Background: As the expanding digital tools of communications provide new ways for people to interact online, new ways of initiating relationships have emerged from this technological development. From traditional online dating sites to today’s proximity dating applications that enable users to easily interact with other users nearby with the help of geolocation technology. This fast-paced movement allows dating applications to enter the market to assist people with the search for their soulmate. These dating applications such as Tinder allows people to manage their self-presentation as desired to pursue their goals online.    Problem: Previous literature about self-presentation and behaviour online has mainly focused on Facebook as the context. Because of its popularity among emerging adults today, this thesis has chosen to study Tinder as a context. Additionally, previous literature about Tinder has mainly focused on the motives behind using the app. However, the examination of self-presentation focusing solely on young women and how Tinder is utilized to reach one’s goal is not thoroughly researched.     Purpose: The purpose of this study is to increase the knowledge of how young heterosexual women in Sweden use self-presentation and utilize digital social platforms to reach their goal. This research examines the context of the online dating application Tinder to study experiences and get insights into how the users utilize the app and different strategies to succeed. To fulfil the purpose of this research, the research team is going to thoroughly analyse the participants’ experiences and opinions to further understand how self-presentation and strategies are implemented in a context as Tinder.     Method: This thesis has followed a qualitative approach where an interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) strategy is used. Ten semi-structured interviews have been conducted on young heterosexual women between 18-25 in Sweden utilizing the online dating application Tinder.    Results: The findings suggest that the participants use different strategies and have a varying perception of Tinder depending on how they want other users to perceive them and what their goals are. The discovered strategies are how the participants select pictures, what information they disclose in their profile, and how they interact with male users on the application. The development of the digital environment has impacted how users behave online, and findings suggest that social online platforms do not facilitate the expression of the true self online as previous literature has stated.

Das Wertegerüst der Bundeswehr, Status quo – Ein sexuell freizügiger Lebensstil muss disziplinarrechtlich geahndet werden, denn er gefährdet die Achtungs- und Vertrauenswürdigkeit einer Soldatin. Mit Datum vom 25.05.2022 judizierte das BVerwG, der Auftritt einer Kommandeurin auf der Dating-Plattform Tinder stelle eine Dienstpflichtverletzung dar. Der nachfolgende Beitrag führt kurz in den zugrundeliegenden Sachverhalt ein, würdigt die Entscheidungsgründe und ordnet sie kritisch in den dahinterstehenden Diskurs ein.

Mängden dejtingapplikationer för mobila enheter ökar stadigt och i Sverige dominerar Tinder som den mest populära mobila dejtingapplikationen. Matchningsprocessen på Tinder har dock fått motstå en del kritik då gränssnittet gör det väldigt enkelt att göra misstag. Syftet med det här examensarbetet är att undersöka matchningsprocessen på den mobila dejtingapplikation Tinder för att skapa ett nytt koncept med hjälp av metoden Konceptdriven designforskning. Med hjälp av Konceptdriven designforskning blir det nya konceptet utarbetat enligt en metodologisk guide där författaren jobbar med att granska kritik och teoretiskt förankra det mot en forskningsbakgrund för att hitta lösningar som förbättrar användbarheten. Arbetet leds av frågeställningen ”Hur kan matchningsprocessen på Tinder teoretiskt förankras och konceptualiseras i syfte att främja användarupplevelsen?” Författaren skapar en design för att visa det nya konceptet i sin helhet och testar det nya konceptet mot etablerade Tinderanvändare för att utvärdera användarupplevelsen. Resultatet visar att deltagarna ansåg att det nya konceptet är lättförståeligt, att det minskar antalet misstag vid matchningsprocessen och att det nya konceptet är mer användbart än Tinder. Det nya konceptet behåller stommen av Tinder men justerar applikationen utifrån kritik för att erbjuda en bättre användbarhet genom att luta alla ändringar mot en forskningsbakgrund med designprinciper och designriktlinjer för god användbarhet. I slutsatsen presenteras ett nytt koncept som är teoretiskt förankrat i tidigare forskning och som främjar användarupplevelsen genom att erbjuda ett gränssnitt som är mer användbart än det gränssnitt som Tinder idag erbjuder. / The amount of mobile dating applications are steadily rising and Tinder dominates as the most popular mobile dating application in Sweden. However, the matching process of Tinder has been criticized as the interface makes it very easy for the users to make mistakes. The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the matching process of the mobile dating application Tinder and create a new concept using the method Concept-driven design research. With the help of Concept-driven design research the new concept is being developed according to a methodological guide where the author is working to review criticism and set it against a research background to find solutions that improve usability. The author creates a design to show the concept in its entirety and test the concept against established Tinder users to evaluate the user experience of the new concept. As a result, the participants felt that the new concept was easy to understand, that it reduced the number of mistakes during the matching process and that the new concept was more useful than Tinder. The new concept keeps the backbone of Tinder but adjusts the application based on criticism to provide a better usability by basing all the changes on a scientific background with design principles and design guidelines for good usability. The conclusion presents a new concept based on a research background that promotes the user experience by offering an interface that is more useable than the interface offered by Tinder today.

