Building complex games like Grand Strategy Games for both PC and console is a costly endeavour. Normally, two different platforms imply two different User Interface (UI) and User Experience (UX) designs, even though it is the same game. If the game’s UI could have similar designs for both platforms, this costly obstacle could be overcome. This study aimed to take the first steps to look at “one UI to rule them all”. Due to the lack of existing research on this topic, this study had to begin from scratch. This led to a focus on existing strategy games on consoles, and an evaluation of the User Experience (UX) of these games. Considering the lack of Grand Strategy Games on consoles, eleven existing strategy games on console similar to Grand Strategy Games were chosen to be investigated further with the aim to find possible best practices and/or the most important aspects of the player’s experience in these games. Through discussion with game industry experts (experienced and senior UX designers), the UI and UX of strategy games on console were broken down and grouped as specific game interactions, with emphasis on the similarity to Grand Strategy Games. By using the defined game interactions, a quantitative survey was carried out to pinpoint the game interactions with the biggest impact on the player’s experience. The analysis of the results from the 864 respondents in the quantitative survey showed the importance of console first. It could be determined by looking at how well the only console first game of the survey did. Halo Wars 2 had the overall best-perceived experience in five out of the eight defined game interactions. Yet the participants preferred playing Halo Wars 2 on PC to an equal extent as they preferred to play it on consoles, concluding that console first seems to be the design approach to use when a game studio wants to ship a game simultaneously to both PC and consoles since it gives the overall best player experience. Furthermore, the pace, meaning the speed with which the player can execute specific in-game actions and reach their goals, was found to be a major factor in the player’s experience of the chosen strategy games on console. This led to a further developed definition of the pace through discussion and workshops with industry experts. Research then continued with remote and unmoderated playtests (qualitative usability testing) of two of the chosen games being most similar to Grand Strategy Games; Stellaris and Sid Meier’s Civilization VI. These playtests aimed to find what are the most important aspects of the pace and how the pace affects the player's experience. When the participants were asked to rank what they thought has the biggest impact on the pace in the game, game mechanical aspects were ranked higher than UI and UX aspects of the pace. This shows the game mechanics to be more important than the UI and UX aspects of the pace when designing the pace in a game like Stellaris and Sid Meier’s Civilization VI.

Culture building in the South Centre In my master thesis I have made a proposal of a culture building – Art Gallery. My work was based upon my previous proposal of the surrounding parc, where the gallery is placed. This location is connected with new site of planned main trainstation. Urban role of this building is to create a conection between new multifunctional estates and older industrial building - viaduct. Southern part of the parc is profilled as a riverine forest and swamps in my project as it was there naturaly before. Placement of the gallery and its entrances was quite dificult, because of complicated urban situation. My solution of this problem was a integrated volume building with a console spanning towards the new estates eastewards. This determines clearly the entrance and relations with surroundings. The first floor is composed by spatial foyer with a information desk, book shop, cloakroom, caffetery and multifunctional hall. Skyline of Petrov can be percived by windows on the north. The centre of the gallery is a vertical comunication formed by simple monolytic helical stair. The enlightment is provide by drawn up skylight. A rest space in the second floor provides atypic vertical views of old town of Brno, parc and the cathedral. Two large exhibition rooms and art workshop complete the second floor. In the basement there are 39 car slots, storage, technical and manitenance rooms. The caffetery in the first floor can be reached even directly from the parc via foot bridge over the swamp. Every spring the snowdrops and snowflakes flower there. The constuction material is armoured concrete with wall system completed with pillars.

Studien undersöker hur man med virkningen kan göra det möjligt för användaren att agera somprosument, samtidigt som de kan personalisera en produkt som bidrar till emotionell hållbarhet.Anledningen var för att öka det emotionella värdet i produkten vilket leder till en längre livscykel. Teoriernasom lade grund för projektet är design för emotionell hållbarhet, design för personalisering, samtprosumtion. Vidare användes användarcentrerade metoder för att skapa stor förståelse för användarensbehov och önskemål. Intervjuer och enkäter samlade in grundinformation, medan återkopplingoch användartester med användaren gav en djup förståelse av deras behov inom det specifikaforskningsområdet. Designmetoder som skiss, prototyper, experiment, urvalsmetoder, samt produktresaformade slutkonceptet och resultatet av studien. Detta var ett avlastningsbord där användaren agerarsom prosument genom att virka två av hyllplanen samtidigt som de ytbehandlar träkonstruktionen själva.Det gör det möjligt att personalisera produkten, vilket leder till emotionell hållbarhet. I diskussionen tasdet slutligen upp förslag på vidareutveckling som lyfter vikten av användarcentrerade metoder för enlyckad emotionellt hållbar produkt. / The study explores how crochet can enable users to act as prosumers while also personalizing a productthat contributes to emotional sustainability. The reason for this is to increase the emotional value of theproduct, which leads to a longer life cycle. The theories that formed the basis of the project are designfor emotional sustainability, design for personalization, and prosumption. User-centred methods werefurther used to create a deep understanding of user needs and desires. Interviews and surveys gatheredbasic information, while feedback and user testing provided a deeper understanding of their needswithin the specific research area. Design methods such as sketching, prototypes, experiments, selectionmethods, and product journeys shaped the final concept and outcome of the study. This was a side tablewhere the user acts as a prosumer by crocheting two of the shelves while also finishing the woodenconstruction themselves. This enables personalization of the product, leading to emotional sustainability.The discussion finally presents suggestions for further development that emphasize the importance ofuser-centred methods for a successful emotionally sustainable product.

