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Today TV viewers are exposed to massive amounts of information. Digital TV offers a large number of channels full with different kinds of programs but the information about them is poor. The navigation through the channels can be tiring and often, viewers end up lost, having wasted up to 30 minutes changing channels and not being entertained, which is one of the main purposes of TV. Along with this issue, TV channels have plenty of material they are not using, which is not reachable to viewers who might end up looking for series online and download them illegally. !As a result, viewers are recurring to online TV more and more. They watch specific content through specific TV channel websites. However, the computer or tablet does not allow viewers to certain comforts TV does, and these devices may encourage user isolation since they are normally designed for the usage of one person at a time. The difference between a computer background and a TV background will be discussed further since this aspect became quite important during my research. Viewers enjoyed watching TV while relaxing on the couch, but watching on the computer seemed more efficient, even if it meant sitting down on a chair, because they got instant access to the content they chose. !This thesis will try to design the future of Interactive TV. A TV that will help the user get something worth watching the moment they turn the TV on. After weeks of research and academic reading, I concluded three should be the main characteristics of this design; a Facebook linked profile, implementation of recommender systems and social navigation, plus an adaptive interface. !The results are very promising. A second iteration of the design was made after revising the first concept. It incorporates insights from the concept validation, which I believe completed the design. A design that could work efficiently, and ultimately make the users experience something splendid.

The mental space in which the architect formulates, tests, and cultivates an idea is deformed by memory, so that nothing projected into this space is bereft of association. However, neither is this space constrained by physical reality, allowing the architect a certain freedom to visualize the totality of an object and the world in which it is projected, simultaneously and in suspension: a space between memory and imagination. Memories and experiences layer richness upon this inner world and form the context for its manifestation; its realization. The deliberate and conscientious curation of this inner world-- the architect as archivist of memory and experience-- is an essential practice for the development of the architect and the worlds in which they operate. / Master of Architecture

This thesis is a study of a primary passage and progression from light to dark. A secondary passage considers possibilities of a broader connection to context and a clear definition of entrance into the archive. Typologically, this thesis examines the archive as a room within a room. / Master of Architecture

No / Brochs are monumental Iron Age (c.400–200 BC) drystone towers or roundhouses. They are only found in Scotland, particularly the Atlantic north and west. Whilst the structural layout of brochs has long been debated, few measured surveys have been conducted. Three significant broch sites form the tentative World Heritage site of “Mousa, Old Scatness and Jarlshof: the Zenith of Iron Age Shetland” (UNESCO in Mousa, Old Scatness and Jarlshof: the zenith of Iron Age Shetland, UNESCO (2019) Mousa, Old Scatness and Jarlshof: the zenith of Iron Age Shetland. http://whc.unesco.org/en/tentativelists/5677. Accessed 9 Aug 2019). All three sites have undergone new surveys as part of a collaborative doctoral partnership research project. This chapter presents a diachronic perspective using digital documentation techniques to detect stone displacement and weathering at the site of Old Scatness using historic imagery, including photographs from the Old Scatness excavations (1995–2006) and regular condition monitoring undertaken by Shetland Amenity Trust to undertake retrospective digital structure-from-motion (SfM) photogrammetry. Whilst point clouds and 3D meshes were successfully generated from low-resolution digital images, analogue film transparencies without metadata could not produce accurate geospatial data without manually trying to extant reference data. It was possible to detect displacements in stonework over time by comparing two meshes together and measuring the distances between vertex point pairs. The reliability and accuracy of these results were dependent on how well pairs of meshes could be aligned.

Yes / Speed optimization of liner vessels has significant economic and environmental impact for reducing fuel cost and Green House Gas (GHG) emission as the shipping over maritime logistics takes more than 70% of world transportation. While slow steaming is widely used as best practices for liner shipping companies, they are also under the pressure to maintain service level agreement (SLA) with their cargo clients. Thus, deciding optimal speed that minimizes fuel consumption while maintaining SLA is managerial decision problem. Studies in the literature use theoretical fuel consumption functions in their speed optimization models but these functions have limitations due to weather conditions in voyages. This paper uses weather archive data to estimate the real fuel consumption function for speed optimization problems. In particular, Copernicus data set is used as the source of big data and data mining technique is applied to identify the impact of weather conditions based on a given voyage route. Particle swarm optimization, a metaheuristic optimization method, is applied to find Pareto optimal solutions that minimize fuel consumption and maximize SLA. The usefulness of the proposed approach is verified through the real data obtained from a liner company and real world implications are discussed.

