ix, 99 p. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number. / Design briefs outline the business objectives, corresponding design strategies and target markets for a product development project. Research has demonstrated that a variety of attributes influence consumer impressions of a product, less attention has been given to the within-firm mechanisms that determine the optimal mix of attributes which to embed in an offering. The first essay of this dissertation examines the role of design briefs as knowledge-based assets that function as artifacts of this process within new product development (NPD). In a second essay, this dissertation examines design briefs as knowledge-based artifacts of cross-functional collaboration during NPD. NPD is often characterized as the process by which firms transform knowledge embedded in cross-functional teams into new products. However functional areas often differ in their evaluations of information and knowledge needed to successfully complete an NPD project. Based on an expert rating and survey questionnaire procedure, results provide a framework of eight factors of cross-functional knowledge present in design briefs and empirically describes differences in evaluation within each factor across functional area. / Committee in charge: Dennis Howard, Chairperson, Marketing; Lynn Kahle, Member, Marketing; Joan Giese, Member, Marketing; Keven Malkewitz, Member, Not from U of O; Gary Klug, Outside Member, Human Physiology

1 score (viii, 57 p.) / Enmity was conceived in collaboration with choreographer Liana Conyers and was premiered on May 17, 2011 in Dougherty Dance Theater at the University of Oregon, School of Music and Dance. This piece was born out of my strong belief in art as collaboration. The initial idea for this project began with my prior interest in music as it pertains to dance and the dynamic relationship between the two art forms. Having composed several works for dance, I explore the specific relationships between music and movement and how they combine to engage the viewer. The narrative of Enmity shares a social commentary that is relevant and personal to my experience as an artist. Enmity was consciously composed with the intent of movement being part of the compositional process. There is a strong influence and connection between sound and movement; often, composers are subconsciously thinking about music as it relates to movement, conceptually or physically. / Committee in charge: David Crumb, Chairperson; Robert Kyr, Member; Christian Cherry, Member

To promote economic recovery and create jobs, Oregon has developed a collaborative approach to economic development and turned its attention to stimulating the growth of competitive industry (Porterian) clusters. The electric vehicle (EV) cluster is one of the state's 21 priorities. With federal funding for electric vehicle infrastructure and The Electrification of Transportation initiatives, momentum is building. The Oregon University System, a number of state agencies and a coalescing group of EV entrepreneurs are pushing Oregon forward as a major player in the global marketplace. This thesis reviews an Oregon Transportation Research and Education Consortium study to determine whether the institutions of the Oregon University System and the state government are meeting the needs of EV entrepreneurs in this effort. The review concludes that Oregon's institutions need to further develop their collaborative networks with entrepreneurs for Oregon to be a competitor.

This thesis examines creativity in performance through the study of the performance practices of professional clarinettists. Creativity research has tended to emphasise the innovative, revelatory qualities of the creative process, rather than the more pragmatic activities related to notated performance. This corresponds to a tension between the perceived creative opportunities of improvisation and notated music, and has resulted in a discourse that associates improvisation with spontaneity and novelty, and notated performance with repetition and reproduction. How might this discourse be challenged? Through a series of case studies documenting clarinettists working in a variety of collaborative settings, I examine how performers' constructions of creativity might complement or challenge the perceived creative affordances of notated music, and how the presence of, and/or collaboration with a living composer affects the creative process. A broadly ethnographic methodology is employed, drawing on thematic analysis of qualitative data obtained through semi-structured interviews with musicians, and audio-visual footage of workshops, rehearsals and performances. Conceptually, the thesis adopts an ecological perspective (Ingold 2011; Clarke, Doffman, and Lim 2013), proposing that creativity is a distributed phenomenon, entangled within a complex interweaving of social, material, and historical influences. It draws on work by Richard Sennett (2008) and Tim Ingold (2013) on craft and material engagement, suggesting that the interaction between a practitioner and a tradition entails a synthesis of action, perception and prior experience. I argue that this orientation is useful for developing an analytical framework that accounts for the dimensions of performance that might otherwise be taken for granted. The research offers insights into the performance practices of contemporary concert musics - a line of inquiry that remains largely unaddressed. More broadly, it makes room for a more forward-looking model of creativity based on processes rather than outcomes, and one that better appreciates the fluid pathways between performers and scores.

