Orientador : Roberto de Alencar Lotufo / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Eletrica e de Computação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-01T21:28:24Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Machado_RubensCampos_M.pdf: 1182112 bytes, checksum: 42c9e5c67b6513e518d22bb44c433780 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2002 / Mestrado

Mass production of consumer products is both wasteful and limit the consumers' power to influence the design of what they are buying. When shopping for a product, the customer must choose between a range of specific products with limited variations. What if the customer could make all the design choices, creating and buying the product according to his or her own needs? A 3D product generator holding a configurable model of a product was created to replace static content in online stores and give creative power to customers. This work aimed at creating an effective 3D product generator by evaluating how users experience the design of and interaction with it, and finding general design goals when introducing interactive 3D content in static 2D environments. A prototype of a 3D product generator in a generic online storefront was implemented in two iterations, improving on and evaluating the design through usability testing. The evaluation of the final prototype suggested that the interface was indeed effective in both design and interaction. This work concludes that user feedback is crucial to creating a successful user experience, which in turn is important when creating interfaces for product configuration.

The evaluation of football players during and after a football match is an important field of study for football trainers and also people in academia. In this project some of the achieved theoretical results are implemented. Scientific findings are put into a context where the broader general public is able to understand the research. The ultimate goal is to produce visualizations such that they can be integrated into an application called Twelve where an everyday user can access them.

Konsultbolag har behov av att kunna kommunicera sina konsulters kompetenser. Viktigt i dettaarbete blir konsultprofilsdokument som på ett enkelt och effektivt sätt ska kunna marknadsförabolaget. Målet med detta examensarbete var att skapa ett system för att effektivisera ochunderlätta hanteringen av konsultprofilsdokument för konsultbolaget 27M.Kravinsamling och behovsanalys genomfördes genom intervjuer samt en designworkshop medpersonal från bolaget. Ett webbaserat prototypsystem utvecklades från grunden i Python,HTML, CSS, Javascript med en MySQL databas. Systemet hanterar en mängd fördefinieradekonsultmallar och gör det möjligt att förändra dokumentens layout. Arbetet demonstrerar attdet är möjligt att skapa ett system för att hantera konsultprofiler.

Browsing the Web on a distant screen may very often become user’s unpleasant experience. Such a situation may happen in a living room environment, where the user attempts to browse the Web on TV sitting at 10-foot distance from the screen. In a vast number of web sites that the user is able to request, many may contain, for instance, tiny text characters, which would become unreadable when watched from the distance. On the other hand, also navigation through the Web offerings can become troublesome. Especially, when the user is only equipped with the commonly used remote controller, interaction with the displayed content may prove inefficient. Therefore, methods to overcome content visibility and navigation problems become challenging. In this thesis we perceive living room environment as a good scenario, in which web-enabled handheld devices could further be utilized to interact with Consumer Electronics products, such as TVs. This sort of interaction should make an advantage of publically available Web resources to have them displayed on TV and controlled from the distance by the user who is equipped with, for instance, a web-enabled mobile phone. We think that such an interaction approach would become beneficial in several ways, making the Web browsing routine an interactive, possibly a group activity. Discussed in this thesis solutions are the first step of automatic transformations of web content into a form that can be rendered on Web4CE (Web for Consumer Electronics) products. A particularly important aspect of the proposed system is the concept of request/response HTTP message processing and HTML modification. According to this approach, living room browsing activity should be achievable without the need to re-author already existing web sites.

The thesis describes the design and implementation of an application for processing electronic publications (collections of conference papers, comprehensive manuals, or even classical electronic books) in order to enrich their internal navigation by hyperlinks between their related parts, respectively producing as representative as possible summarizations of given length. Unlike similar applications summarizations can be based not only on the sentences, but on elements of other categories like paragraphs, sections and the like.The main emphasis was put on ease of use, platform independence, and multilingual support. The application provides a flexible environment that can be customized to user's needs.

Recent trends show an increase in the availability and functionality of handheld devices, wireless network technology, and electronic display networks. We propose the novel integration of these technologies to provide wireless access to content delivered to large-screen display systems. Content adaptation is used as a method of reformatting web pages to display more appropriately on handheld devices, and to remove unwanted content. A framework is presented that facilitates content adaptation, implemented as an adaptation layer, which is extended to provide personalization of adaptation settings and response to network conditions. The framework is implemented as a proxy server for a wireless network, and handles HTML and XML documents. Once a document has been requested by a user, the HTML/XML is retrieved and parsed, creating a Document Object Model tree representation. It is then altered according to the user’s personal settings or predefined settings, based on current network usage and the network resources available. Three adaptation techniques were implemented; spatial representation, which generates an image map of the document, text summarization, which creates a tree view representation of a document, and tag extraction, which replaces specific tags with links. Three proof-of-concept systems were developed in order to test the robustness of the framework. A system for use with digital slide shows, a digital signage system, and a generalized system for use with the internet were implemented. Testing was performed by accessing sample web pages through the content adaptation proxy server. Tag extraction works correctly for all HTML and XML document structures, whereas spatial representation and text summarization are limited to a controlled subset. Results indicate that the adaptive system has the ability to reduce average bandwidth usage, by decreasing the amount of data on the network, thereby allowing a greater number of users access to content. This suggests that responsive content adaptation has a positive influence on network performance metrics.

The thesis is about the phenomena and benefits of design and development for mobile devices. Theoretical part of the thesis is focused on describing the mobile market's and devices' specifics and their future development and reasoning their values. In-depth description of the methods and problems of mobile applications' design with focus on web applications is included as well as the overview of technologies for mobile web development. Capability comparison of these technologies with the possibilities of native applications are described too. The practical part of the thesis aims to verify these theories by applying them to a real project (news portal). After an implementation part the thesis provides an analysis of the benefits this implementation provided to the project. The main goals of this thesis are providing complex overview of the methods and technologies for mobile web development and the analysis, which verifies the benefits and outcomes of these theories in real practice. Results of this analysis are as well the main contribution of this theses as it provides valuable information about the benefits of described methods on real project which is used by many users. Other contribution is the part describing the implementation which unveils practical information and real problems of described theoretical methods on practical examples.

Orientador : Yuzo Iano / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Eletrica e de Computação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-03T15:06:30Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Moura_AntonioGilbertode_M.pdf: 9110464 bytes, checksum: 7065ce0ccb8423e69937937ed11d6b03 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2002 / Mestrado

The goal of this master thesis was create suitable and easy to use software, which can help workers with maintaining of elevator. For this purpose it was necessary to study communication interface and protocol of control unit borrowed from the company Výťahy ZEVA s. r. o. There was necessary to find suitable device for communication between control unit and server. Server is used for store and visualize actual data of elevator system. Server can set the parameters of the elevator remotely and demand actual configuration of elevator. User can watch historical data from server. The users use server after authentication with different competency. Users with an appropriate competency can set the notifications in the system, which can warn their in case of problem with elevator and reduce the reaction time and time to resolution of the problem.