Immersive media (IM) is a class of technologies that aim to create an immersive environment for viewers, such as virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), mixed reality (MR or XR), and 360° or panoramic projection installations. The preservation of immersive media is a growing field of research and practice, whether for historical reference of these technologies, or for re-exhibition of artistic/creative works. IM benefits from existing strategies developed for preservation of complex digital and physical media such as software-based art and installation artworks, but the unique characteristics of IM lead to unique preservation needs. Exploring how these needs may be met through expanded documentation and cataloging practices prompts reflection on how such changes could set larger institutional shifts into motion.

Yes / Visual sociology often relies for its content on researcher-created or participant-created images. In this article we discuss our use of existing local history archive images in a participatory film-making project with ten people living in residential dementia care in the Northern UK. We draw on the concept of archaeology in two ways: first, as used by Foucault (1972), who contends that archaeology is a metaphor for exploring traces left by the past in order to understand the present. Secondly, in a more obvious sense–many of the most salient cultural references for our participants related to public buildings and local landmarks that had been demolished, repurposed, or dramatically changed in appearance since their youth. / UK National Institute for Health Research – School for Social Care Research

檔案是政府知識及人類文化紀錄的寶庫，不論對國家社會，乃至個人都有極為重要之意義。檔案應用服務扮演著重要的角色，必須提供便捷的檢索工具與服務，讓使用者容易查詢，進而得以調閱應用檔案，方能充分發揮檔案存在之價值與功能。 參考服務是讀者服務中最重要的一環，是檔案館對外服務工作的門面，對檔案館的聲譽有舉足輕重的影響力。參考服務品質的良窳會影響到檔案典藏單位的形象，使用者對參考服務的滿意度，往往等於是對整個檔案館的滿意度。檔案參考服務的方式，隨著科技與網路的興盛，以及重視個人服務的潮流，除了繼續提供傳統的參考服務方式外，數位方式的線上參考服務主要目的在於能藉助網際網路與通訊的技術達到不限空間、不限時間的理想，提供使用者在遠端進行查詢與檢索。 本研究使用「文獻分析法」、「深度訪談法」及網站內容分析進行檔案參考服務的實施歷程與現況、館員應有之態度與因應、規劃建立之個人資訊化服務及檔案使用者期盼之線上參考服務之趨勢等，以質性研究之方式深入探討並作歸納比較。 本研究以國內四所檔案典藏單位－檔案管理局、國史館、國史館臺灣文獻館、中央研究院近代史研究所檔案館為研究個案，訪談對象為各檔案應用單位之主管或實際負責參考服務之館員及具有多年使用檔案經驗之使用者，分別就檔案參考服務及線上參考服務之現況、觀感及願景等題出建議與看法，以期提供檔案典藏單位參酌實施。 歸納研究結果重點如下： 一、檔案參考服務工作亟待強化，參考服務內容應多元而豐富。 二、參考服務政策與實施程序亟待制定，建立標準化作業規範，俾參考館員與使用者有所依循。 三、逐漸走向線上參考服務的趨勢，強調資料的即時取得性與正確性，並掌握使用者之資訊需求和資訊使用行為。 四、加強訓練館員評估需求和利用網路資訊的能力，注重館員的服務態度與參考問題回答能力等基本素養和核心能力。 五、提升服務品質，落實為讀者服務理念，加強推廣服務的廣度與深度。 六、檔案數位化對參考服務的衝擊。 根據研究結果，本研究提出八項建議如下： 一、整合全國檔案資源與館際合作，應利用數位資源與資訊技術，來統籌全國檔案資源的管理與運用。 二、從使用者觀點建構服務觀，參考服務人員必須理解每位使用者特殊需求的訊息。 三、制定檔案參考服務的作業程序與相關規定，因應檔案館的規模、組織、館藏資料、設館目的與服務對象不同而異。 四、培訓檔案參考服務人員，隨著外在環境的變遷、網路科技的進步，館方要規劃完整的在職教育和參考人員的再學習機制。 五、重視參考服務並規劃多元而豐富的服務事項，儘可能地滿足研究者的研究需求，以建立知識為導向的檔案應用環境。 六、建立遠距即時數位參考諮詢服務，協助讀者搜尋資訊。 七、提供使用者意見回饋管道，儘可能滿足使用者的研究需求。 八、加強推廣與行銷，培養對檔案的認識與素養，促進各界廣泛應用檔案。 關鍵字：檔案參考服務、線上參考服務、檔案應用、數位檔案應用 / Archive is a treasury of government knowledge and humankind culture record. It has a significant meaning for every level from individual to entire nation and society. Archive application plays an essential role, and it is required to provide the convenient tool for searching, therefore enables users to search easily, so that the archive’s value of existing and function can be manifested. Reference service is the most important part in reader service. It represents the image of external service, and has a significant influence on Archives’ reputation as well. The quality of reference service influences the image of Archival Repositories. The reference service satisfaction of a user is oftentimes equivalent to his satisfaction toward the entire Archives. Accompanied with the prosperity of the network technology