This thesis evaluates the influence of audience engagement as an aesthetic element for providing visual enhancement to a music concert. The audience engagement is gathered using Galvanic Skin Response (GSR) sensors, which the audience wears on their hands during the concert. In a small experimental setting two visualizations are compared: the first visualization is driven only by the music of t...

Like companies strategically using social networking services (SNS) competitively, TV broadcasters have tried to adopt audience opinion synchronously (AOS) using SNS in their broadcasting content. However, few studies have investigated the effect of AOS characteristics on audience reactions. This study used the theory of justice to empirically validate the effect of AOS adoption on such element...

medical student at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, wanted a central repository for his notes. Since he was lugging his laptop to class anyway, he figured putting them on a website made sense. And though his original motivation was to enhance his education, LaPierre thought his website could also help students across Canada and in other countries, especially those in resource-poor ...

Executive Summary v Glossary of Economic Terms ix 1. Introduction 1 1.1 Background and hypotheses 1 1.2 Objectives and target audience 1 1.3 Definitions and scope 1 1.4 Structure of paper 4 2. Economics and Forestry: a Conceptual Overview 4 2.1 Introduction 4 2.2 Forestry, economics and public resource allocation 4 2.3 Recent changes in economic and forest policies 5 2.4 The development of envi...

We report on the development of a Decision Support System (DSS) to plan the best assignment for the weekly promotion space of a TV station. Each product to promote has a given target audience that is best reached at specific time periods during the week. The DSS aims to maximize the total viewing for each product within its target audience while fulfilling a set of constraints defined by the us...

The ability to identify or predict a target audience from the increasingly crowded social space will provide a company some competitive advantage over other companies. In this paper, we analyze various training datasets, which include Twitter contents of an account owner and its list of followers, using features generated in different ways for two machine learning approaches the Extreme Learnin...