Genom smarttelefonens genombrott och framfart har mobiltelefonen på bara några år kommit att bli en av de mest centrala delarna i många individers liv. Den används bland annat för att hålla kontakt med familj, vänner och kollegor, för att kommunicera och vara aktiv i olika sociala flöden. Många människor är sociala varelser som pratar och kommunicerar med andra individer hela tiden. Men det finns något som håller på att glömmas bort, något som kan tyckas självklart; att kunna föra ett muntligt samtal med en annan individ utan att en mobiltelefon på något sätt finns med i bilden. Sherry Turkle och Professor Jean M. Twenge har under många år bedrivit forskning på barn och unga vuxna som är flitiga användare av sina smarttelefoner. Många av dessa unga personer har aldrig haft något annat val än att ha en smarttelefon och hela deras sociala liv existerar genom den. Ett växande fenomen är att många av dessa unga personer kommunicerar med varandra genom text i sina smarttelefoner, även om de sitter bredvid varandra i samma rum. Barn leker inte tillsammans som de gjorde förr och deras emotionella utveckling verkar gå allt mer långsamt. Syftet med följande undersökning har varit att skapa en motvikt till denna utveckling och genom ett medietekniskt perspektiv presentera en mobilapplikation som uppmuntrar och inspirerar till muntlig dialog mellan individer. / Through the smartphone's breakthrough and advancement, the mobile phone has in just a few years become one of the most central parts in many individuals' lives. It is used, among other things, to keep in touch with family, friends and colleagues, to communicate and be active in different social online activities. Many people are social beings who talks and communicate with other individuals most of the time. But there is a lack of something that may seem obvious; be able to have an oral conversation with another human being without a mobile phone in any way being included in the picture.  Sherry Turkle and Professor Jean M. Twenge have been conducting research for many years on children and young adults who are frequent users of smartphones. Many of these young people have never had any choice but to have a smartphone and their entire social life exists through it. One growing phenomena is that many of these young people communicate with each other through text in their smartphones, even though they sit next to each other in the same room. Children do not play together as they did in the past and their emotional development seems to progress more slowly. The purpose of the following survey is to create a counterweight to this fosterage and, through a media-technical perspective, present a mobile application that encourages and inspires oral dialogues between individuals.

<p><strong>Study</strong> <strong>objects</strong>: Three different productions companies which the authors have chosen to be anonymous. <strong>Purpose</strong>: The purpose with this study is to examine why production companies choose to use 3D-animations in television commercials, and what different kind of aspects affects their decisions. <strong>Theoretical</strong>: The theoretical chapter reviews the history of 3D-animation andtelevision commercials and other fields that will be relevant laterin the analysis and discussion. <strong>Method</strong>: A case study has been made on three different companies, two of the companies are active in post-production and the other one is active in the consulting area. Data was collected through semistructured interviews with two of the companies. The last interview was conducted via e-mail. <strong>Conclusions</strong>: There were different ground aspects (economy, control, targetaudience, consumer impression) that affected a productioncompany’s decision in whether or not to use 3D-animation in theirproductions of television commercials.</p>

Study objects: Three different productions companies which the authors have chosen to be anonymous. Purpose: The purpose with this study is to examine why production companies choose to use 3D-animations in television commercials, and what different kind of aspects affects their decisions. Theoretical: The theoretical chapter reviews the history of 3D-animation andtelevision commercials and other fields that will be relevant laterin the analysis and discussion. Method: A case study has been made on three different companies, two of the companies are active in post-production and the other one is active in the consulting area. Data was collected through semistructured interviews with two of the companies. The last interview was conducted via e-mail. Conclusions: There were different ground aspects (economy, control, targetaudience, consumer impression) that affected a productioncompany’s decision in whether or not to use 3D-animation in theirproductions of television commercials.

