The Whereabouts Screens are a minimalistic publishing system offering location awareness at the workplace. The employees can share information with their colleagues, relevant mostly to their whereabouts, by publishing it on several situated displays located around the office space. The Whereabouts Screens have been installed with minimal changes since 2012 at the Mobile Life center and as a relatively new system, it has still not reached its full potential. Despite its “primitive” characteristics however, the employees show a continued interest in using them. Based on related research on situated displays the research questions to be answered are: What do the semi-public situated displays in the workplace have to offer to their users? How can they be augmented and better integrated in their environment using the existing technology? To investigate these questions, Human-Computer Interaction methods such as in-situ observations, interviews, a design workshop and prototyping were used. The result was a prototype of an augmented system, in the form of a notice board where the users can post notes of different types (text, images, etc.). The board is extended beyond the limits of the screen with LEDs. The intensity and colors of the LEDs are affected by the use of the system, and illuminate the area around the screen. The augmented Whereabouts Screens aim to promote social interaction and location awareness at the workplace. They were evaluated through user testing and the first results show a positive reception from the users. / Whereabouts Skärmar är ett minimalistiskt publicerings-system som bjuder närvarokännedom på arbetsplatsen. De anställda kan dela information med sina kollegor, mestadels kopplat till vad de befinner sig, genom att publicera det på flera  skärmar belägna runt om på arbetsplatsen. Whereabouts Skärmar har funnits installerade med minimala förändringar sedan 2012 vid Mobile Life centret men har  som ett relativt nytt system ännu inte nått sin fulla potential. Trots begränsningar i systemet visar anställda ett fortsatt intresse av att använda dem. Baserat på relaterad forskning kring situerade skärmar tar sig uppsatsen an två frågeställningar: Vad har semi-publika situerade skärmar på arbetsplatsen att erbjuda sina användare?  Hur kan deras funktionalitet utökas och integreras bättre i omgivningen med hjälp av befintlig teknik? För att undersöka dessa frågor, används människa-datorinteraktion metoderna in-situ observationer, intervjuer, designworkshops och prototypbyggande använts. Resultatet är en prototyp av ett system med utökad funktionalitet i form av en anslagstavla där användare kan lägga upp anteckningar av olika slag (text, bilder, etc.). Anslagstavlan sträcker sig över gränserna för skärmen med LEDljusen.  Intensitet och färger hos LEDljusen påverkas av användningen av systemet, och lyser upp området runt skärmen. De utökade Whereabouts skärmarna syftar till att understödja social interaktion och  närvarokännedom på arbetsplatsen. De utvärderades genom användartester och de första resultaten visar på ett positivt mottagande av användarna.

The subject of my diploma thesis is a new-building of a municipal authority with a nursery school in Obora near Boskovice. The objects are statically and operationally separated from each other, but they formo ne unit. The building is located on the corner of the village in a flat terrain and thus forms the dominant feature of the village and a landmark. The target of the design was to create a building that will harmoniously connect to the surrounding buildings, public spaces and the school garden. The municipal authority has a rectangular floor plan, two-storey, basement, covered with a sloping roof, the building has a designed elevator. In the basement there are cellars of local associations, on the ground floor there is information center, a municipal library and on the first floor there is a municipal office with a registry office and a ceremonial hall. The attic can be used in the future for municipal apartments for rent. An official board with a public space is designed ahead of the municipal office. A photovoltaic power plant will be located on the roof of the municipal office. The nursery school has a trapezoidal floor plan, ground floor, no basement, covered with a vegetated flat roof. In the nursery school there is a children's day room with a storage room, storage of mattresses, teaching aids, food preparation, technical and hygienic facilities. The structural systém of both objects is longitudinal, wall. The underground part of the municipal office is designed in a white concrete tub system. The vertical load-bearing constructions are made from cut ceramic blocks. The horizontal constructions in the municipal office are monolithic, ferroconcrete, and in the nursery school they are prefabricated, ferroconcrete. The project was made in AutoCad software application, 3D model in 3D modelling computer program SketchUp.