This document proposes historic preservation guidelines for the downtown area of the City of St. George, Utah. It grew from a summer internship with the city where I took inventory of the streetscape in the Historic Downtown and prepared recommendations in the form of a PowerPoint Presentation that was given to the city council. This paper summarizes the summer internship and introduces a more appropriate approach based on reflection of the internship. The new approach involves a thorough inventory of the historic character, in-depth research of the historic elements that contribute to the historic character, development of design guidelines and standards, reviews, and codification of the design guidelines and standards. The historic elements that contribute most to the city’s historic character are identified as 1) block and lot layout and building setbacks, 2) architecture, 3) irrigation ditches, 4) tree lined streets, and 5) other streetscape elements and site features. Through comprehensive research of old photography, literature, and existing conditions these historic elements are further defined. The historic elements are currently being specified in design guidelines and standards and reviewed by the city in preparation for possible codification. (173 pages)

Orientador: Maria Cecilia Calani Baranauskas / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Computação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-13T11:08:03Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Santana_VagnerFigueredode_M.pdf: 2835539 bytes, checksum: 149ac7bb2551364be7b8fa6426decaad (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009 / Resumo: A Web conta com dezenas de milhões de websites, mas poucos deles estão em conformidade com requisitos simples de acessibilidade, como utilizar tamanhos relativos ou descrever elementos gráficos, o que pode indicar problemas de design de Interface de Usuário (IU). Para se identificar este tipo de problema utiliza-se avaliação do código de websites. No entanto, outros problemas surgem apenas durante a interação do usuário com a IU. Sem considerar dados resultantes do uso, problemas de usabilidade e/ou barreiras de acessibilidade podem permanecer desconhecidos. Portanto, identificar como usuários interagem com IUs e uma forma de detectar problemas de design e descobrir maneiras de utilização diferentes das previstas durante o projeto de IU. Entre as maneiras de capturar a interação do usuário com IUs estão a utilização de vídeos, captura dos movimentos dos olhos do usuário, etc. Na Web, alguns métodos são menos indicados que outros devido à necessidade de utilização de componentes específicos de hardware e/ou software, o que pode reduzir a participação do publico alvo e reduzir a representatividade de uma avaliação. Para se conhecer como usuários utilizam a IU na Web, e possível utilizar logs capturados no lado do servidor e no lado do cliente. Este ultimo e o que possibilita a obtenção de mais detalhes e, consequentemente, reconstrução das ações do usuário em maior granularidade do que apenas identificar quais paginas o usuário visitou. Assim, pequenas diferenças durante a interação podem ser identificadas e, consequentemente, auxiliar especialistas na identificação de padrões de utilização e possíveis problemas de design. Dado o volume de dados resultante da captura de eventos no lado do cliente, a utilização de ferramentas automáticas se faz necessária, seja para captura ou para extração de informações dos logs. Este trabalho apresenta requisitos para ferramentas de avaliação de websites baseadas em logs de eventos. Ainda, com base nestes requisitos, define um modelo de captura assíncrona de eventos para auxiliar desenvolvedores de ferramentas de avaliação de websites. Assim, requisitos e modelo de captura constituem um ponto de partida para desenvolvedores que desejam capturar logs de eventos disparados no dispositivo utilizado pelo cliente, apoiando a captura de dados de utilização real. Outra contribuição apresentada é a especificação de um modelo para identificar padrões de utilização da Web mediada por tecnologias assistivas. A implementação deste modelo demonstra a viabilidade de se capturar dados durante a utilização real, envolvendo usuários de tecnologias assistivas, em seus ambientes cotidianos de utilização da Web. Um grafo de utilização resulta desse modelo. Ele é composto por fluxos de uso e caminhos mais comuns de uma pagina avaliada, assim como representações visuais de diferenças significativas nesses fluxos. O modelo também propõe uma técnica de como indicar possíveis problemas de design nas paginas Web avaliadas, auxiliando na tarefa de avaliar websites, tendo como foco principal a identificação de padrões de utilização de usuários de tecnologias assistivas. / Abstract: The Web has millions of websites, but few of them are in accordance with simple accessibility requirements such as the use of relative sizes or description of graphic elements, that can represent User Interface (UI) design problems. To identify this kind of problem the data source usually used is the Web page's code. However, other problems may appear only when the user interacts with the UI. Moreover, without