Esta dissertação de Mestrado trata das competências para o contexto tecnológicomusical educacional. Seu objetivo principal é mapeá-las para que professores, tutores e alunos músicos ou leigos utilizem tecnologias digitais voltadas à música, principalmente as gratuitas e baseadas na Web. Esta proposta dirige-se a docentes e discentes da educação presencial e da educação a distância, músicos ou leigos que almejam atuar no âmbito pretendido. Estas tecnologias consistem em recursos tais como objetos de aprendizagem, software para a composição musical cujo funcionamento e armazenamento ocorre através da internet e ferramentas para a edição de áudio. Utilizadas de forma integrada a ambientes virtuais de aprendizagem, essas mesmas ferramentas têm sido aplicadas em cursos de extensão para a formação de professores para o contexto pretendido. No mapeamento das competências apresentado neste estudo também são listados os seus elementos: os conhecimentos, as habilidades e as atitudes para uma atuação eficaz no contexto tecnológico-musical educacional. / This Master's thesis deals with the competences for the technological and musical education context. especially the free Web-based. Its main objective is to map them to teachers, tutors and students musicians and no musicians use digital technologies focused on music, especially free and Web-based. This proposal is aimed at teachers, tutors and students of classroom education and distance who want to act within deprecated. These technologies consist of resources such as learning objects, software for music composition whose operation and storage occurs over the internet. Used in an integrated virtual learning environments, these tools have been applied in extension courses to prepare teachers for the context deprecated. In mapping the competences presented in this study are also listed its elements: knowledge, skills and attitudes for effective action in the technology-musical education.

This exegesis explores the notions of production process paradigm shift through the analysis of digital technologies and their effect on the production of 'CruelUnusual'. Chapter one of this exegesis has introduced the research question with appropriate methodologies to explore the rhizomic possibilities of the use of new digital technology (DV, WWW & DVD) through the design of new structures and frameworks for audio-visual production. Chapter two will outline the traditional production process from the first steps of the pre-production phase, through to the shooting and editing of the film, to its final delivery on the screen. Chapter three will outline various new technologies to be explored and evaluated to assess their benefits to filmmakers in the creation of new production process paradigms. Chapter four of this exegesis presents an evaluation of the Rhizomic Production Process as a viable alternative to the traditional linear produc-tion process. The research data created during the production of the creative project is offered to sup-port arguments presented regarding the benefits of the Rhizomic Production Process. Chapter five will discuss the conclusions and implications discovered during the evalua-tion of the Rhizomic Production Process through the production of the creative project and suggest further possible directions.

Esta dissertação de Mestrado trata das competências para o contexto tecnológicomusical educacional. Seu objetivo principal é mapeá-las para que professores, tutores e alunos músicos ou leigos utilizem tecnologias digitais voltadas à música, principalmente as gratuitas e baseadas na Web. Esta proposta dirige-se a docentes e discentes da educação presencial e da educação a distância, músicos ou leigos que almejam atuar no âmbito pretendido. Estas tecnologias consistem em recursos tais como objetos de aprendizagem, software para a composição musical cujo funcionamento e armazenamento ocorre através da internet e ferramentas para a edição de áudio. Utilizadas de forma integrada a ambientes virtuais de aprendizagem, essas mesmas ferramentas têm sido aplicadas em cursos de extensão para a formação de professores para o contexto pretendido. No mapeamento das competências apresentado neste estudo também são listados os seus elementos: os conhecimentos, as habilidades e as atitudes para uma atuação eficaz no contexto tecnológico-musical educacional. / This Master's thesis deals with the competences for the technological and musical education context. especially the free Web-based. Its main objective is to map them to teachers, tutors and students musicians and no musicians use digital technologies focused on music, especially free and Web-based. This proposal is aimed at teachers, tutors and students of classroom education and distance who want to act within deprecated. These technologies consist of resources such as learning objects, software for music composition whose operation and storage occurs over the internet. Used in an integrated virtual learning environments, these tools have been applied in extension courses to prepare teachers for the context deprecated. In mapping the competences presented in this study are also listed its elements: knowledge, skills and attitudes for effective action in the technology-musical education.

