A la différence de l'apprentissage par mémorisation (rote learning), l'apprentissage significatif (meaningful learning) vise à associer de nouvelles connaissances à des connaissances déjà acquises. La construction de cartes mentales exige et supporte la mise en place de stratégies d'apprentissage significatif, et permet de rendre visible la structure de connaissances de l'apprenant. Cependant, les enseignants qui intègrent la construction de cartes mentales dans leurs activités pédagogiques doivent se contenter du rendu final des cartes mentales, et risquent de faire de mauvaises interprétations et évaluations de celles-ci par manque d'information sur leur processus de construction. Dans cette thèse, nous nous intéressons à l'observation a posteriori de l'engagement de l'apprenant dans ses dimensions comportementale et cognitive, afin de proposer des indicateurs orientés processus qui permettent de comprendre ses actions et ses choix de construction de carte mentale. Nous avons suivi la méthodologie de recherche orientée par la conception (Design Based Research), qui nous a permis de proposer 3 niveaux de contributions : 1) un modèle théorique d'engagement (comportemental et cognitive) pour les activités de construction de cartes mentales, 2) un ensemble d'indicateurs d'engagement de l'apprenant à partir de traces capturées automatiquement lors de la construction de cartes mentales, et 3) un tableau de bord appelé MindMap Monitor présentant différents indicateurs à l'enseignant pour le suivi de la classe et des apprenants. Le modèle a été obtenu à partir d'une étude de littérature sur les théories de l'engagement de l'apprenant issues notamment de la recherche en psychologie de l'éducation. Les indicateurs ont été définis en croisant le modèle avec les résultats de plusieurs études de terrain avec les enseignants. Le tableau de bord implémentant les indicateurs a été construit en trois itérations. Son interface présente des vues synthétiques permettant de comparer les élèves de la classe et d'identifier ceux en difficulté lors de la construction de leur carte, et des vues détaillées décrivant l'activité de construction d'une carte pour chaque élève. Notre tableau de bord a été évalué au cours d'une expérimentation avec 12 enseignants en comparant son utilisation avec celle des cartes mentales finales associées aux vidéos de leur processus de construction. Les résultats montrent que nos indicateurs sur MindMap Monitor permettent de mieux identifier les élèves en difficulté, les difficultés partagées, ainsi que les difficultés pour un élève. Les résultats concernant la compréhension du processus de construction de la carte mentale sont plus nuancés. Nous avons également pu identifier plusieurs pistes d'amélioration sur le contenu du tableau de bord et sa présentation. Les perspectives de notre travail concernent principalement le suivi de l'engagement des apprenants en temps réel pour l'intervention et l'adaptation de la stratégie pédagogique / In contrast to rote learning, meaningful learning aims to associate new knowledge with knowledge already acquired. Mind mapping activities require and support the implementation of meaningful learning strategies and enlighten the knowledge structure of the learner. However, teachers who integrate mind mapping into their educational activities have to deal with the final rendering of maps, and risk to misinterpret and wrongly evaluate them due to the lack of information about their construction process. In this thesis, we are interested in a posteriori observation of the engagement of learners along its behavioral and cognitive dimensions, in order to propose processoriented indicators that help to understand actions and construction choices of mind maps. We followed the Design Based Research methodology, that allowed us to propose three levels of contributions : 1) a theoretical model of engagement (behavioral and cognitive) for mind mapping activities, 2) a set of indicators of learner engagement constructed from automatically captured map building traces, and 3) a dashboard called MindMap Monitor presenting various indicators to teachers for class and learners monitoring. The model was obtained from a literature review on theories of engagement, including research in educational psychology. The indicators have been defined by comparing the model with the results of several field studies with teachers. The dashboard implementing the indicators was developed following three iterations. Its interface presents synthetic views allowing the comparison of students in the class, the identification of those in difficulty, and detailed views describing the mind mapping activity for each student. Our dashboard was evaluated with an experiment involving 12 teachers. We compared its use with that of final mind maps associated with videos of their construction process. Results show that our indicators on MindMap Monitor are useful to better identify students in difficulty, shared difficulties, as well as difficulties for individual students. Results concerning the understanding of the mind maps construction process are more balanced. We were also able to identify several ways to improve both the content and the visualizations of the dashboard. The perspectives of our work are mainly related to monitoring learners’ engagement in real time for the intervention and adaptation of the teachers’ educational strategies