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No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 2136822 bytes, checksum: a122274b64c2bca9063e2642d3fe5797 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-02-24 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / The objective of this research was to analyze how the exchanges in the relationship applications collaborate to the objectification of the consumers in order to understand how the value can be co-created among the actors involved in this service. The netnographic research was developed in Tinder which is currently one of the most popular relationship applications in Brazil and worldwide. The data were collected through 19 interviews with Tinder consumers, carried out from May 2015 to November 2016, as well as the diary record with the main experiences that I lived in the application from October 2014 to December 2016. The Research results show that value co-creation has greater participation of users than the institution and the value of the application is attributed phenomenologically by the experiences in the exchanges. Relationship applications, in general, allow relationships between users analogous to consumer relationships and in Tinder, there is a sense that the next option may be more interesting favoring the accumulation of matches and the discarding of those that do not meet expectations, such as product that is returned by default. Research responds to social perspectives, specifically on the dynamics of relationships through connections; and managerial skills as you discuss possibilities for improvement in the application. It is concluded that in order to guarantee the value creation in the light of the Service- Dominant Logic, institutional control over the exchanges is necessary to avoid deviations in the use of Tinder. On the other hand, it must be considered that the dynamics that favor objectification is that which maintains the popularity of the application and any limitation of use, could cause Tinder to lose strategic benefits. In this case, it must be considered that the autonomy of cyberspace, in itself, requires institutional flexibility in regulations or even absence of them. So while some users have a negative perception of Tinder, others see opportunities to escape from the social routine with a lot of switching possibilities, and it is these uncontrolled exchanges that keep users active in the application and ensure their survival. / O objetivo desta pesquisa foi analisar como as trocas nos aplicativos de relacionamento colaboram à objetificação dos consumidores de forma a entender como o valor pode ser cocriado entre os atores envolvidos neste serviço. A investigação netnográfica, foi desenvolvida no Tinder que atualmente é um dos aplicativos de relacionamento mais populares no Brasil e no mundo. Os dados foram coletados por meio de 19 entrevistas com consumidores do Tinder, realizadas de maio de 2015 a novembro de 2016 além do registro em forma de diário com as principais experiências que vivi no aplicativo no período de outubro de 2014 a dezembro de 2016. Os resultados da pesquisa mostram que a cocriação de valor tem maior participação dos usuários que da instituição e o valor do aplicativo é atribuído fenomenologicamente pelas experiências nas trocas. Os aplicativos de relacionamento, de modo geral, permitem relações entre usuários análogas a relações de consumo e no Tinder, há a sensação de que a próxima opção pode ser mais interessante favorecendo o acúmulo de matches e o descarte daqueles que não atenderem às expectativas, como produto que se devolve por defeito. A pesquisa atende às perspectivas sociais, especificamente sobre a dinâmica dos relacionamentos por conexões; e gerenciais à medida que discute possibilidades de melhoria no aplicativo. Conclui-se que para garantir a cocriação de valor à luz da Lógica Dominante do Serviço, é necessário o controle institucional sobre as trocas que evitem desvios na utilização do Tinder. Por outro lado há que se considerar que a dinâmica que favorece a objetificação é a que mantém a popularidade do aplicativo e qualquer limitação de uso ao usuário, poderia fazer com que o Tinder perdesse benefícios estratégicos. Nesse caso, deve-se considerar que a autonomia do ciberespaço, em si, requer flexibilidade institucional em regulações ou mesmo ausência destas. Assim, enquanto alguns usuários têm uma percepção negativa do Tinder, outros veem oportunidades de fuga da rotina social com diversas possibilidades de troca, e são essas trocas, não controladas, que mantém os usuários ativos no aplicativo e garantem a sobrevivência dele.

