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This thesis aims to describe the genre of librarypodcasts that have emerged in Sweden since 2013.Through the overall design of a comparative multiplecasestudy, the two pioneering examples ofCirkelpodden and Bibliotekspodden Solen are beingdescribed and compared, in order to contribute to abetter understanding of what these radio productionsconsist of, on what reasons they have been establishedand finally what this practice based on more explicitjournalistic working methods might implicate for theprofession of the public librarian.Thirty-three programs of Cirkelpodden andBibliotekspodden Solen published during 2103–2014 andtwo semi-structured interviews with the librarians ofthe podcasts are analysed through quantitative contentanalysis and qualitative thematic analysis. Thetheoretical framework is principally based on WiebeBijker’s model of two different ways to perceivetechnology: the deterministic view as an autonomousforce, and the constructivist view as an instrumentcontrolled by man.The results show that the main reasons to adopt thisweb 2.0 media format was to improve the library’straditional ways to talk about books. Besidespresenting books and problematizing the inhold of it,the podcasts were used to enhance the job satisfactionand to promote the library. The main conclusion ofthe study is that the these library podcasts could beinterpreted as expressions of an ongoing movementfrom a traditional conveying role of the publiclibrarian, towards a more content producing role, inwhich the podcast is used as an strategic instrumentfor exposing the librarians expertise and for exertingliterary criticism.

Enligt “Teorin om planerat beteende” så finns det tre orsaker till beteendet. Denna teori handlar om vad som påverkar en persons förväntningar och beteende innan de ska utföra en uppgift på en webbplats. Tidigare forskning har visat att tillgängligheten på webbplatser fortfarande är bristfälliga för personer med synnedsättning, eftersom de har olika behov och det spelar en viktig roll hur webbplatserna är uppbyggda och anpassade för personer med synnedsättning. Det ska vara lätt för användaren att hitta, förstå och kunna ta del av informationen på webbplatsen. För att kunna anpassa en webbplats på bästa sätt för personer med synnedsättning, bör en designer ta hjälp av olika riktlinjer för att kunna designa webbplatsen mer tillgänglig med bra och användbar information för personer med synnedsättningar. Men dessa riklinjer hjälper inte alltid användare med svår synnedsättning, eftersom de är i behov av olika hjälpmedel. Forskningsområdet berör områdena universell design, tillgänglighet, användarupplevelse, tillgänglighet och förväntningar på webben. Syftet med denna studie var att undersöka tillgängligheten för personer med synnedsättning på Linnéuniversitets webbplats och studera om webbplatsen är tillgänglig för dem, och studera om webbplatsen uppfyller deras förväntningar och upplevelse till att använda webbplatsen. Studien har studerat hur tillgängligheten påverkar användarupplevelsen för människor med synnedsättning på en webbplats och vilka förväntningar som användaren har på webbplatser. En empirisk studie genomfördes utifrån användartest med uppgifter och intervjuer på den befintliga webbplatsen med hjälp av personer med synnedsättning. I detta arbete har fullständig blindhet uteslutits, eftersom det är helt annan inriktning. Resultatet av intervjuerna sammanställdes och kategoriserades inom tillgänglighet, upplevelse och förväntningar av webbplatsen utifrån de mönster där testpersonerna hade angett liknande svar. Resultatet av sammanställningen av användartestet och intervjuerna på Linnéuniversitetets webbplats visade att testpersonerna anser att webbplatsen är tillgänglig för personer med synnedsättning och att deras förväntningar på webbplatsen uppfylldes. Resultatet visade att det som påverkar tillgängligheten på en webbplats är dåligt utformade med dåliga kontraster som till exempel ljus blått på vit bakgrund. På grund av dålig utformade webbplatser så kan inte personer med synnedsättning använda sina eventuella hjälpmedel, till exempel talsyntes, för att läsa upp innehållet på webbplatsen åt dem. Rörliga bilder, placering av objekt, otydliga menyer och rubriker, dåliga typsnitt eller att texten är för liten så att den blir svår att läsa. Det som personer med synnedsättning förväntar sig ska finnas på en tillgänglig webbplats: bra kontraster, bra typsnitt och tydliga rubriker. Bra placering av element så att det blir lätt att navigera sig, inga rörliga bilder, kunna lyssna på innehållet och att kunna använda sina eventuella hjälpmedel på webbplatsen. Genom detta får användaren en positiv upplevelse av webbplatsen. / According to “Theory of planned behavior", there are three reasons for the behavior. This theory is about what affect a person ́s expectations and behavior before they need to perform a task on a website. Previous research has shown that the availability of websites is still inadequate for people with visual impairment, because they have different needs and it plays an important role in how sites are built and adapted for people with visual impairment. It should be easy for users to find, understand and be able to take note of the information provided on the site. To be able to customize a site in the best way for people with visual impairment, a designer should take the help of various guidelines to design a website more accessible with useful information for people with visual impairment. But these guidelines don't always help users with severe visual impairment, because they are in need of different means. The research area relevant to the fields of universal design, accessibility, user experience, availability and expectations on the websites. The purpose of this study is to investigate the availability of people with visual impairment on Linnaeus University website and learn about how the site is available to them, and to study their expectations and experience of using the website. This study has studied how accessibility affects the user experience for people with visual impairment on a website and the expectations that the user has on websites. To be able to examine, I conducted an empirical study based on user tests with data and interviews on the existing site with the help of people with visual impairment. In this work I have excluded complete blindness, because it is quite a different focus. The results of the interviews were compiled and were categorised in availability, experience and expectations of the website based on the pattern in which subjects had stated similar answers. The result of the compilation of user test and interviews at Linnaeus University website showed that subjects think that the website is accessible to people with visual impairment, and that their expectations of the website were satisfied. The results showed that what affects the accessibility of a website is poorly designed interfaces with poor contrasts such as light blue on a white background. Because of badly designed websites, persons with visual impairment cannot use any assistive devices such as speech synthesizers to read out the contents of the site for them, pictures that moves, position of objects, obscure menus and headlines, bad fonts or that the text is to small, making it difficult to read. What person with visual impairment expects to find on an accessible website: good contrast, good fonts and clear titles. Good placement of the elements so that it will be easy to navigate, no pictures that moves, ability to listen to the content and to use any means at the site. Through this, the user receives a positive experience of the website.

