Title: Effect of training on the slackline on postural stabilization Objectives: The aim of this study was to determine whether training on the slackline affects postural stabilization of sample of sport aktive population. The aim was to detect changes in postural stabilization immediately after the first training (30 minutes) on the slackline and after long-term training on the slackline. Another aim was to determine to what extent influenced measurement on Posturomed itself postural stabilization (with help of control probands, who did not train on the slackline between measurements). Methods: The study was attended by two groups of probands with a total amount of n= 16, who are healthy, active sports, sample population in the age od 21-26 (8 men, 8 women equally represented in groups). Probands of training group attended during one month eight sessions on the standard slackline- 2.5 cm wide, 11 m long, stretched at a height of 80 cm. Probands of control group didn't train on the slackline, only underwent measurements of the same intervals. Everyone participated in the 3 measurements (always 3 attempts) at the beggining of the research, immediately after completing the first training session (control group after 1 hour), and after completion of the research (control group after 1 month), always...

Curiosity, as a strong motivator for exploration and discovery, has long been an underexplored but important emotional response in relation to technology. This research considers that it has great potential to improve many aspects of the user experience, especially in today’s screen-saturated context. However, engaging curiosity by novelty and uncertainty may exhaust attentional strength and challenge usability. Thus, the purpose of this research is to find ways to foster the human trait of curiosity and avoid its negative effects. To gain an in-depth understanding of curiosity, the first chapter reviews cross-disciplinary literature to expand its role in improving user experience. This ranges from serving as an attention grabber to including the values that contribute to human survival, thriving, emotional resilience, and personal development. The second chapter identifies problems in the current curiosity-provoking design methods. The chapter also emphasises design for supporting active curiosity and avoiding the creation of purely novel stimuli. This approach is to encourage active curiosity to develop. To this end, the research proceeds to conduct observational studies at a museum to broaden our understanding of factors that influence people’s curiosity and exploration within a screen-mediated context. Based on these observations, I identified that there are three conceptual elements: sociability, embodiment, and playfulness. Through theoretical discussion and reflection upon the design examples, subsequent three chapters explore the relationship between curiosity and each conceptual element. The chapters also suggest several design approaches that embrace curiosity in relation to its social, embodied, and playful nature. These include creating a sense of co-curiosity, allowing the use of covert and overt curiosity-satisfying strategies, increasing bodily exploration affordances of the screen for linking curiosity with embodiment, using metaphors of the body-screen relationship, and developing possibilities and adding enchanting effects for eliciting playfulness to enrich curiosity. In essence, this research enhances our understanding of the user experience from the perspective of curiosity, and these design suggestions also help to embrace users’ active curiosity in developing sociable, embodied, and playful well-being in the age of ubiquitous screens.