considering usage data, usability problems and/or accessibility barriers can stay unknown. Thus, identifying how users interact with UIs is a way of detecting design problems and discovering uses different from the ones defined during the UI Project phase. There are different approaches to capturing user interaction with UIs as video capture, users' eyes movements, etc. In the Web, some methods are less appropriated than others due to the need for using specific components of hardware and/or software, which can reduce the participation of the target audience and reduce how meaningful an evaluation is. To know how users use the UI in the Web, it is possible to use logs captured at serverside and at client-side. The data that can be captured at client-side allows obtaining more details and, consequently, rebuild user's actions in a greater granularity than the identification of the pages that a user had visited. Then, small differences during the interaction can be identified and may help specialists in the task of identifying usage patterns and possible design problems. Due to the amount of data resulted from the event capture at client-side, the use of automatic tools became necessary for the capture or the extraction of information from logs. This work presents requirements for website evaluation tools based on event logs. In addition, according to these requirements, defines an asynchronous event capture model to help developers of website evaluation tools. Therefore, requirements and capture model represent a starting point for projects involving the development of tools to capture event logs triggered at client's device, supporting the data capture during real use. Other contribution is the specification of a model to identify patterns of Web usage mediated by assistive technologies. The development of this model shows the viability of capturing data during real use, involving assistive technology users, in their common use environment. A usage graph results from the model. It is constituted by usage flows and common walks of an evaluated Web page, as well as the visual representation of significant differences in these flows. The model also proposes a technique for identifying possible design problems in evaluated Web pages, helping in the task of evaluating Web pages, aiming at the identification of usage patterns of assistive technology users. / Mestrado / Avaliação de interfaces de usuario / Mestre em Ciência da Computação

Orientador: Maria Cecilia Calani Baranauskas / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Computação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-10T22:59:50Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Melo_AmandaMeincke_D.pdf: 12878449 bytes, checksum: 4dab13a2aea5524c8fb969380e33374c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007 / Resumo: Acessibilidade é um requisito contemporâneo à qualidade no uso de sistemas interativos. O World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), há anos, fomenta discussões em torno do conceito de acessibilidade e propõe recomendações para a criação de conteúdo web-acessível, de ferramentas de autoria e de navegadores que promovam a acessibilidade do conteúdo da web. Embora as recomendações de acessibilidade do W3C sejam necessárias ao conhecimento de design acessível na web, entendemos também ser essencial promover o desenvolvimento de soluções sóciotécnicas com participação do usuário final no processo de design, incluindo pessoas com deficiência, e abordar o reconhecimento e respeito às diferenças na educação de designers. Existem métodos, técnicas, recomendações, tecnologias e ferramentas para apoiar o design e a avaliação de páginas web que sejam acessíveis aos seus usuários; entretanto, não encontramos na literatura processos de design de sistemas de informação na web que considerem amplamente e abordem explicitamente as diferenças entre as pessoas e as atividades que realizam em ambientes sociais inclusivos. Torna-se cada vez mais necessário criar estratégias para abordar inclusão e acessibilidade tanto no produto de software quanto em seu processo de design. As diferenças físicas, sensoriais e cognitivas do usuário, entre outras, também precisam ser reconhecidas e consideradas no processo de design para que se consiga configurar ambientes nos quais a participação das partes interessadas seja genuína. O objetivo central desta pesquisa é investigar e propor mecanismos para o design de sistemas web que atendam às demandas atuais de configuração de uma sociedade mais flexível e aberta às diferenças, denominada sociedade inclusiva. Também é objetivo investigar e compreender como a Semiótica Organizacional e o Design Participativo, juntos, podem agregar valor ao design de sistemas de informação adequados aos interesses e às necessidades de uma sociedade inclusiva. Do ponto de vista conceitual, as principais contribuições desta tese envolvem a proposição de princípios relacionados ao design inclusivo de sistemas de informação na web e de técnicas de design participativo, alinhadas a esses princípios. Do ponto de vista prático, são contribuições as transformações decorrentes do estudo de casos nos respectivos contextos, a