Schools should be safe places for young people to learn through freely expressing and sharing ideas. This requires respecting student privacy, as they otherwise feel distrusted and uncomfortable. At the same time, surveillance is becoming an increasingly important part of facilitating a safe school environment. This has created an interesting dynamic where increasingly pervasive surveillance solutions seeking safety and other benefits are threatening student privacy. Therefore, researchers stand before the urgent challenge of figuring out what is a desirable direction for this technology. This qualitative study focuses on students’ perspectives on surveillance and privacy. Data was collected through interviews, card sorting, and the use of a prototype together with scenarios. The results of the study expand upon current research and reveal that actively involving students in design and research processes is important to ensure sustainable solutions. Students desire more value in terms of control, assistance, safety and information. At the same time, many concerns about discomfort, distrust and abuse are present. A set of guidelines on important considerations for future surveillance research and design are presented which focus on collaboration, responsibilityand creativity. Key issues causing inefficient communication between studentsand researchers are discussed, and the need for providing further education on the topic is motivated.

In this paper, a study was conducted to explore social sustainability in HCI. The study focuses on people in destructive relationships and uses the notion of research through design to gain and share knowledge using design patterns. The study focused on creating methods for working more practically with social sustainability in HCI and used several design methods such as story share and capture to gain and share knowledge on the user group which was then presented in a pattern, consisting of a total of eight different patterns. The patterns was later tested with designers who suggested designs which users were then to rate from best to worst. The study show that design patterns can successfully be used to share knowledge, however the study also show some variation in how well design patterns are understood based on experience. Experienced designers tend to create better designs with the pattern than inexperienced. However, designers with the pattern designed better solutions than designers without regardless of experience.

O conhecimento dos mecanismos de interação entre o solo e os geossintéticos é fundamental para o dimensionamento de obras em solo reforçado. Entretanto, em função das diferentes formas geométricas das superfícies das inclusões, a interação pode ocorrer de maneiras distintas. Para as geogrelhas, o arrancamento representa o mecanismo de interação que, em alguns casos, melhor retrata as situações que ocorrem no campo. Esta tese apresenta uma análise dos principais fatores que influenciam na interação entre o solo e as geogrelhas quando solicitadas ao arrancamento, utilizando equipamentos de teste de portes grande e pequeno, bem como um equipamento que testa isoladamente os elementos longitudinais e transversais das geogrelhas. Apresenta-se ainda dois modelos numéricos que permitem avaliar o comportamento de geogrelhas de comprimento qualquer a partir de resultados de ensaios de arrancamento de pequeno porte ou dos ensaios nos elementos isolados da geogrelha. Os resultados dos ensaios realizados são comparados entre si, sugerindo a viabilidade de se utilizar equipamentos de pequenas dimensões para executar ensaios de arrancamento em geogrelhas em meio a solos finos, em detrimento dos testes de grande porte que demandam uma grande quantidade de solo e de mão-de-obra para serem executados. Por fim, apresenta-se um método que, utilizando os resultados obtidos dos testes de pequeno porte, pode ser usado para determinar os esforços de tração nas inclusões de estruturas em solo reforçado, considerando aspectos como a interação solo–reforço e a rigidez à tração das inclusões / The knowledge of interaction mechanisms between soil and geosynthetics is fundamental for designing reinforced-soil structures. However, due the variety of surface geometry found in commercially available geosynthetics, the interaction between soil and inclusions can occur on different ways. For the geodrids, the pullout interaction mechanisms is the one that, in some cases, best represents the field situations. This thesis presents an analysis of the main factors influencing the soil-geogrid interaction during pullout phenomena, using large and small-scale test boxes, as well as an device that tests longitudinal and transversal geodrid elements isolated. Two numerical models for evaluating the pullout behavior of large geogrid samples using small-scale and on element tests are also presented. The results of different tests are compared, showing the viability of using small-scale tests for testing geogrids embedded in fine soils instead of large-scale tests, that demand large quantities of soil and labor to be done. On the penultimate chapter, a method for evaluating the maximum tensile effort of reinforced slopes and walls is presented. This method uses the results obtained from small-scale pullout tests and considers some important aspects as soil-geogrid interaction and reinforcement rigidity

