COVID19: Mask Misinformation and Social Noise (open access)

COVID19: Mask Misinformation and Social Noise

Disinformation and misinformation are pervasive in unregulated social-media environments, which are used habitually for obtaining news. Fenn et al in 2019 stated that “Given that people tend to share interesting information to maintain social relationships or to manage their impressions, information that receives more likes may subsequently be shared more often” (Fenn, Ramsay, Kantner, Pezdek, & Abed, 2019, p.133) Recent studies also revealed that misinformation from politicians and celebrities has increased in recent years which lead to more engagement on Twitter (Brennen, et al. 2020 ). There has been a lot of misinformation pertaining to COVID-19 masks on Twitter. Due to the misinformation, many people might not believe in the effectiveness of masks. Even though studies have shown the effectiveness of wearing masks in different countries (Lyu and Wehby, 2020). Not wearing masks affects people's health and indirectly increases the spread of COVID-19. Studies of social noise and misinformation cases on social media are needed, specifically focusing on how social noise influences and contributes to the spread of misleading and possibly harmful messages.
Date: December 2020
Creator: Alsaid, Manar; Madali, Nayana Pampapura; Zimmerman, Tara & Hawamdeh, Suliman M.
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Reconstructing Bellour: Automating the Semiotic Analysis of Film (open access)

Reconstructing Bellour: Automating the Semiotic Analysis of Film

This article discusses automating the semiotic analysis of film, including visual representation, search and retrieval, and ways of seeing.
Date: August 7, 2009
Creator: Anderson, Richard L. & O'Connor, Brian Clark
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Functional Ontology of Filmic Documents (open access)

The Functional Ontology of Filmic Documents

This book chapter discusses the functional ontology of filmic documents. The authors examine a few phases of probing of filmic documents, and the relationship between structure and meaning. The authors have taken the liberty of sketching the earlier phases and of presenting the most recent in somewhat more detail. Considerations of the early phases, among other issues of document use, led to the functional ontology construction as a foundation for this probing and for wider concerns within the arena of messages, meanings, and uses.
Date: 2007
Creator: Anderson, Richard L.; O'Connor, Brian Clark & Kearns, Jodi L.
Object Type: Book Chapter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Analysis of Management and Employee Job Satisfaction (open access)

Analysis of Management and Employee Job Satisfaction

Article on an analysis of management and employee job satisfaction for gender, age group, length of time with the organization, and between management and non-management employees.
Date: January 2004
Creator: Andrews, Charles G. & Allen, Jeff M.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Utilization of Technology-Enhanced Delphi Techniques (open access)

Utilization of Technology-Enhanced Delphi Techniques

This article discusses the Delphi consensus-building technique. Also discussed are the Delphi Technique's history, the process, and some advantages and disadvantages found in the literature. Finally, this article examines a technology-enhanced version of the process.
Date: 2002
Creator: Andrews, Charles G. & Allen, Jeff M.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Facilitating Knowledge Transfer of Data Sharing Practices (open access)

Facilitating Knowledge Transfer of Data Sharing Practices

Poster paper for the 2017 International Conference on Knowledge Management. This paper discusses data sharing practices and compliance with open data mandates by using the Nonaka and Takeuchi (1995) knowledge transfer spiral model to understand behaviors and create resources for researchers.
Date: October 25, 2017
Creator: Andrews, Pamela
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library

Arts and Humanities Academics Information Needs in Digital Era

This presentation examines arts and humanities academics' scholarly information needs and their means of accessing scholarly e-content in today digital environment.
Date: November 9, 2018
Creator: Arshad, Alia & Ameen, Kanwal
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Speaker Independent, Continuous Speech Recognizer for  Kafi Noonoo, Afro-Asiatic Language in Ethiopia (open access)

Speaker Independent, Continuous Speech Recognizer for Kafi Noonoo, Afro-Asiatic Language in Ethiopia