Vi vill med det här kandidatarbetet inleda en konversation med havet. Tillsammans med Karen Barads posthumanistiska performativitet, agentiell realism, vill vi utmana och ifrågasätta den antropocentriska designerrollen där materialiteten ses som passiv och designern som ensam härskare över meningsskapandet i designprocessen. Med Barads onto-epistemologiska utgångspunkt undersöker vi hur design-processen uppstår i arrangemang av både mänskliga och icke-mänskliga aktörer, där mening framförhandlas genom relationer inom fenomen. Genom att tillämpa detta posthumanistiska förhållningssätt i lekfulla experiment tillsammans-med-havet kan vi se hur mening är situerad och skapas inom de materiell-diskursiva fenomen och apparater som utgör designprocessen.  Vi förstår designprocessen som ett ingripande i världens tillblivelse. Ett ingripande där ett kollektiv av aktörer står som medskapare, där mening, kroppar, subjekt och objekt uppförs och samformas genom intra-aktion. Detta förhållningssätt föder en medvetenhet om vårt ansvar i att ingripa i världens tillblivelse och vårt ansvar för de kroppar som skapas, en etik i handling. / In this Bachelor thesis we aim to establish a conversation with the sea. With Karen Barads posthumanist performativity, agential realism, as our companion we aim to challenge the anthropocentric role of the designer. In doing this we question the view of materiality as passive and the designer as the sole creator of meaning in the design process.  With Barads onto-epistemological standpoint we explore how the process of design is enacted in a performance of human and non-human actors, where meaning is negotiated through relations within phenomena. By putting this posthumanist notion into practice through playful experiments together-with-the-sea, we can understand how meaning is situated and shaped within the material-discursive phenomenas and apparatuses that is, and is part of, the design process.  We understand the design process as an intervening in the world’s becoming. An intervening where an assemblage of actors stands as co-creators and where meaning, bodies, subject and object is enacted and co-shaped through intra-action. This perspective gives us an awareness of our responsibility to intervene in the world’s becoming and our accountability for the bodies produced, an ethics in action.

This work aims to analyze and provide coherence on the teaching hypertext platform "Domus: Brazilian Software for Support to the Building Energy Efficiency Regulation Program", considering technological support and strong virtual insertion. In this way, the hypertext characteristics effects on the coherence have been verified as well as the marks that make hypertext to be considered as a text, but with different specificities of the conventional text, characterizing types of hypertext links and establishing the relationship between the different types of links and coherence factors. For the analysis of hypertexts, coherence has been the key element as it is primarily responsible for the quality of the text. Thus, by considering a course in hypertextual system - indexed to the functions of the Internet and links to return, to reiterate and to go deep in the content - the following coherence factors were correlated: focus, inferences, situationality and contextual factors (centered on the producer), intertextuality (centered on both producer and user) and consistency, relevance and informativeness (centered on the user). Those three last factors have shown more evident due to the fact that coherence will be achieved only if users can establish meaning to what they read. Regarding the hypertextual coherence, three factors were listed that distinguish effectively and impact on the planning and development of hypertext: i) the process of discontinuous text; ii) lack of visible boundaries in the documents and iii) lack of a fixed sequence of the text. These issues can be eased, especially in the case of hypertext teaching, using technological tools such as those used in the graphic organizer, which is a concept map that allows easy orientation and contextualization at both global and local levels. Five types of links (internals, anchors, externals, exclusive externals and hybrids) were found, and coherence in hypertext courseware was very sensitive to the external link, due to both the user difficulty to maintain the relevance of the topics set by the producer in the base text and the uncountable information arranged in a new environment, the web site. In this way, we asserted that the exclusive external link should be used in teaching hypertexts as a search function or as a reference, since the producer cannot manage the paths chosen by a hiper reader, which makes very difficult the production of coherence. Therefore, we believe that the production of coherence in teaching hypertexts can be accomplished even with its peculiarities, requiring the producer takes them into account, establishing links that are, in fact, keywords and the remission of their contents to be consistent to the subject and topic treated in the source hypertext. / Ao considerarmos as peculiaridades hipertextuais provenientes, principalmente, do suporte tecnológico e da inserção desse tipo de texto na Internet, objetivamos, por meio dessa pesquisa, analisar como se dá a produção de coerência nos hipertextos didáticos do curso de educação a distância Domus: Software de Apoio à Regulamentação Brasileira de Eficiência Energética em Edificações . Para tanto, verificamos como as características do hipertexto afetam o estabelecimento da coerência, como as marcas que fazem com que o hipertexto seja considerado um texto, mas com especificidades distintas do texto convencional, caracterizamos os tipos de links hipertextuais e estabelecemos a relação entre os diferentes tipos de links e os fatores de coerência. Para as análises dos hipertextos, baseamos-nos no modelo de coerência de Koch e Travaglia (2003), pois para esses autores é a coerência que faz com que um texto seja um texto. Assim, ao considerarmos o curso em sistema hipertextual indexado à Internet e as funções dos links de retomar, reiterar e aprofundar o conteúdo correlacionamos os seguintes fatores de coerência: focalização, inferências, situacionalidade, fatores de contextualização, conhecimentos de mundo, conhecimentos linguísticos, consistência, relevância e informatividade. Evidenciamos, nas análises, esses últimos, pois a coerência somente será atingida se o usuário conseguir estabelecer sentido para aquilo que lê. Em relação aos estudos de coerência hipertextual, temos como base os estudos de Storrer (2002), que relaciona três fatores hipertextuais que distinguem e influenciam efetivamente o planejamento e a construção de coerência do hipertexto, em relação aos textos convencionais: processo de texto descontínuo, falta de limites visíveis nos documentos e falta de uma sequência fixa de texto. Essas questões podem ser amenizadas, principalmente em se tratando de hipertextos didáticos, com a utilização de ferramentas tecnológicas nomeadas por Storrer (2002) como suportes (orientação, contextualização global e contextualização local) e, que, em nosso corpus, pudemos observar em formato de mapa conceitual interativo como Organizador Gráfico do Domus (o software), rótulo de links e o histórico. Encontramos, ainda, cinco tipos de links (internos, âncoras, externos, externos propriamente ditos e híbridos), destes, verificamos que o link externo propriamente dito é o que mais pode afetar a construção de coerência no hipertexto didático, nosso objeto de pesquisa, devido à dificuldade de o usuário manter a relevância dos tópicos estabelecidos pelo produtor no texto base e às inúmeras informações dispostas em um novo ambiente, o site. Por esse motivo, asseveramos que o link externo propriamente dito deve ser utilizado em hipertextos de cunho didático com a função de pesquisa ou como referência, já que o produtor não pode gerenciar os caminhos que o hiperleitor pode realizar nesse ambiente, dificultando a produção de coerência. Nesse sentido, acreditamos que a produção de coerência em hipertextos didáticos pode ser realizada mesmo com suas peculiaridades, necessitando, para isso, que o produtor as leve em consideração, estabelecendo elos que se constituam, de fato, em palavras-chave e que a remissão de seus conteúdos seja condizente ao assunto e tópico tratados no hipertexto de origem. / Mestre em Linguística

