Orientador: Mauricio Ferreira Magalhães / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Eletrica e de Computação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-04T04:09:19Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Guimaraes_ElianeGomes_D.pdf: 1203376 bytes, checksum: 8baa98d5b0b9753d8a292e0c940b5f41 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2004 / Resumo: Esta tese descreve CM-tel, um modelo de componentes para aplicações telemáticas e ubíquas. CM-tel é neutro em termos de tecnologia, sendo especificado por meio da linguagem UML (Unified Modeling Language). Componentes CM-tel são capazes de executar em plataformas destinadas tanto a computadores tradicionais quanto a dispositivos com limitado poder computacional tais como dispositivos móveis. CM-tel define os três tipos de interfaces prescritas pelo Modelo de Referência para Processamento Distribuído Aberto (RM-ODP), as interfaces operacional, de sinal e de fluxo contínuo. Interfaces de fluxo contínuo são fundamentais para o desenvolvimento de aplicações telemáticas. A arquitetura do contêiner CM-tel integra componentes e agentes móveis em um único ambiente computacional. Esta integração permite que aplicações implementem suas funcionalidades combinando componentes e agentes móveis. Esta tese propõe ainda uma arquitetura para plataformas de software que suportam o modelo CM-tel. A arquitetura utiliza XSLT (XML Stylesheet Language Transformation) para transformação de modelos e geração de código. Uma plataforma baseada na tecnologia CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture) e uma aplicação na área de laboratórios virtuais foram implementadas com a finalidade de avaliar o modelo CM-tel / Abstract: This thesis describes CM-tel, a component model for telematic and ubiquitous applications. CMtel is neutral in terms technology and is specified through the Unified Modeling Language (UML). CM-tel components can execute on platforms targeted to both conventional computers and devices with limited computing power such as mobile devices. CM-tel defines the three types of interfaces prescribed by the Reference Model for Open Distributed Processing (RM-ODP), the operational, signal, and stream interfaces. Stream interfaces are central to the development of telematic applications. The CM-tel container architecture integrates both components and mobile agents into a single computing environment. This integration allows applications to implement their functionalities by combining components and mobile agents. This thesis also proposes an architecture for software platforms supportting the CM-tel component model. The architecture relies on XSLT (XML Stylesheet Language Transformation) for model transformation and code generation. A platform based on the CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture) technology and an application in the field of virtual laboratories were implemented in order to assess the CM-tel component model / Doutorado / Engenharia de Computação / Doutor em Engenharia Elétrica

This thesis takes in to account mainly the cooperative design and human factors from ubiquitous computing design perspective. Areas such as role of cooperative design in ubiquitous computing perspective, the changing attributes of society and the associated issues, the changing shape of public service delivery and need for a change in methodology in ubiquitous computing projects have been discussed. The overall approach is taking advantage of Suchman’s idea of ‘design as an artful integration of different social as well as technical aspects'. The advantage of the technique has been taken by bringing together social and societal aspects, agenda of governments from IT perspective, human factors and purely designs methodology to frame up in which we need to re-assess ubiquitous computing design methodology. The thesis work comprises literature review, and a case study to pick up on the role of cooperative and participatory design. The probe was specifically in the context of ubiquitous computing design requirements and ubiquitous computing vision / 26 Helsingorsgatan 16 444 Kista Phone: 0046 73 632 3670

There are many attempts to bridge paper digital gap, new artifacts and tools are being delivered continuously. Many of these artifacts work with paper and cooperate with other artifacts. Despite the fact that these artifacts are good enough to perform their work, they tend to be dull in exchanging data and cooperating with other artifacts. This causes a problem especially when artifact cooperation is essential. In order to solve this we need to have a standard to present the data used in the artifacts and facilitate communication among artifacts. Paper Digital Classes is a new standard that aims at providing a standard implementation of the artifacts in matters of data exchange and interoperability. / Med dagens teknik är det möjligt att skicka till exempel e-post direkt från ett papper utan att röra vid datorn. Genom att använda en särskild digital penna överförs texten man skriver på papper direkt till datorn. Jag har undersökt olika system och verktyg som berör läsning och överföring från papper till digitala dokument. Jag har utifrån min studie tagit fram en standard, PDC, Paper Digital Classes, som låter olika verktyg interagera som om de vore ett. PDC kan komma att få stor betydelse för framtida dokumenthantering. Tekniken underlättar att skicka e-post från ett pappersdokument, redigera pappersdokument och överhuvudtaget all interaktion mellan fysiska och digitala dokument. PDC kan också komma till god hjälp när det gäller att utveckla nya, användbara produkter. / Ashraf Habash Gamla Infartsv. 3A, lhg 510 371 41 Karlskrona (mob) +46 734 08 79 67 (work) +46 457 386 300

There are many attempts to bridge paper digital gap, new artifacts and tools are being delivered continuously. Many of these artifacts work with paper and cooperate with other artifacts. Despite the fact that these artifacts are good enough to perform their work, they tend to be dull in exchanging data and cooperating with other artifacts. This causes a problem especially when artifact cooperation is essential. In order to solve this we need to have a standard to present the data used in the artifacts and facilitate communication among artifacts. Paper Digital Classes is a new standard that aims at providing a standard implementation of the artifacts in matters of data exchange and interoperability. PDC has a direct industrial impact, this was noticed by Sparbanksstiftelsen Kronan and they have awarded me a scholarship for the project. / Med dagens teknik är det möjligt att skicka till exempel e-post direkt från ett papper utan att röra vid datorn. Genom att använda en särskild digital penna överförs texten man skriver på papper direkt till datorn. Jag har undersökt olika system och verktyg som berör läsning och överföring från papper till digitala dokument. Jag har utifrån min studie tagit fram en standard, PDC, Paper Digital Classes, som låter olika verktyg interagera som om de vore ett. PDC kan komma att få stor betydelse för framtida dokumenthantering. Tekniken underlättar att skicka e-post från ett pappersdokument, redigera pappersdokument och överhuvudtaget all interaktion mellan fysiska och digitala dokument. PDC kan också komma till god hjälp när det gäller att utveckla nya, användbara produkter. / Ashraf Habash Gamla Infartsv. 3A 371 41 Karlskrona (mob) +46 734 08 79 67 (work) +46 457 386 307 Ashrafhabash@msn.com www.uth.se

