Esta dissertação trata da importância e influência da usabilidade na procura e decisão de compra de livros em livrarias online. A pesquisa baseia-se em estudos e teorias de pesquisadores renomados internacionalmente no assunto (Preece, Nielsen, Maurer, Haubl e outros), bem como resultados coletados através de enquetes e testes de usabilidade com direcionamento no design centrado no usuário. Os testes descritos e utilizados na dissertação resumem-se em questionário online e entrevista aberta com usuários, Think-aloud Protocol, direcionado ao comércio eletrônico e procura de livros de nicho, Matriz de Prioridade, Observação Fluxo-Tarefa nas livrarias físicas e Avaliação Heurística com especialistas em usabilidade. Resultados observados de cada etapa determinaram direcionamento de testes sequenciais e possibilitou comparativo entre ramificação física e online do negócio livreiro com teorias de marketing, rituais de compra, ambientação e flaneurismo. Recomendação automática de livros e possibilidade de manusear digitalmente como elementos para ampliar a possibilidade de compra são assuntos complementares também discutidos e testados na dissertação que se mostram com relevância para usabilidade e expectativas do usuário.

Esta dissertação trata da importância e influência da usabilidade na procura e decisão de compra de livros em livrarias online. A pesquisa baseia-se em estudos e teorias de pesquisadores renomados internacionalmente no assunto (Preece, Nielsen, Maurer, Haubl e outros), bem como resultados coletados através de enquetes e testes de usabilidade com direcionamento no design centrado no usuário. Os testes descritos e utilizados na dissertação resumem-se em questionário online e entrevista aberta com usuários, Think-aloud Protocol, direcionado ao comércio eletrônico e procura de livros de nicho, Matriz de Prioridade, Observação Fluxo-Tarefa nas livrarias físicas e Avaliação Heurística com especialistas em usabilidade. Resultados observados de cada etapa determinaram direcionamento de testes sequenciais e possibilitou comparativo entre ramificação física e online do negócio livreiro com teorias de marketing, rituais de compra, ambientação e flaneurismo. Recomendação automática de livros e possibilidade de manusear digitalmente como elementos para ampliar a possibilidade de compra são assuntos complementares também discutidos e testados na dissertação que se mostram com relevância para usabilidade e expectativas do usuário.

The project, a bookstore for a vacant site within the Pinch Historic District in downtown Memphis, Tennessee, develops an architectural concept of design compatibility that maintains the continuity of the existing architectural vocabulary rather than creating a literal historic replication. By using this philosophy, the design of an urban infill project that respects the history as well as the existing character of the district is developed. At the same time, the Bookstore meets the needs of the residents and visitors of the area through the provision of residential, commercial and entertainment space, thus contributing to the comprehensive revitalization of Downtown Memphis. / Master of Architecture

Orientador: Marcia Azevedo de Abreu / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-15T18:08:03Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Silva_OzangeladeArruda_M.pdf: 25616104 bytes, checksum: 683bbb9a435be4d196a06a32e9759e2c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009 / Resumo: Esta dissertação buscou conhecer as formas de circulação dos romances em Fortaleza nas três últimas décadas do século XIX. Tornou-se clara, no decorrer da pesquisa, a existência de uma rede profissional que conectava os mercadores instalados em Fortaleza com livreiros e editores de diversas localidades brasileiras e algumas cidades europeias. Tendo isto em vista, buscou-se perceber os títulos e autores em circulação no período, bem como apresentar algumas estratégias de distribuição e divulgação dos romances utilizadas pelo mercado editorial do século XIX / Abstract: This dissertation investigates the circulation of novels in Fortaleza in the last three decades of the nineteenth century. During our research, a professional network that connects the merchants installed in Fortaleza with booksellers and publishers from various places in Brazil and some European cities, has come to light. Being aware of that, we have tried to elicit the titles and authors circulating along the period, as well as the strategies used for novel distribution in the editorial market / Mestrado / Historia e Historiografia Literaria / Mestre em Teoria e História Literária

The purpose of this project is to design, build and implement an instance of a specified online payment system, which is based on micro-payments. The three components for this system are a bookstore, a receipt service and a currency issuer.

