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Title: THE EFFECT OF MOOD INDUCTION ON ADOLESCENT SPEECH BEHAVIOR
Date: 2010-12,
Description: An experiment was conducted to determine if a sad mood induction procedure using music and self-imagery would produce sad speech in...
Show moreAn experiment was conducted to determine if a sad mood induction procedure using music and self-imagery would produce sad speech in adolescents. The participants were asked to rate their perceived positive and negative affect and they were recorded. reading speech materials. Results indicate that although participants perceived a change in mood from neutral to sad, none of the baseline acoustic correlates of sad speech were identified in their recordings. These results suggest that either participants were not induced into a sad mood by this procedure or that the method of self-reporting is an inadequate assessment for this age group, signaling that more effective ways to measure mood for adolescents should be investigated. Additionally, since most studies on sad speech use actors, the results may indicate that acted speech provides significantly different correlates from emotionally-induced speech. Finally, a similarly valenced mood may have been induced instead of sadness (e.g. "calmness") which possesses different acoustic correlates from sad speech. Whilst the findings suggest that there is need for further research on these issues, this experiment demonstrates that mood inducement procedures (MIPs), primarily used in the field of psychology, can be applied in other domains. For example, MIPs conducted in online environments could provide useful insights into how mood affects users' online behaviors.
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Title: The Voderettes: Gender, Labor, and Techno-Utopia at the 1939 New York World's Fair
Creator: Simon, Sara M. B.
Date: 2024
Description: This thesis explores the labor demands of the Voder, the electrical speech synthesis machine developed by Bell Labs to be a major component of...
Show moreThis thesis explores the labor demands of the Voder, the electrical speech synthesis machine developed by Bell Labs to be a major component of AT&T's 1939 New York World's Fair exhibit. With the United States emerging from the Great Depression, and with political tensions escalating across the globe, the paper situates the Voder's labor demands within the historical context of the fair. Specifically, I explore the decision to have young women operate the Voder, the intricacies of the machine cloaked by the warm presence of its highly-skilled female operator. Using archival records from Bell Labs engineers, the paper exposes the previously unacknowledged engineering contributions of Voder operators in the years before the fair. These young women not only influenced major decisions about the Voder's mechanics but also gave early credence to the notion that developing a performance with the machine could make for a thrilling fair exhibit. Moreover, the paper argues that at the fair itself, AT&T and Bell Labs executives used the Voder operators to normalize a new vision of a technological utopia that relied heavily and conspicuously on the infrastructural labor of women. Given the Voder's legacy, as a tool that laid critical groundwork for voice encryption technology, the paper adds important context to the historical record, highlighting the young women at the heart of the machine.
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Title: The Voderettes: Gender, Labor, and Techno-Utopia at the 1939 New York World's Fair
Creator: Simon, Sara M. B.
Date: 2024
Description: This thesis explores the labor demands of the Voder, the electrical speech synthesis machine developed by Bell Labs to be a major component of...
Show moreThis thesis explores the labor demands of the Voder, the electrical speech synthesis machine developed by Bell Labs to be a major component of AT&T's 1939 New York World's Fair exhibit. With the United States emerging from the Great Depression, and with political tensions escalating across the globe, the paper situates the Voder's labor demands within the historical context of the fair. Specifically, I explore the decision to have young women operate the Voder, the intricacies of the machine cloaked by the warm presence of its highly-skilled female operator. Using archival records from Bell Labs engineers, the paper exposes the previously unacknowledged engineering contributions of Voder operators in the years before the fair. These young women not only influenced major decisions about the Voder's mechanics but also gave early credence to the notion that developing a performance with the machine could make for a thrilling fair exhibit. Moreover, the paper argues that at the fair itself, AT&T and Bell Labs executives used the Voder operators to normalize a new vision of a technological utopia that relied heavily and conspicuously on the infrastructural labor of women. Given the Voder's legacy, as a tool that laid critical groundwork for voice encryption technology, the paper adds important context to the historical record, highlighting the young women at the heart of the machine.
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Title: INFORMATION VISUALIZATION TECHNIQUES FOR ONLINE IDENTITY PRESENTATION: A MULTIDIMENSIONAL APPROACH
Creator: Mahmud, Athir
Date: 2016, 2016-07
Description: Information visualization offers a unique method to assist users in understanding large quantities of data, such as that which is found in...
