The aims of the practical work carried out for this thesis were to redesign a clinical decision support system for thoracic surgeons, called AssistMe, and to evaluate the concept behind this system. The main objective of the thesis is to give an account of the considerations that were found to be of key importance for designing a clinical decision support system for thoracic surgery. Another aim was to let future users test the system after it had been redesigned and evaluate the concept behind it. The thesis also investigates users’ experience of the system and their views on whether it would be applicable in their daily work practice. An account is also given of experience of using QOC-notation during the design space analysis in a real design project like this one.

This three-paper dissertation examines the curriculum for a Language and Cultural Exchange (LACE) course from three different perspectives through a lens of Transformative Learning (TL). The first paper, found in chapter 2, is a design case chronicling the design decisions that were made in the process of transforming a LACE course from a face-to-face learning environment to an online learning environment. The second paper considers how to measure TL and applies a rubric for TL to student work across an entire semester. The final paper dives deep into one particular activity, related to academic integrity, to evaluate if small interventions, intentionally designed, can lead to TL through attitudinal change. When considered together, all three papers point to the possibility of measuring TL, the effectiveness of small educational interventions that are easy to implement in a classroom, and several key questions instructional designers should address when they are designing for TL. <br>

by Chan Ying-yee. / Thesis (M.B.A.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1994. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves [31-35]). / ABSTRACT --- p.ii / TABLE OF CONTENTS --- p.iii / LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS --- p.iv / LIST OF TABLES --- p.v / ACKNOWLEDGEMENT --- p.vi / Chapter / Chapter I. --- INTRODUCTION --- p.1 / Job Level Summary --- p.3 / Chapter II. --- CONCEPTUAL MODEL --- p.5 / Task Level Constructs --- p.7 / Purpose of the Present Study --- p.10 / Chapter III. --- METHODOLOGY --- p.12 / Power Analysis --- p.12 / Setting and Sample --- p.12 / Measures --- p.13 / Perceived Motivational Job --- p.13 / Characteristics Growth Need Strength --- p.16 / Job Satisfaction --- p.17 / Task-Level Affections --- p.19 / Analysis --- p.21 / Chapter IV. --- RESULTS --- p.22 / Chapter V. --- DISCUSSION --- p.28 / Limitations --- p.28 / Summary and Conclusion --- p.30 / BIBLIOGRAPHY

by Lam Chak Hou, Sunny, Yung Kai Tin, William. / Thesis (M.B.A.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1993. / Includes bibliographical references (leaf 58). / ABSTRACT --- p.i / TABLE OF CONTENTS --- p.ii / LIST OF FIGURES --- p.iii / PREFACE --- p.iv / CHAPTER / Chapter I. --- INTRODUCTION --- p.1 / Study Objectives --- p.4 / Chapter II. --- APPROACHES AND METHODOLOGY --- p.5 / Approach --- p.5 / Methodology --- p.6 / Chapter III. --- THE COMPANY --- p.8 / Hongkong Telecom (HKT) --- p.8 / Subsidiaries --- p.9 / Joint Ventures --- p.11 / Chapter IV. --- EXISTING SYSTEMS --- p.12 / Real-time Online Sales Executive (ROSE) --- p.15 / Subscriber Services Control (SSC) --- p.16 / Subscriber Billing (SBS) --- p.17 / Shortfalls of existing systems --- p.19 / Chapter V. --- DRAGON PROJECT --- p.21 / Background --- p.21 / Dragon System Functional Description --- p.23 / Dragon Project Team --- p.29 / Initial Project Plan --- p.32 / Project Management Mechanism --- p.34 / Project Status --- p.36 / Chapter VI. --- PROBLEMS --- p.38 / Chapter VII. --- CONCLUSIONS --- p.43 / Chapter VIII --- RECOMMENDATIONS --- p.49 / Dragon Project --- p.49 / Package Implementation in general --- p.54 / Final Comments --- p.58 / BIBLIOGRAPHY --- p.59

Like other branches, the health sector is also searching for new organisational forms in view of competitiveness. More and more, hospitals see themselves as integrated health care and service centres. This new view calls for structural and organisational consequences. This paper is to demonstrate how an architect can find systematic answers to these new requirements through his planning work. This paper presents a systematic strategy for the development of a concept for a hospital extension and also of the design of an integrated private practice for radiology and radiotherapy carrying out a fictitious conceptual study using the example of St. Elizabeth Hospital in Lörrach, Germany.