Recently developed co-design methods ask for users&rsquo / creative outcomes all through the design process. Designers are familiar with the creative process but users are not. The heuristic tasks given to users should reveal their creativity and harness it for high-quality outcomes. Contextmapping is a new co-design method following the same need as others / the method involves generative sessions in which users are asked to create artifacts communicating their needs and dreams about future products. Children are taking part in these processes and their involvement requires an understanding about their needs and abilities. Contextmapping with children has many aspects yet to be discovered, one of which is harnessing children&rsquo / s creativity during generative sessions. This forms the basis for this research. The thesis traces an overview of creativity, co-design with children, contextmapping with children and children&rsquo / s creativity. The literature review opens a new area for investigation about using competition, which is seen both detrimental and challenging for eliciting creativity from children, as a motivation during contextmapping activities. The empirical study is formed from six sessions aiming to find an answer to the effects of cooperation and competition on children&rsquo / s creativity during contextmapping sessions in regard to gender differences. The analyzed and discussed findings show that competition is a motivating element and has positive impacts on children&rsquo / s creativity, it increases children&rsquo / s motivation towards contextmapping tasks and the outcomes of the sessions are more appropriate to the expectations of the task.

Menas, kaip viena iš pirmaujančių žmogaus veiklos sferų užima bene pagrindinį vaidmenį žmonijos vystymosi raidoje. Šiuolaikinė meno sistema, bendradarbiaudama su švietimo sistema, kuria ateities visuomenės vizijas. Menininkai šioje sistemoje yra vieni iš svarbiausių dalyvių, susijusių su meno gamyba ir platinimu. Maža to, menininko profesija įdomi dar ir tuo, jog dalis jaunosios kartos bodisi bendra nusistovėjusia tvarka, ir būtent šioje terpėje radikaliam menininkui atsiranda galimybė sušvelninti trintį. / Art, as one of leading spheres of human activity, plays the main role in human evolution. A modern art system, while collaborating with education system, creates the visions of future society. Artists are one of the main participants, related with art production and distribution, in aforementioned system. What is more, the profession of artists is interesting because of the fact that a part of young generation has an aversion to general established order, and possibility for radical artist to reduce the friction appears precisely in this medium. Improvement of unsuitable system is often radical, while an artist – a revolutionary player. However, the breakthrough of postmodern radicalism condemns the artist for temporarily novelty, temporarily recognition and temporarily privileges.

In master‘s of science work there is presented an overview of career counselling in Lithuanian educational organizations. This work discusses the research made on the activity of the Siauliai University Career Center. There have been made document analysis and surveys (quizes). The quized people are Siauliai University senior students, University’s staff, employers colloborating with Šiauliai University Career Center. There have been made conclusions of the survey and document analysis. There has been confirmed the hypothesis that Siauliai University Career Center can function in such strategic directions as compiling the database of job searchers and proposals for jobs, providing aid to career people and developing of methodological basis.

