Submitted by Johnny Rodrigues (johnnyrodrigues@ufcg.edu.br) on 2018-07-31T19:39:43Z No. of bitstreams: 1 MARIA ISABEL FARIA CARNEIRO - DISSERTAÇÃO PPGCC 2014..pdf: 45568096 bytes, checksum: 7fe570750f4904224de8b7e2f76035e2 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-07-31T19:39:43Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 MARIA ISABEL FARIA CARNEIRO - DISSERTAÇÃO PPGCC 2014..pdf: 45568096 bytes, checksum: 7fe570750f4904224de8b7e2f76035e2 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-03 / 0 desenvolvimento de interfaces vocais [VUI - Voice User Interface) per se não é uma garantia para um processo interativo de qualidade entre usuários com deficiência visual e sistemas computacionais. Com o intuito de avaliar os problemas de acessibilidade em VUI, a presente pesquisa focalizou a proposição de uma abordagem de avaliação baseada em um conjunto de técnicas já conhecidas pela comunidade de IHC (Interação Homem-Máquina). No tocante a cada técnica utilizada, o problema foi focado a partir de diferentes perspectivas: (i) do usuário, expresso a partir das visões dos usuários sobre o produto, reunidas a partir de uma abordagem de avaliação; (ii) do especialista, expresso sob a forma de análise dos resultados dos desempenhos dos usuários em sessões de teste de acessibilidade; e (iii) da comunidade de acessibilidade, expresso com base em revisões de projeto, a fim de determinar se o projeto da interface está em conformidade com um padrão. Além disso, visando a evidenciar a incerteza associada aos julgamentos do avaliador na inspeção de conformidade do produto, incorporou-se a modelagem de incerteza, a partir da utilização de Redes Bayesianas, possibilitando ao avaliador explicitar os níveis de incerteza associados às inspeções de conformidade do produto a um padrão, por ele realizadas. A abordagem metodológica foi validada a partir de um estudo de caso envolvendo a avaliação da acessibilidade do sistema computacional DOSVOX, desenvolvido na Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), com o objetivo de auxiliar usuários com deficiência visual no uso de sistemas computacionais. No enfoque da inspeção de conformidade, consideraram-se as partes 14 (Diálogos via menus), 17 (Diálogos via preenchimento via formulários) e 171 (Guia de acessibilidade de software) do padrão internacional ISO 9241. Por outro lado, nos enfoques da mensuração de desempenho e da sondagem da satisfação subjetiva do usuário, foram realizados testes de acessibilidade, envolvendo um universo amostrai de 100 usuários. Inicialmente, os participantes foram agrupados como cegos (40 usuários), baixa visão (20 usuários) e sem deficiência visual (40 usuários), de acordo com tipo de deficiência visual. Em seguida, eles foram classificados como principiantes (46 usuários) ou intermediários (54 usuários), de acordo com o nível de conhecimento em Informática e de experiência o produto avaliado. Os dados resultantes dos testes de acessibilidade foram processados estatisticamente, a fim de verificar a correlação entre os desempenhos dos grupos de usuários e entre o desempenho das categorias de usuários de cada grupo. O processamento estatístico dos dados evidenciou a inexistência de diferenças significativas entre os desempenhos dos grupos, bem como entre as categorias de usuários. Por outro lado, a confrontação dos resultados dos três enfoques (mensuração de desempenho do usuário, mensuração da satisfação subjetiva do usuário e inspeção de conformidade do produto a padrões) demonstrou que a abordagem de avaliação proposta produziu resultados complementares e reforçou a relevância da utilização de uma abordagem multimétodos para a avaliação de acessibilidade de interfaces vocais. / Voice interaction design per se does not provide quality assurance of the interactive process for visually impaired users. In this dissertation, a method for evaluating voice user interface (VUI) accessibility based upon a set of techniques already well-known to the HCI (Human-Computer Interaction) community is proposed. For each technique, the problem is focused from a different perspective: (i) the user's perspective, which is expressed as views on the product gathered from an inquiry-based approach; (ii) the specialist's perspective, which is expressed by the analysis of the performance results in accessibility testing sessions; and (iii) the accessibility community's perspective, which is expressed by design reviews to determine whether a user