Show moreInformation visualization offers a unique method to assist users in understanding large quantities of data, such as that which is found in social media. The recent surge in the use of social media platforms, the abundance of data generated, and the implications about what this data means has made it increasingly necessary to provide feedback to these users about what they and others are presenting online. Thus, it is critical for these individuals to access this information and gain some level of visual understanding regarding their own identities or that of a particular group. This dissertation is organized in the format of a three-paper dissertation. Chapter 1 is the introduction for the subsequent three chapters and provides background on information visualization and identity presentation in social media, while exploring theoretical approaches to visual perception and design. Chapter 2 demonstrates a variety of past and current multidimensional information visualization techniques that are relevant to social media data, as related to online identity presentation. The overview includes data portraits, motion-based visualization, music visualization, and textual structures. Chapter 3 introduces CarrinaCongress, an information visualization dashboard that affords users with the ability to compare two members of Congress in order to better understanding the elected officials’ tweets and external information. Chapter 4 presents HadithViz, a motion-based information visualization dashboard that borrows from video game interfaces and focuses on event-based tweets, as defined by hashtags related to sexism in the video gaming industry. Finally, Chapter 5 is the conclusion to this dissertation and will summarize the three individual studies, discuss limitations and implications, and provide recommendations that future work consist of simple, accessible visualizations that are based on existing visual languages and can be interpreted by a wide-ranging audience.
Ph.D. in Technical Communication, July 2016
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Title: The Voderettes: Gender, Labor, and Techno-Utopia at the 1939 New York World's Fair
Creator: Simon, Sara M. B.
Date: 2024
Description: This thesis explores the labor demands of the Voder, the electrical speech synthesis machine developed by Bell Labs to be a major component of...
Show moreThis thesis explores the labor demands of the Voder, the electrical speech synthesis machine developed by Bell Labs to be a major component of AT&T's 1939 New York World's Fair exhibit. With the United States emerging from the Great Depression, and with political tensions escalating across the globe, the paper situates the Voder's labor demands within the historical context of the fair. Specifically, I explore the decision to have young women operate the Voder, the intricacies of the machine cloaked by the warm presence of its highly-skilled female operator. Using archival records from Bell Labs engineers, the paper exposes the previously unacknowledged engineering contributions of Voder operators in the years before the fair. These young women not only influenced major decisions about the Voder's mechanics but also gave early credence to the notion that developing a performance with the machine could make for a thrilling fair exhibit. Moreover, the paper argues that at the fair itself, AT&T and Bell Labs executives used the Voder operators to normalize a new vision of a technological utopia that relied heavily and conspicuously on the infrastructural labor of women. Given the Voder's legacy, as a tool that laid critical groundwork for voice encryption technology, the paper adds important context to the historical record, highlighting the young women at the heart of the machine.
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Title: Automating Academic Audit (Fall 1999) IPRO???: Automating_Academic_Audit_IPRO%3F%3F%3F_Fall1999_Final_Presentation
Creator: Landsbaum, Mike, Leow, Jack, Montour, Nicholas, Semaszczuk, Matt, Sirotin, Mike, Sonawala, Pratik, Yarbrough, Sean
Date: 1999, 1999-12
Description: The objective of this IPRO is to improve the academic audit process for educational services, faculty and students.
Sponsorship: IIT Internal R&D
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Show moreThe objective of this IPRO is to improve the academic audit process for educational services, faculty and students.
Sponsorship: IIT Internal R&D
Project Plan for IPRO : Automating Academic Audit for the Fall 1999 semester
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Title: The Cycle, 1917
Date: 1917
Description: Volume 5 of The Cycle, the 1917 yearbook for the Armour Institute of Technology. The Armour Institute of Technology yearbooks was known by...
Show moreVolume 5 of The Cycle, the 1917 yearbook for the Armour Institute of Technology. The Armour Institute of Technology yearbooks was known by three different titles: Integral (1898-1910), Senior Class Book (1911-1912), and The Cycle (1913-1940). A 1902 volume of Integral is not a part of Galvin Library collections; it is uncertain of a yearbook was published that year. Publication of the Armour Institute ceased in 1941, when the Armour Institute of Technology merged with the Lewis Institute to form Illinois Institute of Technology.
Sponsorship: Scanning of the Armour Institute of Technology yearbooks was supported in part by an award from the Illinois State Historical Records Advisory Board, through funding from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, National Archives and Records Administration.
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Collection: Armour Institute of Technology yearbooks, 1898-1940

