Visual analytics of large amounts of spatio-temporal data is challenging due to the overlap and clutter from movements of multiple objects. A common approach for analyzing such data is to consider how groups of items cluster and move together in space and time. However, most methods for showing Spatio-temporal Cluster (STC) properties, concentrate on a few dimensions of the cluster (e.g. the cluster movement direction or cluster density) and many other properties are not represented. Furthermore, while representing multiple attributes of clusters in a single view existing methods fail to preserve the original shape of the cluster or distort the actual spatial covering of the dataset. In this thesis, I propose a simple yet effective visualization, FlockViz, for showing multiple STC data dimensions in a single view by preserving the original cluster shape. To evaluate this method I develop a framework for categorizing the wide range of tasks involved in analyzing STCs. I conclude this work through a controlled user study comparing the performance of FlockViz with alternative visualization techniques that aid with cluster-based analytic tasks. Finally the exploration capability of FlockViz is demonstrated in some real life data sets such as fish movement, caribou movement, eagle migration, and hurricane movement. The results of the user studies and use cases confirm the advantage and novelty of the novel FlockViz design for visual analytic tasks.

Theme of this thesis is how to choose between agile methodologies of software development. Several agile methodologies, such as SCRUM, Kanban and eXtreme programming are described and also methods of choosing between methodologies or management techniques are discussed. New method of multi-criteria decision process on how to choose between Agile methodologies based on multi-dimensionality is presented with option of improving agile experience by adopting additional techniques. Diploma thesis can serve as managers' hand-book for those who want to change their current software development methodologies or are searching for ways of improving their agile adoption.

This Master’s thesis deals in detail with the SIP protocol – a method of communication between two entities, various types of transmitted messages and their content. Few SIP libraries are introduced and two of them are used for development of an application for audio/video conference-calls. Compilation of OPAL and PTlib libraries for Windows 7 Professional (64bit) is described, and problems resulting from lack of information provided by authors. New improved “how to build” is presented. At the end, paper focuses on several ways of development of mentioned application.

This diploma thesis is focused on suggesting a motivational system for chosen company. First part of the thesis results from theoretical findings concerning the given issue that were processed on the basis of professional literature. The analytical part deals with society itself and analysis of current motivational system on the basis of internal company sources and questionnaire survey. Last part of the thesis contains individual suggestions that should contribute to the improvement of the current state of the motivational system and total employee satisfaction.

In this essay, I go through the different parts that compile my degree project. I have explored the power of graphic design for educational purposes. During my process, I have found a new area of graphic design, respectful design. Something that can be briefly described as design created with the greatest reverence for conveying a difficult subject without diminishing the affected person behind. An approach where one works closely with the involved and frequently checks in, so that nothing is portrayed incorrectly. This along with the constant search for information makes up the basics of respectful design. The disease ME has finally begun to be talked about in society. But the way the disease is portrayed can be argued as incorrect in relation to the bigger picture. As a graphic designer I have analyzed the problem and worked out a possible solution. My conclusion is that strong colors mixed with melancholy and straightforward information can make the subject less heavy and easier to handle. This can open the senses to problem solving and understanding instead of stopping at pity. The aim of the project has been to get away from these dark quilts that the media has placed on us. The goal was to create something that does not hide the awfulness of the disease but informs in a more fun and more inviting way. I strongly believe that graphic design can reduce the social stigma around a topic if done properly. When life is the toughest it has helped me and (after the response of the exhibition) others to learn more about our disease. Above all, if more people know more about the disease, ME- patients will get help. Hopefully society will open it’s arms so that no more people are forced to choose suicide. / I denna uppsats går jag igenom de olika delarna som sammanställer mitt examensprojekt. Jag har i grunden utforskat kraften av grafisk design i utbildningssyfte. Under min process har jag kommit fram till ett nytt område inom grafisk design, respektfull design. Detta går kort att beskriva som design utformat med största vördnad inför att förmedla ett svårt ämne utan att förminska den drabbade människan bakom. Respektfull design innebär att man jobbar nära med inblandade, kollar av hela tiden så att inget porträtteras felaktigt och läser på om ämnet så långt det går. Sjukdomen ME har äntligen börjat talas om i samhället. Men sättet sjukdomen porträtteras kan argumenteras som svartvitt och felaktigt gentemot helhetsbilden. Som grafisk designer har jag analyserat problemet och jobbat fram en möjlig lösning. Min slutsats är att starka färger blandat med melankolisk och rak information kan göra ämnet mindre tungt och mer lätthanterligt. Detta kan öppna sinnena för problemlösning och förståelse istället för att stanna vid medlidande. Syftet med projektet har varit att komma ifrån detta mörk täcke som media lagt över oss. Målet var att skapa något som inte döljer det hemska med sjukdomen men informerar på ett roligare och mer inbjudande sätt. Jag tror stark på att grafisk design kan minska det sociala stigmat runt ett ämne om det görs på rätt sätt. När livet är som tuffast har det hjälpt mig och (efter respons av utställningen) också andra med att utbilda och läsa på. Framför allt om fler vet mer om sjukdomen kommer det att gå att få bättre hjälp. Förhoppningvis öppnar samhället sina armar så att inte fler tvingas till att välja självmord.

