Key employees of the district were interviewed and students ... -
How Can a University Approach the Construction of a Blog Space For Use as a Recruiting Tool?
(2006-08-01)This case study examines the social construction of a blog space to recruit prospective students. The blog space initially created by SUNYIT is examined and compared with other existing blog spaces at accredited universities ... -
Laptop’s In Education – Hype or Help?
(2006-12-01)This study examines the impact of introducing a laptop program for educational teaching in the classroom. By interviewing experts in the field, teachers, administrators, and students at a college level, a phenomenology was ... -
Presentation of Self in MySpace.com an Online Social Networking Site
(2007-05-01)This ethnographic study explores the presentation of self on MySpace.com, an online social networking website. One hundred MySpace.com profile pages were analyzed to discover how users complete and manipulate the MySpace ... -
How Colleges Have Responded to Changes In Student Recruitment as Defined By Their Level of Web Definition on Their Official College Web Sites
(2007-08-01)Increased competition amongst colleges, advances in technology and the changing wants and needs of the target market has influenced colleges to expand their marketing techniques globally through the use of the World Wide ... -
Participant Interaction and Social Exchange-Centered Design in Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games: A Qualitative Study of Furcadia
(2007-08-01)The purpose of this ethnography is to understand participant interaction in a Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (MMORPGs). As participation and action of users are the glue of any community, it is imperative ... -
Knowledge Documentation - From Text to Graphics: Can this improve help desk knowledge transfer?
(2007-08-01)This thesis was designed to find out if graphics could improve help desk knowledge transfer. Four Web prototype presentation styles were analyzed via the Delphi Method (Michalski 2003) utilizing a panel of experts. The ... -
University Class Using Podcasting in Teaching
(2008-11-01)'Podcast' has been declared Word of the Year 2005 by editors of the New Oxford American Dictionary, reported the BBS News in 2005. As a method of publishing audio files (usually MP3) to the web, which are then made available ... -
Centralized Information Site for IDT Imternational Students
(2008-12-01)This qualitative research study analyzes the outcomes of a centralized information site created for prospective and current international students for Information Design and Technology department. Information specific to ... -
How Decisions Are Made When Creating Information Design Exhibits for Museums
(2008-12-01)This case study illustrates how and when decisions are made during the creative process occurring within two cultures: Graphic Designers and Museum Exhibitors. This study investigates the pre-visual creative process and ...
