A utilização e o desenvolvimento de sistemas imersivos para edutenimento são documentados em trabalhos acadêmicos, com resultados bastante satisfatórios em diversas áreas do conhecimento. No entanto, métodos de engenharia de sistemas voltados para sistemas imersivos de edutenimento, não foram encontrados na pesquisa realizada. A avaliação e compreensão da engenharia de sistemas para edutenimento podem auxiliar no processo de transferência deste conhecimento acadêmico para a sociedade. Este trabalho apresenta a obtenção de uma teoria fundamentada por meio de uma avaliação qualitativa do projeto de dois sistemas imersivos de edutenimento desenvolvidos a partir de uma parceria entre um centro tecnológico da universidade e um museu de ciências. Esta avaliação consistiu na obtenção de dados para elaboração de uma teoria fundamentada que sumarize os principais aspectos as serem considerados na engenharia de sistemas imersivos para edutenimento partindo dos casos estudados. Foram utilizados métodos de pesquisa qualitativa para levantamento e análise dos dados do desenvolvimento dos dois sistemas, como entrevistas em profundidade e análise da documentação de projeto. A partir da codificação dos dados, a teoria fundamentada foi elaborada e validada. A teoria resultante aponta que a compreensão, a satisfação e sinergia entre as diversas equipes de disciplinas e instituições distintas são fatores que impactaram nos projetos dos sistemas imersivos para edutenimento avaliados. / The use and development of immersive systems for edutainment are well documented in academic works, with very satisfactory results in several areas of knowledge. However, systems engineering methods for immersive edutainment systems were not found in this research. The evaluation and understanding of systems\' engineering for immersive edutainment can aid in transferring academic knowledge to society. This work presents the achievement of ground theory based on qualitative evaluation of the design of two immersive edutainment systems developed from by partnership between a technological university center and a science museum. This evaluation consisted in obtaining data to elaborate a theory based on summarizing main aspects to be considered in engineering immersive edutainment systems based on studied cases. Qualitative research methods were used to collect and analyze development data from both systems, using in-depth interviews and projects\' documentation. From data coding, the grounded theory was elaborated and validated. The resulting theory points out that understanding, satisfaction and synergy between different teams of distinct disciplines and institutions are factors that have influenced both immersive edutainment systems projects.

<p>The Middle Ages in contemporary time – Salve City; a reconstruction in the Between Land is an essay dealing with the reconstruction of medieval Kalmar. The Salve City is a melting pot of such diverse fields as archaeology, pedagogies, reconstruction, historical tourism, regional development policy et cetera. Together, these parts form a space for research and mediation, business and pleasure, a place where commercialism and historical tourism can function alongside with history enthusiasts and entrepreneurs. Both pros and cons of the use of a reconstructed part of medieval Kalmar are debated.</p> / <p>Medeltid i samtid – Salvestaden en rekonstruktion i mellanlandet, är en uppsats om återskapandet av det medeltida Kalmar. Salvestaden är en smältdegel av vitt skilda områden så som arkeologi, pedagogik, rekonstruktion, historieturism, regional utvecklingspolitik med mera. Alla dessa delar bildar tillsammans en plats för forskning och förmedling, nytta och nöje, en plats där kommersialism och historieturism samsas med eldsjälar och entreprenörer. Nyttan med en återuppbyggd del av det medeltida Kalmar är omdiskuterad på både gott och ont. </p>

<p>In this thesis I'm trying to investigate how good educational computer programs work in elementary school. I delimited the study to contain one elementary school in the stages of 6 to 9. The method I used was qualitative and the approach was inductive. I interviewed four teachers and five pupils as the way to collect data for the study. The theories I used were parts from different books with authors, which have done similar studies and researches. I also used the elementary school course documentations as theories.</p><p>From this study I can tell that the selected school's programs are best suited for background information. The programs are not as good for deeper knowledge. The motivation gets better among pupils when using the programs. The programs for mathematic follow their course documentation better than the programs for the social-oriented subjects do. The interviewed teachers and pupils want more programs, and the ability to use the programs fully (which aren?t possibly today due to some circumstances). This study may be continued in the future to include other schools in Sweden.</p>

Uppsatsen är en reflektiv rapport om ett verk som behandlats inom ramen för examensarbete i medier vid Högskolan i Skövde. Verket består av ett designdokument för ett bilspel om riskhantering för körskolor. Innehållet i denna rapport behandlar från ett reflexivt perspektiv arbetet med att utforma ett lärande bilspel (serious game) för körskolor med fokus på riskhantering. Rapporten beskriver inledningsvis rapporten, verkets och spelets syfte och mål, samt fokus och problemställning. Därefter redogörs arbetsprocessen som tillämpats i skapandet av verket och sedan en reflekterande analys kring hur spelets designriktlinjer översatts till- och påverkat spelinnehåll. Sedan görs en analys och reflektion kring de största utmaningarna i utformningen av verket. Slutsatsen som presenteras i denna rapport vittnar om att de största problemen var frågor som att designa innehåll som var roligt och lärande, balansering av spel och lärandemoment, implementation av alkoholmoment, moralisering samt att utforma spel utifrån olika krav och ramar. De flesta av problemen har gått att hitta lösningar på om än svårt, samtidigt som vissa problem anses svåra att lösa då den avsedda produkten som verket beskriver inte existerar.