Alla artiklar i gratistidningen Metro som handlar om mäns våld mot kvinnor under en månad. Avtecknade på ljusbord som en ny tidning. För masteressän i form av en videoanimation. Som eftertexten i en film. / [I examensarbetet ingår utställningen "Jag har känt på friheten":] I handen: En karta.I rummet: Skuggor i bländande motljus.Sortin: Ett stålkallt, stirrande visir. Den som följt Rebecka Bebben Anderssons konstnärskap känner på den här utställningen omedelbart igen det obehag som efter en stund kryper genom det i förstone dekorativa intrycket. Samtidigt har en dramatisk förändring har ägt rum: Verkens tidigare ytbundna energi har lämnat väggarna, fått kropp och tagit plats på golvet. Där står skulpturer – kulisser – så tätt att vi som besökare inte enkelt kan ta oss förbi. Vi måste gå emellan dem och runt dem för att komma till nästa rum, och tappar på vägen kontrollen och överblicken över var vi befinner oss. Ljuset gör oss blinda. Vad som helst kan hända på vägen. Material: Papperskollage på MDF, furu, sandsäckar, offsettryck. Teknik: Installation, offsettryck. Mått/längd på film/video: 6 x 8 meter / <p>Mitt examensarbete består av en installation, en lastpall med gratisaffischer (på vilka kontextualiseringen är tryckt) och en video (som är masteressän).</p><p>DVD och affisch finns tillänglig i Kungl Konsthögskolans bibliotek.</p>

This diploma thesis deals with electronic information system for recording and tracking service calls on pressing and cutting tools, the injection molds and assembly machines and assembly lines in manufacturing plant of Lear Corporation Czech Republic, s. r. o. in Vyškov.

La thèse propose une méthodologie originale permettant de détecter des thèmes potentiels d’innovation et de recherche pouvant conduire à des projets. Cette méthodologie est basée sur la veille et la gestion des connaissances qui sont deux composantes de l’Intelligence Economique. Elle est appliquée à la filière Forêt-Bois-Papier aquitaine et s’appuie sur deux supports informationnels clés de cette filière : la Plateforme Technologique Forêt-Bois-Papier et les COST (European COoperation in the field of Scientific and Technical Research) « Forest, Products and Services ». Combinant les méthodes de veille et de gestion des connaissances, l’information recueillie et analysée aboutit à la construction de deux cartes cognitives : une carte heuristique et une carte conceptuelle. Ces dernières mettent en évidence des thèmes potentiels c’est-à-dire ceux pouvant faire l’objet d’un projet de recherche et d’innovation. Pour aboutir, ces thèmes potentiels doivent correspondre à des besoins industriels méritant un approfondissement avec les partenaires concernés. La méthode conduit à sélectionner deux thématiques : le revêtement intelligent de surfaces à base de bois et l’utilisation des agro-matériaux dans la construction. Elles aboutissent à la réalisation de trois projets : le projet collaboratif « Smart Wood Coating », le projet COST « Smart and innovating technologies for wood » et le projet collaboratif « Ressource Habitat Evolution Vie (RHEV) ». Il s’agit d’innovations technologiques, les deux premiers projets sont impulsés par la réglementation environnementale et le troisième par la demande sociétale. Cette thèse met en évidence et analyse la manière dont la veille et la gestion des connaissances peuvent catalyser l’innovation. / The thesis proposes an original methodology allowing the detection of potential themes of innovation and research which can lead to projects. This methodology is based on the strategic scanning and the knowledge management which are two components of competitive intelligence. It is applied to the Forest-Wood-Paper sector in Aquitaine and leans on two key informative supports of this sector: the Technology Plateform Forest-Wood-Paper and the COST « Forest, Products and Services ». Combining the methods of strategic scanning and knowledge management, the analyzed information ends in the construction of two cognitive maps: a mind map and a conceptual map. These last ones highlight potential themes, that is: those being able to be the object of a project of research and innovation. To be successful, these potential themes shall deal with industrial needs deserving a deepening with concerned partners. The method leads to select two themes: the intelligent cover of wooden surfaces and the use of agro-materials in the construction, which end in the execution of three projects: the collaborative project « Smart Wood Coating », a COST project « Smart and innovating technologies for wood » and the collaborative project “Housing Resource Evolution Life” (RHEV). All concern technological innovations, the two first ones are determined by environmental regulations and the last one by societal demand. This thesis brings to light and analyzes the way competitive intelligence and knowledge management can catalyze innovation.