organização, a divulgação e a disseminação de boas práticas em design inclusivo para a web / Abstract: Accessibility is a contemporary requirement to the quality in use of interactive systems. The World Wide Web Consortium has been fomenting discussions regarding accessibility, and proposes guidelines to the development of web-accessible content, authoring tools and user agents that promotes accessibility on the web content. Although the W3C accessibility guidelines are necessary to enhance the knowledge about web accessible design, it is also essential to promote the development of socio-technical solutions with the end user participation during the overall design process, including people with disability, and approach acknowledge and respect the differences in the designers¿ education. There are methods, techniques, guidelines, technologies and tools to support the design and evaluation of web pages accessible to their users; nevertheless, we didn¿t find in literature web information systems design process which widely considers and explicitly deals with the differences among people and their activities in inclusive social environments. It is more and more necessary to create strategies to approach inclusion and accessibility in both software product and design process. The physical, sensorial and cognitive differences of users, among others, shall also be acknowledge and considered in the design process to configure environments in which the stakeholders¿ participation is genuine. This research aims at investigating and proposing mechanisms to the design of web systems which respond to the contemporary demands in configuring a more flexible society, open to the differences, known as an inclusive society. It is also an objective to investigate and understand how Organizational Semiotic and Participatory Design, together, aggregate value to the design of information systems adequate to the interests and the needs of an inclusive society. From the conceptual perspective, the main contributions of this thesis are the proposition of principles related to the design of inclusive web information systems, and some participatory design techniques aligned to these principles. From the practical perspective, the changes resulted from the cases studied in each context, as well as the organization, the publication and dissemination of best practices in inclusive design for the web / Doutorado / Metodologia e Tecnicas da Computação / Doutor em Ciência da Computação

Full Tenis Perú nace en la Universidad de Lima en el curso de Proyecto de Especialidad el cual les permite a los alumnos llevar a cabo algún proyecto que tengan en mente, además de asesoramiento en el proceso a realizar. Nos dimos cuenta que la situación del tenis necesitaba apoyo. La idea nace con el propósito de crear una web integral ya que existía la carencia de una plataforma que esté al alcance de todos y sea completa; que incluya contenido tanto de tenis nacional como internacional, que brinde todo tipo de consejos relacionados a este deporte, información sobre academias nacionales y, sobre todo, que reconozca a los tenistas más destacados para así brindarles apoyo, darles valor y de cierta manera promover este deporte. / Trabajo de suficiencia profesional

Baigiamajame magistro darbe nagrinėjamos internetinių aukcionų pritaikymo galimybės tarptautinei prekybai dailės kūriniais. Nagrinėjami pagrindiniai teoriniai principai, kuriais remiantis nustatomos internetinių aukcionų pritaikymo galimybės tarptautinei prekybai dailės kūriniais: dailės kūrinių specifika, teikiama nauda, rinkos dalyviai, internetinių aukcionų sistemos ypatumai, interneto tinklalapio elementų ir kultūrinių skirtumų įtaka tarptautinei prekybai. Pateiktas internetinių aukcionų efektyvumo ir pritaikymo tarptautinei rinkai vertinimo klausimynas, atlikta lyginamoji analizė Lietuvoje ir užsienyje plėtojamų internetinių aukcionų bei internetinių aukcionų pritaikymo tarptautinei prekybai dailės kūriniais perspektyvų analizė. Atsižvelgiant į literatūros šaltinių, statistikos analizę ir atliktus tyrimus, parengiami strateginiai sprendimai, skirti internetiniams aukcionams pritaikyti tarptautinei prekybai dailės kūriniais. Darbo pabaigoje pateikiamos apibendrinamos išvados ir pasiūlymai. / The final master thesis deals with online auction application possibilities of international trade in art works. To the main theoretical principles used to define online auctions range of possibilities of international trade in art works: the specificity of works of art, benefits, market participants, on-line auction system features, web site elements and cultural differences on international trade. There is submitted on-line auction efficiency and adaptation to international market assessment questionnaire, performed a comparative analysis of Lithuania and abroad evolving online auctions and a prospective analysis of online auctions for the international trade in art works. Then, using literary sources, statistical analysis and studies, strategic solutions is being presented, which would improve the online auctions possibilities and orientation of the international trade in art works. Finally the conclusions and suggestions are proposed.

