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Title: Senior Class Book, 1911
Date: 1911
Description: Volume 1 of the Senior Class Book, the 1911 yearbook for the Armour Institute of Technology. The Armour Institute of Technology yearbooks was...
Show moreVolume 1 of the Senior Class Book, the 1911 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: Senior Class Book, 1912
Date: 1912
Description: Volume 2 of the Senior Class Book, the 1912 yearbook for the Armour Institute of Technology. The Armour Institute of Technology yearbooks was...
Show moreVolume 2 of the Senior Class Book, the 1912 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, 1914
Date: 1914
Description: Volume 2 of The Cycle, the 1914 yearbook for the Armour Institute of Technology. The Armour Institute of Technology yearbooks was known by...
Show moreVolume 2 of The Cycle, the 1914 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: PREDICTING COMMENT QUALITY ON NEWS WEBSITES: LINGUISTIC INDICATORS AND VIEWS FROM JOURNALISM PROFESSIONALS
Creator: Scott, Edward Blake
Date: 2014, 2014-07
Description: As the web has become more interactive in recent years, with website users having the ability to generate their own content, there has been...
Show moreAs the web has become more interactive in recent years, with website users having the ability to generate their own content, there has been increased tension between the content generated by users and the content generated by “professionals,” especially professional journalists and publishers. Many journalism professionals see the value of allowing users to comment on their work; for example, an interactive site that allows user commenting may increase users’ loyalty to the site, meaning they will return often, generate page views, and increase advertising revenue. Users can also serve to further explore an issue discussed in an article by broadening the discussion to include the viewpoints of those who aren’t professional journalists. However, publishers of news site comments have noted many problems with introducing user-generated content (UGC) to their sites, including the fact that users sometimes post inflammatory, insensitive, or lowquality comments that do not serve to improve the experience of the average reader. The problems caused by these kinds of comments have increased the amount of time and money required to moderate the comments section. Beyond inflammatory comments, however, is the problem of highlighting very good or high-quality comments. What is the degree to which those high-quality comments can be discovered through an automated process? This dissertation sought to test the extent to which comments to news sites can be automatically evaluated for quality by using a text-analysis system. Journalists were interviewed to get their views on user comments in general and comment quality in particular. The data from these interviews was used to generate hypotheses about which linguistic metrics provided by Coh-Metrix, a web-based text-analysis system, might be xiii most indicative of comment quality as described by journalists. Finally, a content analysis and close reading of a sample of news site comments was conducted in order to describe news site comments as a writing genre. Results from the interviews indicated that comment length, comment syntax, comment cohesion, comment narrativity, and comment individuality were all indicative of comment quality. However, statistical analyses on a sample of 246 comments failed to produce significant results for linguistic metrics hypothesized to be indicative of quality. Alternatively, an “positive engagement score” scale was created and used to identify how “engaging” comments were; this scale showed to have a significant, though minor, positive relationship with the number of recommendations a comment received from readers. Finally, the genre analysis of the sample of news site comments revealed that comments in the sample share a communicative purpose of providing additional content related to the article under discussion, providing a practical value for journalists and other professionals by offering tips and fact-checking functions, and providing a space where readers can debate the article in question and begin to develop a sense of community.
Ph.D. in Technical Communication, July 2014
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Title: SHIP STATE AND COVARIANCE PROPAGATION USING TIME SERIES ANALYSIS AND FORECASTING
Creator: Katre, Aniruddha
Date: 2014, 2014-05
Description: The Navy's Unmanned Combat Aerial System (N-UCAS) program is currently developing technology for autonomous shipboard landing of unmanned...
Show moreThe Navy's Unmanned Combat Aerial System (N-UCAS) program is currently developing technology for autonomous shipboard landing of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). A high accuracy and high integrity relative navigation algorithm using carrier phase di erential GPS measurements and high rate inertial sensor data has been implemented to land the UAV. Such an algorithm requires ship state information to be broadcast to the aircraft via a VHF data link. The data link is susceptible to failure for reasons such as interference from jamming. This thesis considers the problem of precise ship state propagation on board an aircraft during a data link outage occuring when it is too late for the aircraft to abort its landing approach. Accurately quantifying the estimate error covariance is important for a high integrity and accuracy navigation algorithm. Therefore this thesis focuses on algorithms that can propagate the ship state as well as determine the propagation error covariance. Initially, a simple state propagation using kinematic equations for linear motion is tested. Seakeeping and Maneuvering theories used to model the dynamics of a sea vessel are also considered. However, analysis shows that due to constraints imposed by a data link outage and complexity in accurately modeling some parameters in the ship dynamic model, these two approaches are infeasible. As an alternative to kinematic and dynamic modeling, Time Series Analysis and Forecasting methods for ship state propagation are investigated. This work introduces parametric modeling and forecasting of a time series using linear stochastic models. Maximum likelihood estimate (MLE) and outer product of gradients (OPG) algorithms are implemented for faithful parameterization of time series using ARIMA models. Expressions for forecasting and forecast error variance quanti cation are also developed. These algorithms are then tested using ship data provided by the N-UCAS program.
M.S. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, May 2014
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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

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