Adoption of location-based services (LBS) was for a long time below expectations, and most of the studies attribute it to privacy concerns of users. However, many new LBS applications are currently among the most downloaded application for smartphones, particularly entertainment applications. Therefore, this research aims to find out whether privacy concerns still matter to users and to explore the role of the privacy in the adoption of LBS entertaining applications. The adopted methodology is qualitative research and data are collected through interviews and additional information from the smartphones ofparticipants. Ten individuals among university students at Linnaeus University in Sweden are selected for this research, and this sample choice is per their experience with two selected LBS entertaining applications, Pokémon Go and Tinder. As a result, six themes have been recognized to answer the research questions. Low privacy concerns about location information, especially in entertainment applications with negligible effect on adoption have been identified. However, author of this research suggests, that developers of LBS entertaining applications should care for retaining their credibility because it can have an impact on the adoption of their LBS services.

The purpose of the paper is to give a detailed description to provide a better understanding of what strategies women use when online dating and in real life. The purpose of the paper is to identify how women create a sense of security for themselves, to make the leap from online communication to meeting an unknown male in the real world. For those two unknown people to take the step to meet each other face to face, there should be a kind of trust between them, how it is created, and what factors it is that determines that a meeting in real life will take place. In this essay, it has applied a qualitative method along with six thematically open interviews in which the informants have been women aged 20-30 years. In order to analyze the empirical approach, Sztompkas and Giddens's theory of trust and security have been used together along side Goffmans concept of front and backstage and other concepts are included as well. An analysis of the empirical material was found, the results showing that women often use fairly common strategies to create security in itself. These were as such, selecting a meeting place that is public and collecting information about the person they are meeting in advance using other channels of social media such as Facebook,Tinder, etc. This indicates that there is a general underlying concern about who the person really is on the other side of the computer screen/mobile screen. It also shows that the women are consciously or subconsciously using strategies to build up a sense of security among themselves before meeting with an unknown male. Keywords: Back stage, front stage, online dating, offline, online, role, security, social interaction, Tinder och trust. / Syftet med undersökningen är att bidra med en ökad förståelse för vilka strategier unga kvinnor använder sig av vid nätdejting, online kontra offline. Syftet med uppsatsen ligger i att identifiera hur kvinnor skapar en trygghet för sig själva för att ta steget från online till att träffa en okänd man i verkligheten. För att två okända människor ska våga träffa varandra ansikte mot ansikte bör det finnas en slags trygghet mellan dem, hur skapas den och vilka faktorer är det som avgör att ett möte i verkligheten sker? I den här uppsatsen har det tillämpats en kvalitativ metod tillsammans med sex tematiskt öppna intervjuer där informanterna har varit kvinnor i åldrarna 20-30 år. För att kunna analysera empirin har Piotr Sztompkas och Anthony Giddens teorier om trygghet och tillit använts i kombination med Erving Goffmans begrepp om frontstage och backstage samt andra som inbegrips i dessa. Genom en analys av det empiriska materialet påträffades resultat som visar på att kvinnor ofta använder sig av någorlunda gemensamma strategier för att skapa trygghet för sig själva, dessa var exempelvis: att välja en mötesplats som är offentlig, samla information i förväg om personen, användningen av andra kommunikationskanaler utöver Tinder etc. Detta pekar på att det överlag finns en underliggande oro för vem personen är på andra sidan datorskärmen/mobilskärmen, samt att personer omedvetet eller medvetet använder strategier för att bygga upp en trygghet hos sig själv innan mötet med en okänd människa. Nyckelord: Backstage, fasad, frontstage, inramning, nätdejting, offline, online, roll, social interaktion, tillit, Tinder och trygghet.