In this Bachelor thesis I explore sound and room as elements in design of user interfaces, both theoretical and practical in a specific application domain, to identify some of the advantages and disadvantage associated with these elements. As application domain I studied email clients and their usage at home amongst students at Blekinge Institute of Technology. In the study I found an activity, which seems to be highly distributed in the physical room where the user is located. The activity was notification of email and could take place in an arbitrary location of the home. I then augmented this activity with ideas from my theoretical assumption about room and sound. The result was a rule-based agent for notification of email, which primarily uses sound as interaction style. / I fokus för mitt arbete står två begrepp, ljud och rummet samt att skapa en fusion mellan dem i ett gränssnitt. Båda är områden som med tiden har fått ökad betydelse för IT design.

This paper, the corresponding wireframe documentation including the functional prototype and flowchart document the evaluation and redesign of the beta version of the social networking platform ModernFamilies.net. In order to reveal possible usability flaws for people of different generations, in particular the elderly, a user-centered design approach including an expert review, diary studies and interviews were conducted. The findings reflected the need for consistency and feedback in general. For young children, the concept of the site appeared to behard to grasp. Experienced users found the access and management of relatives cumbersome. Most importantly, the elderly, novice computer users had a hard time getting started with the site on their own because they did not have access to a PC nor internet at their home. The latter and the fact, that some issues might never be solved by traditional usability testing because the user just feels overwhelmed by the vast amount of communication features he is faced with today calls for alternative, more intelligent, ambient interfaces. However, we came to the conclusion that although evaluation of such new technologies with elderly people is not alwayseasy, it is best to be conducted in the participants home or a similar environment. / AGNES

Context represents any information regarding the situation of entities, being these a person, place or object that is considered relevant to the interaction between a user and an application. The results obtained permits an user to save context information attached to a picture in a database, as well as retrieve pictures from that database and show it in a web interface with its context information associated. The web interface also allows the user to perform searches by using different criteria, so only the pictures that matches with that criteria will be shown. / Final Degree Project - Thesis

This work describes a design of a multimedia content delivery system based on context, to provide multimedia information and other services according to the user location and his preferences. It focuses on mobility and the problem of different coherent and cohesive presentations depending on the available resources of the presentation environment.

This essay does a theoretical comparison of the intricate social production in digital and real spaces, proposing a model for the non-technical exploration of the social production of spaces relating to human digital technology. The ‘social space’ proposed by Henri Lefebvre (1974) - responsible for producing material space - and the holistic model of ‘cybernetic space’ proposed by Ananda Mitra and Rae Lynn Schwartz (2001) - responsible for supporting the production of real and digital spaces - are argued as collaboratively producing cybernetic social spaces, serving as the definition of a unified model for the production of spaces in contemporary society. The digital spaces are argued as being a similar analogue to classical ‘social space’. Two native cybernetic spaces are presented and discussed, argued as being responsible for the transitive production of digital and real spaces as they survey and situate the production of cybernetic social space. Finally, two case studies exemplifying the aesthetics and politics of cybernetic space are presented, analyzed and discussed in accordance with the proposed model of cybernetic social space.

In modern societies the activity of driving has become almost an essential routine. Vehicles are considered by many as indispensable tools for accomplishing their daily tasks and they are the main form of transportation for millions of people. The average driver spends, voluntarily, considerable amounts of time on the road, using their vehicle to transport himself even for small distances and knowing that its use presents him with some form of comfort and convenience; yet, drivers frequently regard their road experience as tiring and fastidious, but their persistence in using their vehicle at every opportunity serves as proof of a pleasurable experience. So far car manufacturers, traffic authorities and designers of technology have been mainly concerned with aspects of the road that ensure drivers safety, increase power engine, provide more comfort, and maintain better streets, etc; however, the actual feelings of the driver as he travels through the streets has not yet been taken into a great account by the developers of the road environment. For this reason this thesis tries to create awareness on the existence and constant presence of people’s emotions as they drive, which have the mutual power to influence their action on the road and their driving patterns. In order to capture a drivers’ emotional experience this study uses three main methods. One of them is Cultural Probes, consisting of common objects specifically Postcards, Pictures, and Web-logs, to measure unknown factors about the users. The second is the use of Ethnographic studies on the driving activities through the use of observations, the popular talk-aloud-protocol and the shadow method. Finally, the Experience Sampling Method is used, which tries to captures the experience of an individual as it unfolds in its natural context. With the combined used of these three methods some of the main factors of the road’s environment that are commonly able to influence the driver’s emotions in negative or positive ways were discovered, which include the intensity and type of light, the different types and sources of sound, the perceivable landscapes and surrounding architectures and the different kinds of continuously occurring interactions. These are just some of the many factors that can influence emotions on the road, and hopefully this study will open the curiosity for a deeper study of these and other aspects of the emotional driving experience. / Julio Angulo djjupra@gmail.com Reforma #60, Col. Atlantida, 04370 Mexico City, Mexico 66 - 3433 E. 49th Ave V5S 1M1 Vancouver, BC Canada