This project has been made in collaboration with the company Tinitell in Stockholm. The purpose of the project is to design mobile phones for children. This report explains all the Design Process, as SVID (Swedish Industrial Design Foundation) describes it. It starts with a research phase and according to its conclusions, a concept generation phase follows. After discussing the possible concepts, the best alternative is selected and developed. The final part of the report is the analysis and conclusions of the whole process. / Detta projekt har genomförts i samarbete med Tinitell i Stockholm. Syftet med projektet är att ta fram en design på mobiltelefoner anpassade för barn i åldrarna fem till elva år. Frågeställningen som skall besvaras i denna uppsats är ”Hur bör dessa telefoner fungera, och hur bör de se ut?” Målet har varit att ta fram en design som är häftig och innovativ men samtidigt enkel och rolig för barn att använda. Den skall även vara en trygghet för föräldrarna då den möjliggör kommunikation mellan förälder och barn vart som helst, när som helst. Projektet började med en omfattande undersökning bestående av observation av barn som hanterar mobiltelefoner, vilka problem som uppstår och vad man kan utveckla för att tillgodose barns behov, utöver detta genomfördes även tre stora enkäter. Barn i olika åldrar hanterar saker på olika sätt beroende på karaktärsdrag, utveckling och beteende. Baserat på detta faktum togs beslutet i början av arbetsprocessen att dela in användaren i tre olika åldersgrupper. Övergångsåren (5- 6 år), mellanåren (7-9 år) samt yngre ungdomsåren (10-11 år). Utifrån de första skisserna valdes tre olika koncept ut, ett för varje åldersgrupp. Trots att alla tre telefoner har samma grundfunktioner har de, beroende på åldersgrupp, olika extra funktioner och olika utformning för att på bästa möjliga sätt passa slutanvändaren. De tre skisserna presenterades för Mats Horn, grundare av Tinitell. De hade dock räknat med att göra en fast investering och valde därför att fokusera på produktion och design för en av modellerna. För att kunna välja ut ett av koncepten genomfördes en ”value opportunity analysis”, efter att ha tolkat resultaten från denna undersökning valdes koncept två (7-9 år) ut för vidareutveckling. Efter att ha gjort flertalet digitala 3D-modeller och provat många olika idéer nådde jag slutligen mitt mål vad gäller design och funktion för telefonen. Resultatet är Tiniphone, en mobiltelefon med touch-screen utformad som ett armband som barnet kan fästa på armen. Alla funktioner i Tiniphone kontrolleras av föräldrarna via en dator. Detta projekt har genomförts parallellt med Tinitell, som jobbar på en liknande produkt. Jag är väldigt nöjd med slutresultatet och jag hoppas att Tinitell kan använda det material jag framställt som hjälp och inspiration för att hitta en slutdesign för telefonen.

Safety is a topic that is frequently discussed and spoken of in today’s society. An enhanced security for each individual is something many strive for in various industries. One of these is how to make the public feel more secure when the person in question, for example, is out walking late at night. The goal of this bachelors thesis is thus to describe and explain the product that has been developed to get ordinary people to feel more secure wherever they are. The chosen solution for this issue was hence to develop the product SmartBand Alert which consists of two parts. A bracelet and an application for IOS and Android. This bracelet should, by certain connectivity cooperate with the user’s phone to notify family members and/or others when the person thinks or knows that he or she is in danger. These persons will be notified with information about the person who has activated the alarm to simply and easily take the necessary actions to help the person. The product is designed to be used by anyone regardless of gender, age, and other characteristics individuals may hold.