Denna studie belyser kärleken och partnerskapets karaktär i vår samtid. Tidigare forskning visar att övergången till ett mer digitaliserat dejtingliv har bidragit till en marknadisering av dejtingarenan, genomsyrad av konsumtionslogik. Tinders teknologiska arkitektur, och den effektivitet och omedelbarhet den främjar, leder dess användare till att se profilerna på appen som varor för konsumtion, snarare än potentiella partners. Den expanderade dejtingmarknaden har dessutom lett till en ökad ovilja, och oförmåga, att välja en partner bland mängden av potentiella alternativ. Syftet med denna studie är att, genom att vända oss till unga vuxna Tinderanvändare, få en djupare förståelse för den virtuella dejtingarenan och våra intervjupersoners inställning till den. Frågeställningarna utgår från urvalet och omfattar deras upplevelser och egna resonemang kring deras användning samt den betydelse de tillskriver Tinder. De omfattar även deras förväntningar på kärlek och partnerskap i relation till appen. Empirin består av transkriberat intervjumaterial från tio semistrukturerade intervjuer. De teoretiska ramverk som ligger till grund för analysen av materialet är Eva Illouz (2019) samt Barry Schwartz (2004). Resultatet visar att appen används av våra intervjupersoner främst som ett underhållande medel, likt en social media. Appen liknas även vid ett spel till följd av dess teknologiska uppbyggnad och det oseriösa användandet av den, det vill säga att den inte primärt används för dejtande. Tinder anses av intervjupersonerna följaktligen inte vara en givande arena för strävan efter långvarigt partnerskap, istället önskas detta finnas på den fysiska dejtingmarknaden. Resultatet visar även att intervjupersonerna använder appen som en källa till snabb bekräftelse, och som ett mått på nivån av den egna attraktiviteten. Slutsatsen är att Tinders funktion som dejtingapp är begränsad, och att teknologins intåg på de mellanmänskliga relationernas arena lett till en kalkylerande rationalitet som främjar kortvariga och utbytbara partnerskap. Å andra sidan fyller Tinder funktioner som motiverar användarna till fortsatt bruk.