Orientador: Hans Kurt Edmund Liesenberg / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Computação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-19T09:42:31Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Bueno_GrazieleAthanasio_M.pdf: 3564814 bytes, checksum: a0e18fae6577f1306578b7e5a6601454 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011 / Resumo: A área da Ciência da Computação denominada Interação Humano-Computador (IHC) tem evoluído tecnologicamente ao longo dos anos e as mudanças podem ser vistas nas interfaces e nas formas de interação entre as pessoas e as aplicações. Ao mesmo tempo, o conceito de padrões de projeto passou a ser utilizado no projeto da interação entre o ser humano e o computador, como uma forma de documentar a experiência e o conhecimento na construção de interfaces de usuário, orientando a criação de novas aplicações. Diante deste cenário de mudanças nas tecnologias da Computação e do uso crescente dos padrões de projeto em IHC, é apresentado, nesta dissertação, um estudo sobre como as mudanças tecnológicas podem impactar o ciclo de vida dos padrões de projeto da interação, considerando especificamente o contexto da Web para desktop. Com base na análise dos padrões e das tecnologias, é apresentada uma proposta de alteração de uma classificação de padrões existente para que ela passe a considerar a questão da dependência destes em relação à tecnologia / Abstract: The area of Computer Science known as Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) has evolved technologically over the years and changes can be seen in the interfaces and ways of interaction between people and applications. At the same time, the concept of design patterns has been used in the construction of interaction between human beings and computers, as a way to document experience and knowledge of building user interfaces in order to guide the development of new applications. In the light of the scenario of changes in Computing technologies and the increasing use of design patterns in HCI, this dissertation presents a study of how technological changes can impact the life cycle of interaction design patterns, considering specifically the context of the Web for desktop. Based on the analysis of patterns and technologies, this study proposes a change in an existing pattern classification that takes into account the relation between these patterns and technology / Mestrado / Ciência da Computação / Mestre em Ciência da Computação

Orientadores: Mauro Sergio Miskulin, Rosana Giaretta Sguerra Miskulin / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Eletrica e de Computação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-04T16:25:51Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Amorim_JonideAlmeida_M.pdf: 4117315 bytes, checksum: d8daf52a049af1bbf040aeceb51c89e1 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2005 / Resumo: Uma das atividades principais na aprendizagem eletrônica é o desenvolvimento de conteúdo. Este conteúdo pode ser de vários tipos: textos, sons, imagens, animações, vídeos, entre outros. De modo geral, espera-se que professores desenvolvam e publiquem tal conteúdo por conta própria. Diante da necessidade de reutilização e compartilhamento de informação na forma de arquivos de diversos tipos por alunos e professores, torna-se relevante investigar novas formas de se aumentar a produtividade durante a autoria ao mesmo tempo em que se busca o favorecimento da aprendizagem. Desenvolveu-se, nessa perspectiva, um aplicativo de autoria de módulos educacionais em hipertexto com modelagem e posterior navegação auxiliada por mapas conceituais. Entre os objetivos pedagógicos do aplicativo desenvolvido, destaca-se o fato deste permitir o trabalho com mapas conceituais, diagramas que buscam favorecer a aprendizagem significativa, a qual guarda forte relação com criatividade e inovação, temas de importância na Educação em Engenharia atual. Contudo, tal aplicativo permite não apenas o trabalho com mapas conceituais, mas também a confecção de hipertexto na forma de páginas HTML, deste modo tornando-se útil no processo de autoria de tutoriais, trabalhos escolares, aulas virtuais ou até mesmo na indexação de arquivos de vários formatos sobre um dado tema. No caso de aulas virtuais, o aplicativo seria utilizado por um especialista em conteúdo, o qual pode ser um professor, para preparar uma primeira versão de um módulo educacional que, posteriormente, poderia ser desenvolvido com mais detalhes por uma equipe, se necessário. O aplicativo de autoria desenvolvido se denomina COMA (Conceitos e Mapas) e seu uso potencial vai além da área de Educação em Engenharia dada a sua facilidade de uso, a sua distribuição gratuita e a sua interface multilingüe / Abstract: One of the main activities in e-learning is content authoring. This content may be of several types: texts, sounds, animations, videos, etc. In general, it is expected from teachers