This paper will report on a research to develop Speaker Independent, Continuous Speech Recognizer for Kafi Noonoo (Afro-Asiatic language that belongs to North Omotic sub family in Ethiopia) using Hidden Markov Modeling technique. The portable and open source toolkit called Hidden Markov Model (HMM) Toolkit is used to perform the experiment. The development of HMM based Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) requires both text and speech corpus for training and testing the HMM. In order to have a model that incorporates different features of the language, we included the different dialects of Kafi Noonoo in the corpus and then prepared the training and test corpus from the scratch, and after preprocessing we have sampled and performed feature extraction using Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCC) feature extraction technique.
Date: December 2020
Creator: Asfaw, Zelalem & Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Agile Practices in Data Science and Data Analytics Projects: A Research Agenda (open access)

Agile Practices in Data Science and Data Analytics Projects: A Research Agenda

The digital age comes with transformational activities (also referred to as digital transformation) triggered by emerging fields and technologies, such as data science and analytics, cybersecurity, cloud computing, blockchain, cryptocurrency, and nanotechnology; helping organizations stay current and competitive. This paper focuses on agile frameworks that support the delivery of data science/analytics projects to ensure organizations rapidly deliver analytics products and services to their customers.
Date: December 2020
Creator: Atolagbe-Olaoye, Abidemi
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Exploring Knowledge Creation from Project Management Processes using an Analytics Approach: A First Look (open access)

Exploring Knowledge Creation from Project Management Processes using an Analytics Approach: A First Look

Organizations struggle to harness tacit knowledge – the knowledge that resides in the heads of knowledge workers, whereas there are always opportunities to capture knowledge during project management activities. Using a literature review, this paper analyzes how knowledge can be captured during different project management phases. It attempts to bridge frequently ignored areas of project management, knowledge management, and analytics.
Date: December 2020
Creator: Atolagbe-Olaoye, Abidemi
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Security and Privacy Issues with Smart Thermostats – A First Look (open access)

Security and Privacy Issues with Smart Thermostats – A First Look

Presentation paper for the 2017 International Conference on Knowledge Management. This paper uses the Brenda Dervin sense making model to explain human behavior and way of reasoning with making purchasing decisions of smart thermostats.
Date: October 26, 2017
Creator: Awojobi, Abiodun & Chang, Hsia-Ching
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Framework for designing motivational augmented reality applications in vocational education and training (open access)

Framework for designing motivational augmented reality applications in vocational education and training

This article introduces and evaluates a framework for designing motivational augmented reality applications.
Date: June 21, 2019
Creator: Bacca, Jorge; Baldiris, Silvia; Fabregat, Ramon & Kinshuk
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Insights Into the Factors Influencing Student Motivation in Augmented Reality Learning Experiences in Vocational Education and Training (open access)

Insights Into the Factors Influencing Student Motivation in Augmented Reality Learning Experiences in Vocational Education and Training

This article attempts to identify some of the components that positively affect student motivation in mobile augmented reality (AR) learning experiences to contribute to the design and development of motivational AR learning experiences for the Vocational Education and Training (VET) level of education.
Date: August 21, 2018
Creator: Bacca, Jorge; Baldiris, Silvia; Fabregat, Ramon & Kinshuk
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Value and Pricing of MOOCs (open access)

Value and Pricing of MOOCs

This article reviews the potential for Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) to transform higher education delivery, accessibility, and costs.
Date: May 27, 2016
Creator: Baker, Rose M. & Passmore, David L.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Inclusivity Instead of Exclusivity: The Role of MOOCs for College Credit (open access)

Inclusivity Instead of Exclusivity: The Role of MOOCs for College Credit

This book chapter reviews the extant model, programs, and available outcomes for the massive open online course (MOOC) credit acceptance process.
Date: 2018
Creator: Baker, Rose M.; Passmore, David L. & Mulligan, Brian Martin
Object Type: Book Chapter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Game design for visually-impaired individuals: Creativity and innovation theories and sensory substitution devices influence on virtual and physical navigation skills (open access)

Game design for visually-impaired individuals: Creativity and innovation theories and sensory substitution devices influence on virtual and physical navigation skills