Denna studie syftar till att utforska integrationen av metoder för persuasive design i designprocessen för att på ett mer effektivt och pricksäkert sätt uppmuntra önskade användarbeteenden. Med bas i forskningen av Fogg och Cialdini fokuserar studien på att föreslå sätt att inkorporera persuasive design i den befintliga designprocessen hos en verklig kommunikationsbyrå. Genom en fallstudie som involverar dokumentgenomgång och workshops med intressenter strävar studien efter att få insikter i byråns designprocess och identifiera möjligheter för integrering av persuasive design. Den resulterande modellen fungerar som en riktlinje för att gemensamt definiera kritiska användarparametrar med kunder. Centralt för modellen är formuleringen av målbeteenden, vilka vägleder designarbetet mot att motivera och uppmuntra användare att utföra önskade beteenden. Genom att integrera metoder för persuasive design syftar modellen till att förbättra användarcentreringen och effektiviteten i designprocessen, även i situationer där direkta användarinsikter är begränsade. Studien avslutas med att betona vikten av målbeteenden för att styra en mer målinriktad designprocess och därigenom bidra till skapandet av skräddarsydda och relevanta designlösningar som överensstämmer med användarnas behov och preferenser. Sammantaget ger resultaten praktiska rekommendationer för att integrera metoder för persuasive design i designprocessen för att främja utförandet av önskade användarbeteenden. / This study aims to explore the integration of persuasive design methods within the design process to encourage desired user behaviors more effectively and accurately. Grounded in the research of Fogg and Cialdini, the study focuses on proposing ways to incorporate persuasive design into existing design processes, particularly within the context of a real communication agency. Through a case study involving document analysis and workshops with stakeholders, the research seeks to gain insights into the agency's design process and identify opportunities for integrating persuasive design. The resulting model serves as a guideline for collaboratively defining critical user parameters with clients. Central to the model is the formulation of goal behaviors, which guide design efforts towards motivating and encouraging users to perform desired actions. By integrating persuasive design methods, the model aims to enhance user-centredness and the effectiveness of the design process, even in situations where direct user insights are limited. The study concludes by emphasizing the importance of goal behaviors in directing a more targeted design process, thereby contributing to the creation of tailored and relevant design solutions that align with user needs and preferences. Overall, the findings provide practical recommendations for integrating persuasive design methods into the design process to promote the execution of desired user behaviors.

