Browsing by Subject "Autonomy"
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"It Seemed the Natural Thing To Do": A Heideggerian Study of Choice for Mothers Who Breastfeed
(2015)A personal struggle to make sense of science that espouses ‘breast is best’, and evidence from practice indicating a large divide between breastfeeding initiation and duration triggered critical reflection upon personal ... -
Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes for Fault Management in Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
(2019-08-26)Proposed, is a partially observable Markov decision process (POMDP) model-based schema as the basis of a fault manager system for use by autonomous underwater vehicles (AUV) undergoing long endurance missions with the ... -
Scrolling is not Extended Mind-Wandering: How TikTok's 'For You,' Andrew Tate, and the Attention Economy are Jeopardizing User Autonomy Online
(2023-08-25)In the following thesis, I argue that passively scrolling through TikTok significantly interferes with an agent’s capacity to claim autonomous endorsement of repudiatory socio-political values consumed on their “For You ...