Actuellement, la violence conjugale demeure un phénomène social grave et complexe au sein de nos sociétés contemporaines. Au Canada, le taux de violence perpétrée par un partenaire intime ne cesse d’augmenter depuis plusieurs années et la récente pandémie de COVID-19 survenue en 2020 a aggravé les épisodes de tension au sein des foyers, notamment en raison des mesures sanitaires restrictives. Plus que jamais, la protection des victimes de violence conjugale devient critique, et c’est pourquoi il est essentiel que toutes les mesures de prévention disponibles doivent être mises en œuvre dans ce but commun. Ce mémoire propose donc d’explorer les enjeux relatifs à l’implantation de bracelets antirapprochements (BAR) comme moyen de prévention des homicides conjugaux au Québec. Sur la base d’entretiens semi-directifs, l’échantillon est composé d’un total de 14 participants, dont 6 proviennent d’organismes policiers, 3 proviennent d’organismes impliqués dans la gestion des personnes contrevenantes, 3 sont issus d’organismes impliqués dans les missions d’aide aux victimes et 2 sont issus d’organismes associés à la défense des droits de la personne. L’analyse des données recueillies met en évidence quatre types d’enjeux relatifs à l’implantation de BAR en contexte de violence conjugale au Québec, à savoir les enjeux technologiques, légaux, éthiques et sociaux. Ces derniers devront faire l’objet d’une analyse approfondie par les décideurs advenant l’implantation du BAR au Québec. Cela étant, le BAR s’inscrit comme un outil de prévention tertiaire innovant et prometteur des homicides conjugaux, et relève d’un grand potentiel quant à l’amélioration de la qualité de vie des victimes. / Currently, intimate partner violence remains a serious and complex social phenomenon within our contemporary societies. In Canada, the rate of violence perpetrated by an intimate partner has been steadily increasing for several years and the recent pandemic of COVID-19 which occurred in 2020 has aggravated episodes of tension within homes, due to restrictive health measures among others. More than ever, the protection of victims of intimate partner violence becomes critical, and that is why it is essential that all available prevention measures must be implemented for this common purpose. This thesis therefore proposes to explore the issues relating to the implantation of anti-reconciliation bracelets (BAR) as a means of preventing spousal homicides in Quebec. Based on semi-structured interviews, the sample is made up of a total of 14 participants, including 6 from police organizations, 3 from organizations involved in the management of offenders, 3 from organizations involved in victim assistance missions and 2 are from organizations associated with the defense of human rights. The analysis of the data collected highlights four types of issues relating to the implementation of BAR in the context of intimate partner violence in Quebec, namely technological, legal, ethical and social issues. These will have to be the subject of an in-depth analysis by the decision-makers in the event of the establishment of the BAR in Quebec. That said, the BAR is an innovative and promising tertiary prevention tool for spousal homicides and has great potential for improving the quality of life of victims.

The random Fibonacci sequence is defined by t_1 = t_2 = 1 and t_n = ± t_{n–1} + t_{n–2} , for n ? 3, where each ± sign is chosen at random with P(+) = P(–) = 1/2. We can think of all possible such sequences as forming a binary tree T. Viswanath has shown that almost all random Fibonacci sequences grow exponentially at the rate 1.13198824.... He was only able to find 8 decimal places of this constant through the use of random matrix theory and a fractal measure, although Bai has extended the constant by 5 decimal places. Numerical experimentation is inefficient because the convergence is so slow. We will discuss a new computation of Viswanath's constant which is based on a formula due to Kalmár-Nagy, and uses an interesting reduction R of the tree T developed by Rittaud. Also, we will focus on the growth rate of the expected value of a random Fibonacci sequence, which was studied by Rittaud. This differs from the almost sure growth rate in that we first find an expression for the average of the n^th term in a sequence, and then calculate its growth. We will derive this growth rate using a slightly different and more simplified method than Rittaud, using the tree R and a Pascal-like array of numbers, for which we can further give an explicit formula. We will also consider what happens to random Fibonacci sequences when we remove the randomness. Specifically, we will choose coefficients which belong to the set {1, –1} and form periodic cycles. By rewriting our recurrences using matrix products, we will analyze sequence growth and develop criteria based on eigenvalue, trace and order, for determining whether a given sequence is bounded, grows linearly or grows exponentially. Further, we will introduce an equivalence relation on the coefficient cycles such that each equivalence class has a common growth rate, and consider the number of such classes for a given cycle length. Lastly we will look at two ways to completely characterize the trace, given the coefficient cycle, by breaking the matrix product up into blocks.