The Situation. Downtown. An alleyway and adjacent building form the volumetric parametric parameters for a hypothetical, semi-urban addition. The Program. A synthesis of bookstore, art gallery, and cafe outlines the necessary conditions to be featured in the proposed building. The Strategy. To actualize each element of the program while attempting to construct, through minimal intervention, a space which maximizes the cross-sectional aspects of the situation and the internal organization of the program. / Master of Architecture

Orientador: Jefferson Cano / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-26T06:45:53Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Godoi_RodrigoCamargode_D.pdf: 3856692 bytes, checksum: ea717572f9e1e3431455aad4cad93930 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014 / Resumo: Por intermédio da biografia de Francisco de Paula Brito (1809-1861), esta tese investiga o aparecimento do editor moderno no Rio de Janeiro no momento em que esses empreendedores de bens culturais impressos igualmente surgiam em diferentes cidades do ocidente, como Paris e Nova York. No caso brasileiro, fazer frente ao consumo de literatura francesa na capital do Império, bem como forjar alianças políticas no contexto de formação do Estado Nacional foram fatores determinantes no processo estudado / Abstract: Analysing the biography of Francisco de Paula Brito (1809-1861), this dissertation investigates the emergence of modern publishers in Rio de Janeiro, at a time when these entrepreneurs appeared in different cities worldwide such as Paris and New York. In the Brazilian case, determining factors in this process were the need to forge political alliances in the context of the Nation's birth, as well as the confrontation of the consumption of French literature at the Empire's capital / Doutorado / Historia Social / Doutor em História

<p dir="ltr">This dissertation is a Black feminist qualitative inquiry of the interconnections between Black women, literary activity, community, activism, and restoration and healing. In the 1970s and 1980s, the Black Women’s Literary Renaissance and the Black feminist movement converged to create one of the richest periods in Black women’s history. Black women came together in community, through the text, and through various literary spaces–often despite or even because of their differences–to build an archive that articulates a multivocal Black women’s standpoint which many believed to be monotonously singular. During this period, for example, Black women writer-activists wrote more novels, plays, and poetry in these two decades than in any period prior while also establishing new literary traditions. These traditions included the recovery of previously published yet out of print Black women writers, the development of the Black Women Anthology era, the creation of Black women writer-activist collectives, the founding of bookstores, as well as the development of Black Women’s Studies and Black feminist literary criticism in the academy. In the dissertation, these traditions are intrinsically tied to the articulation and definition of the theoretical concept of literary kinship. Conceptually, relationally, and materially literary kinship is the connection generated by the intergenerational literary activity between Black women and girls. In the dissertation, I use literary activity in slightly different ways including to denote community-engaged oral practices, publication, relationships defined around literary sites, and the practice of reading. Literary kinship provides access to community based on and derived from a connection to the literary that is often marked by intergenerational activity. I argue that Black women writer-activists during the period of the BWLR articulate and define literary kinship as a practice of communal restoration and healing for individuals and the collective.</p><p dir="ltr">Literary kinship is explored in four interrelated, yet distinct ways in the dissertation. In chapter two, literary kinship is located in and operationalized through Black women’s literary kinship “networks” founded during the Black Women’s Literary Renaissance. In chapter three, the focus is on the Black Women’s Anthology era that begins in 1970 and becomes a pipeline for the development of the interdisciplinary field of Black Women’s Studies in the 1980s. The fourth and fifth chapters shift the impact of the Black Women’s Literary Renaissance to the 21st century and examines how literary kinship is rearticulated or re-visioned a generation later. The fourth chapter, in this vein, uses autoethnography and literary analysis to illuminate the interconnections between Black girlhood, geography, and my concept of literary kinship. The chapter explores my experience of literary kinship at the kitchen table, in public libraries, and in secondary and higher education as transformative opportunities that fostered my love for reading, engaging in literary community, and developing reading as a restorative and healing practice. In the final chapter, the rapid reemergence of Black women booksellers and their bookstores in the last five years (2018-2023) become integral to a contemporary rearticulation of literary kinship.</p><p dir="ltr">The Black Women’s Literary Renaissance is a significant period of literary output by Black women writer-activists that has had intergenerational impact in the lives of Black women. During the Renaissance, Black women writer-activists were catalysts for critical and necessary literary interventions, strategies, and methods that supported their sociopolitical activism, the development of a rich Black feminist and literary archive, and that manifested community functional practices of restoration and healing. Black women’s articulation, definition, and utilization of literary kinship in the 20th and 21st centuries has supported their literary labors as activists, as intellectuals, and as community members, and is therefore a practice of community restoration and healing.</p>