to develop and publish this content by themselves. Due to the necessity of reusing and sharing information formatted as files of several kinds by students and teachers, it is relevant to investigate new ways of increasing productivity during the authoring process while trying to empower learning. In this perspective, it has been developed an application to author educational modules in hypertext with modeling and later navigation aided by concept mapping. Among the pedagogical objectives of the application developed, it can be mentioned that it allows working with concept maps, which are diagrams that favor meaningful learning. This learning theory is strongly related to creativity and innovation, themes of major importance in Engineering Education nowadays. But this application not only allows working with concept maps, it also develops hypertext as HTML pages. This makes it useful in the authoring process of tutorials, school work and virtual classes or in the indexation of files from several formats about a certain subject. In the case of virtual classes, the application would be used by a content expert, which may be a teacher; the purpose would be to prepare the first version of an educational module, which could be improved later on by a group of specialists, if needed. The authoring software is called COMA (Concepts and Maps) and its potential use goes beyond Engineering Education due to its easy of use, its free distribution and its multilingual interface / Mestrado / Eletrônica, Microeletrônica e Optoeletrônica / Mestre em Engenharia Elétrica

This study investigates, within the current health care situation, the interrelationship of the user, resources and tool in the design of a prototype WELLNESS database-driven web site. A shift has taken place in health care, in which the base of conventional medicine has broadened to integrate other systems, practices and worldviews. These include complementary and alternative medicine, health promotion, disease prevention and wellness. Emphasis is placed on the need to take personal responsibility for one's own health and wellness. The global burden of chronic disease, reaching epidemic proportions, is increasingly linked to risk factors resulting from personal lifestyle choices. The growing evidence of the user's need to make personal, informed, lifestyle choices and their reliance on the Web for health information, required investigation. WELLNESS, a specific orientation to health and wellness, formed the framework within which the user and resources were defined and the tool designed. The user was profiled as the WELLNESS health information seeker, hereby contributing significantly to an understanding of the user in this new context. The user profile informed the establishment of resource selection criteria and tool design. The identification of WELLNESS content selection criteria, within a five-dimensional model, was required to ensure quality, relevant and credible resources. The tool is comprised of the WELLNESS thesaurus and WELLNESS database-driven web site. The WELLNESS thesaurus was constructed based on a combination of relevant thesauri. It will be used as an indexing tool. An investigation of existing health information web sites highlighted the importance of designing a specific WELLNESS database-driven web site. A database host was identified against which the original study's conceptual schema was assessed. A low-fidelity prototype web site was designed as the interface between the WELLNESS health information seeker and the database of WELLNESS health information resources. This study has epidemiological, philosophical, epistemological, sociological and psychological relevance. The provision of access to WELLNESS health information resources, made available in the WELLNESS database-driven web site, for personal, informed lifestyle choice by the WELLNESS health information seeker could potentially contribute to the reduction of the global burden of chronic disease. / Information Science / D.Litt. et Phil. (Information Science)

This study investigates, within the current health care situation, the interrelationship of the user, resources and tool in the design of a prototype WELLNESS database-driven web site. A shift has taken place in health care, in which the base of conventional medicine has broadened to integrate other systems, practices and worldviews. These include complementary and alternative medicine, health promotion, disease prevention and wellness. Emphasis is placed on the need to take personal responsibility for one's own health and wellness. The global burden of chronic disease, reaching epidemic proportions, is increasingly linked to risk factors resulting from personal lifestyle choices. The growing evidence of the user's need to make personal, informed, lifestyle choices and their reliance on the Web for health information, required investigation. WELLNESS, a specific orientation to health