As novas tecnologias de comunicação têm transformado sobremaneira o mundo em que vivemos, incluindo aí a cultura. Neste contexto, muito se discute sobre o futuro da literatura e dos livros, mas este estudo evita especular sobre a permanência ou não do objeto livro e prefere investigar as possibilidades da criação literária diante de novos suportes de leitura, em especial o iPad. Assim como outrora a invenção da imprensa forjou o romance e a popularização das revistas e jornais consolidou o conto moderno, investiga-se de que forma ferramentas próprias das novas tecnologias são utilizadas para a criação de textos literários diferentes do texto impresso, a chamada literatura digital. Para fazer essa comparação, foram usados os dois célebres romances de Lewis Carroll, Alice no País das Maravilhas e Através do Espelho e o que Alice Encontrou por lá, e duas versões da Atomic Antelope, de Chris Stephens, para iPad: Alice for iPad e Alice in New York. Ao final do estudo, que discute também a questão do fim do livro e da literatura, traçando um longo histórico da leitura e contextualizando o livro no que se chama de Era Digital, espera-se mostrar como as possibilidades de criação para plataformas digitais podem ir além do que hoje entendemos por livros, motivo pelo qual a permanência da literatura, independente do seu suporte, está assegurada. / New communication technologies have immensely changed the world in which we live, as well as its culture. Within such context, much has been discussed about the future of literature and books. This study avoided speculating about the persistence of books as physical objects, and, rather, investigated the possibilities of literary creation in face of the new reading media, particularly the iPad. As the invention of the press forged the novel, and the popular spread of magazines and newspapers consolidated modern short stories in the past, we currently investigate how new technological tools may be used to create literary texts, called digital literature, that are different from the print-based text. For this comparison, we used two renowned novels by Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, and two versions of the Atomic Antelope, by Chris Stephens, for iPad: Alice for iPad and Alice in New York. This study also discussed the possible demise of books and literature by outlining the long history of reading that has set the context for books in the Digital Era; Therefore, it demonstrated that the possibilities of literary creation for digital platforms may go beyond what we understand to be books today, which is why the persistence of literature, regardless of what medium it uses, is ensured.

The aim of this thesis is to create data acquisition application. The software module is designed for the industrial panel PC. Power Panel 520 from Bernecker + Reiner and the data acquisition board NI USB-6215 from National Instruments represent the fundamental hardware components for this project. Data acquisition and visualization tasks are controlled by a standalone application made in LabVIEW 2011. OPC, industrial standard in communication, is responsible for mutual interconnection between control (PLC) and data acquisition part. Network shared variables and Apple iPad 2 allow remote surveillance for operator. Finally, the creation of user-friendly interface and integration of technologies from different vendors, are main goals of this project.

The purpose of this study is to investigate whether there are differences between students' narrative texts written by hand or with an iPad (with keyboard). This comparative study analyzes 54 narrative texts written by students in grade 6. The method of analysis is a combination of a qualitative text analysis model with a quantitative content analysis of the texts, with different measurable variables. The text analysis model systematizes the content of the texts in the categories content, structure and linguistic features, and writing rules. The quantitative analysis is based on measurable variables within the framework of the categories and these are text length, word class distribution, nominal quota, paragraph classification, word length and word variation, readability index, misspellings and spelling and verbal words. The quantitative study has been processed statistically with Swegram. The results show that there are differences in the student grades written by hand and digitally in all three categories. The digital texts are longer, contain more descriptive descriptions, a clearer structure, a more varied language and less spelling errors. But the entirety of the digital texts is not exceptional. Students use a more complicated writing style, vary their language and use more difficult words. However, many students do not have the knowledge, skills or the technical writing ability to compose a clarity of communicate the content in the text. Writing digitally has great advantages over handwriting, but there are also disadvantages. / Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka om det finns skillnader i elevers berättande texter när de skriver för hand med papper och penna eller skriver på iPad med tangentbord (digi­talt verktyg). I denna jämförande studie analyseras 54 berättande texter skrivna av elever i årskurs 6. Analysmetoden är en kombination av en kvalitativ textanalysmodell och en kvantitativ innehållsanalys av texterna, med olika mätbara variabler. Textanalysmodellen systematiserar texternas innehåll i kategorierna innehåll, struktur samt språkliga drag och skrivregler. Den kvantitativa analysen bygger på mätbara variabler inom ramen för kate­gorierna. Dessa är textlängd, ordklassfördelning, nominalkvot, styckeindelning, ordlängd och ordvariation, läsbarhetsindex, stavfel och särskrivningar och talspråk. Den kvantita­tiva studien har bearbetats statistiskt med hjälp av Swegram. Resultatet visar att det finns skillnader i elevtexterna skrivna för hand och digitalt inom alla tre kategorierna. De digitala texterna är längre, innehåller fler gestaltande beskrivningar och har tydligare struktur, ett mer varierat språk och färre stavfel. Men de digitala texternas helhet är inte alltid bättre. Eleverna använder ett mer avancerat skrivsätt, varierar sitt språk och använder svårare ord. Emellertid har flera elever inte kunskapen eller den skrivtekniska förmågan att komponera tydlighet i budskap och innehåll. Att skriva digitalt har stora fördelar framför att skriva för hand men det finns även nackdelar.

