KnowledgeWorks@UB: Recent submissions
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Transcend: Enhancing the Transgender Health Care Experience through Interaction Design
(2020-06-20)Abstract This paper explores what special user research and design considerations are needed to build a website that enhances the health information seeking experience for transgender people. Incorporating themes of trust, ... -
Impacts of Voter Turnout: Voting Restriction Laws, Voting Expansion Laws, and the Political Culture of States
(2020-05)The 2016 presidential election was the first to be conducted in over 50 years without the full protection of the Voting Rights Act (VRA.) This allowed states to enact election laws that impacted electoral procedures, ... -
Gaze Controlled Interactions for AR/VR
(2020-07-17)This simulation study assessed the impact of gaze and hand gestures as a primary input method for the aerospace industry by utilizing Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR). Fifteen NASA employees with a varying ... -
How can a Health and Fitness Mobile App lead you to a healthier life?
(2020-05)While obesity-related diseases are affecting people around the world, health and fitness mobile apps have been developed in the effort for individuals to lose weight and improve their overall health. Throughout the past ... -
Encouraging Election Participation of Nigerian Citizens with the Adoption of Online Voter Registration
(2020-05)This study explores the landscape of election processes in Nigeria and the emotional viability of incorporating online voter registration to the current system. I provide background information on Nigeria’s current voter ... -
#FAN
(2020-07-12)The everchanging role of the National Football League (NFL) sports fan, in a world of billion-dollar dreams, global domination, and poor consumer relations. The sport fan has many reasons that they love watching professional ... -
White Baltimore's Perceptions of Digital Neighborhood Watch
(2020-07-10)Baltimore City has a national reputation as a dangerous city, and statistically, it’s true. Baltimore has higher than average rates of violent and property crime. In an effort to increase the safety of their homes and ... -
The Role of Social Media within the Context of ICT4D Projects: How can the use of Social Media Enhance Project Adoption?
(2020-05)Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D) attempt to make the benefits of the information and communication enabled by technology available to developing or disadvantaged groups, but these projects ... -
Honor, Courage, and Varying Forms of Commitment: A Quantitative Study into the Career Affiliation Decisions of United States Marine Corps Active Reserve Officers
(2020-06-15)The Active Reserve Program of the United States Marine Corps has three hundred unrestricted officers who manage the Marine Corps’ strategic reserve. These officers are responsible for the mastery of reserve policy and ... -
Assessing Access Services : Building a 5-Year Plan for Sustainable Assessment
(Taylor & Francis Online, 2018-07)The University of Baltimore’s Langsdale Library underwent its five-year review in FY2016 (1 July 2015–30 June 2016). A basic, integral and necessary element of this process was the development of an assessment plan. Langsdale ... -
Creating The Colored Girl Beautiful
(2020-05-01)The Colored Girl Beautiful podcast is narrative non-fiction storytelling podcast about Black womanhood that was created as a way to process some of the themes in the book, The Colored Girl beautiful, which was published ... -
Ethical research approval in a timely manner: IRB process flows and implications for redesigning them
(2020-05)Academic researchers have many complaints about the Institutional Review Board (IRB) at their institution, including the opaque decision making, the long wait times for decisions, and numerous other nuances unique to ... -
Designing a Platform that Connects People of Color to Therapists of Color
(2020-05-25)Being a person of color comes with a set of unique challenges. Society often discusses racism, but rarely does this discussion delve into the psychological effects of racism on communities of color. In truth, racism can ... -
Finding your Bus: Conceptualising Contemporary Quaker Management Education
(Liverpool University Press, 2019)How can Quaker thought and practice make a significant contribution to contemporary management education? Quaker-affiliated businesses and organisations have played significant roles in both the United ... -
The Challenges of Conducting Research on Supermax Prisons: Results From a Survey of Scholars Who Conduct Supermax Research
(Saga, 2018-12-07)This article analyzes the challenges that investigators face when conducting scholarly research on supermax prisons. Drawing on existing literature, as well as results of a survey sent to researchers who have published ... -
Deconstructing Correctional Officer Deviance: Toward Typologies of Actions and Controls
(Saga, 2016-09-11)This article reviews the scholarly research that has been conducted on the problem of correctionalofficer (CO) deviance. It then outlines the most dominant kinds of CO deviance and the solutionsthat have been proposed and, ... -
Getting a Second Chance with a University Education: Barriers & Opportunities
(springer, 2019-04-08)As part of the prisoner reentry process, many formerly incarcerated individualsare choosing to enroll in universities to earn bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees. Some cannot immediately begin their studies and ... -
Interpreting the development andgrowth of Convict Criminologyin South America
(2018-10-02)The Convict Criminology (CC) network has expanded beyond its American and Canadian roots tothe United Kingdom and Europe. Althoughincreasing documentation of CC’s activities and scholarship ... -
The Chilean Government’s Attempt to Reform and Close Carcel Ex-Penitenciarı ´a (CDP Santiago Sur): ¿Mientras ma ´s cambian las cosas, mas se mantienen igual?
(Saga, 2017-12)Over the past decade, many South and Latin American countries have experienced an increase in crime. As a response, these states have experimented with a number of crime control methods. One of the traditional responses ... -
Reframing urban street culture: Towards a dynamic and heuristic process model
(Elsevier, 2018-06)The fields of criminology/criminal justice have periodically used the term and concept of urban street culture to explain selected types of street crime and gang behavior. This article argues that this characterization of ...