interface design conforms to standards. Additionally, Bayesian networks were used in order to make explicit the uncertainty inherent in conformity inspection processes. A case study with DOSVOX system was performed to validate the proposed approach. DOSVOX system was developed at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) with the aim of helping visually impaired users use the computer. A conformity inspection was performed in accordance with parts 14 (Menu dialogues), 17 (Form-filling dialogues) 171 (Guidance on software accessibility) of ISO 9241. On the other hand, the user performance measurement and the user subjective satisfaction measurement were conducted via accessibility testing. One hundred subjects were enrolled in this study. First, they were categorized as blind (40 users), low vision (20 users) and non-visually impaired (40 users), according to their visual impairment. Second, they were grouped as novices (46 users) and intermediates (54 users), according to their knowledge level in Informatics and experience with the evaluated product. Accessibility test results were statistically analyzed in order to verify the correlation between category performances and between group performances. No statistically significant differences between the user categories or the user groups were found. On the other hand, data comparison showed that the three strategies adopted (user performance measurement, user satisfaction measurement and standard conformity inspection) add to the evaluation process, producing complimentary data that are significant to the process, and reinforcing the relevance of a multi-layered approach for the accessibility evaluation of voice user interfaces.

Cette étude vise à bien comprendre puis à modéliser le comportement mécanique dans une large plage de vitesse de déformation des tôles d’acier austénitique AISI304 ayant subis un traitement d'attrition mécanique de la surface (SMAT). Ces tôles ainsi traités sont des matériaux multicouches avec un gradient de propriétés. Les principaux résultats obtenus sont résumés comme suit：(1) La sensibilité globale à la vitesse déformation des tôles d’acier austénitique AISI304 traités avec SMAT est caractérisée par des essais de double cisaillement sous chargements quasi-statiques et dynamiques, qui permet d’atteindre une grande déformation sans instabilité géométrique. Des essais de double cisaillement sous impact sont réalisés à l’aide des barres de Hopkinson de grande diamètre et un système d’attache qui a une même impédance acoustique que la barre. Une sensibilité significative a été révélée et on observe ce renforcement n’a pas induit une réduction importante de la ductilité.(2) Dans le but d’un meilleur dépouillement de ces essais de double cisaillement, leur conditions d’essai est analysé dans le détaillé. Le modèle numérique avec le système d’attache a été construit pour étudier l’influence du système d’attache au début de chargement. On trouve un effet limité pour les diverses conditions imparfaites des essais comme la souplesse de système d’attache, des champs mécaniques non-homogènes, l’état de non-équilibre, etc. Par contre, les études numérique et analytique ont démontré que l’hypothèse simple de petites perturbations habituellement utilisé pour le dépouillement de ces essais n’est pas suffisamment précise. La déformation Eulérien cumulée doit être utilisée pour obtenir un résultat numérique correct. A partir de ce résultat, la sensibilité à la vitesse déformation des tôles d’acier austénitique AISI304 traités avec SMAT obtenue expérimentalement a été retouchée.(3) Un modèle multicouche elasto-plastique en dommageable a été proposé pour décrire le comportement des tôles d’acier austénitique AISI304 traités avec SMAT. Les paramètres sont identifiées à partir des essai de traction. La partie elasto-plastique est calée par une loi d’écrouissage de type Ludwig. Par contre, les paramètres d’endommagement sont obtenus avec une méthode d’identification inverse sur la base de simulation numérique de ces essais de traction. Pour valider ce modèle multi-couche elasto-plastique dommageable, un essai d’indentation/perforation est réalisé sur des tôles d’acier austénitique AISI304 traités avec SMAT. Des simulations numériques correspondantes montres que ce modèle multi-couche elasto-plastique en dommageable une prédiction plutôt précise de ces essais de d’indentation/perforation.