Ontologias são modelos conceituais explícitos do conhecimento compartilhado por um grupo de usuários focados em determinado domínio de interesse. Seu principal obje-tivo é facilitar a comunicação através da explicitação das relações semânticas entre con-ceitos da realidade. O problema conceitual de classificação dos entes do mundo é com-plexo, pois cada indivíduo possui a sua própria abstração da realidade. Quando o mode-lo é compartilhado, surgem mais divergências de idéias e conceitualizações. Os usuários podem dar diferentes nomes para o mesmo conceito (sinonímia) ou podem utilizar a mesma palavra para se referir a conceitos diferentes (falsa concordância). Dessa forma, a colaboração se tornou uma parte importante do processo de desenvolvimento de onto-logias, auxiliando na explicitação do conceito por trás do vocabulário e na evolução do vocabulário para seus novos significados. Uma ferramenta de software torna o processo de construção de ontologias mais efi-ciente e produtivo, facilitando a comunicação entre os usuários e o armazenamento do conhecimento envolvido no processo. O uso de uma ontologia de fundamentação tem papel importante na obtenção do consenso comum, pois reduz as possibilidades de in-terpretação sobre o domínio através da categorização semântica dos elementos da onto-logia. Ela tem o objetivo de estabelecer uma base para obter-se coerência nas negocia-ções de significado sobre um modelo conceitual, guiando a construção do modelo e aju-dando a estabelecer a classificação taxonômica e as relações entre os conceitos. Dessa forma, obtém-se uma redução de ambiguidade e um aumento da precisão e consistência do modelo. Além disso, existem domínios imagísticos onde a representação simbólica linguística nem sempre é suficiente para explicitar certos conhecimentos, ou seja, onde o conhecimento visual é crucial para capturar informação e dar suporte à resolução de problemas. Este trabalho apresenta um modelo baseado em metaontologias para permitir a espe-cificação e colaboração de ontologias. A proposta inclui um sistema Web para a cons-trução colaborativa de ontologias, baseado em metadados que fornecem construtos pre-cisos. Alguns construtos são utilizados para embasar as escolhas ontológicas através da expressividade semântica de uma ontologia de fundamentação, enquanto outros permi-tem a associação de imagens e ícones para permitir maior entendimento do domínio. A colaboração foca na importância da fundamentação ontológica e do suporte ao conhe-cimento visual. / Ontologies are explicit conceptual models of consensual knowledge of a community regarding some particular interest. The main goal of ontologies is improving the com-munication inside a group of people making use of the explicitation of semantic rela-tionships that express the meaning of concepts. The correct classification of the entities of the world is a complex conceptual problem, since each individual retain his/her own abstraction of reality. When people collaborate to build the same conceptual model, many different opinions and divergences arise. Even restricting the domain of problem, the vocabulary exchange and ontology construction can bring unexpected complexity. The users can give distinct names to the same concept (synonym) or use the same word referring distinct concepts (false agreement). Therefore, collaboration has become an important part of the process of ontology development, supporting the explicitation of the concepts behind the vocabulary and the vocabulary evolution to their new meanings. The support of a software tool improves the efficiency of the ontology building pro-cess, helping the communication and the structured knowledge capturing. By its side, the use of a foundational ontology has an important role in achieving the common sense by reducing the interpretation possibilities of the domain objects when restrics the se-mantic characterization of the ontology elements. It provides a framework to achieve coherence in the meaning negotiation during the collaboration process. In this way, the model to be built has reduced its ambiguity and increased the precision and consistence of the ontology representation. This is more important when we consider domains where the visual knowledge plays an important role in filling the semantic gaps of the concepts. In these imagistic domains, the symbolic representation through a language are not enough to express the knowledge content, so visual pattern recognition is crucial to capture information and support problem resolution. This work presents a metaontologias based model to allow ontology specification and collaboration. The approach includes a Web system for the collaborative ontology building based in a set of metadata that provides specialized constructs to create the domain ontology elements. Some constructs are applied to support the ontological choices supported by the semantic expressivity of the foundational ontology primitives. Other constructs allow the association of images and icons to allow higher domain un-derstanding. This work considers the collaboration as a supporting instrument for build-ing ontologies, taking in consideration the importance of the ontological foundation and visual knowledge support.

Essa dissertação problematiza os discursos relacionados à ideia da colaboração dentro das práticas de Crowdfunding nos sites Catarse e Benfeitoria. A partir da perspectiva ético-estética, acompanhada de teorias relacionadas à Sociedade de Consumo e à Sociedade de Controle, realizo a análise através de três eixos de discussão: a colaboração entre o coletivo e os indivíduos; a colaboração entre indivíduos empreendedores; a colaboração como prática de liberdade e experiência política. A partir dessas reflexões, concluo que devem ser relativizadas e desnaturalizadas as ideias que dicotomizam coletivo e sujeito e que propõem a liberdade e a experiência política como produtos acessados por indivíduos que devem possuir características de empreendedores, pois este modelo de financiamento exige muitas vezes que se reproduza mecanismos de subjetivação hegemônicos, mas não deixa de possuir potência como dispositivo de oxigenação e de criação de novos territórios de resistência. / This dissertation discusses the discourses related to the idea of collaboration within the practices of the Crowdfunding websites Catarse and Benfeitoria. From the ethical-aesthetic perspective, accompanied by theories related to the Consumer Society and the Society of Control, analyze through three axes of discussion: the collaboration between the collective and the individuals; collaboration among enterprising individuals; collaboration as a practice of freedom and political experience. Based on these considerations, I conclude that must be relativized and denaturalized ideas that dichotomize collective subject and which propose freedom and political experience as products accessed by enterprising individuals because this funding model often requires the production of hegemonic subjectivity mechanisms, but it still has power as oxygenation device and can create new areas of resistance.