Submitted by Ricardo Cedraz Duque Moliterno (ricardo.moliterno@uefs.br) on 2015-07-21T22:38:48Z No. of bitstreams: 1 SANTANA FILHO_ Aderbal Pereira_O DESENHO DO LUGAR UMA REPRESENTA??O DA TERRITORIALIDADE ?TNICA_2014.pdf: 11021334 bytes, checksum: db082e3cf71f2a245254bbca1b46a8d3 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-07-21T22:38:48Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 SANTANA FILHO_ Aderbal Pereira_O DESENHO DO LUGAR UMA REPRESENTA??O DA TERRITORIALIDADE ?TNICA_2014.pdf: 11021334 bytes, checksum: db082e3cf71f2a245254bbca1b46a8d3 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-12-15 / During everyday activities, we mentally produce paths and/or routes full of information. This mental process once transfered to a piece of paper is called ?mind map?, which is the recommended tool to understand what was lived and to introduce school cartography. At schools, cartography taught by teachers goes through a lot of challenges, due to the complexity existed around it. However, when the 12th grade student H?h?h?i Patax? of the Indigenous State School draws a symbolic map of his territory and his pathway between his house and school, are there represented, symbolic aspects, identity and cultural aspects, from the most significant elements to him. This research aimed to learn from the mental maps and semi-structured interviews the perception that indigenous student from the mentioned village has about their ethnic territory and the place of experience, both categories of geographical analysis. The survey was conducted in three different moments: first, in order to identify prior knowlegde, students wererequested to produce two mind maps, depicting the route that they make from their homes to school and of the territory of the village; the second was the pedagogical mediation performed by this teacher/researcher during Five meetings with didactic sequences about school cartography. At the last moment of post-mediation, once again, students were requested to produce the two mind maps, in order to compare them, then checking what changes occurred. The approach methodology used was the phenomenological, grounded in Humanistic Geography, with emphasis on Spatial Perception. To analyze the data, Semiotics was used in an attempt to understand the sign and phenomenology, the phenomenon, from a descriptive analysis of the drawings and their comprehension by the students? explanations. After analyzing the data it can be concluded that in the drawings of the mind maps were present, not only the representation of the place and territory, but also the cartographic language empowerment, via the use of conventional cartographic elements as well as the perception representation enrichment, in which the lived world becomes of salutary importance for meaningful learning. / Durante as atividades realizadas no cotidiano, produzimos mentalmente percursos e/ou caminhos, repletos de informa??es. Este processo mental, quando transferido para o papel, denomina-se ?mapa mental?, ferramenta indicada, principalmente para a compreens?o do vivido e introdu??o para o estudo da Cartografia Escolar. Nas escolas, o ensino de Cartografia, realizado pelos professores ainda enfrenta in?meros desafios, visto a complexidade que existe em seu entorno. No entanto, quando o aluno Patax? H?h?h?i, do 3? ano, do Ensino M?dio, do Col?gio Estadual Ind?gena, desenha o mapa do seu territ?rio simb?lico e do percurso que ele realiza entre a sua casa e a escola, est? ali representado, aspectos simb?licos, identit?rios e culturais, a partir dos elementos mais significativos para ele. Nesta pesquisa objetivou-se saber, atrav?s dos mapas mentais e da entrevista semiestruturada, qual a percep??o que o aluno ind?gena, da referida aldeia possui acerca do seu territ?rio ?tnico e do lugar de viv?ncia, ambas as categorias de an?lise geogr?fica. A pesquisa foi realizada em tr?s momentos distintos: primeiro, no intuito de identificar os conhecimentos pr?vios, foi solicitado aos alunos que produzissem dois mapas mentais, representando o percurso que eles fazem da sua casa at? a escola e do territ?rio da aldeia; o segundo foi a media??o pedag?gica, realizada por este professor/pesquisador, durante cinco encontros, com Sequ?ncias Did?ticas sobre Cartografia Escolar. No ?ltimo momento, de p?s-media??o foi solicitado, novamente, aos alunos que produzissem os dois mapas mentais, a fim de compar?-los, verificando quais altera??es ocorreram. O m?todo de abordagem utilizado foi o fenomenol?gico, alicer?ado na vertente da Geografia Humanista, com ?nfase na Percep??o Geogr?fica. Para analisar os dados, utilizou-se a Semi?tica, na tentativa de compreender o signo e a Fenomenologia, o fen?meno, a partir de uma an?lise descritiva dos desenhos e da interpreta??o deles, atrav?s das falas dos alunos. Ap?s a an?lise dos dados pode-se concluir que nos desenhos dos mapas mentais estavam presentes, n?o s? a representa??o do lugar e do territ?rio, mas tamb?m o empoderamento quando ? linguagem cartogr?fica, via a utiliza??o dos elementos convencionais cartogr?ficos, bem como do enriquecimento da representa??o perceptiva, no qual o mundo vivido passa a ter import?ncia salutar para a aprendizagem significativa.