(4) Pour évaluer la performance anti-perforation des tôles d’acier austénitique AISI304 traités avec SMAT, des essais de perforation sous impact a été réalisés avec des barres de Hopkinson. Des simulations numériques de ces essais de perforation sous impact sont réalisées avec un modèle numérique comparable avec le cas quasi-statique. ́tant donne que la sensibilité globale à la vitesse déformation des tôles d’acier austénitique AISI304 traités avec SMAT est caractérisée par des essais de double cisaillement, la sensibilité à la vitesse a été introduite dans le modèle multi-couche elasto-plastique en dommageable. Le résultat numérique correspond bien à la mesure expérimentale, ce qui indique non seulement l’efficacité du modèle numérique mais aussi celle du modèle multicouche elasto-plastique en dommageable. / This Ph.D dissertation aimed at the comprehensive understanding and the constitutive modeling of the mechanical behaviours of the surface mechanical attrition treatment (SMAT) treated AISI304 stainless steel sheet under a large range of loading rates. SMAT treated AISI304 stainless steel sheets are multi-layered functionally graded materials (FGM). The main research results and conclusions are summarized as followed:(1) The overall rate sensitivity SMAT treated AISI304 stainless steel sheet is characterized by the double shearing test under quasi-static and dynamic loading where a large strain can be achieved without geometry instability. Impact double shear test are performed with a large diameter Hopkinson bar system and an adapted equal-impedance clamping device. Significant rate sensitivity is found. It is also observed that such a rate enhancement does not induce an important reduction of the ductility.(2) In order to extract accurate material information from the double shear tests, their testing conditions are thoroughly analyzed using numerical simulation. Numerical models including clamping devices have been built to investigate the influence of this clamping device at the early stage of loading. A limited effect was found for various imperfect testing conditions such as the clamping device stiffness, non-homogeneous stress and strain fields, non-equilibrium state, etc. On the contrary, numerical and analytical study shows that the simple small strain assumption usually used in double shear tests are not accurate enough. Eulerian cumulated strain definition should be used to get consistent numerical results. From this finding, the experimental rate sensitivity obtained for the SMAT treated AISI304 stainless steel sheet are recalculated.(3) A multi-layers elastic plastic damageable constitutive model is proposed to model SMAT treated AISI304 stainless steel sheet. The parameters are identified using tensile testing results. The elastic plastic behavior is curve fitted with a simple Ludwig hardening model. However, the damage parameters should be identified using an inverse method on the basis of numerical simulation of these tensile tests. In order to validate this multi-layer elastic plastic damageable constitutive model, indentation/piercing tests on SMAT treated AISI304 stainless steel sheet are performed. Numerical simulation of this indentation/piercing tests is also realized. It is found that the identified multi-layer elastic plastic damageable constitutive model allows for a quite accurate prediction of the experimental piercing tests.(4) In order to evaluate the impact anti-piercing capacity of the SMAT treated AISI304 stainless steel sheet, the impact perforation tests using Hopkinson bar are carried out. Numerical simulation of these impact perforation tests are realized with a similar FEM model as the quasi-static case. As the rate sensitivity of SMAT treated AISI304 stainless steel sheet is experimentally characterized with double shear test, a rate sensitive multi-layer elastic plastic damageable constitutive model is introduced. The numerical results agree well with the experimental ones, which indicates the effectiveness of the numerical model as well as the rate sensitive multi-layer elastic plastic damageable constitutive model.

The diploma thesis focuses on analysing the current Railway Infrastructure Administration methodology for designing the sleeper substructure concerning the construction's deformation resistance, its comparison with the multi-layered method, which is used in the road engineering and finite element method. It deals with various methodologies of determining the deformation resistance of the track substructure.

