Albert Moran (mit Justin Malbon): Understanding the global TV format

IMPORTANCE RESAMPLING FOR GLOBAL ILLUMINATION by Justin

IMPORTANCE RESAMPLING FOR GLOBAL ILLUMINATION Justin F. Talbot Department of Computer Science Master of Science This thesis develops a generalized form of Monte Carlo integration called Resampled Importance Sampling. It is based on the importance resampling sample generation technique. Resampled Importance Sampling can lead to significant variance reduction over standard Monte Carlo integration...

Global patterns of environmental synchrony and the Moran effect

There is considerable debate over the relative importance of dispersal and environmental disturbances (the Moran effect) as causes of spatial synchrony in fluctuations of animal populations. If environmental factors generally exhibit high levels of spatial autocorrelation, they may be playing a more important role in synchronizing animal populations than sometimes recognized. Here I examine thi...

Understanding Social TV: a survey

In recent years social networking and social interactions have challenged old conceptions in the television landscape. Web applications that offer video content, networked television sets and set-top boxes, and online TV widgets are – or, will be – radically transforming how people watch and interact around television content. Since the wealth of existing solutions and approaches might be daunt...

Justin Haruyama

A User-Centered Program Format for Mobile TV

The purpose of this study has been to develop a user centered program format for a future mobile TV service. The work has focused on user centered research methods to gather sufficient data from users. Methods used have been: survey questionnaire, focus groups with users, and seven exploratory interviews with experts on mobile TV. Scenarios and schematics have been used in designing of concept....