How is a child’s successful participation in science learning shaped by their family’s support? We focus on the critical time period of early adolescents, testing (i) whether the child’s perception of family support is important for both choice preferences to participate in optional learning experiences and engagement during science learning, and (ii) whether the effects on choice preferences a...

This article discusses a research/teaching collaboration between Perkins+Will and the University of Cincinnati and a unique design studio that was initiated as part of this collaboration. The studio investigated the relationships between performance-driven design, computational design techniques, integration of analysis tools with the design process and digital fabrication for a building facade...

In this paper, we propose a method which facilitates the way a modeler or manager can include subjective information (such as judgment or intuition) into a choice model. The major contribution and focus of this research is on the way this prior information can be incorporated in a logit model. An important advantage of our approach is that, unlike the standard Bayesian approach, the prior infor...

We consider assortment optimization problems when customers choose according to the nested logit model and there is a capacity constraint limiting the total capacity consumption of all products offered in all nests. When each product consumes one unit of capacity, our capacity constraint limits the cardinality of the offered assortment. For the cardinality constrained case, we develop an effici...

Reducing car trips and promoting green commuting modes are generally considered important solutions to reduce the increase of energy consumption and transportation CO2 emissions. One potential solution for alleviating transportation CO2 emissions has been to identify a role for the employer through green commuter programs. This paper offers an approach to assess the effects of employer attitude...

Progress towards sustainability demands recognizing nonlinear, time delayed interactions that are at the heart of dynamic integrated socioeconomic and biophysical systems. Sustainability and land change science communities have recognized the need to go beyond static and vague depictions of nonlinear feedback processes in the study of these integrated systems. But to date, there have been few a...

The integrated modeling of land use and transportation choices involves analyzing a continuum of choices that characterize people’s lifestyles across temporal scales. This includes long-term choices such as residential and work location choices that affect land-use, medium-term choices such as vehicle ownership, and short-term choices such as travel mode choice that affect travel demand. Prior ...

In this paper we propose the use of Discrete Choice Analysis (DCA) for static facial expression classification. Facial expressions are described with expression descriptive units (EDU), consisting in a set of high level features derived from an active appearance model (AAM). The discrete choice model (DCM) is built considering the 6 universal facial expressions plus the neutral one as the set o...