My dissertation aims at developing an application that presents all the information a user needs to find orientation in his environment. All surrounding places and their characteristics shall be perceived and compared in ...

In this PhD thesis, a visual interface for text analysis and text mining in the digital humanities (DH) will be developed. Text analysis is a crucial task in the DH, but advanced text mining technologies like topic modeling ...

This is a summary of a planned dissertation research. Goal is to develop knowledge management metrics that can be used to measure the performance of enterprise social software. To achieve this goal an ontology will be ...

My dissertation investigates privacy as it relates to user behavior and attitude on mobile devices. I will examine how users’ understanding of mobile privacy differs from culture to culture. More specifically, I will use ...

Information Literacy (IL) is “the set of integrated abilities encompassing the reflective discovery of information, the understanding of how information is produced and valued, and the use of information in creating new ...

This thesis deals with an interdisciplinary approach of intergenerational knowledge sharing (IKS) from an information scientific perspective. As part of the KNOWISH project the research is embedded in an international ...

The Master Thesis deals with the x-disciplinarity of information science, as it is considered as a multi-, inter- or transdisciplinary discipline in the discourse of this subject. But what in particular do these concepts ...

This thesis focuses on the improvement of pedestrian indoor localization systems through user interactions. First, a hybrid localization system for mobile devices which relies on multiple sensors is developed. It forms the ...

In this thesis, the opportunities for introducing altmetrics in library information systems are explored. We discuss studies looking at altmetrics data for Business and Economics literature. The focus of the thesis is to ...

The publishing industry is in a fundamental transition phase initiated by digitization. This transition involves production processes, communication options, and of course the ‘products’ themselves. While challenging the ...