Each human society creates during its existence a system of reactions against undesirable activities of persons, who break the rules of the smooth passing of a particular community and contravene the standards and values of the community. The view of these reactions {--} punishments, changes over time and also with a respect to culture of the community or the state and its approach to an individual and his rights. In the past, the forms of punishments were, and in some countries still are, mainly primitive, such as amputations of body parts. However, the civilised world, especially, in case of non-arrestable offences, tends to prefer non-custodial service, such as home detention. Home detention as a form of penalty has been used in various alternatives for many years in countries such as Italy, Germany etc. However, the Czech legal system did not allow to impose this penalty until 2010. This form of penalty should facilitate the situation in Czech crowded prisons. It might be imposed on thousands of the sentenced a year and, at the same time, it would save money of the tax payers. The thesis deals with the legislative framework, where the home detention belongs and it is also focused on the fact how the other states, where home detention has been applied for years, have adopted this form of penalty. The objective of the Probation and Media Service of the Czech Republic is also mentioned in this work. The theoretical part of the thesis is divided into two parts {--} the first part deals with the punishment in general, the other one is focused on home detention in particular.

Qu’ils soient voyageurs occasionnels ou réguliers, les piétons se déplaçant en environnement urbain et en transport en commun ont à faire face à la complexité du réseau de transport des grandes villes. Les aides au déplacement sont nombreuses et variées. Elles peuvent être fixes (par exemple, panneaux de signalisation) ou mobiles (par exemple, applications sur smartphone). Ces aides utilisent principalement la modalité sensorielle visuelle, déjà fortement sollicitée lors d’un déplacement urbain. Une alternative intéressante serait d’utiliser l’haptique (sens du toucher). En effet, cette modalité permet de transmettre au porteur d’un dispositif haptique des informations de déplacement et de navigation, en attirant discrètement son attention par des messages délivrés tactilement.S’inscrivant dans une démarche d’ergonomie prospective, cette thèse vise à étudier l’apport de la modalité haptique comme soutien à l’activité de déplacement piéton urbain. L’objectif appliqué est la conception d’un dispositif haptique d’aide au déplacement innovant, efficace et accepté par les utilisateurs futurs. Ce projet de conception s’est déroulé dans le cadre du projet ANR Tictact, mené par le CEA-LIST de 2011 à 2014. L’utilisation de la modalité haptique étant posée comme un parti pris initial, l’objectif du projet était de déterminer la forme que devrait prendre l’assistance aux usagers et la technologie de l’outil d’aide.Pour répondre à ce défi, nous avons mis en œuvre trois études successives. La première visait à comprendre les activités cognitives élémentaires mobilisées pour consulter les supports d’informations nécessaires à la navigation piétonne. Pour cela, nous avons analysé le comportement d’un piéton effectuant un trajet urbain (en métro et à pied). Les résultats nous ont permis de spécifier les fonctions d’aide que devrait remplir un futur dispositif d’aide au déplacement. Complétées par une revue de la littérature sur les interfaces haptiques et leur utilisation pour l’aide au déplacement, ces résultats nous ont conduits à déterminer les fonctions éligibles à la modalité haptique. La seconde étude visait à concevoir l’interaction haptique avec le dispositif d’aide, en deux étapes : élaborer le concept d’interface et concevoir le langage d’interaction. Une démarche de conception participative a été mise en œuvre, étayée par l’utilisation d’un prototype et de