Darbe nagrinėjamos šių dienų techninių projektų aktualijos tokios, kaip struktūra, darbų atlikimo kokybė, sparta, naujų technologijų įvedimas, klaidų analizė. Pastaruosius penkiolika metų įvyko dideli pasikeitimai Lietuvos ūkio struktūrose. Pirmiausia sugriuvo senoji projektavimo tvarka vykdančios ir kontroliuojančios institucijos, po to vėl iš naujo buvo pradedamos kurti naujos. Pradėta kurti įstatymų bazė. Lietuvai įstojus į Europos sąjungą, šie procesai vyksta ir šiandien, įstatymai pritaikomi bendrai Europos sąjungos veiklai. Be įstatymų pasikeitimų į Lietuvą plūstelėjo techninių naujovių banga. Susivienijus Europai ir atsivėrus bendrai prekių rinkai, senąsias technologijas ir senuosius gamintojus išstūmė, deja ne visada geresniais, kokybiniais sprendimais pasižymintys nauji prekių tiekėjai. Lietuva, kartu su senąją infrastruktūra, prarado ir senuosius projektuotojus, darbų vadovus, kitus specialistus. Vieni persikvalifikavo, kiti tiesiog prarado kvalifikaciją. Taigi, pastebimai atgijus ekonomikai, statybai Lietuvoje, didelę kadrų dalį sudaro jauni, neretai su patirties trūkumu, specialistai. Šiame darbe ištirta Lietuvoje esama techninių projektų ir šia veiklą reglamentuojančių dokumentų bei naujovių situacija. Šis darbas skirtas pradedančiam jaunam specialistui padėti, rasti tiesesnį kelią brandesnių, profesionalesnių projektų link. / Such modern-day questions of technical projects as structure, the quality of work accomplishment, the speed of work, the establishment of new technologies, analysis of mistakes are being analysed in this work. Considerable changes within economy structures of Lithuania have been taking place during late 15 years. First of all, all the institutions, which had pursued and administrated the methods and order of the old planning style, collapsed, later the new ones have been undertaken. The basis of legislation was launched. Since Lithuania entered the European Union the mentioned process has been taking place and nowadays, and the legislation is being adapted to the common activities of European Union. Moreover, despite the changes in legislation, the new wave of technical innovations has sprung. After consolidation of Europe and when the common commodity market was opened the new commodity suppliers (unfortunately, not always having decisions of better quality) superseded the old technologies and the old manufacturers. Lithuania has been losing its old designers, executives, the other proficient workers together with its old facilities. Some specialists have retrained, the other simply have lost their qualification. Consequently, since the economy and construction have visibly revived in Lithuania, the young specialists, often with lack of experience, have made a big proportion of the personnel. The present situation in Lithuania, related with its technical projects and... [to full text]

Magistro darbo tema: „Asmens, turinčio neįgalumą, veiksmų, sąlygojamų asmeninių galių ir socialinės aplinkos, reikšmė karjeros projektavimui“ Tyrimo objektas: . asmenų, turinčių neįgalumą, sprendimai ir veiksmai projektuojant karjerą Tyrimo problema: kokius sprendimus ir veiksmus, sąlygojamus asmeninių galių ir socialinių aplinkybių, atlieka žmogus, turintis neįgalumą, projektuodamas karjerą? Tyrimo tikslas: nustatyti, kokius veiksmus, žmogaus, turinčio neįgalumą, karjeros projektavime lemia asmeninės galios ir socialinės aplinkybės. Tyrimo uždaviniai: 1. Teoriškai pagrįsti karjeros projektavimo sampratą. 2. Atskleisti asmenų, turinčių neįgalumą, veiksmus siekiant karjeros, sąlygojamus asmeninių galių. 3. Atskleisti asmenų, turinčių neįgalumą, veiksmus projektuojant karjerą, sąlygojamus socialinės aplinkos. 4. Apibendrinti asmeninių galių ir socialinės aplinkos poveikį asmens, turinčio neįgalumą, karjeros projektavimui. Tyrimo metodika: mokslinės literatūros (psichologinės, pedagoginės, sociologinės) analizė; interviu; teksto turinio (content) analizė. Išvados:  Karjeros projektavimo sampratos vertinimas dviem pagrindiniais aspektais – asmeninėmis galiomis ir socialinė aplinkos įtaka – parodė, jog šie aspektai labai glaudžiai susiję.  Asmenų, turinčių neįgalumą, veiksmai projektuojant karjerą buvo sąlygoti iniciatyvumo, savarankiškumo, atvirumo kaitai, atsakingumo, sąmoningo ir laisvo pasirinkimo bei profesinės adaptacijos apraiškų.  Palanki... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / The theme of the work: „Person with a disability, the action induced personal empowerment and social environment, the importance of career planning“. The object of research - persons with disabilities, the decisions and actions of the design career. The problem of the research - the decisions and actions driven personal empowerment and social factors play a man with a disability, designing career? The aim of the research - determine what action, a person with a disability, a career in design leads to personal power and social circumstances. The objectives of the research: 1. Theoretically, based on the career design concept. 2. Exposing people with disabilities, steps towards a career-driven personal empowerment. 3. Exposing people with disabilities, steps in designing a career-driven social environment. 4. Summarize personal empowerment and social environment on the person with disability, career design. The research methods:: the scientific literature (psychological, educational, sociological) analysis, interviews, text content analysis. Conclusion:  Career Design concept evaluation in two main aspects - personal power and social influence of the environment - has shown that these aspects are closely linked.  Persons with a disability, the action has lead to a career in the design of initiative, independence, openness to change, responsibility, conscious and free choice, and professional adaptation manifestations.  favorable social environment gives him access to... [to full text]