The MIRI-MRS is a future space based Medium Resolution Spectrometer and one of four instruments to be integrated onto The James Webb Space Telescope. The Medium Resolution Spectrometer is designed to be diffraction limited across its entire passband of 5 - 28.3 microns. It achieves this through the spectral filtering of the passband into four channels with each one containing an integral field unit optimised for minimal diffraction losses. The integral field unit enables the simultaneous measurement of the spectral data across the entire field of view. The design of the Medium Resolution Spectrometer is outlined with particular reference to the choice of slice widths used for each channel to minimise the diffraction losses from the slicing mechanism. The slice widths are also used to derive the extent of the field of view and combined with the along slice plate scale at the detector the technique required for complete spatial sampling of the spectrometer is outlined. The operation of the Channel 1 image slicer component was tested cryogenically at 5 microns for diffraction losses due to the slicing of the point spread function. This was so that the actual diffraction losses could be measured and compared with the optical model. From the resulting analysis I concluded that the operation of the image slicers were well understood for diffraction losses. Performance tests were required on the instrument because of its novel design. This was the first implementation of an integral field unit operating between 5 - 28.3 microns and it was necessary to ensure that the operation of the image slicer did not induce unacceptable diffraction losses into the instrument. Tests were required on the assembled instrument to verify the optical design. A Verification Model of MIRI was built to enable test verification of the optical design. This testing was carried out in advance of the MIRI Flight Model assembly so that changes could be made to the Flight Model design if necessary. This testing phase was also designed to define the calibration process necessary to prepare the MIRI Flight Model for scientific operations. For the testing phase it was necessary to create an astronomical source simulator. This MIRI Telescope Simulator was constructed in Madrid where I spent two months ensuring the point source movement across the field of view would be sufficient to investigate the Medium Resolution Spectrometer. My contribution was to help assemble both the Verification and Flight Models. I also participated in the Verification Model testing phase from the test design phase to the test implementation and data analysis. My role in the analysis was to investigate the field of view of the Medium Resolution Spectrometer Verification Model and whether the field of view requirements for the spectrometer were met. During this analysis I also verified that the diffraction effects of the end-to-end instrument were well understood by the optical model. The Medium Resolution Spectrometer Verification Model field of view compromised the field of view requirement for the spectrometer. A similar analysis for the Flight Model showed that there would be a low probability that the field of view requirement would be met. As a result of the analysis I defined a new slit mask design that would align the field of view sampled by Channel 1 to increase the aligned field of view. As a result there is a high probability that the field of view requirement for the Flight Model will be exceeded. The test analysis discovered a magnification effect within the spectrometer which must be properly characterised to enable accurate field of view reconstruction. I designed a test necessary for the calibration phase of the Flight Model to enable full spatial alignment of the Medium Resolution Spectrometer. I also measured an excess flux level in the Channel 1 observations at the detector and there was a ghost detected in the Channel 1 images. Whilst the origin of either the excess flux or the ghost could not be completely determined I investigated the possibility that they will not be present in the Flight Model due to the slight design differences. If present however they will not increase the background level of an observation above the requirement outlined for Channel 1.