méthodes créatives. Cette démarche a abouti à : (i) identifier un message informationnel approprié à chaque fonction de déplacement ; (ii) traduire ce message (par analogie) en métaphore ; (iii) transformer chaque métaphore en motifs vibratoires délivrés par un bracelet haptique. La troisième étude visait à évaluer le dispositif haptique (bracelet couplé à un Smartphone) en environnement réel. Une analyse d’activité de déplacement urbain a été menée, comparant un groupe disposant de notre prototype haptique d’aide à un groupe sans prototype. Les résultats confirment la potentialité de la modalité haptique pour améliorer les performances de déplacement et notamment une allure de déplacement plus fluide et une diminution du temps de consultation d’un support d’information. Notre étude ouvre des perspectives pour l’utilisation de la modalité haptique dans diverses interfaces mobiles (par exemple une smartwatch). / Whether they are occasional or regular travellers, the pedestrians travelling in an urban environment and using public transportation have to face the complexity of the transportation network of large cities. The travelling aids are numerous and varied. They can be stationary or mobile (for example, applications on smartphones). These aids rely mainly on the visual sensory modality, already heavily requested during urban travel. An interesting alternative would be to use haptics (sense of touch). Indeed, this modality enables to convey travel and navigational information to the owner of a haptic device, by drawing discreetly his attention with tactile messages. Joining an approach of prospective ergonomics, this thesis aims to study the contribution of the haptic modality as a support for the activity of urban pedestrian travel. The applied objective is the design of a haptic device as an innovative travel aid, effective and accepted by the future users. This design project took place within the framework of the ANR project Tictact, led by the CEA-LIST from 2011 till 2014. The use of the haptic modality being put as an initial bias, the objective of the project was to determine the form that the assistance and the technology of the travel aid should take.To tackle this challenge, we conducted three successive studies. The first one, aimed at understanding the elementary cognitive activities mobilized when consulting information necessary to the pedestrian navigation. For that purpose, we analysed the behaviour of a pedestrian undertaking an urban travel (in the subway and on foot). The results allowed us to specify the functions that a future device assisting in the travel should include. Completed by a review of the literature on haptic interfaces and their use for assisting travel, these results led us to determine the eligible functions of the haptic modality.The second study aimed at designing the haptic interaction with the haptic interface, in two stages: first develop the concept of the interface and second design the interaction language. An approach of participative design was implemented, supported by the use of a device prototype and creative methods. This approach succeeded in: i) identifying an informative message suitable for each function of the travel; ii) translating this message (using an analogy) into a metaphor; and iii) transforming every metaphor into vibrotactile patterns delivered by a haptic wristband.The third study aimed at evaluating the haptic device (a wristband coupled with a Smartphone) in a real environment. An analysis of the activity of urban travel was conducted, comparing a group having a prototype of our haptic assistant to a group without such prototype. The results confirm the potentiality of the haptic modality to improve the travel performance in particular to enable a more fluid speed of travel and a decrease in the consultation time of an information medium. Our study opens up perspectives for the use of the haptic modality in diverse mobile interfaces (for example a smartwatch).

