abstract: CYOA is a prototype of an iPhone application that produces a single, generative, musical work. This document details some of the thoughts and practices that informed its design, and specifically addresses the overlap between application structure and musical form. The concept of composed instruments is introduced and briefly discussed, some features of video game design that relate to this project are considered, and some specifics of hardware implementation are addressed. / Dissertation/Thesis / D.M.A. Composition 2013

abstract: Efficiency of components is an ever increasing area of importance to portable applications, where a finite battery means finite operating time. Higher efficiency devices need to be designed that don't compromise on the performance that the consumer has come to expect. Class D amplifiers deliver on the goal of increased efficiency, but at the cost of distortion. Class AB amplifiers have low efficiency, but high linearity. By modulating the supply voltage of a Class AB amplifier to make a Class H amplifier, the efficiency can increase while still maintaining the Class AB level of linearity. A 92dB Power Supply Rejection Ratio (PSRR) Class AB amplifier and a Class H amplifier were designed in a 0.24um process for portable audio applications. Using a multiphase buck converter increased the efficiency of the Class H amplifier while still maintaining a fast response time to respond to audio frequencies. The Class H amplifier had an efficiency above the Class AB amplifier by 5-7% from 5-30mW of output power without affecting the total harmonic distortion (THD) at the design specifications. The Class H amplifier design met all design specifications and showed performance comparable to the designed Class AB amplifier across 1kHz-20kHz and 0.01mW-30mW. The Class H design was able to output 30mW into 16Ohms without any increase in THD. This design shows that Class H amplifiers merit more research into their potential for increasing efficiency of audio amplifiers and that even simple designs can give significant increases in efficiency without compromising linearity. / Dissertation/Thesis / M.S. Electrical Engineering 2013

En skillnad i internets utveckling kan ses mellan de visuella och de auditiva elementen, där det auditiva ligger långt efter vad gäller övergripande standarder och användningens utbredning. Vad beror det på? Har skillnader mellan hur vi ser och hör information en betydelse? Denna uppsats undersöker inställningen till ljud över internet med hjälp av en enkät som vanliga internetsurfare med varierande vana av informationssökning över internet har svarat på. Resultaten visar en, inte helt oväntad och inte heller osminkad, skepsis mot ljud över internet.

Procedurally implemented synthetic audio could offer greater interactive potential for audio in games than the currently popular sample based approach does. At the same time, synthetic audio can reduce storage requirements that using sample based audio results in. This study examines these potentials, and looks at one game interaction in depth to gain knowledge around if players prefer and chooses objects with interactive sounds generated through procedurally implemented modal synthesis, over objects with traditionally implemented sample based sound. An in-game environment listening test was created where 20 subjects were asked to throw a ball, 35 times, at a wall to destroy wall tiles and reveal a message. For each throw they could select one of two balls; one ball had a modal synthesis sound that varied in pitch with how hard the ball was thrown, the other had a traditionally implemented sample based sound that did not correspond with how hard it was thrown but one of four samples was called at random. The subjects were then asked questions to evaluate how realistic they perceived the two versions to be, which they preferred, and how they perceived the sounds corresponding to interaction. The results show that the modal synthesis version is preferred and perceived as being more realistic than the sample based version, but wether this was a deciding factor in subjects’ choices could not be determined.