In order to leverage the use of various modalities such as audio-visual-touch in instilling learning behaviour, we present an intuitive approach of annotation based hapto-audio-visual interaction with the traditional digital learning materials such as eBooks. By integrating the traditional home entertainment system and respective media in the user's reading experience combined with haptic interfaces, we examine whether such augmentation of modalities influence the user's reading experience in terms of attention, entertainment and retention. The proposed Haptic E-Book (HE-Book) system leverages the haptic jacket, haptic arm band as well as haptic sofa interfaces to receive haptic emotive signals wirelessly in the form of patterned vibrations of the actuators and expresses the learning material by incorporating audio-video based augmentation in order to pave ways for intimate reading experience in the popular eBook platform. We have designed and developed desktop, mobile/tablet based HE-Book system as well as a semi-automated annotation authoring tool. Our system also supports multimedia based diverse quiz augmentations, which can help in learning tracking. We have conducted quantitative and qualitative tests using the developed prototype systems. We have adopted the indirect objective based performance analysis methodology, which is commonly used for multimedia based learning investigation. The user study shows that, there is a positive tendency of accepting multimodal interactions including haptics with traditional eBook reading experience. Though our limited number of laboratory tests reveal, that haptics can be an influencing media in eBook reading experience, but it requires large scale real life tests to provide a concluding remarks.

<p>Uppsatsen är en reflektiv rapport om ett verk som behandlats inom ramen för examensarbete i medier vid Högskolan i Skövde. Verket består av ett designdokument för ett bilspel om riskhantering för körskolor. Innehållet i denna rapport behandlar från ett reflexivt perspektiv arbetet med att utforma ett lärande bilspel (serious game) för körskolor med fokus på riskhantering. Rapporten beskriver inledningsvis rapporten, verkets och spelets syfte och mål, samt fokus och problemställning. Därefter redogörs arbetsprocessen som tillämpats i skapandet av verket och sedan en reflekterande analys kring hur spelets designriktlinjer översatts till- och påverkat spelinnehåll. Sedan görs en analys och reflektion kring de största utmaningarna i utformningen av verket. Slutsatsen som presenteras i denna rapport vittnar om att de största problemen var frågor som att designa innehåll som var roligt och lärande, balansering av spel och lärandemoment, implementation av alkoholmoment, moralisering samt att utforma spel utifrån olika krav och ramar. De flesta av problemen har gått att hitta lösningar på om än svårt, samtidigt som vissa problem anses svåra att lösa då den avsedda produkten som verket beskriver inte existerar.</p>

Coastal counties in the United States have placed a new emphasis on tourism related employment. The shift away from normal maritime work, such as fishing and import/export shipping has ushered in an era of service-oriented economies and communities scattered along the US coast lines. This trend which is associated with the transition from Fordism to post-Fordism can be seen most prevalently in Florida's Tampa Bay region. The counties that make up Tampa Bay include Citrus, Hernando, Hillsborough, Manatee, Pasco, Pinellas, and Sarasota.The lure of sandy beaches and blue seas are the obvious tourist draws to any tropical locale, including the Tampa Bay region. But it is blatantly shortsighted to pinpoint locational attributes as the only factor in creating a tourist economy. This study hopes to make a contribution to the tourism literature in human geography by considering the role of non-locational attributes which are crucial to the growth and development of tourism-driven economies along the coastal US.

In order to leverage the use of various modalities such as audio-visual-touch in instilling learning behaviour, we present an intuitive approach of annotation based hapto-audio-visual interaction with the traditional digital learning materials such as eBooks. By integrating the traditional home entertainment system and respective media in the user's reading experience combined with haptic interfaces, we examine whether such augmentation of modalities influence the user's reading experience in terms of attention, entertainment and retention. The proposed Haptic E-Book (HE-Book) system leverages the haptic jacket, haptic arm band as well as haptic sofa interfaces to receive haptic emotive signals wirelessly in the form of patterned vibrations of the actuators and expresses the learning material by incorporating audio-video based augmentation in order to pave ways for intimate reading experience in the popular eBook platform. We have designed and developed desktop, mobile/tablet based HE-Book system as well as a semi-automated annotation authoring tool. Our system also supports multimedia based diverse quiz augmentations, which can help in learning tracking. We have conducted quantitative and qualitative tests using the developed prototype systems. We have adopted the indirect objective based performance analysis methodology, which is commonly used for multimedia based learning investigation. The user study shows that, there is a positive tendency of accepting multimodal interactions including haptics with traditional eBook reading experience. Though our limited number of laboratory tests reveal, that haptics can be an influencing media in eBook reading experience, but it requires large scale real life tests to provide a concluding remarks.

abstract: The research titled “A Comparative Analysis of Museums in Paris, Barcelona, and Phoenix” critically reviews six museums in three culturally diverse countries. This research looks at features within marketing, space, and branding which may or may not differ depending on socio-cultural factors, histories, traditions, etc. in Spain, France, and the United States. A conclusion is formed around the identity of each museum through the variables of marketing, space, and branding. / Dissertation/Thesis / Masters Thesis Design 2016

The Middle Ages in contemporary time – Salve City; a reconstruction in the Between Land is an essay dealing with the reconstruction of medieval Kalmar. The Salve City is a melting pot of such diverse fields as archaeology, pedagogies, reconstruction, historical tourism, regional development policy et cetera. Together, these parts form a space for research and mediation, business and pleasure, a place where commercialism and historical tourism can function alongside with history enthusiasts and entrepreneurs. Both pros and cons of the use of a reconstructed part of medieval Kalmar are debated. / Medeltid i samtid – Salvestaden en rekonstruktion i mellanlandet, är en uppsats om återskapandet av det medeltida Kalmar. Salvestaden är en smältdegel av vitt skilda områden så som arkeologi, pedagogik, rekonstruktion, historieturism, regional utvecklingspolitik med mera. Alla dessa delar bildar tillsammans en plats för forskning och förmedling, nytta och nöje, en plats där kommersialism och historieturism samsas med eldsjälar och entreprenörer. Nyttan med en återuppbyggd del av det medeltida Kalmar är omdiskuterad på både gott och ont.