Dokumentet går igenom könsskillnaderna mellan män och kvinnor när det gäller datoranvändning, och hur användandets utveckling har skett på den senaste tiden. Den belyser även hur människans kropp, styrenheterna och spelet länkar varandra på ett kommunikativt sätt. Kontrollernas funktioner och styrsätt förklaras i basis för få en inblick i styrenheternas kommunikationssätt. Kontrollerna som tas upp grupperas därefter i olika rörelsemoment. En enkätundersökning kompletterar och stärker bilden över könsskillnader, åldersgränser, speltimmar, genre kategorisering och framtida behov. De problem som finns när det gäller kommunikation är att de inte är tillräckliga när man spelar. Oftast så är användare ute efter att ha en verklighetskänsla samt få en inlevelse i spelen. Dokumentets syfte är att ta reda på vilka kommunikativa metoder som finns och kontrollera om de är tillräckliga för att uppnå denna inlevelse i spelen. För att kunna tackla problemen så görs det en omvärldsanalys i arbetet samt en positivistisk tolkning av resultatet. Enkätundersökningen innehöll både kvantitativa och kvalitativa frågor. Vi har också kollat reliabiliteten och validiteten på källorna och enkätundersökningens svar. Själva slutsatserna dras genom en induktiv metod. / This document goes through the gender differences between men and women when operating computers and how the using has developed through the past years. It also gives the reader how the human body, the controllers and the game link together in a communicative way. The controller functions and way of steering are explained in a basic way to get an overview on the controller’s communicative ways. The controllers that are brought up are grouped by way of movement. A survey strengthens the view over gender differences, age, hours of game play, genre categorization and future needs. The problem when it comes to communication, it’s not enough when you're playing. Users are mostly after the "reality-feel" and to get empathy in games. The purpose of this document is to find existing communicative methods and to control if they are enough to get empathy in games. To tackle these problems, we did a global analysis and a positivistic interpretation of the result. The survey contained both quantitative and qualitative questions. We also checked the reliability and validity in the sources and the survey. The conclusions were drawn in an inductive method.

<p>Dokumentet går igenom könsskillnaderna mellan män och kvinnor när det gäller</p><p>datoranvändning, och hur användandets utveckling har skett på den senaste tiden.</p><p>Den belyser även hur människans kropp, styrenheterna och spelet länkar varandra på ett</p><p>kommunikativt sätt. Kontrollernas funktioner och styrsätt förklaras i basis för få en inblick i</p><p>styrenheternas kommunikationssätt. Kontrollerna som tas upp grupperas därefter i olika</p><p>rörelsemoment. En enkätundersökning kompletterar och stärker bilden över könsskillnader,</p><p>åldersgränser, speltimmar, genre kategorisering och framtida behov.</p><p>De problem som finns när det gäller kommunikation är att de inte är tillräckliga när man</p><p>spelar. Oftast så är användare ute efter att ha en verklighetskänsla samt få en inlevelse i</p><p>spelen.</p><p>Dokumentets syfte är att ta reda på vilka kommunikativa metoder som finns och kontrollera</p><p>om de är tillräckliga för att uppnå denna inlevelse i spelen.</p><p>För att kunna tackla problemen så görs det en omvärldsanalys i arbetet samt en positivistisk</p><p>tolkning av resultatet. Enkätundersökningen innehöll både kvantitativa och kvalitativa frågor.</p><p>Vi har också kollat reliabiliteten och validiteten på källorna och enkätundersökningens svar.</p><p>Själva slutsatserna dras genom en induktiv metod.</p> / <p>This document goes through the gender differences between men and women when operating</p><p>computers and how the using has developed through the past years. It also gives the reader</p><p>how the human body, the controllers and the game link together in a communicative way. The</p><p>controller functions and way of steering are explained in a basic way to get an overview on</p><p>the controller’s communicative ways. The controllers that are brought up are grouped by way</p><p>of movement. A survey strengthens the view over gender differences, age, hours of game</p><p>play, genre categorization and future needs.</p><p>The problem when it comes to communication, it’s not enough when you're playing. Users are</p><p>mostly after the "reality-feel" and to get empathy in games. The purpose of this document is</p><p>to find existing communicative methods and to control if they are enough to get empathy in</p><p>games. To tackle these problems, we did a global analysis and a positivistic interpretation of</p><p>the result. The survey contained both quantitative and qualitative questions. We also checked</p><p>the reliability and validity in the sources and the survey. The conclusions were drawn in an</p><p>inductive method.</p>