Esta dissertação de Mestrado trata das competências para o contexto tecnológicomusical educacional. Seu objetivo principal é mapeá-las para que professores, tutores e alunos músicos ou leigos utilizem tecnologias digitais voltadas à música, principalmente as gratuitas e baseadas na Web. Esta proposta dirige-se a docentes e discentes da educação presencial e da educação a distância, músicos ou leigos que almejam atuar no âmbito pretendido. Estas tecnologias consistem em recursos tais como objetos de aprendizagem, software para a composição musical cujo funcionamento e armazenamento ocorre através da internet e ferramentas para a edição de áudio. Utilizadas de forma integrada a ambientes virtuais de aprendizagem, essas mesmas ferramentas têm sido aplicadas em cursos de extensão para a formação de professores para o contexto pretendido. No mapeamento das competências apresentado neste estudo também são listados os seus elementos: os conhecimentos, as habilidades e as atitudes para uma atuação eficaz no contexto tecnológico-musical educacional. / This Master's thesis deals with the competences for the technological and musical education context. especially the free Web-based. Its main objective is to map them to teachers, tutors and students musicians and no musicians use digital technologies focused on music, especially free and Web-based. This proposal is aimed at teachers, tutors and students of classroom education and distance who want to act within deprecated. These technologies consist of resources such as learning objects, software for music composition whose operation and storage occurs over the internet. Used in an integrated virtual learning environments, these tools have been applied in extension courses to prepare teachers for the context deprecated. In mapping the competences presented in this study are also listed its elements: knowledge, skills and attitudes for effective action in the technology-musical education.

This thesis examines performance practice with the Augmented Drum-Kit, a personal evolution of the acoustic drum-kit with the use of digital technology. The practice is investigated from three perspectives: First, through possible spatial and contextual definitions of the instrument under development, taking into consideration the inherently open-ended nature of its building blocks: percussion and the computer. Second, by exploring the composer/performer/builder’s practice paradigm in terms of musical and performative goals with such an emerging performance environment. Finally, as a diachronic practice between performer and all constituent technological parts of the composite instrument, towards the practice’s ongoing development and evolution. Using these discussions as starting points, this practice-led research proposes three intertwined novel frameworks for diachronic live electronic performance practice and bespoke instrument design. Additionally, the developed instrument itself is detailed in the form of the devised design methods, schematics, diagrams and software, addressing questions such as intuitive control, gestural uniformity, consistent electro-acoustic vocabulary, distinct instrumental character, mobility, sound diffusion and transferability. Finally, music portfolio consisting of five solo and group album recordings with the Augmented Drum-Kit is presented, while audiovisual examples from various scenarios and development stages are used to further illustrate the discussion.

Human localisation of sound in enclosed spaces is a cross-disciplinary research topic, with important applications in auditory science, room acoustics, spatial audio and telecommunications. By combining an accelerated model of $3$D sound propagation in rooms with a perceptual model of spatial processing, this thesis provides an integrated framework for studying sound localisation in enclosed spaces on the horizontal plane, with particular emphasis on room acoustics applications. The room model is based on the finite difference time domain (FDTD) method, which has been extended to include physically-constrained sources and binaural receivers based on laser-scanned listener geometries. The underlying algorithms have been optimised to run on parallel graphics hardware, thus allowing for a high spatial resolution, and accordingly, a significant decrease of numerical dispersion evident in the FDTD method. The perceptual stage of the model features a signal processing chain emulating the physiology of the auditory periphery, binaural cue selection based on interaural coherence, and a final decision maker based on supervised learning. The entire model is shown to be capable of imitating human sound localisation in different listening situations, including free field conditions and at the presence of sound occlusion, diffraction and reflection. Results are validated against subjective data found in the literature, and the model's applications to the fields of room acoustics and spatial audio are demonstrated and discussed.

