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71	Cooperative design of a cross-age tutoring system based on a social networking platform Chimbo, Bester 11 1900 (has links) In South Africa, many young children from poor social and economic backgrounds are cared for at home by parents or guardians who are themselves illiterate. This leads to poor educational outcomes later in life. Yet there are many privileged teenagers with access to mobile technologies who spend a greater portion of their spare time interacting on ubiquitous social media platforms. This presents an opportunity whereby the poor educational outcomes referred to previously could be addressed by applying a technology solution providing social media-based homework support by privileged teenagers to underprivileged younger children. However, most applications designed for use by children are designed by adults, with little understanding of the user requirements of the target end users. This research explores the following question: How can a cross-age tutoring system be designed for implementation on a social networking platform to support numeracy and literacy skill acquisition? The main contribution of this research was the definition of the Cooperative design by Children for Children (CD2C) Design Framework, a blueprint of how a cross-age tutoring system could be co-designed by children of different age groups and life circumstances. The CD2C Design Framework was derived as an abstraction of the second contribution of this research, the TitanTutor, an artifact designed using co-operative inquiry method and the Design Science Research approach. The third novelty of this research was contribution to Design Science Research theory, with the addition of new theory that states that cooperative design by children from different age groups and life circumstances is tempered by socio-environmental context and power relations between the co-design partners. This work provided important contributions to researchers in the areas of Cooperative Inquiry (CI), Human Computer Interaction (HCI), and Design Science Research (DSR). Future researchers could extend the CD2C Design Framework to make it even more abstract, thereby making it universally applicable to any co-design scenario. / Computing / Ph. D. (Information Systems) Cooperative Design Participatory Design Cooperative Inquiry Cross-Age Tutoring Design Science Research Social Networking Platform Numeracy Literacy Disadvantaged Children Privileged Environments 004.21083 Online social networks -- Design Learning strategies -- South Africa Computers and children -- South Africa
72	Läkemedelssökning i vårddokumentationssystem : En användarcentrerad utveckling av läkemedelssökning i vårddokumentationssystem Kvarnström, Mattis, Karlström, Daniel January 2010 (has links) This thesis examines the problems related to IT in the Swedish healthcare system, specifically the drug searching part of the electronic healthcare systems used in Sweden. The question formulation is divided into two questions: What parameters and functions are of greatest importance when performing a search on drugs, and how should these be presented in a graphical user interface? Thus the purpose is to answer these questions through developing a design concept, in the form of a prototype, which describes how a drug search can be carried out. The entry point is a central quality checked drug database that is managed and owned by Swedish county councils and regions. The problem is attacked through user-centered methods where interviews of physicians and developers, in conjunction with observations, are used to give an overview of the problem area as well as to specify a requirements specification for the prototype that this thesis aims to develop. The thesis result is a requirements specification in combination with a prototype that exemplifies how drug searching can be performed, the prototype is based the requirements gathered from the interviews with the user group of physicians. / Den här uppsatsen behandlar problematiken kring IT i vården och mer specifikt läkemedelssökningar i vårddokumentationssystem. Frågeställningen är uppdelad i två frågor: Vilka parametrar och funktioner är av störst vikt vid en sökning på läkemedel samt, hur bör dessa presenteras i det grafiska gränssnittet? Syftet är därav att besvara dessa frågor genom ett designkoncept, i form av en prototyp, som beskriver hur en läkemedelssökning kan gå till. Ingångspunkten är en centralt kvalitetssäkrad läkemedelsdatabas som förvaltas av en organisation som ägs av Sveriges landsting och regioner. Problemet angrips med hjälp av användarcentrerade metoder där intervjuer av läkare och utvecklare används, tillsammans med observationer, för att ge en bild av problemområdet samt för att ställa upp krav på den prototyp som denna uppsats ämnar framta. Uppsatsens resultat är en kravspecifikation i kombination med en prototyp för hur läkemedelssökning kan gå till baserat på krav extraherade ur intervjuer med en användargrupp bestående av läkare. Cosmic electronic health care systems HCI IT in health care Melior paper prototyping prototype SIL Take Care user-centered system design user involvement Användarcentrerad systemdesign användarinvolvering Cosmic MDI Melior Inera AB IT i vården prototyp pappersprototyp SIL Take Care vårddokumentationssystem Information Systems