This thesis visualizes the communication challenges both latent and obvious of my daily life as a hard of hearing individual. By focusing on a variety of experiences and examples I demonstrate the implications of a hard of hearing individual’s life. The prints, objects and videos that I have created for my visual thesis aim to enrich the understanding of a broader public on issues regularly faced by Deaf people. At the heart of my work my goal is to generate mutual empathy between the hearing and the Deaf.

The aim of diploma thesis is description and application of new product in life insurance area. This product is based on insured body parameters and physical activity monitoring with the assistance of wearables. Based on analysis of the data obtained by the insurance company, it can be setting appropriate and fair price of life insurance. Introduction describes principle of Internet of Things, which idea is reflected in next part described eHealth and telemedicine industries, where will be defined the possibilities of use information and communication technologies in these industries. One from the technologies using in these industries are already mentioned wearables, which can be used into the basic monitoring of individuals health condition. Except of health services is possible use these wearables in insurance industry too, where can monitor physical activity and selected body parameters of individuals and motivate them to exercise and healthy lifestyle in form of insurance discounts. The thesis points to current situation of using these devices at the local as well as global insurance market and possible principle of monitoring and analysis body parameters and lifestyle at Czech insurance market in the form of a new life insurance product.

Submitted by admin tede (tede@pucgoias.edu.br) on 2016-09-02T12:56:45Z No. of bitstreams: 1 WILSON DA SILVA DIAS.pdf: 3554411 bytes, checksum: dbc50ad9f47e3d8a3f15a56399d5af5c (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-09-02T12:56:45Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 WILSON DA SILVA DIAS.pdf: 3554411 bytes, checksum: dbc50ad9f47e3d8a3f15a56399d5af5c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-04-07 / This dissertation deals with systems, prison systems and the control and efficiency of electronic monitoring in the enforcement of sentences. It seeks to prove that despite the progressive system in the execution of the sentence in Brazil to present itself as a set of principles and rules that aim to achieve retributive nature of the punishment of more human way through social reintegration, is primarily reinforcing the control of the bodies submitted to serve their sentences. In turn, the alternative and technological means of indirect monitoring, based on the electronic monitoring has been used as a mechanism or control gear, while despises the parallel implementation of social inclusion policies and therefore humanity of the convict. In order to confirm this hypothesis, the research is based on disciplinary power reference in the kidnapping of institutions, in particular in prison and electronic monitoring system from the way the criminal agencies even react to the condemned as machinery or gear maintenance of relations of power and control over the convicts. Through national and foreign literature, as well as the assessment of administrative and legal documents relating to criminal enforcement, analysis of the reality of electronic monitoring in Brazil and especially in Goiás, objective reinforce that finding, to expose the grounds of implementation of that electronic gear - in Goiás through electronic anklets - although a less painful form of surveillance and punishment than the classic system embodied in prisons, have the urge or the time control objective and actions of inmates who are not oportunizado social inclusion policies even the most traditional and basic shapes, namely, education, work, medical and psychological care. / Esta dissertação trata dos sistemas, regimes prisionais, controle e da eficiência da monitoração eletrônica na execução das penas, buscando demonstrar, que apesar do sistema progressivo na execução da pena no Brasil se apresentar como um conjunto de princípios e regras que objetivam alcançar a natureza retributiva da pena de modo mais humano por meio da reintegração social, primordialmente vem reforçando o controle dos corpos submetidos ao cumprimento de penas. O meio alternativo e tecnológico de vigilância indireta, consubstanciada na monitoração eletrônica tem sido utilizada como mecanismo ou engrenagem de controle, enquanto despreza a implantação paralela de políticas de inserção social e, consequentemente, a humanidade do apenado. Com o intuito de comprovar essa hipótese, a pesquisa se apoia na referência do poder disciplinar nas instituições de sequestro, em especial no sistema prisional e de monitoramento eletrônico a partir da forma como as agências penais reagem diante do condenado até mesmo como maquinarias ou engrenagens de manutenção das relações de poder e controle sobre os apenados. Por meio de pesquisa bibliográfica nacional e estrangeira, bem como pela apreciação de documentos administrativos e judiciais referentes a execução penal, a análise da realidade da monitoração eletrônica no Brasil e, especialmente em Goiás, objetiva reforçar aquela constatação, ao expor que a razão da implantação daquela engrenagem eletrônica – no estado, por tornozeleiras eletrônicas – embora uma forma menos dolorosa de vigilância e punição do que o sistema clássico consubstanciado nas prisões, tem o impulso ou o objetivo de controle do tempo e das ações dos apenados a quem não é oportunizado políticas de inclusão social, ainda que pelas formas mais tradicionais e básicas, quais sejam, educação, trabalho e atendimento médico-psicológico.

This thesis describes a research project aimed at improving the tracing skills of first-year programming students enrolled for an introductory C++ course at an open distance learning institution by means of a tutorial in the form of a program visualization tool to teach the students to draw variable diagrams. The research was based on the findings from the BRACElet project (Clear, Whalley, Robbins, Philpott, Eckerdal, Laakso & Lister, 2011). A design-based research methodology was followed. To guide the process of developing the tutorial, a framework of 26 guidelines for developing and using visualization tools to teach programming was synthesized from the literature on computing education research CER, educational psychology and computer graphics. Guidelines were supplemented with reasons or explanations for their recommendation and considerations to be taken into account when using a guideline. The framework was enhanced by lessons learnt during the development and testing of the tutorial. The tutorial was tested and refined during two implementation cycles. Both cycles included quantitative and qualitative investigations. All students registered for the introductory module received the tool with their study material. For the quantitative investigations, students completed a questionnaire after using the tutorial. Through the questionnaire biographical data was acquired, the manner in which students used the tutorial and how they experienced using it. The responses to the questionnaires were statistically analysed in combination with respondents’ final marks. The statistical modelling indicated that the students’ biographical properties (a combination of level of programming experience, marks obtained for Mathematics and English in matric and first-time registration for COS1511 or not), had the biggest impact on their final marks by far. During the qualitative investigations students were eye tracked in a Human-Computer Interaction laboratory. The gaze replays in both cycles revealed that students’ reading skills impacted largely on their success, connecting with the findings from the quantitative investigations. Reflections on why the tutorial did not achieve its purpose; and why poor reading skills may have such a strong effect on learning to program, contribute some theoretical understanding as to how novices learn to program. / Computer Science / D. Phil. (Computer Science)