The purpose of this research is to identify how bridging the online gender divide can accelerate the achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. At present 200 million fewer women are online than their male counterparts, highlighting the gender inequality that exists online. The disparity in the number of women online is having a detrimental effect on the ability to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals by the United Nations target date of 2030. The research first endeavours to understand the current discourse of what is understood by the term "digital gender divide" within contemporary literature. Drawing knowledge from existing literature, the reasons for the digital gender divide are critically assessed and conceptualised within an empirical framework before offering an insight into how such barriers can be addressed and overcome. The removal of such obstacles therefore paves the way for the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals to flourish. The evidence collated throughout the study details the intricate connection between sustainable development and gender equality, concluding that considerable advancements towards sustainable development can be made if more women are online.

The concepts learning processes, gestalting and digital technology are closely associated with most people’s personal experiences in life and thus constitute significant ideas about their hopes, dreams and life content. The concepts are context-dependent and ought therefore to be studied from several interdisciplinary perspectives. To this end and to limit the scope of my thesis, I have chosen to study them from two vantage points – from the perspective of the Blekinge region of Sweden and from a third-world perspective. The reason I have chosen these two angles is that studying these concepts on the local level provides the necessary closeness, while considering them in a third-world perspective provides the necessary distance. In order to illustrate the complexity of the concepts, I have chosen to study both the rhetorical level – the narratives, the dreams and the hopes – and people’s actual experiences, i.e. the realities, hence the dialectical title of the thesis. “The educative moment” is the rare moment when rhetorics and realities coincide. When traditions and changes together cause renewal on an individual or collective level, the conditions are created for human beings to be able to see themselves and their relations in a new light. / Begreppen läroprocess, gestaltning och digital teknik är starkt förknippade med de flesta människors egna livserfarenheter och utgör därför medvetna eller omedvetna betydelsebärande föreställningar om förhoppningar, drömmar och livsinnehåll. Dessa är kontextberoende och bör därför undersökas ur flera interdisciplinära perspektiv. För att göra detta möjligt och samtidigt begränsa omfattningen av denna licentiatuppsats har jag valt att se begreppen ur två perspektiv – dels ur ett Blekingeperspektiv, dels ur ett tredje världenperspektiv. Anledningen till att jag valt dessa är att Blekinge ger en tillräcklig närhet och tredje världen ger en nödvändig distans. För att visa på begreppens komplexitet har jag valt att undersöka den retoriska nivån – berättelserna, drömmarna och förhoppningarna – och människors erfarenheter och verkligheter, därav den dialektiska titeln på licentiatuppsatsen. Det pedagogiska ögonblicket är det ögonblick då retorik och verkligheter sammanfaller. När tradition och förändring tillsammans ger en förnyelse på ett individuellt eller kollektivt plan, skapas förutsättningar för människan att se sig själv och sina sammanhang i ett helt nytt ljus. Begreppen läroprocess, gestaltning och digital teknik är starkt förknippade med de flesta människors egna livserfarenheter och utgör därför medvetna eller omedvetna betydelsebärande föreställningar om förhoppningar, drömmar och livsinnehåll. Dessa är kontextberoende och bör därför undersökas ur flera interdisciplinära perspektiv. För att göra detta möjligt och samtidigt begränsa omfattningen av denna licentiatuppsats har jag valt att se begreppen ur två perspektiv – dels ur ett Blekingeperspektiv, dels ur ett tredje världenperspektiv. Anledningen till att jag valt dessa är att Blekinge ger en tillräcklig närhet och tredje världen ger en nödvändig distans. För att visa på begreppens komplexitet har jag valt att undersöka den retoriska nivån – berättelserna, drömmarna och förhoppningarna – och människors erfarenheter och verkligheter, därav den dialektiska titeln på licentiatuppsatsen. The educative moment är det ögonblick då retorik och verkligheter sammanfaller. När tradition och förändring tillsammans ger en förnyelse på ett individuellt eller kollektivt plan, skapas förutsättningar för människan att se sig själv och sina sammanhang i ett helt nytt ljus. Begreppen läroprocess, gestaltning och digital teknik är starkt förknippade med de flesta människors egna livserfarenheter och utgör därför medvetna eller omedvetna betydelsebärande föreställningar om förhoppningar, drömmar och livsinnehåll. Dessa är kontextberoende och bör därför undersökas ur flera interdisciplinära perspektiv. För att göra detta möjligt och samtidigt begränsa omfattningen av denna licentiatuppsats har jag valt att se begreppen ur två perspektiv – dels ur ett Blekingeperspektiv, dels ur ett tredje världenperspektiv. Anledningen till att jag valt dessa är att Blekinge ger en tillräcklig närhet och tredje världen ger en nödvändig distans. För att visa på begreppens komplexitet har jag valt att undersöka den retoriska nivån – berättelserna, drömmarna och förhoppningarna – och människors erfarenheter och verkligheter, därav den dialektiska titeln på licentiatuppsatsen. The educative moment är det ögonblick då retorik och verkligheter sammanfaller. När tradition och förändring tillsammans ger en förnyelse på ett individuellt eller kollektivt plan, skapas förutsättningar för människan att se sig själv och sina sammanhang i ett helt nytt ljus. läroprocess, gestaltning, digital teknik / <p>Educative Moments: Rhetorics and Realities</p>