This thesis deals with the changes in the pattern of Internet content consumption caused by the new types of device, such as smart phones and tablets. In the second Chapter following the introduction, these devices are introduced, as well as their users. The third and crucial chapter first discusses how changed the activities that we have performed on a PC or laptop. The next section presents a completely new activities that occurred up with smart phones such as geolocation games and mobile tagging. The fourth chapter focuses on the mobile internet in the Czech Republic. Part of this charter is a private research / comparison of 100 most visited websites, when the endpoint was to determine how the authors of these sites are prepared for mobile visitors. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

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This dissertation investigates meaning-making in children's joint-reading transactions with literary apps. The analysis of meaning-making focuses on embodiment as a central aspect of literary app's texts and their reading and on children's negotiation of agency in the act of joint-reading. Meaning-making is understood through a multimodal social semiotics perspective, which considers that meaning is realised in the dynamic transaction between reader, text and social context. Therefore, the dissertation integrates the analysis of the apps and of the children's responses to capture the dynamics of meaning-making in such transactions. Case studies were conducted with six families, who read the apps The Monster at the End of This Book (Stone & Smollin, 2011) and Little Red Riding Hood (Nosy Crow, 2013) in an English public library. The central method of data collection involved video-recorded observations of parent-child joint-reading events, complemented by graphic elicitation, informal interviews and a questionnaire. The video data was analysed through multimodal methods. The findings indicate that the participant readers used their bodies not only as a material point of contact and activation of the interactive features but also as a resource for meaning-making in their transactions with the apps. The reader's body was essential in their engagement with the material and interactive affordances of the apps, in reader's expressions of their responses, and in the sharing of the reading experience with the parents. The body of the reader, through spontaneous and interactive gestures, is a mode of communication in the multimodal ecologies of both the text and the reader's responses. Furthermore, the child readers constantly negotiated their agency within the constraints posed by the text, which include the narrative itself and its interactive features, and those posed by the joint-reading situation. The bodies of the readers played an essential role in this dual negotiation of agency. Children's agency was scripted, that is, the readers exerted their agency within the limitations of a script. The script, however, allowed readers to improvise, and their performances also involved resistance to the script through playful subversion. In the joint-reading event, children's agency was foregrounded, positioning the children as protagonist readers, who performed most of the interactions and lived the aesthetic experience of the text fully, to the expense of their parents, who mostly participated as supporting readers, transferring their agency to the children through scaffolding.

This thesis presents flott, the Fast Low Memory T-Transform, the currently fastest and most memory efficient linear time and space algorithm available to compute the string complexity measure T-complexity. The flott algorithm uses 64.3% less memory and in our experiments runs asymptotically 20% faster than its predecessor. A full C-implementation is provided and published under the Apache Licence 2.0. From the flott algorithm two deterministic information measures are derived and applied to Android app store security. The derived measures are the normalized T-complexity distance and the instantaneous T-complexity rate which are used to detect, locate, and visualize unusual information changes in Android applications. The information measures introduced present a novel, scalable approach to assist with the detection of malware in app stores. / Graduate

This thesis aims to design an effective solution of supportive tool in field of the informal specification. Solution is based on the application for mobile devices with touch screens, Apple iPad. Design of the final product is supported by many studies, in particular those analyzing field of the informal specification, technical features, user interfaces, implementation methods and user experience testing. Thesis defines functional requirements for application development accompanied by design and the implementation of three different graphical user interfaces. Important in this thesis is the evaluation of the user experience testing, which defines future development.