and wellness, formed the framework within which the user and resources were defined and the tool designed. The user was profiled as the WELLNESS health information seeker, hereby contributing significantly to an understanding of the user in this new context. The user profile informed the establishment of resource selection criteria and tool design. The identification of WELLNESS content selection criteria, within a five-dimensional model, was required to ensure quality, relevant and credible resources. The tool is comprised of the WELLNESS thesaurus and WELLNESS database-driven web site. The WELLNESS thesaurus was constructed based on a combination of relevant thesauri. It will be used as an indexing tool. An investigation of existing health information web sites highlighted the importance of designing a specific WELLNESS database-driven web site. A database host was identified against which the original study's conceptual schema was assessed. A low-fidelity prototype web site was designed as the interface between the WELLNESS health information seeker and the database of WELLNESS health information resources. This study has epidemiological, philosophical, epistemological, sociological and psychological relevance. The provision of access to WELLNESS health information resources, made available in the WELLNESS database-driven web site, for personal, informed lifestyle choice by the WELLNESS health information seeker could potentially contribute to the reduction of the global burden of chronic disease. / Information Science / D.Litt. et Phil. (Information Science)

A domain name is a unique alphanumeric designation that facilitates reference to sets of numbers which actually locate a particular computer on the Internet. Domain names are a fundamental part of the Internet's user interface. Improving the usability of the Internet depends upon effective domain name policy. This study is intended to contribute to improvement in Internet usability for the end users of domain names. Benefits of more usable domain names include: higher sales, customer satisfaction and productivity, and reduced support costs. Domain name policies worldwide vary considerably. Consequently, end users are inconvenienced by contradictory domain name policies, diminishing the predictability of an entity's domain name, and thus decreasing usability for end users. The study objective was to develop criteria with which policy makers can evaluate their domain name policies, in order to improve the usability of domain names for end users. The main research question posed was: What are the criteria for an effective domain name policy? The research methodology included a literature review, domain name policy examination and an ethnographic narrative. The literature review found existing research examining either domain names or usability in isolation. However, research examining the intersection of the two is scarce. The existing research describes domain names as part of the web user interface. In practical terms, this is about how people use domain names to access web sites, email addresses and other Internet resources. It was established that the predictability (and thus usability) of domain names relies on effective domain name policy. The non-standardised and widely delegated process of domain name policy development leads to unpredictable and inconsistent domain names. The narrative recollection presented the researcher's inside perspective on the domain name industry, with a focus on domain name usability. The researcher provided first-hand insights into the evolution of the industry and policy development process, from Australian and international perspectives. To address the problem of poor domain name usability, a framework for domain name policy evaluation is proposed. The framework extends the current research that treats domain names as a user interface by proposing criteria which address usability concerns. The framework allows policy makers to critically assess domain name policies with end users in mind. Examples of the criteria include: understanding who are its intended and untended users, and whether it's consistent with other domain names. The framework has the potential to set an international standard for the critical evaluation of domain name policy, and become the basis for further research. This study was developed from the researcher's perspective as a participant in the domain name industry. A secondary lens regarding the usability of domain names was then applied. This study has only scraped the surface in terms of how the research fields of domain names and usability may be considered together. The research methodology for this study was primarily qualitative and interpretive. A quantitative study of domain name policies globally could provide further insight into areas including: the differences in second level country code domain names, and language implications of domain names.