Abstract of Master essay - 10 HP Izabel Lind Färnstrand Mentor: Emma Kihl Examinator: Sigrid Sandström How to Prepare for Death In this essay I dwell into the failures of our moral senses in relation to the concept of death. How does modern death culture affect our way of life and our ability to take responsibility for the life and death of others? These questions are formed by these current times and affect both my art practice and my everyday life. When facing death within my family it occur- red to me that my and my family’s relationship to death is failing us. I have become frustra- ted with the fear and silence that seems too natural to my surrounding. Not being able to talk about a part of life that is inevitable seems irrational. It became clear when the lack of under- standing and acceptance of death caused relatives an immense suffering. The struggle seemed unnessesary and urged me to try to understand more, based on their deaths. Seeing how very different the experience of dying can be made me wonder what makes a ”good” death possible for some and others not. From there my interest in the topic death culture and fear emerged, and this essay touches on this in a variety of aspects. I use my personal experiences in combina- tion with thoughts of others to talk of layers of these issues through my artistic practice. This personal method is my way of trying to structure a thinking – in a way that I can use and make sense of it – with a varied level of success. I feel it is important to note that I don’t claim to have any answes. This essay is more an attempt to pose questions around human behaviour. Even though many of these ques- tions have been asked over and over again, throughout different times, I believe it is impor- tant to ask them again and again. As long as the Human is part and violently effecting this suffering world. Many of the thoughts in this essay are based on fragments of ideas by Judith Butler, espe- cielly from her book Frames of War: When is Life Grievable? (2009). I also reference Caitlin Doughty’s From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death (2017) and and Sogyal Rinpoche The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying (1992). The themes gathered that I try to make use of in this essay and in my artistic practice are purpose, fear, death, health, happiness, narcissim and resposibility. / Abstract of Artistic work How to Prepare for Death @ Galleri Mejan, Exercisplan 3, october 2019 Media: Spatial installation with a performance (1 h) Materials: Clay, plaster, metal & red plastic film How to Prepare for Death is a spatial installation in one of the gallery rooms of Galleri Mejan. The work includes the whole space of the area, such as the floor and the walls. You step into an altered reality, where the floor is covered with clay that is cracking increasingly over time and windows that are tinted red so that the air you breath seems red. When you enter your eyes need to adjust and after a while it is rather the outside that seems colored, neon green -  the complementary color of red. From the clay there are metal rods sticking out vertically, with plaster sculptures at the end. These sculptures are broken, and resemble body parts with a medical aesthetics. Similar sculptures come out from the walls, like fragile fragments of something that used to be. When you walk around the sculptures the clay crackle under your feet, and crumble into smaller pieces and dust. It is constructed as an ambivalent experience of nothingness, emptiness, ”afterness” and a sanctuary of thoughts. My questions about life and death drive me to investigate how to create spaces for these subjects to feel present, so that we can face our fears.

This diploma theses deals with the issues of music in movies. However, it is also focused on the life of Varhan Orchestrovič Bauer, one of the temporary Czech film music composer. I approached his life through a biography and an interview. Then I developed the matters of film music upon his work. First, I discussed the historic point of view and than the practical one - three interviewees helped me with that. Futher, I described the process of recording in Smecky Music Studio and I also analysed two parts of soundtrack from the movie Against the Wild which was composed by Varhan Orchestrovič Bauer and demonstrated the use of film music in educational practice. Last but not least, the results of a questionare are introduced to show how people perceive film music and its composers.