Digital technologies allow people with disabilities to participate independently in society in ways they never could before. The full realization of these new opportunities remains elusive, though, because working professionals in the information and communication technology (ICT) field rarely receive adequate training in how to make digital ICT accessible to people with disabilities. Adding accessibility to the university ICT curriculum can help create a critical mass of ICT professionals with accessibility awareness and expertise to finally realize the full accessibility potential of digital technologies. This dissertation provides a rich informational context from which ICT curriculum leaders can decide how to best infuse accessibility into their own curriculum.

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / Background. People with psychotic disorders tend to die earlier than the general population, primarily due to preventable cardiovascular disease. Behavioral risk factors, such as poor diet, have been identified as major contributors. Given the importance of prevention, the early stages of psychosis have been described as a “critical” time to intervene on health behaviors. As such, a mobile-based intervention, Nutrition Enhancement in Early Psychosis (NEEP) was created to improve diet quality in persons with early psychosis. This study has three aims: (1) assess the feasibility of the intervention, (2) examine preliminary outcomes, and (3) investigate mechanisms associated with dietary change. Methods. NEEP incorporates a combination of nutrition education, goal setting, and mobile technology (i.e., a mobile application for dietary tracking, as well both automated and personalized text-messages). Given the pilot nature of the study, all participants (N=15) received the intervention. Feasibility was assessed through different metrics related to recruitment and adherence to the dietary tracking application, as well as self-report responses regarding acceptability. Preliminary outcomes (i.e., two measures of diet quality) and potential mechanisms of change (i.e., self-efficacy and motivation) were also evaluated using paired sample t-tests. Qualitative interviews were conducted following study participation. Given the emphasis on feasibility with a small sample, all significance tests were set at p <.10, and Hedges g was used to examine effects over time. Results. 15 participants were enrolled in the study and 12 participants completed follow-up assessments. Evaluative measures of feasibility suggest that the majority of those who were screened enrolled in this intervention and regularly engaged with the mobile tracking device to record their dietary consumption. In addition, participants enjoyed the intervention and found it to be useful in improving their diet. Preliminary evidence also suggests this intervention may improve diet quality. As such, one indicator of improvement in diet quality was considered significant (Rapid Eating Assessment for Participants- Shortened; p=.084), and both measures of diet quality suggested improvement in diet at the end of the 28-day intervention with small to medium effect sizes (REAP-S g=.44; Heathy Eating Index-2015 g=.69). Contrary to hypotheses, self-efficacy significantly decreased after the intervention (p=.028) and motivation remained relatively stable. Conclusion. Results suggest that NEEP is feasible as a low-cost, low-resource mobile intervention that is well-tolerated and may improve diet quality in people with early psychosis; however, mechanisms of change require further exploration.