Title: The Cycle, 1918
Date: 1917
Description: Volume 6 of The Cycle, the 1918 yearbook for the Armour Institute of Technology. The Armour Institute of Technology yearbooks was known by...
Show moreVolume 6 of The Cycle, the 1918 yearbook for the Armour Institute of Technology. The Armour Institute of Technology yearbooks was known by three different titles: Integral (1898-1910), Senior Class Book (1911-1912), and The Cycle (1913-1940). A 1902 volume of Integral is not a part of Galvin Library collections; it is uncertain of a yearbook was published that year. Publication of the Armour Institute ceased in 1941, when the Armour Institute of Technology merged with the Lewis Institute to form Illinois Institute of Technology.
Sponsorship: Scanning of the Armour Institute of Technology yearbooks was supported in part by an award from the Illinois State Historical Records Advisory Board, through funding from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, National Archives and Records Administration.
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Collection: Armour Institute of Technology yearbooks, 1898-1940

Title: Integral, 1898
Date: 1898
Description: Volume 1 of Integral, the 1898 yearbook for the Armour Institute of Technology. The Armour Institute of Technology yearbooks was known by...
Show moreVolume 1 of Integral, the 1898 yearbook for the Armour Institute of Technology. The Armour Institute of Technology yearbooks was known by three different titles: Integral (1898-1910), Senior Class Book (1911-1912), and The Cycle (1913-1940). A 1902 volume of Integral is not a part of Galvin Library collections; it is uncertain of a yearbook was published that year. Publication of the Armour Institute ceased in 1941, when the Armour Institute of Technology merged with the Lewis Institute to form Illinois Institute of Technology.
Sponsorship: Scanning of the Armour Institute of Technology yearbooks was supported in part by an award from the Illinois State Historical Records Advisory Board, through funding from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, National Archives and Records Administration.
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Collection: Armour Institute of Technology yearbooks, 1898-1940

Title: Integral, 1903
Date: 1903
Description: Volume 5 of Integral, the 1903 yearbook for the Armour Institute of Technology. The Armour Institute of Technology yearbooks was known by...
Show moreVolume 5 of Integral, the 1903 yearbook for the Armour Institute of Technology. The Armour Institute of Technology yearbooks was known by three different titles: Integral (1898-1910), Senior Class Book (1911-1912), and The Cycle (1913-1940). A 1902 volume of Integral is not a part of Galvin Library collections; it is uncertain of a yearbook was published that year. Publication of the Armour Institute ceased in 1941, when the Armour Institute of Technology merged with the Lewis Institute to form Illinois Institute of Technology.
Sponsorship: Scanning of the Armour Institute of Technology yearbooks was supported in part by an award from the Illinois State Historical Records Advisory Board, through funding from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, National Archives and Records Administration.
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Collection: Armour Institute of Technology yearbooks, 1898-1940

