There is a growing interest in bringing online and streaming content to the television. Gaming platforms such as the PS3, Xbox 360 and Wii are at the center of this digital convergence; platforms for accessing new media services. This presents a number of interface challenges, as controllers designed for gaming have to be adapted to accessing online content. We conducted a user study examining the limitations and affordances of novel game controllers in an interactive TV (iTV) context and compared them to "second display" approaches using tablets. We looked at task completion times, accuracy and user satisfaction across a number of tasks and found that the Wiimote is most liked and performed best in almost all tasks. Participants found the Kinect difficult to use, which led to slow performance and high error rates. We discuss challenges and opportunities for the future convergence of game consoles and iTV. We also analyzed the usability of the interfaces themselves with respect to each device. Accuracy ratings and context of task type were used to determine ideal component attributes such as button size and spacing. Additional strategies like snapping cursor to buttons in the case of small targets were also suggested. Paying attention to the strengths and weaknesses of each input method, we put forth a set of design recommendations for future iTV interfaces that leverage novel input devices. / Graduation date: 2012

類比電視廣告近來由於網際網路發達，以往強勢的廣告業務受到極大的威脅。數位電視的媒體特性結合網際網路和傳統電視的各大優點，讓電視廣告再度有了新契機。本研究針對數位電視的媒體特質，提出五大類數位電視廣告類型，分別為：(1) 互動電視廣告 (2) 資訊服務廣告 (3) 特殊接收方式的廣告 (4) 分眾訴求廣告 (5) 特殊畫面表現的廣告，針對五種不同的全新廣告形式，以深度訪談法，就其類型、廣告作法、優缺點、業務潛力等方面進行探討。 研究發現，數位電視對電視廣告產生了許多影響，包括了 (1) 分眾化 (2) 資訊量大增 (3) 獨立性 (4) 移動收視 (5) 互動 (6) 高畫質 (7) 門檻降低 (8) 整體服務品質上升。而以廣告類型來看，數位電視廣告中以互動電視廣告最具業務潛力；資訊服務廣告門檻低，適合各種平台發展；行動接收廣告為無線平台最大利基，前景看好；分眾訴求廣告受限於法令與時間因素，發展受限；而 HDTV AD 潛力雖好，但廣告製作投資過大。 本研究亦發現數位電視廣告發展遲緩，整體而言起因於受到：(1) 普及率不足 (2) 硬體規格尚未統一，或過於低階無法支援 (3) 法令對節目與廣告區分之限制 (4) 收視率計算機制尚未建立 等因素影響。

The thesis deals with possibilities of educating pupils with moderate and severe mental disabilities, multiple disabilities and autism. The theoretical part describes an educational system of these pupils and presents an integrated thematic teaching model in weekly units. The practical part presents a proposal of teaching project in the specific educational needs of these pupils. The aim of this thesis is to introduce proposed teaching project in the duration of one month, into the conditions of particular special elementary school and find out its learning results by action research. The outputs of this thesis are proposals for integrated thematic teaching in special elementary school. KEYWORDS Pupils with mental disability, integrated thematic teaching, special schools, multiple disability, framework educational program

The discursive and critical positions of the ‘classic’ nineteenth-century novel, particularly the woman’s novel, in the field of adaptation studies have been dominated by long-standing concerns about textual fidelity and the generic processes of the text-screen transfer. The sociocultural patterns of adaptation criticism have also been largely ensconced in representations of literary women on screen. Taking a decisive twist from tradition, this thesis traces the evolution of representations of masculinity in the malleable characters of Rochester and Heathcliff in film and television adaptations of Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre and Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights between 1939 and 2009. Concepts of masculinity have been a neglected area of enquiry in studies of the ‘classic’ novel on screen. Adaptations of the Brontës’ novels, as well as the adapted novels of other ‘classic’ women authors such as Jane Austen, George Eliot and Elizabeth Gaskell, increasingly foreground male character in traditionally female-oriented narratives or narratives whose primary protagonist is female. This thesis brings together industrial histories, textual frames and sociocultural influences that form the wider contexts of the adaptations to demonstrate how male characterisation and different representations of masculinity are reformulated and foregrounded through three different adaptive histories of the narratives of Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights. Through the contours of the film and television industries, the application of text and context analysis, and wider sociocultural considerations of each period an understanding of how Rochester and Heathcliff have been transmuted and centralised within the adaptive history of the Brontë novel.