Esta pesquisa busca contribuir para o desenvolvimento de projetos de formação contínua de educadores da rede pública, que trabalham com ensino de música na escola de Educação Infantil e no Ensino Fundamental I. A investigação compreende duas fases. A primeira dialogando e refletindo sobre contribuições de Caldeira Filho e do Experimental da Lapa, dentre outros, referentes a música na escola. A segunda descrevendo e analisando o projeto de pesquisa-ação Tocando, cantando,...fazendo música com crianças, da Secretaria Municipal de Educação de Mogi das Cruzes, (SP), apresentando considerações para o desenvolvimento de projetos de formação contínua de educadores em ensino de música, capazes de promover a superação da barreira do ensino tradicional, desenvolvendo a linguagem sonora e musical e a produção de conhecimentos sobre ensino de música para crianças, a partir da incorporação de novos paradigmas de ensino. Orientaram-me os seguintes objetivos: Contribuir com a produção de conhecimentos para desenvolver projetos de formação contínua de educadores da rede pública, em ensino de música para crianças; propiciar ao educador em exercício na Educação Infantil e no Ensino Fundamental I, em processo de formação contínua, saber música e saber ser educador que trabalha com música. Procedi a uma pesquisa qualitativa, na modalidade de pesquisa-ação colaborativa/comunicacional. A análise dos dados recolhidos ao longo do desenvolvimento do projeto resulta em princípios norteadores de Projetos de Formação Contínua de Educadores, para a superação do modelo tradicional de ensino de música, propiciadores da incorporação de novos paradigmas de ensino. São eles: construídos a partir dos docentes, de suas experiências profissionais, de seus conhecimentos e desconhecimentos de música e do ensino de música; privilegiam o lócus da escola como espaço de construção, inscrevem-se em seu Projeto Político Pedagógico; são de realização interdisciplinar; e no modo de pesquisa-intervenção, procedimento indispensável para cobrir pontos fundamentais em projetos de Formação Contínua de Professores de Música para crianças, quais sejam: 1. proceder a avaliação diagnóstica, processual e final; 2. articular o trabalho escolar de prática de ensino-investigativa, com trabalho de pesquisa-ensino da Universidade; 3. dar conta de importantes funções de um ensino produtivo de música: a) que providencie ensino de música como linguagem, incluindo música popular de tradição à erudita; b) que resulte na produção de conhecimento sobre ensino de música, no registro desse conhecimento produzido e em sua socialização através de escrita, publicação de artigos, participação em congressos; c) que se realize de forma contextualizada, envolvendo profissionais de música e ensino de música, bem como amadores da comunidade onde a escola se situa. / This research is aimed at contributing to the development of continuous training projects for elementary public school music teachers. Investigation includes two phases. The first dialogues and reflects on the contributions provided by the Caldeira Filho and Experimental da Lapa schools among others, related to music in the classroom. The second describes and analyzes the Tocando, cantando ... fazendo música com crianças (Playing, singing ... making music with children) research-action project mounted by the Mogi das Cruzes (SP) Municipal Secretariat of Education, and discusses proposals for the development of continuous training projects for music teachers on how to overcome the barriers of traditional teaching by developing sound and music languages and producing knowledge on music teaching for children by incorporating new teaching paradigms. The following objectives were sought: to contribute to the production of knowledge leading to developing projects of continuous training for public school music teachers who work with children; to design projects for Elementary School teachers involved in a continuous training process in order for them to know music and know how to be a teacher working with music. I conducted a qualitative collaborative/communicational research-action research project. Analysis of data collected during the projects development resulted in the creation of some guiding principles for Continuous Training Projects for teachers on how to overcome traditional music teaching models and incorporate new teaching paradigms. They are developed by the teaching staff from their professional experience and knowledge of music and music teaching; they favor the school locus as a constructive space, and enroll the teachers in a Political Pedagogical Project; they consist of an interdisciplinary aspect of the research-intervention type, a procedure that is essential for fulfilling fundamental aspects in Continuous Training projects for music teachers working with children, which are: 1. making a diagnostic, procedural and final evaluation; 2. making a link between the teaching-investigation work being conducted at the school and the research-teaching work occurring at the University; 3. treating the important functions of productive music teaching, which must: a) provide the teaching of music as a language, including traditional popular and classical music; b) result in the production of knowledge about music teaching which should be recorded, and published in papers, articles, lectures in congresses, etc; c) be accomplished in a contextualized way through the involvement of music and professional music teachers as well as amateur musicians in the community where the school is located.

