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Map-based Dashboard for Social Environment Understanding
(2022)This thesis aims to support stakeholders in understanding social environments with map-based dashboards, representing an overview of the related factors and their spatial distributions and enabling users to explore for insights. To design effective and efficient dashboards, the author proposed a design framework including five components: design goals, users' cognitive tasks, data, interface, and users' feedback.Doctoral Thesis -
The Sensitive Soft Robot from Multimodal Skin to Self-healing Adaptibility
(2021)Animals are evolved to acquire rich tactile sensations that allow them to adapt to and survive the changing environments. Robots built with conventional hardware, on the other hand, have yet to achieve the same level of sophistication for generally useful applications. In this dissertation, I present my work on a new class of multifunctional stretchable sensors that, taking inspirations from biology, provide rich tactile sensations for ...Doctoral Thesis -
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Macroelement modelling for the mechanical response of granular soil and layered sites improved with granular columns
(2021)The scope of the doctoral dissertation is the development of a macro-element model for the mechanical response of granular soil and layered sites improved with granular columns.The model is based on the plasticity constitutive model for sand Ta-Ger expressed in a one dimensional p-q, εvol-εq space form, slightly revised from its initial formulation, which exhibits remarkable versatility in representing complex patterns of sand cyclic ...Doctoral Thesis -
Making Citizens of the Information Age: A comparative study of the first computer literacy programs for children in the United States, France, and the Soviet Union, 1970-1990
(2015)In this dissertation I trace the formation of citizens of the information age by comparing visions and practices to make children and the general public computer literate or cultured in the United States, France, and the Soviet Union. Computer literacy and computer culture programs in these three countries began in the early 1970s as efforts to adapt people to life in the information society as it was envisioned by scholars, thinkers, and ...Doctoral Thesis -
Carbon Taxes as a Part of Fiscal Policy and Market Incentives for Environmental Stewardship
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Banks and financial markets in microfounded models of money
(2021)This dissertation provides novel perspectives on economic phenomena related to the role of banks and financial markets by taking into account that such institutions create or redistribute assets that serve as payment instruments. To do so, the dissertation develops a series of microfounded models of money that adhere to the new monetarist tradition. The first part of the dissertation focuses on the creation of money-like assets by ...Doctoral Thesis -
Hybrid Art Spaces
(2020)Over the past decades, we saw a proliferation of data that was generated in cities and, at the same time, a growing complexity of urban planning tasks. The advent of social media — including a variety of geographic, temporal and so- cial metadata, has created an abundant (big) data source waiting to be explored and put to use for planning. This dissertation aims to add to the discourse on smart cities and human-centred planning, or so-called ...Doctoral Thesis -
Mechanical Characterization of Integrally-Attached Timber Plate Structures: Experimental studies and macro modeling technique
(2020)Spurred by the recent advancements in Computer-Aided Design (CAD), Integral Mechanical Attachment (IMA) technique has been resurrected. Using IMAs, connections between timber elements are established through their form, instead of using additional connectors. In light of this, a new design framework has been proposed to construct Integrally-Attached Timber Plate (IATP) structures. Despite the recent developments in architectural geometry ...Doctoral Thesis -
Development of Novel Standardized Structural Timber Elements Using Wood-Wood Connections
(2020)Traditional wood-wood connections, widely used in the past, have been progressively replaced by steel fasteners and bonding processes in modern timber constructions. However, the emergence of digital fabrication and innovative engineered timber products have offered new design possibilities for wood-wood connections. The design-to-production workflow has evolved considerably over the last few decades, such that a large number of connections ...Doctoral Thesis