Orientador: Jacques Marie Edme Vielliard / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-18T07:46:32Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Rodrigues_RobsonEmiliodeSousa_M.pdf: 2984590 bytes, checksum: 3ee6c42ae95fb924f298f9b0891d7bef (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007 / Resumo: Nas últimas décadas, os desenvolvedores de sistemas e os usuários acompanham a guerra entre softwares livres e proprietários. Em um campo que sofre constantes transformações, muitos profissionais da informática e correlatos ainda têm dificuldade em distinguir entre o 'programa gratuito' e 'programa livre'. Este documento transpõe para o universo da Comunicação em Multimeios uma pesquisa com objetivos teóricos e práticos acerca dos benefícios da tecnologia de 'código aberto' para o setor de Multimeios. Como objeto de estudo, foi desenvolvido um sistema Web com a tríade PHP, MySQL e Apache para o Arquivo Sonoro Neotropical, fundado em 1977 e atualmente dirigido pelo Prof. Jacques Vielliard. Tudo se inicia com uma fundamentação teórica que expõe definições e polêmicas, bem como justifica a escolha das linguagens acima mencionadas, que têm sido o centro das atenções nos últimos tempos. Órgãos internacionais utilizam essas ferramentas para a inclusão digital e o avanço das pesquisas científicas, em reação aos altos preços impostos pelo mercado proprietário. Será observado como é possível a autosustentabilidade dentro da proposta do livre e gratuito. Intenciona-se apontar qual o espaço reservado ao setor de multimeios dentro deste cenário e quais os benefícios para pesquisadores e profissionais da comunicação em audiovisual. Este trabalho pretende demonstrar que essas linguagens e tecnologias são confiáveis e podem auxiliar o profissional de comunicação em multimeios no gerenciamento de arquivos de multimídia / Abstract: People are watching a war between software free movement and proprietary industry. In a place with constant changes there are a lot of people, professionals from this area or not, that just can't understand important nuance between 'open source' and 'software free'. This document transport to the Multimeios Communication language important concepts about software free and open source movement. We'll to know important discoveries to that area knowledge. The web system called Arquivo Sonoro Neotropical is our study object, and He was building with PHP, MySQL e Apache technologies. He was founded in 1977 and still under the same administration, the scientist Jacques Vielliard. In the beginning the reader will understand definitions, polemics thoughts and a justification about digital inclusion and for the selected languages and technologies. On the other hand, we going to know what the proprietary industry does to still on the dispute. We going to appoint some solutions that free technologies has to Multimeios, specially with audio edition. There is an intention to demonstrate that free movement has a real possibility to help the Multimeios Professional to management digital files in the web / Mestrado / Mestre em Multimeios

FundaÃÃo de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Cearà / Segundo a OrganizaÃÃo Mundial de SaÃde, 42 milhÃes de pessoas, com idade acima de 3 anos, sÃo portadoras de algum grau de perda auditiva. No Brasil, nÃo hà dados em nÃvel populacional sobre a importÃncia da perda auditiva, mas estimam-se que 1,5% da populaÃÃo brasileira sejam portadores de algum grau de perda auditiva. AlteraÃÃes auditivas sÃo consideradas, pela OMS, problemas de saÃde pÃblica e podem, em muitos casos, ser minimizadas e atà evitadas atravÃs da atenÃÃo primÃria em audiologia, com a inserÃÃo de programas de saÃde auditiva, reduzindo custos com atendimentos especializados. Sob este aspecto, o objetivo deste estudo foi investigar o conhecimento e as prÃticas dos profissionais do Programa de SaÃde da FamÃlia da UBASF CÃsar Cals sobre saÃde auditiva. Neste sentido, foram realizadas 19 entrevistas com profissionais do PSF e definidas as categorias analÃticas para posterior discussÃo. ConvÃm assinalar que os resultados evidenciaram a falta de conhecimento e sensibilizaÃÃo dos profissionais sobre perda auditiva como uma das principais razÃes para a nÃo realizaÃÃo da promoÃÃo da saÃde auditiva. Deste modo, a falta de treinamento ou orientaÃÃo sobre o assunto tambÃm contribuÃram para o nÃo reconhecimento da perda auditiva com problema de saÃde na Ãrea e a nÃo praticidade de sua prevenÃÃo. Logo, conclui-se que hà necessidade de que sejam adotadas medidas de carÃter preventivo em relaÃÃo à saÃde auditiva, partindo de uma sensibilizaÃÃo e treinamento a equipe do PSF. / According to the World Health Organization 42 millions of people aged over 3 years old have some kind of audio loss. In Brazil, there are no data in population level about the importance of hearing loss, but estimates show that 1,5% of the Brazilian population is a bearer of any hearing problem. Hearing alterations are considered by WHO, problems of public health and can, in many cases, be minimized and even be avoided through a primary attention in audiology with the insertion of audio health programs, reducing costs with specialized attendance. About this aspect, the objective of this study was to investigate the knowledge of professionals working at Family Health Care Program of UBASF Cesar Cals about hearing health. Thus, 19 interviews with FHCP (Family Health Care Program) professionals were made in order to define analytical categories to posterior discussion. Itâs important to reinforce that the results evidenced lack of knowledge and sensibility of professionals concerning audio loss as one of the main reasons to the non-fulfillment of hearing health promotion. This way, the lack of training or orientation about the issue has also contributed to the non-recognition of hearing loss as a health problem in the area and the non- practicality of its prevention.Thus, we conclude that there is a necessity that the prevention measures of hearing health problems could be adopted, having as a starting point the sensitivity and the training of the FHCP staff.