Αντικείμενο της εργασίας μας, είναι η δημιουργία ενός γραφικού περιβάλλοντος για τη διαχείριση του συστήματος VOIP υπηρεσιών. Αυτό είναι ο Opensips Web Manager, μια ολοκληρωμένη λύση, από άποψη διαμόρφωσης, χρήσιμο για τον διαχειριστή ενός τηλεφωνικού συστήματος. Ο OWM είναι ένα web user interface, που έχει σχεδιαστεί με PHP. Χρησιμοποιείται για τη διαχείριση των πληροφοριών του συστήματος όσο και για τη διαχείριση της κατάστασης λειτουργίας των εξυπηρετητών, που στηρίζουν ένα VOIP σύστημα. O OWM. Ο διαχειριστής έχει πρόσβαση στον OWM μέσω ενός web browser και έτσι η φυσική θέση του διαχειριστή δεν περιορίζεται από την φυσική θέση του SIP εξυπηρετητή. Η αναζήτηση πληροφοριών, που αφορούν συνδρομητές, στοιχεία κλήσεων κ.α. γίνεται με τη δημιουργία «query», προς τη βάση δεδομένων του SIP εξυπηρετητή. Η μέθοδος ανάπτυξης της εφαρμογής μας ήταν δισδιάστατη. Αρχικά έγινε η υλοποίηση συστήματος VOIP υπηρεσιών, που περιελάμβανε τις διαμορφώσεις των εξυπηρετητών DHCPs , DNSs και OpenSIPs. Ακολούθησε η εγκατάσταση του WEBs εξυπηρετητή, που φιλοξενεί τον OWM. Τέλος σχεδιάστηκε το web user interface. / The subject of our project is to create a graphical user interface for managing systems that provide VOIP services. This is the Opensips Web Manager, a integrated solution regarding configuration, useful for the administration of a telephone system. OWM is a web user interface, designed using PHP. Especially OWM is used to manage system’s data and to control server’s status, which support a VOIP system. The administrator has access to the OWM through a web browser, so the physical location of the manager is not limited by SIP server’s physical location. The search for subscriber’ s and calling feature’s data, is performed by creating «query», to SIP server’s database. The method we use to develop our application has been two-dimensional. First was the implementation of VOIP service, which included the configurations of servers like DHCPs, DNSs and OpenSIPs. Next step was the installation of a WEB server that hosts OWM. Finally, we designed the web user interface.

The construction industry is by far the greatest consumer of resources and waste producer of all industries in the UK; being responsible for 32% of total waste generation, which equates to three times the combined waste produced by all households. Consequently, construction waste management and minimisation became a priority in the EU and UK environmental policy programmes resulting in a combined plethora of government-driven waste related legislation and guidance documents to curb construction waste production. Similarly, an ever-increasing global research on construction waste has been conducted over the last decade ranging from ‘soft' onsite waste auditing tools and methodologies to ‘hard' material and recycling technologies. However, the current state-of-research is largely dominated by endeavours to manage waste that has already been produced. Very few studies have been undertaken on how architects could go about minimising waste through a change in design practices. Hence, this research set out to construct and validate a Designing out Waste (DoW) Framework to assist architects in embedding design waste reduction strategies in each design stage.