The aim is to evaluate the involvement of the three spheres of innovation in innovative projects funded by the EU, taking place in South Bohemia. From a methodological point of view of scientific inquiry is used in our study, the logical method, including analysis and synthesis, which in this case means a set of design measures to improve cooperation within the South Bohemia, pro-innovation projects. Own work prior to the study of literature addressed the issue, developing literature search related to the issue. Subsequently, within each sector analyzed three selected projects. These were chosen to implement them in the most studied reflected cooperation spheres. Selection of suitable projects had to precede the analysis of grant programs that currently support such cooperation and support included. The analysis of the subsidized projects followed separate survey, which is again from a different perspective to reveal how much the projects are implemented between the spheres together or separately. The present study demonstrated that the involvement of three basic spheres in innovation projects is not ideal. Not only are projects implemented by at least two spheres, often shows that the innovative project is designed rather isolated and only executor, that the applicant for the grant. The result of this work is a set of measures based on research that will improve the coherence of three spheres in the implementation of pro-innovation projects.

abstract: This document explores a community dance project at an orphanage in Mexico and the investigations following. This project researched how dance can be used to create a transformative and empowering experience for the participant and what discoveries of identity are made through dance. The research took place at an orphanage in Texcoco, Mexico and at Arizona State University. The participants in this research include three dance artists from Arizona State University and 10 ten-year-old children from Mexico. The portion that took place in Mexico was conducted in daily three-hour classes over the span of two weeks. For five months following the two weeks in Mexico, weekly rehearsals were held and a culminating concert was performed on November 20th–22nd of 2015. / Dissertation/Thesis / Masters Thesis Dance 2016

abstract: This dissertation examines the use of social media technologies by US local governments for internal and external collaboration. Collaboration is defined as the process of working together, pooling resources, sharing information and jointly making decisions to address common issues. The need for greater collaboration is evident from numerous examples in which public agencies have failed to effectively collaborate and address complex challenges. Meanwhile, the rise of social computing promises the development of ‘cultures of participation’ that enhance collaborative learning and knowledge production as part of everyday work. But beyond these gaps and expectations, there has been little systematic empirical research investigating the use of these powerful and flexible technologies for collaboration purposes. In line with prior research, my dissertation draws on sociotechnical and resource dependence theoretical approaches to examine how the interaction between technological and social context of an organization determine the adoption and use of a technology for a task. However, in a break with prior work that often aggregates social media technologies as one class of technology, this dissertation theorizes different classes of social media based on their functionality and purpose. As a result, it develops more explicit means by which organization, technical, and environmental context matter for effective collaboration. Based on the aforementioned theoretical approaches, the dissertation develops a theoretical model and several hypotheses, which it tests using a unique 2012 national survey of local governments in the US conducted by the Center for Science, Technology and Environmental Policy Studies at ASU. Overall, the findings of this dissertation highlight that the adoption and use of social media technologies for collaboration purposes can be understood as an outcome of stakeholder participation, innovativeness, and social media type. Insights from this dissertation contribute both to our theoretical understanding about social media technology adoption and use in government and provide useful information for agencies. / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation Public Administration 2016

abstract: Human-Robot collaboration can be a challenging exercise especially when both the human and the robot want to work simultaneously on a given task. It becomes difficult for the human to understand the intentions of the robot and vice-versa. To overcome this problem, a novel approach using the concept of Mixed-Reality has been proposed, which uses the surrounding space as the canvas to augment projected information on and around 3D objects. A vision based tracking algorithm precisely detects the pose and state of the 3D objects, and human-skeleton tracking is performed to create a system that is both human-aware as well as context-aware. Additionally, the system can warn humans about the intentions of the robot, thereby creating a safer environment to work in. An easy-to-use and universal visual language has been created which could form the basis for interaction in various human-robot collaborations in manufacturing industries. An objective and subjective user study was conducted to test the hypothesis, that using this system to execute a human-robot collaborative task would result in higher performance as compared to using other traditional methods like printed instructions and through mobile devices. Multiple measuring tools were devised to analyze the data which finally led to the conclusion that the proposed mixed-reality projection system does improve the human-robot team's efficiency and effectiveness and hence, will be a better alternative in the future. / Dissertation/Thesis / Masters Thesis Computer Science 2017