Orientador: Eusébio Lobo da Silva / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-25T10:20:56Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Gualter_KatyaSouza_M.pdf: 15747250 bytes, checksum: bc324b299373fef5420cff9701c49d45 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014 / Resumo: O presente trabalho teve como objetivo investigar a potencialidade da dançaudiovisual de promover o corpo poético-dançante-virtual, tomando como inspiração as simbologias da Pombagira. O campo de observação foi o processo de criação do ensaio audiovisual intitulado Senhora da Encruzilhada (Gualter, Brasil, ficção, 18min) finalizado no ano 2012. Partimos da hipótese, segundo a qual existe uma dançaudiovisual capaz de promover uma perspectiva integrada de corpo, isto é, o corpo narrativo motor e o corpo poético-dançante como sendo prolongamentos entre si e para além deles mesmos. A Pombagira é uma entidade feminina cultuada no Brasil predominantemente na Religião conhecida como Umbanda, impondo-se junto com o seu correspondente masculino Exu, como sendo mensageira mediadora entre o mundo visível dos homens e o mundo da invisibilidade e da Natureza. Tratou-se de uma pesquisa experimental motivada pelas seguintes questões: Qual é a característica de um processo de produção dialógico da dança com o audiovisual? Quais os princípios norteadores de um processo de produção dialógico da dança com audiovisual? Na experiência do diálogo da dança com o audiovisual existe um potencial poético-dançante para um corpo? Ao concluir o trabalho, podemos constatar que em Senhora da Encruzilhada, vemos a dança trazendo à dialogia com o audiovisual uma densidade poética situada na fruição corpo-câmera-espaço-tempo-imagem-movimento-som, que permanece entre os cruzamentos das linguagens (dança e audiovisual), técnicas (audiovisuais e corporais), suportes (dispositivo digital e musical), materiais e meios de expressão, conduzidos por uma invisibilidade carregada de presença ¿ a Pombagira. Senhora da Encruzilhada alcança uma poética do ENTRE onde as artes da dança e do audiovisual são marcadas pela pulsação entre os vários elementos que os compõem e seus sentidos plurais. Vemos ao mesmo tempo, dança e audiovisual. Vemos também a dança, vemos também o audiovisual, como sendo um acontecimento, tornando-se uma única luminosa força, uma só aparição, potencializada pela Pombagira. A esta luminosa força de caráter inegavelmente transdisciplinar e constituída pela presença das duas artes, denominamos dançaudiovisual. Neste caso, o Corpo é poético-dançante, assumindo uma nova plasticidade no estado virtual, ou seja, ao ser filmado, ganha novas relações de espaço, tempo e movimento, dando a idéia de propagação, prolongamento, continuum. Sob essa perspectiva, a dialogia da dança com o audiovisual compõe poéticas muito próprias sob o domínio da mobilidade contínua. O processo fílmico adota uma noção de enredo sob um ponto de vista dos enredos que não tem solução imediata, ou seja, não seguem uma lógica da narrativa linear de começo, meio e fim, necessariamente nessa ordem. Essa lógica não linear é coadunada aos temas norteadores do filme: lugares de trânsito sem pontos de partida (começo), nem de chegada (fim), passagens, encruzilhadas, cruzamentos, deslocamentos ininterruptos. Por não ter solução imediata, o processo leva o diretor-artista-pesquisador a lidar com problemas durante todo o tempo da produção artística/fílmica, vendo-se, assim, impelido a adotar uma atitude de desconstrução permanente / Abstract: The present study aimed to investigate the potential of dançaudiovisual to promote poetic-dance-virtual body, taking as inspiration the Pombagira symbologies. Field observation was the process of creating audiovisual essay titled Lady of the Crossroads (Gualter, Brazil, Fiction, 18min) finalized in 2012. Our hypothesis, according to which there is a dançaudiovisual able to promote an integrated view of the body, ie the narrative and poetic-engine body dancing body as extensions of themselves and beyond themselves. The Pombagira is worshiped predominantly female entity in Brazil on Religion known as Umbanda, imposing themselves along with their corresponding masculine Exu, messenger as mediator between the visible world of men and the world of invisibility and Nature. This was an experimental research motivated by the following questions: What is the characteristic of a dialogical process with the production of audiovisual dance? What are the guiding principles of a dialogical process with audiovisual production dance? In the experience of dialogue Dancing with the audiovisual potential exists poetic- dance for a body? To complete the work, we note that in Lady of the Crossroads, we dance bringing dialogy with a poetic visual density located in the enjoyment body-camera-space-time-movement-image-sound that remains between the intersections of languages (and dance audiovisual), techniques (visual and physical), media (digital and musical device) materials and means of expression, driven by an invisibility charged presence - the Pombagira. Lady of the Crossroads achieves a poetic BETWEEN where the arts of dance and audiovisual are marked by the heartbeat between the various elements that make up the senses and their plurals. We see at the same time, dance and audiovisual. We also see the dance, we also see the audiovisual, as an event, becoming a single light force, one appearance, enhanced by Pombagira. The strength of this luminous undeniably transdisciplinary nature and constituted by the presence of the two arts, call dançaudiovisual. In this case, the Corps is poetic-dance, assuming a new plasticity in the virtual state, ie, to be shot, win new relations of space, time and motion, giving the idea spread, extra time continuum. From this perspective, repetition with Dancing with the audiovisual composes very own poetic in the field of seamless mobility. The filmic process adopts a notion of plot under a standpoint of plots that have no immediate solution, ie, do not follow a linear narrative logic of the beginning, middle and end, necessarily in that order. This nonlinear logic is coalescing the guiding themes of the film: places without transit points of departure (start) or arrival (end), passes, crossroads, crossroads, continuous displacements. Why not have an immediate solution, the process induces the director-artist-researcher to deal with problems during the whole time of artistic/cinematic production, seeing themselves thus impelled to adopt an attitude of permanent deconstruction / Mestrado / Artes da Cena / Doutora em Artes da Cena