Studien syftar till att söka kunskap i hur människor som är födda under 50-talet upplever dagens mediesamhälle och hur de förhåller sig till sin användning av dagens medieteknik. Frågeställningarna innefattar hur informanterna ser på dagens nya medieteknik, hur de använder sig av den samt hur informanterna ser på dagens medieteknik i jämförelse med hur de ser på hur det såg ut när de växte upp. Studiens teorier innefattar Krekula och Johanssons teori om ålder samt Mannheims teori om generation. Studien omfattas av en grupp med sex stycken kvinnor. Tillvägagångssättet består av semistrukturerade kvalitativa intervjuer. Genom detta beskrivna tillvägagångssätt ihop med vårt teoretiska ramverk framkommer det att informanternas syn på dagens nya teknologi innefattar att informanterna vet att de använder den i stor grad och är medvetna om detta, men fortsätter ändå använda den i lika stor utsträckning. De är oroliga för att det fysiska mötet mellan människor kommer att försvinna på grund av dagens medieteknik, men dock ser de fler fördelar än nackdelar med den. Skälen till deras användande var att kunna vidhålla relationer via medietekniken. En del av informanterna använder medietekniken i princip hela tiden, medan andra försöker undvika den. Hur informanterna ser på dagens medieteknik i jämförelse med hur det såg ut när dem växte upp innefattar att informanterna anser att det var ett lugnare liv förut då stressen som teknologin frambringar inte fanns i samma utsträckning som den gör nu.Denna studie kan ses som ett komplement inom forskning om äldre och dagens medieteknik, då äldre i dagens forskning ofta syftar till äldre som är från 80 år och uppåt. Denna studie kan därför bidra med resultat från informanter som innefattar den yngre generationen av äldre. / The study aims at seeking knowledge about how people born in the fifties experience the current media society and how they view their own use of today's media technology. The questions asked in the thesis include; how the informants view today's media technology, how they use today's media technology and how the informants compare today's media technology in contrast to how it was when they grew up. The theories for the thesis include Krekula and Johansson's theory of age, as well as Mannheim's theory of generation. The approach used to gather information was semi-structured qualitative interviews, where six women were interviewed. Through this approach, together with our theoretical framework we can derived that the informants view on today’s new media technology includes that they know that they use media technology to a large degree but continue the usage in the same extent. They are worried that the physical encounter between people will disappear due to current media technology, but they see more benefits than disadvantages. The main reason for their use was to maintain relationships with acquaintances. Some of the informants use media technology all the time, while others try to avoid it. How the informants look at today's media technology in comparison to what it looked like when they grew up include that the informants thought that life calmer before, and that media technology might have brought more stress into their lives.This study can be a supplement on the area of elderly and current media technology research, as the research in this area is mostly focused on people older than 80 years. This study can therefore contribute information from a younger generation of the elderly.