I detta arbete skriver vi om den semantiska webben och vad den har för effekt på människan. Vi börjar med att skriva vad den semantiska webben är för att sedan gå över till hur webben fram till idag påverkat människan för att kunna fastställa vad en semantisk webb kan göra föratt påverka oss. Vi skriver även om det mänskliga elementet, hur vi utvecklas tillsammansmed teknologin och hur vi har förändrats under processen. Vi skriver hur webben ändrarspråket, tänkandet och till och med hur den gör oss människor lata men även hur den hjälpeross i vår utveckling. / In this paper we write about the semantic web and what effect it has on mankind. We start off by writing what the semantic web is and what it has to offer us. We then write what thedevelopment of todays web has done to affect us to be able to secure a thought of what afuture semantic web might do to affect us. We also write about the human element togetherwith technology to see how we’ve evolved together. We write about how the web haveeffected our language, our thinking and how it’s making us lazier but also how it’s helping usin our development.

Denna rapport behandlar ett arbete sju studenter som läste kursen TDDD96: Kandidatprojekt i programutveckling utförde under vårterminen 2019. Arbetets syfte var att utforska möjligheten att skicka in personlig hälsodata till Region Östergötland via en hemsida. För att åstadkomma detta utvecklades en webbapplikation, samt utfördes en utredning av openEHR:s datastrukturer och API för att kunna koppla applikationen till Region Östergötlands journalsystem. Resultatet blev en fungerande webbapplikation som hämtar data från hälsoplattformen Google Fit och skickar därefter in det till en journal via openEHR:s REST-API. Hälsodata som hämtats från Google Fit är data som samlats in med sensorer från mobiler och smartklockor såsom puls och antal steg. Denna rapport avser att ge en inblick i utvecklingsprocessen, beskriva de bakomliggande besluten, de problem som uppstått under projektets gång och dess lösningar, samt diskutera resultatet. Med i rapporten finns även de individuella kandidatrapporter medlemmarna i gruppen har skrivit, dessa hittas sist i dokumentet.

Sidladdningar på webbplatser har visat sig ha stor påverkan på hur användare beter sig på webbplatser. Redan efter 1 sekunds fördröjning börjar användarens beteende ändras. Laddningsindikatorer kan användas för att minska den upplevda hastigheten av sidladdningar. Det finns olika varianter av laddningsindikatorer som fungerar på olika sätt. En traditionell laddningsindikator är spinner och en nyare, mindre undersökt, heter skeleton screen.  Syftet med denna kandidatuppsats har varit att undersöka effektiviteten hos skeleton screen att påverka den upplevda hastigheten av sidladdningar. Dessutom var syftet att utforma och demonstrera ett test för att förse webbutvecklare med vägledning om hur liknande test kan genomföras i syfte att avgöra vilken laddningsindikator de bör välja att använda vid utveckling. En prototypisk webbsida skapades i två olika versioner, en med 2 sekunders fördröjning och en med 4 sekunders fördröjning vid sidladdning. För att ladda sidorna användes spinner eller skeleton screen. För att samla in användares upplevda hastighet av webbplatsen utfördes användartester där deltagarna för varje sida fick uppskatta hur lång tid nedladdningen tog. Totalt deltog 14 testpersoner i åldrarna 13–47 år. Resultatet visade på att skeleton screen påverkade testpersonernas upplevda hastighet som kortast i både versionerna. Medelvärdet av alla resultatet från testpersonerna visade på att vid 2 sekunders fördröjning upplevdes sidladdningar som 0.89 sekunder med skeleton screen och 1,95 sekunder med spinner. Vid 4 sekunders fördröjning upplevdes skeleton screen som 1,38 sekunder och spinner 3,81 sekunder. Trots att skeleton screen var den laddningsindikator som minskade upplevd hastighet mest, fanns det delade åsikter om vilken laddningsindikator testpersonerna föredrog baserat på design och tidigare erfarenheter. Skeleton screen verkar inte vara meningsfulla på sidor med enstaka produkter, utan effektiviteten av skeleton screen visades främst vid laddning av flera produkter.