This diploma thesis tries to analyze aspects of mind mapping as an effective instrument for active and creative teaching of physics at the elementary school and high school. The opening part contains basic knowledge of learning theories, creativity, psychological aspects of mind mapping, difference between mind mapping and conceptual mapping and methodology of the mind mapping. Practical part of the thesis contains methodical advice for teaching physics using mind maps in different levels of teaching process. This thesis presents results of an experiment on success rate of elementary school pupils in solving quantitative tasks using mind mapping

Made available in DSpace on 2014-07-29T14:57:52Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Diss LuNishi.pdf: 535052 bytes, checksum: 312e4f56b2249ade58df12ebfe2b4dcb (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-09-16 / This work uses mind maps to describe requirements and investigates this not well known application through an experiment. The experiment was based on desirable features sought by requirements engineers in notations and functions offered by tools. Both provided input to small changes in mind maps before a real specification was produced for the experiment. The results show that mind maps should be considered seriously as an alternative notation to describe software requirements / Este trabalho investiga o uso de mapas mentais na engenharia de requisitos, com destaque para o registro de requisitos. Características e funcionalidades desejáveis por engenheiros de requisitos foram coletadas e motivaram adaptações nos mapas mentais para uso neste domínio. Um experimento empregou a notação alterada e forneceu indícios positivos e negativos. O experimento permite, contudo, considerar o uso de mapas mentais como uma alternativa viável para o registro de requisitos e merecedora de pesquisas posteriores

The thesis studies feasibility of using mind mapping applications for IT project management. The main objective is the analysis of using mind mapping applications in the context of project management and finding the links between mind maps and components of project management. The thesis is divided into two parts -- theoretical and practical. In the theoretical part the author clarifies the mind mapping concept, how to create mind maps and the use of those. The relatively broad area of project management is introduced in the same manner starting with the main terms, brief overview of the project management methodologies and standards. The introduction further continues by describing individual project phases, their dimensions and provides examples of tools and techniques. The practical part consists of three chapters. In the first chapter the author analyses mind mapping SW applications, describes the mind mapping software market and explains the selection of an appropriate tool using multi criteria evaluation and using hands on experience with the tools. The second chapter demonstrates practical examples of project management topics with related instances of mental models and everyday activities where mind maps can be used. The last chapter describes a survey related to the awareness of mind mapping concepts which also gathers feedback about mind mapping application experience from IT project management professionals.