Esta pesquisa busca contribuir para o desenvolvimento de projetos de formação contínua de educadores da rede pública, que trabalham com ensino de música na escola de Educação Infantil e no Ensino Fundamental I. A investigação compreende duas fases. A primeira dialogando e refletindo sobre contribuições de Caldeira Filho e do Experimental da Lapa, dentre outros, referentes a música na escola. A segunda descrevendo e analisando o projeto de pesquisa-ação Tocando, cantando,...fazendo música com crianças, da Secretaria Municipal de Educação de Mogi das Cruzes, (SP), apresentando considerações para o desenvolvimento de projetos de formação contínua de educadores em ensino de música, capazes de promover a superação da barreira do ensino tradicional, desenvolvendo a linguagem sonora e musical e a produção de conhecimentos sobre ensino de música para crianças, a partir da incorporação de novos paradigmas de ensino. Orientaram-me os seguintes objetivos: Contribuir com a produção de conhecimentos para desenvolver projetos de formação contínua de educadores da rede pública, em ensino de música para crianças; propiciar ao educador em exercício na Educação Infantil e no Ensino Fundamental I, em processo de formação contínua, saber música e saber ser educador que trabalha com música. Procedi a uma pesquisa qualitativa, na modalidade de pesquisa-ação colaborativa/comunicacional. A análise dos dados recolhidos ao longo do desenvolvimento do projeto resulta em princípios norteadores de Projetos de Formação Contínua de Educadores, para a superação do modelo tradicional de ensino de música, propiciadores da incorporação de novos paradigmas de ensino. São eles: construídos a partir dos docentes, de suas experiências profissionais, de seus conhecimentos e desconhecimentos de música e do ensino de música; privilegiam o lócus da escola como espaço de construção, inscrevem-se em seu Projeto Político Pedagógico; são de realização interdisciplinar; e no modo de pesquisa-intervenção, procedimento indispensável para cobrir pontos fundamentais em projetos de Formação Contínua de Professores de Música para crianças, quais sejam: 1. proceder a avaliação diagnóstica, processual e final; 2. articular o trabalho escolar de prática de ensino-investigativa, com trabalho de pesquisa-ensino da Universidade; 3. dar conta de importantes funções de um ensino produtivo de música: a) que providencie ensino de música como linguagem, incluindo música popular de tradição à erudita; b) que resulte na produção de conhecimento sobre ensino de música, no registro desse conhecimento produzido e em sua socialização através de escrita, publicação de artigos, participação em congressos; c) que se realize de forma contextualizada, envolvendo profissionais de música e ensino de música, bem como amadores da comunidade onde a escola se situa. / This research is aimed at contributing to the development of continuous training projects for elementary public school music teachers. Investigation includes two phases. The first dialogues and reflects on the contributions provided by the Caldeira Filho and Experimental da Lapa schools among others, related to music in the classroom. The second describes and analyzes the Tocando, cantando ... fazendo música com crianças (Playing, singing ... making music with children) research-action project mounted by the Mogi das Cruzes (SP) Municipal Secretariat of Education, and discusses proposals for the development of continuous training projects for music teachers on how to overcome the barriers of traditional teaching by developing sound and music languages and producing knowledge on music teaching for children by incorporating new teaching paradigms. The following objectives were sought: to contribute to the production of knowledge leading to developing projects of continuous training for public school music teachers who work with children; to design projects for Elementary School teachers involved in a continuous training process in order for them to know music and know how to be a teacher working with music. I conducted a qualitative collaborative/communicational research-action research project. Analysis of data collected during the projects development resulted in the creation of some guiding principles for Continuous Training Projects for teachers on how to overcome traditional music teaching models and incorporate new teaching paradigms. They are developed by the teaching staff from their professional experience and knowledge of music and music teaching; they favor the school locus as a constructive space, and enroll the teachers in a Political Pedagogical Project; they consist of an interdisciplinary aspect of the research-intervention type, a procedure that is essential for fulfilling fundamental aspects in Continuous Training projects for music teachers working with children, which are: 1. making a diagnostic, procedural and final evaluation; 2. making a link between the teaching-investigation work being conducted at the school and the research-teaching work occurring at the University; 3. treating the important functions of productive music teaching, which must: a) provide the teaching of music as a language, including traditional popular and classical music; b) result in the production of knowledge about music teaching which should be recorded, and published in papers, articles, lectures in congresses, etc; c) be accomplished in a contextualized way through the involvement of music and professional music teachers as well as amateur musicians in the community where the school is located.

U.S. students with learning disabilities' math skills acquisition has been on the decline in recent years. Studies show that teachers using traditional methods of teaching math lack knowledge of task analysis, chunking, sequencing, mass practice, modeling, and repetition of instruction. These components of direct instruction or pedagogical activities are hallmarks of special education teaching and are collectively described as cognitive support pedagogy. The study evaluated direct instruction teaching strategies to teach Common Core math to middle school students with learning disabilities, to determine if the current downward trend in math skills acquisition amongst them can be reversed. The theoretical framework of this study was based on Watson's theory of behavioral psychology as it applied to learning and teaching. The participants consisted of a convenience sample of students with learning disabilities. The study used a Solomon 4-group experimental design, in a series of two One-way ANOVAs to measure differences in math score by intervention for pretested and for non-pretested students, with one Factorial 2 X 2 ANOVA which measured for differences by interaction between pre-testing and intervention. Results of ANOVAs were significant at the α-levels of .05 (F (1,78) = 233.66 p < .001), indicating that significant differences existed in math scores of pre-tested students who received intervention and those who did not. The study is significant to teachers, curriculum developers, and instructional leaders because it is the first study of its kind to measure the outcomes of Common Core math using direct instruction and it points a way forward to creating positive social change by increasing students' graduation rates and promoting students' engagement in school and beyond.