Esta pesquisa propõe uma análise do processo de apropriação de ferramentas audiovisuais entre os Manoki, povo indígena de tronco isolado que vive ao noroeste de Mato Grosso, e suas correlações com os discursos nativos sobre a história. A partir de uma etnografia mediada pelo vídeo utilizado pelos indígenas de forma proeminentemente prospectiva em estratégias de registro e autorrepresentação , chega-se a diversos temas próprios da etnologia indígena, como relações intergeracionais, concepções sobre tempo, ritual e escatologia. Ao conjugar as abordagens antropológicas sobre audiovisual e povos ameríndios, a análise pretende levar em consideração a perspectiva nativa a propósito das transformações em seu mundo e o papel que o registro audiovisual pode ter para os Manoki. / This research proposes an analysis of the appropriation process of audio-visual tools among the Manoki, indigenous people who live in northwest of Mato Grosso, and their correlations with native discourses about history. Through an ethnography mediated by video used by indigenous people in a prominently prospectively way in strategies for registration and selfrepresentation we arrive at several ethnological themes such as intergenerational relationships, conceptions of time, ritual and eschatology. By combining anthropological approaches in audio-visual and Amerindian peoples, the analysis aims to take into account the native perspective on the subject of changes in their world and the role that audio-visual records may have to Manoki people.

M.Ed. / Hearing-impaired pupils differ from normal-hearing ones in that they have neither language nor speech. The result is an incapability to communicate. To overcome this immense problem, hearing-impaired children are educated with great empathy. The teachers of these children need to have patience, dedication and the capability to implement any available means to fulfil the special needs of their pupils. Media gives the teacher the ways and means to introduce the real world and its components to the child, starting with the wearing of a hearing aid. The hearing aid allows the child to step out of silence into a world of some sound. The education of the hearing-impaired relies on the use of media (that is: printed material, the overhead projector and transparencies, the computer, video, television, music, hearing aids and real objects). Each of the ,above mentioned, fulfils a special need in the education of the hearing-impaired - it brings about more effective teaching and learning. It gives the hearingimpaired the chance to be part of the normal living life .

M.Ed. (Education) / This study of the design of support material for educational television programmes has been undertaken for the following reasons: in order to realize educational television's full potential it must be supplemented with support material; several types of support material had to be identified; problems regarding the design of support material had to be identified. A literature study concerning learning and the learner was undertaken. It was concluded that the adult learner may choose whether he is going to enter the learning situation or not. If he feels threatened by or dissatisfied with the learning situation he can leave and seek a learning situation that suits his needs. The adult learner also undergoes different stages of adulthood and this determines his specific learning needs. A literature study of specific institutions and projects that utilize support material as well as specific types of support material was done. The following conclusion was drawn that the majority of projects or institutions make use of television, textbooks and/or study guides. A variety of other media may be used to support the above...