This master’s thesis investigates publishing of Swedish literary classics on the web. The purpose is to find out who is publishing and why, and what practice of publishing is used. The purpose is also to find out what importance the publishers attach to textual quality and proofreading. For these questions the “Guidelines for editors of scholarly editions” by MLA is used. The result gives a very scattered picture. Some of the publishers have professional experience in literature publishing and most of them are active in the literary field in one way or another. All the publishers give the overall impression of a true interest in literature and literature as the main purpose of publishing. All editions examined had all the standard information of printed books, ISBN excluded and all publishers except one also followed a good practice of web publishing with easy navigation and information concerning purpose and responsibility. The questions based on MLA’s guidelines revealed big differences between the publishers, some of which had all the information recommended for scholarly editions and some of which had nothing at all. Many of these publishers had other material in abundance though, such as pictures, recordings, musical notes and interactive material. The conclusion is that MLA’s guidelines are not best fitted to examine non-scholarly electronic publishing. A fair picture of many of the publishers in this study was given with other questions focusing navigation, design and other material. Finally, the different publishers are placed in three groups: “The critical editions” with high textual quality and a main purpose of serving the academic world; “The study editions” with their abundance of material and a main purpose of serving students at different levels and “The reading editions” with hardly any extra material and with a main purpose of serving readers - of telling a story. / Uppsatsnivå: D

The aim of this thesis is to study social tagging in an OPAC by looking at the tags of Ann Arbor District Library’s catalogue. In this thesis I analyse the possibilities of social tagging. The main questions to be answered are what is the distribution of tags in different categories, what are the differences between fiction and non-fiction and how do the social tags differ from the terms of the professional indexing practice. Studying 500 tags I find that subject matter was the most frequent category for tags assigned to fiction and non-fiction. The tags assigned to fiction were more multi-dimensional than the tags assigned to non-fiction. The tag categories experience and task, which are unique to the social tagging practice, were not used frequently. I suggested that they still had potential to be of interest to users with common interest and taste. The study shows that the users did not, to any higher extent, use the terms of the catalogue. The tags were in general less specific than the professional terms. In the thesis I use communication theory to analyse the social tagging practice and two different terminologies. I find that the social tagging practice has the potential of being a complement to the professional indexing, allowing users to use more associations and their own terms. I find that the manga and anime community used their own terms that in many ways were different from the professional terms. / Uppsatsnivå: D

The purpose of this Master’s thesis is to examine the function of public libraries on the social web, focusing on reading promotion and reading stimulation. For an understanding of the larger context regarding public libraries on the social web, we conducted online interviews via email with people in the Swedish library profession, together with a content analysis of various texts on the subject found in library journals and on the Internet. Furthermore to identify the public library's practice on reading promotion and reading stimulation on the social web, we did interviews with librarians at a public library on their use of a blog for this purpose, together with a questionnaire handed out to the library's users on their use and conceptions of the blog.The conceptual framework of this study consists of four key aspects in the theoretical and empirical definition of Library 2.0 presented by Holmberg, Huvila and Widén-Wulff. The results showed that the public library can create a substantial value through its use of the social web, but it’s necessary to have a clear vision of the desired outcome. The study also showed the importance of seeing the social web as one of several possible channels for the public library's work, and that it can be specifically useful to reach the younger generation. Moreover the study showed that the social web is a useful tool for the public library’s reading promotion and reading stimulation, as it provides beneficial features for conversation.