Video learning material has reported benefits to in-person lectures, and it can improve knowledge transfer (Bishop &amp; Verleger, 2013; Kim, 2013). Modern educational methods such as flipped classroom and MOOCs (MOOC, 2016) depend on implementing video as a learning resource. Furthermore, the traditional linear video has long been challenged by nonlinear video, both in terms of having interactive material (Zhang et al. 2006) and sectioned, indexed contents. In a critical approach (Bardzell, J &amp; Bardzell, S, 2013) we investigated disadvantages to the non-linear way of using video; in particular if non-linear video streamlines the retrieval of information. We conducted an observational experiment to examine the efficiency of non-linear video compared to linear video. Results from the observation experiment conducted in this thesis, shows that the non-linear video group tended to answer less questions, within the same amount of time as the group which used the linear video. / Video påvisas förbättra kommunikationen av kunskap genom att förmedla fakta i samband med att visuellt demonstrera information i praktiken (Bishop &amp; Verleger, 2013; Kim, 2013). Moderna pedagogiska metoder som det flippade klassrummet och MOOCs (MOOC, 2016) grundar sig att implementera video som en lärande resurs. Det traditionella linjära videoformatet har länge ifrågasatts genom icke-linjär video, både när det gäller interaktivt material men även segmenterat och indexerat innehåll (Zhang et al. 2006). Med ett kritiskt förhållningssätt (Bardzell, J &amp; Bardzell, S, 2013) undersöker vi det icke-linjära video formatet, i synnerhet om det icke-linjära formatet påverkar effektiviteten av inlärning. Vi har utfört ett observationsexperiment för att undersöka effektiviteten av icke-linjär jämfört med linjär video. Resultaten från experimentet visar på att gruppen som använde icke-linjär video svarade på färre frågor än gruppen som använde linjär videon.

This report describes a basic implementation of scene voxelization within the Frostbite engine created by EA Frostbite. The algorithm supports dynamic scenes by voxelizing in real-time using the Graphical Programming Unit. The voxel grid is stored inside a buffer with a binary representation using clip mapping and multiple levels of detail. An ambient occlusion algorithm is implemented to show the benefits of the structure. Results from running the application within the engine is presented, both with figures showing the resulting image and timings for diifferent parts of the algorithm. Several future improvements to make the algorithm more competitive is presented as well.