Immersion based technologies such as Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR) and Mixed Reality (MR), together falling under the umbrella of Extended Reality (XR) have taken the world by storm in the recent past. However, with the growing market and the increasing number of applications of XR, multiple challenges have arisen. To maintain acceptable levels of motion-to-photon latency, there is a need to serve the users with ultra low latency and with high reliability. To provide high quality rendering, these solutions have traditionally been deployed with wired connections, but severely inhibiting user mobility. Thus, the need to develop wireless solutions promising ultra low latency and high reliability emerges. Cloud/Edge based solutions promise to provide great dividends in this regard but it still remains crucial to understand how different scheduling policies perform against one another in terms of average throughput, mean system time, the number of UEs which can be serviced simultaneously etc. In this thesis, we explore how online packet scheduling policies such as first-come-first-serve, earliestdeadline-first, maximum weight scheduling etc. compare against other Quality of Experience(QoE)/ packet weight aware online scheduling policies and also against optimal offline schemes such as maximum-weighted-bipartitematching. We perform a detailed analysis of how these policies fare by studying various metrics such as the average-packet system time, competitive ratios, packet drop percentages and weight throughput, amongst others. Finally, we also explore how the introduction of multi-layered video encoding impacts XR service. Amongst the findings of the thesis, we conclude that it is possible to come up with solutions such as EDFα (which is a deadline and weight aware derivative of the earliest deadline first scheduling policy), which can either increase the weight throughput when compared to other baselines while also providing lesser packet drops and lower average system times for the scheduled packets. This algorithm can be further tuned by varying α to accordingly alter the weight throughput, system time and packet drop ratio depending on the precise user application. Additionally, we establish with the help of simulations that the introduction of multi-layered video encoding conclusively helps in reducing the average system time and eventually allows for more users to be accommodated in an XR based system at the cost of worsening video quality. / Immersionsbaserade teknologier som Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR) och Mixed Reality (MR), som tillsammans faller under paraplyet Extended Reality (XR) har tagit världen med storm på senare tid. Men med den växande marknaden och det ökande antalet tillämpningar av XR har flera utmaningar uppstått. För att förhindra åksjuka hos användare och för att upprätthålla acceptabla nivåer av rörelse-till-foton-latens, finns det ett behov av att betjäna användarna med ultralåg latens och med hög tillförlitlighet. För att ge högkvalitativ rendering har dessa lösningar traditionellt implementerats med trådbundna anslutningar, men de hämmar kraftigt användarens rörlighet. Därför uppstår behovet av att utveckla trådlösa lösningar som lovar ultralåg latens och hög tillförlitlighet. Moln/Edge-baserade lösningar lovar att ge stor utdelning i detta avseende, men det är fortfarande viktigt att förstå hur olika schemaläggningspolicyer fungerar mot varandra när det gäller genomsnittlig genomströmning, genomsnittlig systemtid, antalet UE:er som kan betjänas samtidigt etc. I den här avhandlingen undersöker vi hur online-paketschemaläggningspolicyer som round robin, först till kvarnförst-kvarn, tidigast-deadline-först, schemaläggning för maximal vikt etc. jämförs med andra Quality of Experience (QoE)/Viktmedvetna onlineschemaläggningspolicyer och även mot optimala offline-scheman såsom maximalt viktad-bipartite-matchning. Vi utför en detaljerad analys av hur dessa policyer klarar sig genom att studera olika mätvärden, såsom den genomsnittliga paketets systemtid, konkurrensförhållanden, procentsatser för paketnedgång och viktad genomströmning, bland annat. Slutligen undersöker vi också hur introduktionen av flerskiktad videokodning påverkar XRtjänsten. Bland resultaten av avhandlingen drar vi slutsatsen att det är möjligt att komma med lösningar som EDFα (som är en deadline- och viktmedveten derivata av Earliest deadline first scheduling policy), som antingen kan öka den viktade genomströmning jämfört med andra baslinjer samtidigt som det ger mindre paketnedgångar och lägre genomsnittliga systemtider för de schemalagda paketen. Denna algoritm kan ställas in ytterligare genom att variera α för att följaktligen ändra den viktade genomströmningen, systemtiden och paketnedgångshastigheten beroende på den exakta användarapplikationen. Dessutom fastställer vi med hjälp av simuleringar att införandet av flerskiktsvideokodning definitivt hjälper till att minska den genomsnittliga systemtiden och så småningom tillåter fler användare att få plats i ett XR-baserat system.