Magistro darbe tiriama paprastosios eglės vidinio puvinio įtaka medienos savybėms . Darbo objektas – eglės mediena, kuri buvo paimta iš VĮ Prienų miškų urėdijos 15 kv 25 skl., 49 kv 15 skl., Veisėjų 3 kv 7 skl., Šilutės 2 kv 7skl., 11 kv 12 skl., 19 kv 6 skl., 33 kv 3 skl., 147 kv 4 skl. Darbo tikslas – ištirti paprastosios eglės vidinio puvinio įtaką medienos tankio ir stiprio savybėms. Darbo metodai – tirtuose eglės bareliuose visi medžiai buvo patikrinti prietaisu „ARBOTOM“, kuris matuoja garso sklidimo greitį medienoje ir pateikia erdvinį garso greičio stiebe vaizdą. Garsas sveikoje ir puvinio pažeistoje medienoje sklinda skirtingu greičiu. Vėliau atsitiktiniu būdu iš visų medžių, kuriuose prietaisas parodė vidinį puvinį, buvo atrinkti ir nupjauti medžiai. Radus puvinį buvo paimta kelminė atpjova 50 cm ilgio tolesniems tyrimams. Ruošiant bandinius, iš atpjovų buvo išpjauta centrinė (einanti išilgai per šerdį) 60 mm storio išpjova, kuri supjaustyta į sluoksnius. Medienos fizinės ir mechaninės savybės nustatytos LAMMC Miškų instituto medienos laboratorijoje ir slėnio „Nemunas“ medienos naudojimo, kokybės ir apdirbimo technologijų laboratorijoje. Vykdant medienos stipruminių savybių bandymus, naudota 5 tonų galios bandymų mašina P – 5. Duomenų sisteminimas ir jų analizė atlikta, naudojant statistinių duomenų tvarkymo paketą Microsoft Excell. Darbo rezultatai: atlikus tyrimus nustatyta, kad Prienų urėdijos eglės branduolio puvinio įtaką medienos tankiui, išryškėjo, jog... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / In this master thesis was researched internal rot of Norway spruce (Picea abies) and its impact to woods characteristics. The object of this work: wood of Norway spruce (Picea abies), which was taken from Prienai state-owned forest enterprise (therefore SOFE) 15 quarter 25 plot, 49 quarter 15plot,Veisiejai SOFE 3 quarter 7 plot, Šilutė SOFE 2quarter 7plot, 11 quarter 12plot, 19 quarter 6 plot, 33 quarter 3plot, 147 quarter 4 plot. The aim of this work is to research the inner rot influence of picea abies to wood density and strength properties. The methods: all spruce in research area were checked with device called “ARBOTROM”, which measures sound speed in wood and shows spatial sound speed view in a steam. Sound in healthy and rot wood differs. Randomly were selected and cut down all trees, which according to the device had an inner rot. After the rot was found a 50cm length tree stump sample was taken for the further research. During preparation of samples there was prepared the central 60 mm thick cutoff (lengthways the core) and shredded to layers. Physical and mechanical wood properties were defined in LRCAF Forest Institute for timber laboratory and in “Nemunas” valley, timber quality and technology lab. For a wood strength property testing was used 5 ton test machine P-5. All data was systematized and analyzed by using Microsoft Excel. Results: after researching Norway spruce kernel rot effect to wood density, was discovered, that wood samples with inner rot from... [to full text]

This thesis deals with the problematics of usage of dating applications between young people of the Czech republic and their views on partnerships. The introduction is dedicated to theoretical findings and basic terminology related with on-line dating. The first half of the theoretical part introduces the reader to different views on partnerships and their core pillars based on psychological theories. In connection with these attributes, the second part of the thesis concentrates on theories dealing with transformations in present relationships. Separate chapter is devoted to millennials - known as generation Y. Second part of the theoretical part brings the reader closer to understanding how meeting and getting acquainted with someone works in the cyber world. It analyses its evolution and existing research on the topic. At the same time it deals with communication and self-presentation of users on dating applications and dating websites. Last but not least the reader is acquainted with on-line dating applications Tinder and Grindr, whose users were my respondents. The practical part is dedicated to the research itself, whose main task was to determine the role the dating applications play in establishing relationships in a young persons life. User activity of respondents as well as their experience and attitude towards dating application was revealed using a semi-structured interview. At the same time the research shows the views and opinions of the respondents on partnership itself.

Dating online applications have fundamentally changed the form of online dating. They are available on a mobile phone and are based on spatial proximity of users and ease of use. This diploma thesis focuses on users of these applications. This thesis is based on the assumptions of the uses and gratifications theory, which assumes that the media audience is active and uses the media to satisfy its needs. The aim of this thesis is to find out how individuals use the dating applications and what their reasons for using are. To collect data, I chose a combination of quantitative and qualitative approach. First, an on-line questionnaire survey was conducted, followed by semi- structured interviews with applications users. Research has shown that the reason for using and the attitude of users varies with each individual and can change during use. Keywords dating applications, Tinder, online dating, uses and gratifications theory, active audience, mixed methods research