73	Contribution à l'étude de l'utilisabilité dans le contexte des systèmes d'information à usage professionnel: conception d'un laboratoire d'utilisabilité et applications Koenig, Vincent January 2005 (has links) Doctorat en Sciences Psychologiques et de l'éducation / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished Psychologie User-centered system design Computer software -- Human factors Logiciels -- Facteurs humains Bureautique -- Aspect psychologique
74	A new approach for pedestrian tracking and status analysis Jiang, Pingge January 2013 (has links) Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / Pedestrian and vehicle interaction analysis in a naturalistic driving environment can provide useful information for designing vehicle-pedestrian crash warning/mitigation systems. Many researchers have used crash data to understand and study pedestrian behaviors and interactions between vehicles and pedestrian during crash. However, crash data may not provide detailed pedestrian-vehicle interaction information for us. In this thesis, we designed an automatic pedestrian tracking and status analysis method to process and study pedestrian and vehicle interactions. The proposed pedestrian tracking and status analysis method includes pedestrian detection, pedestrian tracking and pedestrian status analysis modules. The main contributions of this thesis are: we designed a new pedestrian tracking method by learning the pedestrian appearance and also their motion pattern. We designed a pedestrian status estimation method by using our tracking results and thus helped estimate the possibility of collision. Our preliminary experiment results using naturalistic driving data showed promising results. pedestrian detection pedestrian tracking pedestrian status analysis naturalistic driving data Pedestrian accidents -- Research Location-based services -- Research Motor vehicle drivers -- Safety measures Pedestrian areas -- Research Traffic accidents -- Research Human engineering -- Safety measures Human-computer interaction -- Research Pedestrian facilities design
75	Usability guided development of a participant database system / Användbarhetsledd utveckling av ett deltagardatabassystem Falk, Joakim January 2018 (has links) This project consisted of the development of a web based participant database system to replace a spreadsheet based one for the project “Vi Ses! Språkvänner i Linköping” and the evaluation of it. The design and implementation was done iteratively using a collection of usability guidelines as well as the results of a set of user tests. User tests were also used for the evaluation of the web database system. The task during the user tests was participant matching and the main measurement taken was task completion time. The project resulted in a web database system that could fully replace the spreadsheet database system. The evaluation tests showed that this system was both faster to match participants in as well as less error prone. / Detta projekt bestod av utvecklingen och evalueringen av ett webbaserat databassystem för deltagare. Den skulle ersätta ett existerande Excel-baserat databassystem för projektet “Vi Ses! Språkvänner i Linköping”. Designen och implementationen gjordes iterativt med hjälp av användbarhetsriktlinjer och resultat från användartester. Användartester användes även för evalueringen av webbdatabassystemet. Uppgiften i användartesterna var deltagarmatchning och det huvudsakliga mätvärdet var hur lång tid uppgiften tog. Projektet resulterade i ett webbaserat databassystem som helt kunde ersätta det Excel-baserade systemet. Evalueringstesterna visade att systemet var både snabbare och mindre felbenäget att matcha deltagare i. Usability Database Database system Development User test Web application Web development Usability guidelines Human-Computer Interaction HCI Graphical User Interface GUI User Friendly Interface User-Centered System Design UCSD Användbarhet Databas Databassystem Utveckling Användartest Webbapplikation Webbutveckling Användbarhetsriktlinjer Människa-Datorinteraktion MDI Grafiskt Användargränssnitt Användarvänligt Gränssnitt Användarcentrerad Systemdesign ACSD Computer Sciences Datavetenskap (datalogi) Human Computer Interaction Software Engineering Programvaruteknik Information Systems