This article examines the design elements of three virtual reality games for functionality and transferability to orientation and mobility education for visually impaired individuals.
Date: October 23, 2018
Creator: Baker, Rose M.; Ramos, Karina & Turner, John
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Increasing Information Certainty for Post-Traumatic Growth (open access)

Increasing Information Certainty for Post-Traumatic Growth

Trauma, and its associated effects, can be conceptualized as a period of information uncertainty. The natural psychological response to trauma is a period of post-traumatic stress. Trauma occurs when an existing knowledge base has been challenged. Any event that challenges important components of an individual’s assumptive world is said to be traumatic. This post-traumatic period is akin to many theories and concepts in information science including uncertainty reduction, Everyday Life Information Seeking, Sensemaking Theory, Making Meaning and Anomalous States of Knowledge. One possible outcome after the post- traumatic period is post-traumatic growth. Researchers agree post-traumatic growth primarily occurs across one or more of the following domains: personal strength, new possibilities, relating to others, appreciation of life and spiritual change. That is, people affected by trauma tend to grow when they find new or additional paths of information certainty.
Date: June 2022
Creator: Bank, Nicole & Allen, Jeff M., 1968-
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library

Knowledge Management Practices and Innovation: A Critical Literature Review

Presentation for the 2018 International Conference on Knowledge Management. This presentation aims to establish the state-of-the-art of causal link between knowledge management practices and organizational innovation.
Date: November 10, 2018
Creator: Baptista Nunes, José Miguel; Kanwal, Saima & Arif, Muhammad
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Jealousy in Cooperation – A Comparison of Two Game Based Approaches

This presentation investigates update procedures based on deterministic dynamics for populations arranged in a lattice.
Date: November 10, 2018
Creator: Barachini, Franz & Bornemann, Manfred
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Repository for Learning Objects: Supporting the Reuse and Repurposing of Redesigned Courses and Their Content (open access)

A Repository for Learning Objects: Supporting the Reuse and Repurposing of Redesigned Courses and Their Content

This paper describes the design and development of a learning object repository for a new statewide higher education initiative.
Date: 2008
Creator: Barnes, Svetlana; Li, Fei; Polyakov, Serhiy & Moen, William E.
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Virtual Kitchen Protocol to Measure Everyday Memory Functioning for Meal Preparation (open access)

A Virtual Kitchen Protocol to Measure Everyday Memory Functioning for Meal Preparation

This article develops a virtual reality-based measure of everyday memory functioning for meal preparation tasks. The results support the construct validity of the VKP and suggest that it holds promise as a virtual reality-based measure of memory for meal preparation tasks.
Date: April 29, 2021
Creator: Barnett, Michael D.; Childers, Lucas G. & Parsons, Thomas D.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Service learning in action: Integrating reflection to deepen the educational experience (open access)

Service learning in action: Integrating reflection to deepen the educational experience

This article focuses on service learning projects (SLPs) sponsored by the University of North Texas College of Information. A constructivist learning environment perspective was applied to the potential for library science international service learning projects to provide a short term learning environment that introduces pedagogy, provides the opportunity to develop and apply new skills, energizes students to develop cultural competence, and develops reflective skills towards the pursuit of wisdom.
Date: February 2015
Creator: Baron, Benjamin K. & Schultz-Jones, Barbara
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Correction: Adaptive learning: toward an intentional model for learning process guidance based on learner’s motivation (open access)

Correction: Adaptive learning: toward an intentional model for learning process guidance based on learner’s motivation

Correction to article changes the name of one of the authors.
Date: December 19, 2022
Creator: Bayoues, Walid; Saâdi, Ines Bayoudh & Kinshuk
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Adaptive learning: toward an intentional model for learning process guidance based on learner’s motivation (open access)

Adaptive learning: toward an intentional model for learning process guidance based on learner’s motivation

Article describes how, the goal of ITS is to support learning content, activities, and resources, adapted to the specific needs of the individual learner and influenced by learner’s motivation. This research proposes an intentional model that adopts Map formalism to support personalized learning guidance by considering learner’s motivation.
Date: December 5, 2022
Creator: Bayounes, Walid; Saâdi, Bayoudh Ines & Kinshuk
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library