The National Museum of Australia (NMA) (1997- 2001) by architects Ashton Raggatt McDougall (ARM) in association with Robert Peck von Hartel Trethowan was commissioned by the Australian Commonwealth Government for the Centenary of Federation in 2001. It was conceived as a gift to the people of Australia and now stands on Acton Peninsula in Canberra, the nation's Capital. It is a visually complex manifestation of the design architects' (ARM) dialogue with the ambiguities of Australian history and national identity. The architectural realisation of these complexities was facilitated through advances in computer technologies and a complementary non-traditional procurement method, both at the leading edge of Australian architectural practice of the time. Completed three years earlier was probably the most debated work of architecture of the 1990s, the Guggenheim Museum (GMB) (1991-98) in Bilbao, Spain, by Frank O. Gehry and Associates (FOG&A). This satellite museum of the Guggenheim Foundation of New York was heralded as the quintessential example of a kind of architecture only possible because of advances in computer technologies. Both visually complex museums were conceived as flagship projects and consequently share many political, functional, and cultural expectations. Both were procured outside the usual adversarial designer/builder paradigm of western architecture and featured the innovative use of three-dimensional (CAD) software for design, documentation and analysis. The NMA project used a government instigated procurement method which was embraced by a group of design and construction companies who formed a joint venture known as the Acton Peninsula Alliance. This non-traditional or relationship-based procurement method required ARM to reassess their approach to generate and disseminate design data and their traditional relationship with other design and construction professionals. As part of this process, ARM were required to devolve some of their design authority to a project delivery team via a Design Integrity Panel and an Independent Quality Panel; both innovations integral to the Acton Peninsula Alliance. The NMA project reframed many of the enduring professional relationships of Australian architecture and in so doing extended the skill set and expectations of the architects and others to include a more substantial engagement with 3D CAD and a procurement system which was less subject to many of the common impediments inherent in the more traditional processes. Through a series of interviews with the architects and other stakeholders, a qualitative methodology was used to investigate the NMA as a case study which uses the GMB as an internationally recognised comparison. This thesis examines how these two projects have been successfully completed within time and budgetary constraints in an environment where flagship projects have had a history of highly publicised difficulties. It reveals that the successful realisation of the NMA was due to the relationships built or reframed as a result of this cooperative approach in conjunction with high levels of engagement with computer technologies. This is in contrast to the seamless flow of data and high levels of prefabrication integral to the success of the GMB. / http://proxy.library.adelaide.edu.au/login?url= http://library.adelaide.edu.au/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=1255317 / Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Adelaide, School of Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Design, 2006.

The National Museum of Australia (NMA) (1997- 2001) by architects Ashton Raggatt McDougall (ARM) in association with Robert Peck von Hartel Trethowan was commissioned by the Australian Commonwealth Government for the Centenary of Federation in 2001. It was conceived as a gift to the people of Australia and now stands on Acton Peninsula in Canberra, the nation's Capital. It is a visually complex manifestation of the design architects' (ARM) dialogue with the ambiguities of Australian history and national identity. The architectural realisation of these complexities was facilitated through advances in computer technologies and a complementary non-traditional procurement method, both at the leading edge of Australian architectural practice of the time. Completed three years earlier was probably the most debated work of architecture of the 1990s, the Guggenheim Museum (GMB) (1991-98) in Bilbao, Spain, by Frank O. Gehry and Associates (FOG&A). This satellite museum of the Guggenheim Foundation of New York was heralded as the quintessential example of a kind of architecture only possible because of advances in computer technologies. Both visually complex museums were conceived as flagship projects and consequently share many political, functional, and cultural expectations. Both were procured outside the usual adversarial designer/builder paradigm of western architecture and featured the innovative use of three-dimensional (CAD) software for design, documentation and analysis. The NMA project used a government instigated procurement method which was embraced by a group of design and construction companies who formed a joint venture known as the Acton Peninsula Alliance. This non-traditional or relationship-based procurement method required ARM to reassess their approach to generate and disseminate design data and their traditional relationship with other design and construction professionals. As part of this process, ARM were required to devolve some of their design authority to a project delivery team via a Design Integrity Panel and an Independent Quality Panel; both innovations integral to the Acton Peninsula Alliance. The NMA project reframed many of the enduring professional relationships of Australian architecture and in so doing extended the skill set and expectations of the architects and others to include a more substantial engagement with 3D CAD and a procurement system which was less subject to many of the common impediments inherent in the more traditional processes. Through a series of interviews with the architects and other stakeholders, a qualitative methodology was used to investigate the NMA as a case study which uses the GMB as an internationally recognised comparison. This thesis examines how these two projects have been successfully completed within time and budgetary constraints in an environment where flagship projects have had a history of highly publicised difficulties. It reveals that the successful realisation of the NMA was due to the relationships built or reframed as a result of this cooperative approach in conjunction with high levels of engagement with computer technologies. This is in contrast to the seamless flow of data and high levels of prefabrication integral to the success of the GMB. / http://proxy.library.adelaide.edu.au/login?url= http://library.adelaide.edu.au/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=1255317 / Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Adelaide, School of Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Design, 2006.