Nedladdade spel har blivit mer förekommande än vad de var för ett årtionde sedan. Bredbandets framgång har gjort det möjligt att snabbt ladda ner spel och marknaden för digitala spel växer stadigt. I denna studie undersöker vi om konsolspelarnas attityd mot digitala konsolspel skiljer sig från fysiska konsolspel i och med den växande digitala marknaden. Vi presenterar och diskuterar konsolspelares attityd mot digitala och fysiska spel och deras uppfattade värde av dessa format. I de kvantitativa undersökningar som vi utförde visar vi att människor föredrar fysiska konsolspel framför digitala, även fast den digitala marknaden är på stadig uppgång. Baserat på de resultat i vår studie så fann vi att den mest förekommande anledningen till att fysiska konsolspel föredrogs var de möjligheter som fysiska kopior medför, såsom att kunna sälja, byta, visa upp eller återlämna sitt spel. / Downloadable games are more common these days than they were a decade ago. The prowess of broadband has made it possible to quickly download games and the market for digital games is growing steady. In this paper we study if the attitude towards digital console games differentiates from physical console games due to the growing digital market. We present and discuss console users’ attitude towards digital and physical games and their perceived value. From the quantitative studies performed we show that people prefer physical console games over digital, even though the digital market is on a steady climb. Based on the results we found the most common cause for the preference of physical copies was the possibilities the physical format entailed, such as trad- ing, exhibiting, refunding or borrowing.

This thesis describes the design and implementation of a software for digital mixing console built on the Windows platform. This software is designed to offer real-time multi-channel audio processing using multiple input and output units, signal routing between these units and insertion and management of VST plug-in modules. The software uses an audio interface connected with ASIO technology. The thesis is divided into several applications. Main application which computes audio samples and allows insertion and management of plug-ins is programmed in C++ using JUCE technology. This application can be controlled with its own local graphical interface or with web control interface, which is programmed in TypeScript with the use of React technology. Web interface allows user to control VST plug-in modules with its own custom implementation of plug-in control.

The thesis describes design and construction of vibration generator driver. The device is controlled via standard Ethernet interface and allows user to change parameters of generated function in PC application which reads and evaluates frequency and amplitude from real-time measured data while the test is running. In the introduction, vibration tests and choice of generators and power amplifiers are described. Next part is focused on every aspect of the hardware design. Last two chapters implement firmware for all three microcontrollers and software for PC application.

This Master Thesis "The animals in the cathedral. Architectural sculpture of animals and fantastical creatures by parlerian lodge in the St. Vitus Cathedral, their symbols and iconography" looks into the architectural sculpture of animal's motifs and motifs of fantastical Creatures. The goal of this work is to summarize recent aspects of research about this theme, explain in more detail individually motifs of animal's and their Iconography and their meaning for Cathedral of St. Vitus. Also this thesis want to explain how could this special animal's motifs fit into the places, where are they have been situated. Their Iconography is taken with larger perspective, by literature's reception from antique over czech medieval age. Concerning animals and fantastic Creatures in the southern vestibule - pelican and phoenix; an owl in the Crown Chamber; gryphon and fight between cat and dog in the inner triforium; an eagle, an unicorn, a horse with bird's legs, a phoenix, a pelican, a stag, a lion, a gryphon, a lioness, a bear, a "cat" and three chimera in the outer triforium; a lion, a dog, a dragon and an eagle in buttresses and at least a dragon and a goat on the Big Tower. Keywords Cathedral st. Vitus, animal's motifs, symbols, iconography, architektonical sculpture, sculptures, console, relief, gothic...

The master's thesis deals with the construction and design solution of the bus terminal project in Liberec. The building consists of three floors with different functions. In terms of structural shape, the entire length of the building consists of a cross-section of a two-storey, asymmetrical cantilever suspended on both sides. The main load-bearing structure of the roof contributes along its entire circumference to the load-bearing capacity of the lower ceiling by a system of ties. The design was defined by a feasibility study of the project, which established the concept of the appearance of the structure. The main target of the thesis was to design the solution of the load-bearing structure and then perform static analysis, dimensioning and assessment by the method of limit states according to the corresponding ČSN EN. The solution of the construction consists mainly of reinforced concrete elements which are suitably combined with steel parts. Elements of reinforced concrete are designed as monolitic or prefabricated. For the most loaded two-sided cantilever was designed reinforced concrete variant and prestressed variant. The thesis was made in its extent in a BIM compatible design.