76	Brand and usability in content-intensive websites Yang, Tao 11 July 2014 (has links) Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / Our connections to the digital world are invoked by brands, but the intersection of branding and interaction design is still an under-investigated area. Particularly, current websites are designed not only to support essential user tasks, but also to communicate an institution's intended brand values and traits. What we do not yet know, however, is which design factors affect which aspect of a brand. To demystify this issue, three sub-projects were conducted. The first project developed a systematic approach for evaluating the branding effectiveness of content-intensive websites (BREW). BREW gauges users' brand perceptions on four well-known branding constructs: brand as product, brand as organization, user image, and brand as person. It also provides rich guidelines for eBranding researchers in regard to planning and executing a user study and making improvement recommendations based on the study results. The second project offered a standardized perceived usability questionnaire entitled DEEP (design-oriented evaluation of perceived web usability). DEEP captures the perceived website usability on five design-oriented dimensions: content, information architecture, navigation, layout consistency, and visual guidance. While existing questionnaires assess more holistic concepts, such as ease-of-use and learnability, DEEP can more transparently reveal where the problem actually lies. Moreover, DEEP suggests that the two most critical and reliable usability dimensions are interface consistency and visual guidance. Capitalizing on the BREW approach and the findings from DEEP, a controlled experiment (N=261) was conducted by manipulating interface consistency and visual guidance of an anonymized university website to see how these variables may affect the university's image. Unexpectedly, consistency did not significantly predict brand image, while the effect of visual guidance on brand perception showed a remarkable gender difference. When visual guidance was significantly worsened, females became much less satisfied with the university in terms of brand as product (e.g., teaching and research quality) and user image (e.g., students' characteristics). In contrast, males' perceptions of the university's brand image stayed the same in most circumstances. The reason for this gender difference was revealed through a further path analysis and a follow-up interview, which inspired new research directions to unpack even more the nexus between branding and interaction design. Branding Design Interface Consistency Usability Visual Guidance Website Branding (Marketing -- Gender Human-computer interaction User-centered system design Product management Electronic commerce -- Computer programs Internet marketing -- Research Consumer behavior Web sites -- Psychological aspects
77	Aural Mapping of STEM Concepts Using Literature Mining Bharadwaj, Venkatesh 06 March 2013 (has links) Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / Recent technological applications have made the life of people too much dependent on Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) and its applications. Understanding basic level science is a must in order to use and contribute to this technological revolution. Science education in middle and high school levels however depends heavily on visual representations such as models, diagrams, figures, animations and presentations etc. This leaves visually impaired students with very few options to learn science and secure a career in STEM related areas. Recent experiments have shown that small aural clues called Audemes are helpful in understanding and memorization of science concepts among visually impaired students. Audemes are non-verbal sound translations of a science concept. In order to facilitate science concepts as Audemes, for visually impaired students, this thesis presents an automatic system for audeme generation from STEM textbooks. This thesis describes the systematic application of multiple Natural Language Processing tools and techniques, such as dependency parser, POS tagger, Information Retrieval algorithm, Semantic mapping of aural words, machine learning etc., to transform the science concept into a combination of atomic-sounds, thus forming an audeme. We present a rule based classification method for all STEM related concepts. This work also presents a novel way of mapping and extracting most related sounds for the words being used in textbook. Additionally, machine learning methods are used in the system to guarantee the customization of output according to a user's perception. The system being presented is robust, scalable, fully automatic and dynamically adaptable for audeme generation. Science -- Study and teaching Technology -- Study and teaching Engineering -- Study and teaching Mathematics -- Study and teaching Nonverbal communication in education Computers -- Valuation Assistive computer technology Educational technology -- Evaluation Intelligent agents (Computer software) Semantics -- Data processing Machine learning User-centered system design Parsing (Computer grammar)

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