The National Museum of Australia (NMA) (1997- 2001) by architects Ashton Raggatt McDougall (ARM) in association with Robert Peck von Hartel Trethowan was commissioned by the Australian Commonwealth Government for the Centenary of Federation in 2001. It was conceived as a gift to the people of Australia and now stands on Acton Peninsula in Canberra, the nation's Capital. It is a visually complex manifestation of the design architects' (ARM) dialogue with the ambiguities of Australian history and national identity. The architectural realisation of these complexities was facilitated through advances in computer technologies and a complementary non-traditional procurement method, both at the leading edge of Australian architectural practice of the time. Completed three years earlier was probably the most debated work of architecture of the 1990s, the Guggenheim Museum (GMB) (1991-98) in Bilbao, Spain, by Frank O. Gehry and Associates (FOG&A). This satellite museum of the Guggenheim Foundation of New York was heralded as the quintessential example of a kind of architecture only possible because of advances in computer technologies. Both visually complex museums were conceived as flagship projects and consequently share many political, functional, and cultural expectations. Both were procured outside the usual adversarial designer/builder paradigm of western architecture and featured the innovative use of three-dimensional (CAD) software for design, documentation and analysis. The NMA project used a government instigated procurement method which was embraced by a group of design and construction companies who formed a joint venture known as the Acton Peninsula Alliance. This non-traditional or relationship-based procurement method required ARM to reassess their approach to generate and disseminate design data and their traditional relationship with other design and construction professionals. As part of this process, ARM were required to devolve some of their design authority to a project delivery team via a Design Integrity Panel and an Independent Quality Panel; both innovations integral to the Acton Peninsula Alliance. The NMA project reframed many of the enduring professional relationships of Australian architecture and in so doing extended the skill set and expectations of the architects and others to include a more substantial engagement with 3D CAD and a procurement system which was less subject to many of the common impediments inherent in the more traditional processes. Through a series of interviews with the architects and other stakeholders, a qualitative methodology was used to investigate the NMA as a case study which uses the GMB as an internationally recognised comparison. This thesis examines how these two projects have been successfully completed within time and budgetary constraints in an environment where flagship projects have had a history of highly publicised difficulties. It reveals that the successful realisation of the NMA was due to the relationships built or reframed as a result of this cooperative approach in conjunction with high levels of engagement with computer technologies. This is in contrast to the seamless flow of data and high levels of prefabrication integral to the success of the GMB. / http://proxy.library.adelaide.edu.au/login?url= http://library.adelaide.edu.au/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=1255317 / Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Adelaide, School of Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Design, 2006.

Despite attempts by the South African government in partnership with private sector to equip schools with computers, research has shown that technology integration into teaching and learning is very low. Literature revealed that professional development or capacitation of teachers as the key element in enabling them to utilise technology and integrate it in their teaching practices. The main aim of this study was to design and develop Information Communication and Technology (ICT) instructional tools which were to be used to train teachers in primary schools on how to integrate ICT into teaching and learning. Design research and Instructional design theories were employed in guiding this study. The study used the ADDIE model of Instructional design as a guiding principle in the design and development of the tools. The study is located in the positivist paradigm of exploring reality and the methodology employed in this study was quantitative in nature. The participants were 28 teachers from three primary schools. The sample was purposely selected since the schools were awarded computers after taking part in a water management project. The quantitative data to determine the participants‟ prior knowledge, effectiveness of the solution and the teachers‟ satisfaction with the designed solution were collected by means of two questionnaires administered in two phases: pre- and post- workshop. The results of this study revealed that capacitation of teachers have to lay the foundation for ICT integration into teaching and learning. Giving computers to schools can lead to successful integration once the teachers feel competent to use them. Furthermore, it is crucial that other intervention strategies be explored, to empower teachers. It is recommended that this study be transferred to other similar situations. / Curriculum and Instructional Studies / M. Ed. (Curriculum Studies)