and the emphasis of personalized service trend, archive reference service not only continues to provide traditional reference service but also has formed up in digital online reference service, with the ideal purpose of reaching without time and space limitations, providing users to inquire and access in a far distance. The research adopts “Documentary analysis”, “In-depth interview”, and Website content analysis methods to analyze the practice of the reference service in the past and present, the attitude and respond of archive personnel to the reference service, the scheme of establishing personalized information service, and the trend of archive users looking forward to the online reference service. The research is based on the qualitative methodology. The four cases studied in this research paper are National Archives Administration, Academia Historica, Taiwan Historica and the Archives of Institute of Modern History of Academia Sinica Interviewees are the super visors, archivists who are in charge of reference service and users who use archival materials frequently. They expressed suggestions on textual reference service and online reference service, their viewpoints,and their visions in the hope of sharing with the archival institutions. The research has six findings concluded as follow： 1. Archive reference service needs to be improved urgently, and its content should aim to be multi-dimensional and abundant. 2. Reference services policy, practical procedure, and standardized practice protocol need to be formed up urgently for the staff and users to follow. 3. It has a gradual tendency toward the online reference service, emphasizing on its imminence and accuracy, and having a good sense of user’s informational need and behavior. 4. To enhance the staff training on their abilities of need assessment and network information exploitation, and to focus on their fundamental accomplishment and core ability, such as service attitude and answering ability to reference questions. 5. To upgrade the service quality, putting the ideal of serving readers into practice, and to intensify the wideness and depth of the service. 6.Impact of archive digitalization to reference service. According to the research result, six suggestions can be made as follow: 1. The digital resources and information technology should be exploited for the archives integration of the whole nation and the cooperation between Archives. 2. To establish the service concept from the viewpoints of user. More specifically, reference service personnel needs to understand the personal need of every user. 3. To customize archive reference service working process and the relevant regulations, based on Archives scale, organization, Archival data, Archives establishing purpose, and service object accordingly. 4. Due to the external changing environment and network technology improvement, Archives party should plan the complete on-the-job education and learning system for archive reference service staff. 5. To pay attention to reference service and plan multi-dimensional and abundant service items, satisfying researcher’s need by all means, in order to establish knowledge-oriented archival service environment. 6. Sitting up distant and update digital reference service to assist users in searching information. 7. Providing a channel for users to comment to meet users' research need. 8. To enhance its promotion and marketing, and develop the knowledge and accomplishment of archive, in order to encourage all parties to exploit archives widely. Keywords：Archives reference services, Online reference services, Archive Application, Digital Archive Application.