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A Graph-Based Approach For Adaptive Serious Games, Nidhi G. Patel

Theses and Dissertations

Traditional education systems are based on the one-size-fits-all approach, which lacks personalization, engagement, and flexibility necessary to meet the diverse needs and learning styles of students. This encouraged researchers to focus on exploring automated, personalized instructional systems to enhance students’ learning experiences. Motivated by this remark, this thesis proposes a personalized instructional system using a graph method to enhance a player’s learning process by preventing frustration and avoiding a monotonous experience. Our system uses a directional graph, called an action graph, for representing solutions to in-game problems based on possible player actions. Through our proposed algorithm, a serious game integrated …

Artificial Intelligence-Powered Chronic Wound Management System: Towards Human Digital Twins, Salih Sarp

Theses and Dissertations

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has witnessed increased application and widespread adoption over the past decade. AI applications to medical images have the potential to assist caregivers in deciding on a proper chronic wound treatment plan by helping them to understand wound and tissue classification and border segmentation, as well as visual image synthesis.

This dissertation explores chronic wound management using AI methods, such as Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) and Explainable AI (XAI) techniques. The wound images are collected, grouped, and processed. One primary objective of this research is to develop a series of AI models, not only to present the potential …

Artificial Intelligence For Helicopter Safety: Head Pose Estimation In The Cockpit, Eric William Feuerstein

Theses and Dissertations

The recent impact of deep learning algorithms and their major breakthroughs on various aspects of our lives has led to the idea to investigate the application of these algorithms in different problem spaces. One of the novel areas of investigation is the aviation and air traffic control domain; as it offers a prime opportunity to enhance safety within the aviation community. Of particular importance to this community is improving the safety of rotorcraft operations, as this segment of the aviation industry is subject to a higher fatal accident rate than other segments of the industry. The improvement of safety for …