Title: Integral, 1905
Date: 1905
Description: Volume 7 of Integral, the 1905 yearbook for the Armour Institute of Technology. The Armour Institute of Technology yearbooks was known by...
Show moreVolume 7 of Integral, the 1905 yearbook for the Armour Institute of Technology. The Armour Institute of Technology yearbooks was known by three different titles: Integral (1898-1910), Senior Class Book (1911-1912), and The Cycle (1913-1940). A 1902 volume of Integral is not a part of Galvin Library collections; it is uncertain of a yearbook was published that year. Publication of the Armour Institute ceased in 1941, when the Armour Institute of Technology merged with the Lewis Institute to form Illinois Institute of Technology.
Sponsorship: Scanning of the Armour Institute of Technology yearbooks was supported in part by an award from the Illinois State Historical Records Advisory Board, through funding from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, National Archives and Records Administration.
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Collection: Armour Institute of Technology yearbooks, 1898-1940

Title: Integral, 1909
Date: 1909
Description: Volume 11 of Integral, the 1909 yearbook for the Armour Institute of Technology. The Armour Institute of Technology yearbooks was known by...
Show moreVolume 11 of Integral, the 1909 yearbook for the Armour Institute of Technology. The Armour Institute of Technology yearbooks was known by three different titles: Integral (1898-1910), Senior Class Book (1911-1912), and The Cycle (1913-1940). A 1902 volume of Integral is not a part of Galvin Library collections; it is uncertain of a yearbook was published that year. Publication of the Armour Institute ceased in 1941, when the Armour Institute of Technology merged with the Lewis Institute to form Illinois Institute of Technology.
Sponsorship: Scanning of the Armour Institute of Technology yearbooks was supported in part by an award from the Illinois State Historical Records Advisory Board, through funding from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, National Archives and Records Administration.
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Collection: Armour Institute of Technology yearbooks, 1898-1940

Title: The Cycle, 1915
Date: 1915
Description: Volume 3 of The Cycle, the 1915 yearbook for the Armour Institute of Technology. The Armour Institute of Technology yearbooks was known by...
Show moreVolume 3 of The Cycle, the 1915 yearbook for the Armour Institute of Technology. The Armour Institute of Technology yearbooks was known by three different titles: Integral (1898-1910), Senior Class Book (1911-1912), and The Cycle (1913-1940). A 1902 volume of Integral is not a part of Galvin Library collections; it is uncertain of a yearbook was published that year. Publication of the Armour Institute ceased in 1941, when the Armour Institute of Technology merged with the Lewis Institute to form Illinois Institute of Technology.
Sponsorship: Scanning of the Armour Institute of Technology yearbooks was supported in part by an award from the Illinois State Historical Records Advisory Board, through funding from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, National Archives and Records Administration.
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Collection: Armour Institute of Technology yearbooks, 1898-1940

Title: SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY AND ACCENTS IN SPEECH-MEDIATED INTERFACES: RESULTS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
Creator: Lawrence, Halcyon M.
Date: 2013, 2013-07
Description: There continues to be significant growth in the development and use of speech–mediated devices and technology products; however, there is no...
Show moreThere continues to be significant growth in the development and use of speech–mediated devices and technology products; however, there is no evidence that non-native English speech is used in these devices, despite the fact that English is now spoken by more non-native speakers than native speakers, worldwide. This relative absence of non-native English speech in devices may be due in part to the costs associated with localizing speech devices, but it may also be attributable to the fact that not enough is known about user performance with accented speech in speech–mediated environments. In the absence of targeted research, developers may be relying on existing studies which focus on perception (impression) of accented speech, as a basis of decision-making. However, perception paints only part of the picture when it comes to understanding how and why people perform in certain ways and in certain environments. Three studies were conducted to answer the following questions: (1) What are the acoustic-phonetic characteristics of negatively- and positively-perceived accented speech? And how are these characteristics related to markers of intelligible speech? (2) How do participants perform on different types of accented-speech tasks? (3) What is the relationship between user perception of accented speech and user performance in response to accented speech? and; (4) How do participants perform on accented speech tasks of varying complexity? Arising out of this research, there are six recommendations for the use of accented speech in speech-mediated devices. Also, the findings of this study raise questions about inherent linguistic stereotypes which impact both our perceptions and our choices about xvi the accents we want to hear on our speech devices. A discussion about if and how these stereotypes can be altered and measured are included. Future research should examine the role of experienced non-native talkers in speech devices. Results of study one demonstrated that some experienced non-native talkers were positively-perceived by raters and may be good candidates for talkers in speech devices. A study like this would explicitly establish if listeners consistently make native vs. non-native distinctions in their preferences or if a prestige continuum emerges.
PH.D in Technical Communication, July 2013
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Title: Photograph of Mary Henry mosaic at Hewlett-Packard Labs, Palo Alto, California, 1999
Date: 1999-11
Description: Photograph of one of the mosaic murals created by Mary Henry for the Hewlett-Packard Labs building in Palo Alto, California. Photographer...
Show morePhotograph of one of the mosaic murals created by Mary Henry for the Hewlett-Packard Labs building in Palo Alto, California. Photographer unknown, evidence elsewhere in the collection indicates the photographer was named Kevin. Inscription on verso reads "11/99."
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Collection: Mary Dill Henry Papers, 1913-2021