Knowledge is one of the most important values of companies, work-teams and other organizations. It is one of competitive advantages and so it is important to share the knowledge among individuals in the organization. The discipline of knowledge management deals with the issue of systematic work with knowledge and sharing for several decades. The sharing and finding of knowledge should be supported via suitable software tools, currently using the Internet network. This work deals with problematic of knowledge management from the viewpoint of different methods of software support. The text approaches the problem of sharing of knowledge in a hypertext form. The problem is solved not only on theoretical base, but also from the viewpoint of system design and implementation. The knowledge is saved in the form of "knowledge network" based on text contents, authors and keywords. The data are saved in the form of RDF graph using PHP and ARC2 Framework. The developed system will be used not only for support of dealing with knowledge in the courses of project management at University of Economics in Prague.

La littérature contient une abondance d’information sur les approches de design impliquant les utilisateurs. Bien que les chercheurs soulèvent de nombreux avantages concernant ces approches, on en sait peu sur ce que les concepteurs des entreprises en pensent. Ce projet a pour but de connaître les perceptions des concepteurs de produits quant aux outils de design participatif puis, d’identifier les opportunités et limites qu’ils évoquent à ce sujet, et finalement, de faire des suggestions d’outils qui faciliteraient l’introduction du design participatif dans un processus de design existant. Après avoir fait un survol du domaine du design participatif et de ses outils, six cas sont étudiés au moyen d’entrevues semi-dirigées conduites auprès de concepteurs de produits. Les données sont analysées à l’aide de cartes cognitives. En ce qui concerne les outils de design participatif, les participants rencontrés perçoivent un accès direct aux besoins des utilisateurs et la possibilité de minimiser les erreurs en début de processus donc, d’éviter les modifications coûteuses qu’elles auraient entraînées. Les obstacles perçus par les concepteurs sont principalement liés à la résistance au changement, à la crainte de laisser créer ou décider les utilisateurs, ainsi qu’au manque de temps et de ressources de l’équipe. Finalement, sur la base des informations collectées, nous suggérons quatre outils de design participatif qui semblent plus intéressants : l’enquête contextuelle, les sondes, les tests de prototypes et l’approche « lead user ». Pour faire suite à ce travail, il serait intéressant d’élaborer un protocole de recherche plus exhaustif pour augmenter la portée des résultats, ou encore, d’appliquer le design participatif, dans une entreprise, afin d’explorer la satisfaction des gens quant aux produits conçus, les effets collatéraux sur les équipes impliquées, l’évolution des prototypes ou le déroulement des ateliers. / Many approaches were developed to foster user involvement in design activities and the amount of data pertaining to this field is substantial. However, we know little about what designers think about these methods. This research aims at knowing how designers perceive the methods used in participatory design including the opportunities and limits they identify regarding these approaches and finally, suggest a set of tools to implement user participation in a design process. After presenting an overview of the participatory design domain and its tools, six cases are studied using semi-structured interviews with designers. Data is analysed using mind maps. Concerning participatory design tools, the designers perceive, a possible means to minimise errors in the front end of the design process thus avoiding costly changes in the end. The limits they perceive come from resistance to change and reluctance to share the creative and decisive parts of the process with users. Moreover, the lack of time and resources are reported to be a limitation by many. Finally, based on the information collected, four methods are chosen as being more interesting: contextual inquiry, probes, prototype testing and the lead user approach. Continuing this work would imply creating a more exhaustive research protocol involving more participants to extend the scope of the results or, applying participatory design and looking into people’s satisfaction towards the resulting products, collateral effects on the teams involved, prototype evolution through the process or workshops progress.