Submitted by Automa??o e Estat?stica (sst@bczm.ufrn.br) on 2018-03-02T23:06:51Z No. of bitstreams: 1 GuilhermePaimMascarenhas_DISSERT.pdf: 2944281 bytes, checksum: 438ec06a374cf17d9c04453a083a6938 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Arlan Eloi Leite Silva (eloihistoriador@yahoo.com.br) on 2018-03-13T15:08:59Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 GuilhermePaimMascarenhas_DISSERT.pdf: 2944281 bytes, checksum: 438ec06a374cf17d9c04453a083a6938 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-03-13T15:08:59Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 GuilhermePaimMascarenhas_DISSERT.pdf: 2944281 bytes, checksum: 438ec06a374cf17d9c04453a083a6938 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-08-21 / Coordena??o de Aperfei?oamento de Pessoal de N?vel Superior (CAPES) / Embora normalmente associada a meios de transporte, a mobilidade ? uma caracter?stica fundamental da vida do ser humano e pode ser expressa de diversas maneiras. A circula??o humana pelos espa?os ? uma das possibilidades de mobilidade, que mudou desde o advento do autom?vel. Enquanto as cidades criaram espa?os para os carros, a ind?stria automotiva, que enfrentava uma p?ssima reputa??o no in?cio dos anos 20, tanto introduziu a ideia do pedestre imprudente quanto naturalizou os acidentes de tr?nsito. O uso da bicicleta n?o escapa desta l?gica, que responsabiliza os mais vulner?veis. Diante deste cen?rio, o objetivo geral deste estudo ? investigar a rela??o dos usu?rios de bicicleta com os aspectos ambientais e normativos do tr?nsito urbano. O presente trabalho possui car?ter explorat?rio e aplicou diferentes t?cnicas de produ??o de dados devido ? complexidade do objeto, em duas etapas: 1) mapeamento comportamental centrado no lugar; 2) o mapeamento comportamental centrado na pessoa e a entrevista com base em v?deos. Os dados revelaram algumas das formas de rela??o: uso obrigat?rio ou opcional do capacete, discursos sobre o c?digo de tr?nsito, linguagem corporal durante o ciclismo e os comportamentos que n?o seguiram os padr?es. Os resultados demonstraram que os ambientes do tr?nsito fazem com que os ciclistas adotem movimentos que, por vezes, v?o de encontro ao C?digo de Tr?nsito Brasileiro. / Although usually associated with means of transport, mobility is a fundamental characteristic of human life and may be expressed in many ways. Human movement through spaces is one of the possible ways of mobility, which changed since the advent of the automobile. While cities made room for cars, the automobile industry, facing a bad reputation in the early 1920s, both introduced the idea of reckless pedestrian and naturalized traffic accidents. The use of bicycle does not escape such logic, which blames the most vulnerable individuals. Given this scenario, the general objective of this study is to investigate the relationship between bicycle users and the environmental and normative aspects of urban traffic. The present work has an exploratory character and applied different techniques of data production due to the complexity of the object, in two stages: 1) place-centered behavioral mapping; 2) person-centered behavioral mapping and interview based on video recordings. The data revealed some forms of relationship: compulsory or optional use of helmet, discourses about the traffic code, body language during cycling and behaviors that do not follow the standards. The results demonstrated that the traffic environments make cyclists adopt movements that sometimes oppose the Brazilian Traffic Code.

Master of Science / Department of Architecture / David Seamon / This thesis uses behavioral mapping to analyze two contrasting spaces in Kansas State University’s Hale Library. One of the spaces is meant for computer use; and the other for general library use, including study-group work. The conceptual approach chosen to describe and analyze these two library spaces is the behavior-setting theory developed by psychologist Roger Barker, who defines behavior settings as independent units of space, with temporal and spatial boundaries, that have “great coercive power over the behaviors that occur within them” (Barker, 1968, p. 17). The behavioral observations for the two Hale Library spaces were analyzed and compared with findings from other studies of library usage and behaviors. In the first chapter of the thesis, I introduce my study topic and discuss recent developments in libraries. In the second chapter, I provide a broad overview of library history and library use. I also overview behavior-setting theory and present examples of research on behavior settings and libraries. In the third chapter, I discuss research methods for this thesis, starting with how library spaces can be described as behavior settings. I then discuss specific methodological procedures involved in the behavioral study of activities in the two library spaces. In the fourth chapter, I discuss the two spaces studied in Hale Library, first, describing their physical features and then discussing their behavior-setting attributes. In the fifth chapter, I present my behavioral observations and compare and contrast the two Hale Library spaces in terms of user behaviors and as behavior settings. In the sixth and final chapter of this thesis, I compare my research results with other library research and offer my speculative ideas on the future of the academic library. The overarching theme of this thesis is evaluating how recent digital technologies have affected libraries, and how traditional library spaces and spaces designated for digital technology can be integrated in future libraries.