Title: Ear on Chicago, episode 38: Running a Mountain Through a Sieve: Universal Atlas Cement Company
Date: 1956
Description: Air date unknown, date is approximate. Produced in cooperation with WBBM radio, recorded, and edited by John B. Buckstaff, supervisor of radio...
Show moreAir date unknown, date is approximate. Produced in cooperation with WBBM radio, recorded, and edited by John B. Buckstaff, supervisor of radio and television at IIT; narrated by Fahey Flynn, a noted Chicago newscaster, and Hugh Hill, special events director of WBBM (later, a well-known Chicago television news anchor), coordinated by Herb Grayson, WBBM director of information services; and distributed to Purdue University, Indiana University, University of Illinois, State University of Iowa, Michigan State University, DePauw University, and Iowa State College for later rebroadcast. Preservation master file of digitized 7" open reel tape; tape digitized at 96 kHz/24-bit.
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Collection: Ear On Chicago audio tapes, 1955-1958

Title: Photograph of Hewlett-Packard Labs, Palo Alto, California, featuring a mosaic mural by Mary Henry, 1999
Date: 1999-11
Description: Photograph of the entrance of the Hewlett-Packard Labs building in Palo Alto, California, including a mosaic mural by Mary Henry and an...
Show morePhotograph of the entrance of the Hewlett-Packard Labs building in Palo Alto, California, including a mosaic mural by Mary Henry and an unidentified man. Photographer unknown, evidence elsewhere in the collection indicates the photographer was named Kevin. Inscription on verso reads "11/99."
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Collection: Mary Dill Henry Papers, 1913-2021

Title: Mary Henry, ca. 1930s
Date: 1935-1939
Description: Photograph of Mary Dill Henry taken ca. 1935-1939. Exact date of photograph unknown. Inscription on verso of photograph reads "6."
Collection: Mary Dill Henry Papers, 1913-2021

Title: Photograph of Hewlett-Packard Labs, Palo Alto, California, featuring a detail of a mosaic mural by Mary Henry, 1999
Date: 1999-11
Description: Detail photograph of one of the mosaic murals created by Mary Henry for the Hewlett-Packard Labs building in Palo Alto, California....
Show moreDetail photograph of one of the mosaic murals created by Mary Henry for the Hewlett-Packard Labs building in Palo Alto, California. Photographer unknown, evidence elsewhere in the collection indicates the photographer was named Kevin. Inscription on verso reads "11/99."
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Collection: Mary Dill Henry Papers, 1913-2021

Title: Mary Henry, ca. 1930s
Date: 1935-1939
Description: Photograph of Mary Dill Henry taken ca. 1935-1939. Exact date of photograph unknown.
Collection: Mary Dill Henry Papers, 1913-2021

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