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van der Ende, Dyon (author)The internet is a system that was introduced over 30 years ago and has taken over the world since then. Connecting over 5 billion people is possible thanks to the global scale that the internet operates at. While the advantages are unmistakable, we must also acknowledge that the internet is a large contributor to the emission of greenhouse...master thesis 2024
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Yang, Yue (author)The rise of urban digital twins emphasises the critical role of representing real-world environments for decision-making and collaboration among stakeholders. This leads to an expectation of effective management and visualisation of large-scale urban data models. 3D Tiles is an open specification designed for streaming and rendering massive...master thesis 2024
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Poon, Hotong (author)This graduation project aimed to support Digital Lions, a digital design agency in rural Kenya, in improving their working process on client projects. Digital Lions is a Fair Trade agency that delivers digital products in the areas of graphic design and web development to international clientele. The agency is a sister organization of an NGO...master thesis 2023
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Lips, Maarten (author)The online website Skill Circuits is a tool developed by teachers at the Delft University of Technology. Skill Circuits is an online learning tool that presents students with a node-link (i.e. a tree) structure where each node represents a skill, containing tasks that aim to teach the skill. The website aims to benefit teachers, by letting them...master thesis 2023
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van Groeningen, Boris (author)CNAME (Canonical Name) cloaking has emerged as a deceptive technique employed by website operators to obfuscate the true origin of their content. This master thesis aims to comprehensively examine the utilization and prevalence of CNAME cloaking across the web.<br/><br/>To achieve this, a custom program was developed to crawl websites and gather...master thesis 2023
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Madhwal, Rohan (author)Web3Recommend is a decentralized Social Recommender System implementation that enables Web3 Platforms on Android to generate recommendations that balance trust and relevance. Generating recommendations in decentralized networks is a non-trivial problem because these networks lack a global perspective due to the absence of a central authority....master thesis 2023
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Bredius, Frank (author)Searching the web on debated topics, which are issues under active discussion and where individual opinions diverge, can be highly challenging. It requires users to approach their queries objectively, browse many resources, and accept a certain level of uncertainty, even if it conflicts with personal values. In particular, confirmation bias, the...master thesis 2023
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Kulane, Suleiman (author)Search engines are used to gather and collect information. This interaction sometimes influences the user and changes their attitude towards a topic after such interaction. Prior work has shown that it is a complex endeavour to understand attitude change, as there are many things that can influence a user during a search session. One of the...master thesis 2023
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Hemerik, Ashley (author)DESIGN OPPORTUNITY<br/><br/>The TU Delft student theses repository has not been updated since it switched to digital PDF reports in 2007. Currently, entries only contain a title, author and contributors, programme, date, abstract, and the PDF to download.<br/><br/>While the search engine is fine if you know the author's name or the title of the...master thesis 2023
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Feenstra, Jos (author)In the field of Geographical Information Science (GIS), geodata transformation and analysis tools often take the shape of software libraries written in system level programming languages. <br/>However, the societal impact of these tools is often limited, as most end users only access these libraries via indirect means: Through bindings in other...master thesis 2022
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Jimenez Arroyo, Iñaki (author)Nowadays, the digital space is gaining more and more relevance in our daily lives. Transactions, documents, education, meetings, and social activities are being digitalised. Companies from around the globe are making steps and taking initiatives to lead the change with concepts like the “metaverse”. Parallelly, blockchain technology is helping...master thesis 2022
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Huang, Xiaoao (author)Commonsense knowledge is a type of knowledge consisting of facts that humans use every day. Humans make queries in search engines with different user intents, and some of them can be answered by knowledge tuples. Different types of knowledge are stored differently in the knowledge bases. Being aware of the types of commonsense knowledge required...bachelor thesis 2022
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Dzelme, Rihards (author)We are at the beginning of the most significant societal change since the internet. We are transitioning from a 2-dimensional browser-based interaction to immersive 3-dimensional experiences. The metaverse is not a place or a destination but a state where technology and ecosystem are symbiotic. <br/>Digital Twins, interactive toolkits,...master thesis 2022
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Oolbekkink, Gerben (author)Web APIs are being used for increasingly larger and complex use cases. Right now it can be hard to make sure that what is documented about an API is correct everywhere and to know if a change will have impact on the users of a web API. When details are missing in an API specification users of that API need to make assumptions about how the API...master thesis 2022
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Alhoz, Khaled (author)In large and complex civil engineering projects, well-managed information enables easier and faster access to the required data when available. In the Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) industry, professionals and data managers constantly seek to optimize the information management process to better collaborate in projects that...master thesis 2021
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Pletinckx, Stijn (author)Security misconfigurations and neglected updates commonly lead to systems being vulnerable. Ranging from default passwords to unpatched software, many systems, such as websites or databases, are being compromised due to these pitfalls. Often stemming from human error, it is difficult to avoid these misconfigurations, which is why they are...master thesis 2021
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Beijen, Mike (author)Everybody experiences time constraints in their day-to-day lives, possibly influencing our judgment abilities and behavior. In contemporary daily life, search engines are regularly consulted to look for information online with searchers commonly experiencing time pressure during the web search process. Therefore, this work investigates how...master thesis 2021
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Neelen, Rob (author)Roll-to-Plate (R2P) nanoimprint lithography (NIL) is a fabrication process with the potential for low-cost high-volume fabrication of micro- and nano-patterns on large areas. As a result, R2P is regarded as a promising production process for micro- and nano-scale features which exceed the conventional wafer sizes. In addition, the process has...master thesis 2021
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Turk, Wessel (author)Search engines play an important role in the provision of information. Recently, researchers have raised their concerns about the potential of search engine providers trying to shift the opinion of their users by manipulating search results. But search results might also be manipulated for financial gain. If an increase in User Engagement (UE)...master thesis 2021
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Keulemans, Ruben (author)Practice is central in mathematics skill acquisition. The practice process can be facilitated by flexible digital exercise systems, supporting personalized learning and providing students with parameterized, open answer exercises containing answer-specific feedback. However, current solutions for authoring these exercises lack efficiency and...master thesis 2021