Det visuella uttrycket har länge varit viktigt inom grafisk formgivning eftersom det förmedlar så mycket mer än ögat ser. Ett varumärke representerar inte bara namnet på företaget utan också dess syfte och idé. Därför ska den visuella profilen utstrålar organisationens visioner på ett tydligt sätt och ge betraktaren en skön helhets upplevelse. Många gånger hjälper det att fräscha upp ett varumärkes visuella profil för att på så sätt kunna lansera företaget på nytt och i viss mån även öka dess konsumtion. Detta examensarbete redovisar för produktionen och designprocessen kring re-design av Sveriges Kommunikationsbyråers (Komm!) specialpris Titanpriset. Komm! tyckte Titanpriset behövde få en egen identitet och gav mig i uppgift att skapa detta. Den nuvarande logotypen var inte harmonisk eller speciellt bra utförd och därför krävde företaget en re-design av Titanpriset. Kriterierna för reproduktionen av Titanpriset var att de ville ha en stilren, tydlig och kreativ ny designlösning.  För att komma fram till det resultat som presenteras i slutet av uppsatsen har en intervjustudie samt innehållsanalys genomförts. Dessa metoder användes i syfte att få en djupare förståelse över vad som utgör visuella profiler och dess logotyper. Även forskning i form av tidigare examensarbeten och vetenskapliga artiklar har läst för att införskaffa mer kunskap om ämnet. / The expression of visual design have sins long been important in graphic design because it conveys so much more than the eye see. A brand does not only represent the name of the company but also its purpose and idea. Therefore is it so important that the visual profile radiates the organization's vision in a clear way and gives the viewer a pleasant overall experience. Many times can it help to freshen up a brand's visual identity in order to successfully launch the company again and to some extent also increase its consumption. This essay presents the production and the designprocess of Sveriges Kommunikationsbyråers ( Komm! ) Titan award. Komm! thought the Titan award needed to have its own identity and gave me the task to create this. The current logo was not harmonious or particularly well executed and therefore did the company demand a re-production of the Titan award. The criteria for the reproduction of the Titan award was that they wanted a clean, clear and creative new design solution. An interview and content analysis have been performed to get the results presented at the end of the studie. These methods have been used to gain a deeper understanding of what constitutes visual profiles and logos. Also research of previous work and scientific papers have been read to acquire more knowledge about the topic.

Inom militär flygindustri är produktdatahantering i produktlivscykeln och utveckling av logistikstöd centrala områden för att hantera krav och kostnader. Senaste strategin för dessa utmaningar grundar sig i modellbaserat konstruktionsunderlag – model-based definition (MBD). I detta perspektiv står disciplinen teknikinformation inför förändringsarbetet att utnyttja möjligheterna med MBD. Förbättringar i presentationsmetod för illustrationer och effektivare arbetsmetoder för produktion förväntas. Detta förändringsarbete undersöktes genom en fallstudie av Saabs konceptutveckling för teknikinformation till stridsflygplanet Gripen NG. Studien fokuserade på publikationstypen reservdelskatalog och användningen av den. Arbetet bidrar med en modell som beskriver fyra nivåer för design av informationssystem, varav nivån presentation är i fokus. Därtill undersöks jämförbara arbetsmetoderför hantering av MBD-data inom fallet. Studien fann att teknikinformationsavdelningen står inför en övergång från dokumentbaserad förvaltning till utveckling av informationssystem. Därefter diskuteras tre förslag för nästa generations reservdelskatalog. Det mynnar ut i två slutsatser: dels att en bristfällig bild av reservdelskatalogens användning gör det svårt att bedöma nya presentationsmetoders lämplighet, och dels att förbättringarna gjorda i arbetsmetod och presentationsmetod vid MBD-införande på andra områden i produktlivscykeln inte är direkt överförbara på reservdelskatalogen. Till följd av detta presenteras förslag på framtida forskning och arbete. / In the military aerospace industry, product data management in the product lifecycle, and development of logistics support are key areas that affect management of requirements and costs. The most recent strategy for these challenges is model-based definition (MBD). The discipline of technical communication has yet to explore and exploit the potential of MBD. Expected benefits include better ways of presenting illustrations and more efficient methodologies for production. This problem was investigated through a case study of the concept development of technical communication for Saab's fighter aircraft Gripen NG. The study focused on the illustrated parts catalog and its use. This work contributes with a model that describes four design levels for information systems, where presentation is the one in focus. In addition, comparable practices for management of MBD data were investigated in the case. The study found that the technical communication department is facing a transition from document-based management to development of information systems. Furthermore, three proposals for the next generation of parts catalogs are discussed. Two conclusions were reached. First, a lack of knowledge regarding the use of the parts catalog makes it difficult to assess new ways of presentation. And second, the improvements made in methodology and presentation in other MBD applications of the product life cycle are not immediately transferable to the parts catalog. Hence, suggestions for future research and work are presented.