Frente a reconhecida importância da Teoria da Evolução por Seleção Natural como um tema central na compreensão dos fenômenos biológicos pelos cidadãos, tem sido dada grande atenção à sua inserção no ensino. Um crescente número de pesquisas, tanto na educação formal quanto não formal, tem buscado entender como ocorre o ensino e aprendizagem do tema, quais os obstáculos envolvidos e como os indivíduos compreendem os conceitos evolutivos. No que tange os museus de ciências, pesquisas sobre as concepções de público acerca da Evolução são desenvolvidas principalmente nos cenários europeus e estadunidenses. No contexto nacional, são escassas aquelas que buscam compreender as interações entre públicos e instituição e que poderiam subsidiar o desenvolvimento de atividades educativas para o ensino de Evolução em nossos museus. O presente trabalho buscou investigar como o público da exposição \"Do macaco ao Homem\", apresentada no Catavento Cultural e Educacional, na capital paulista, significa os conceitos evolutivos em suas interações em uma Atividade de Visita, frente aos possíveis obstáculos a esse processo. Com o aporte teórico da Teoria da Atividade, cujo foco de análise se localiza na importância das tensões e contradições dos Sistemas de Atividade para o surgimento e desenvolvimento de Ciclos Expansivos de Aprendizagem, buscou-se compreender como os obstáculos ao ensino de Evolução podem se constituir como oportunidades para o desenvolvimento desses Ciclos na Atividade de Visita. A análise correspondeu, em um nível macro, à caracterização das atividades de concepção, de formação de mediadores e de mediação a fim de compreender como este Sistema de Atividades em interação estruturam a Atividade de Visita. O nível micro se realizou pela categorização das interações conversacionais entre mediadores e visitantes em cinco visitas, a partir dos obstáculos ao ensino e aprendizagem de Evolução levantados pela literatura, bem como de elementos emergentes dos dados coletados. As principais contradições foram localizadas a nível das percepções, concepções e valores dos sujeitos sobre a exposição e a práxis de mediação. Percebeu-se que as escolhas na concepção da exposição e do setor educativo culminaram em uma estrutura da Atividade de Visita que, regulada principalmente pelos valores de mediação no âmbito de suas regras, privilegia a centralidade do discurso do mediador. Foi possível observar o surgimento de Ciclos Expansivos de Aprendizagem a partir de tensões no âmbito dos recursos expográficos, interrompidos por conflitos na significação dos conceitos de variabilidade e de espécie tanto por parte da visitante quanto do mediador. Salientamos, assim, a importância do mediador e da concepção expográfica no desenvolvimento de Ciclos inteiros, tomando os obstáculos como oportunidades no desenvolvimento de abstrações teóricas acerca dos processos evolutivos. Acreditamos que a compreensão das questões levantadas no âmbito desta pesquisa pode ajudar a orientar o desenvolvimento de estratégias para a mediação de temáticas evolutivas em exposições museais. Como contribuição deste trabalho, apresentamos uma categorização de elementos com potencial para promover tensões na Atividade de Visita. / In the face of the acknowledged importance of Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection as central theme in the understanding of biological phenomena by citizens, it has been given great attention to its integration in education. A growing amount of researches, whether formal and informal education, has sought to understand how the evolution teaching and learning process occur; which obstacles are involved; and how people understand the evolutionary concepts. Regarding science museums, researches on public conceptions about evolution are mainly developed in the European and American scenarios. In the national context, there are rarely those who seek to understand the interactions between public and institution and who could subsidize the development of educational activities for the evolution teaching in our museums. This study aimed to investigate how the public of the exhibition \"Do macaco ao Homem\" (From Monkey to Man), presented at Catavento Cultural and Educational in Sao Paulo means evolutionary concepts in their interactions in a Activity of Visitation, in respect of potential obstacles to this process. With the theoretical framework of Activity Theory, which focuses the analysis in the importance of the tensions and contradictions of Activity Systems for the emergence and development of Expansive Learning Cycles, we sought to understand how the obstacles of the evolution teaching can become an opportunities for the development of these Cycles in the Activity of Visitation. The analysis was, on the macro level, the description of the activities of conception, mediators\' training and mediation, in order to understand how this Activity Systems in interaction set up the Activity of Visitation. The micro level was held by the categorization of conversational interactions between mediators and visitors in five visits, from the obstacles to teaching and learning Evolution raised in the literature as well as emerging elements of the collected data. The main contradictions were located at the perceptions level, views and values of the subjects of the exhibition and the mediation praxis. It was noticed that choices related to exhibition\'s concepts and the educational sector resulted in a given structure of Activity of Visitation that is mainly regulated by the values of mediation and their rules, emphasized by the centrality of the mediator\'s speech. It was possible to observe the appearance of Expansive Learning Cycles from tensions within the exhibition resources, disrupted by conflict in the meaning of the concepts of variability and species, both by the visitor as the mediator. We highlight the importance of the mediator and exhibition design in the development of whole cycles, taking obstacles as opportunities to develop theoretical abstractions about evolutionary processes. We believe the understanding of the issues raised in this research can help to guide the development of strategies for mediating the evolution theme in museological exhibitions. As a contribution of this work, we present a categorization of elements with a potential to promote tensions in Activity of Visitation.

Frente a reconhecida importância da Teoria da Evolução por Seleção Natural como um tema central na compreensão dos fenômenos biológicos pelos cidadãos, tem sido dada grande atenção à sua inserção no ensino. Um crescente número de pesquisas, tanto na educação formal quanto não formal, tem buscado entender como ocorre o ensino e aprendizagem do tema, quais os obstáculos envolvidos e como os indivíduos compreendem os conceitos evolutivos. No que tange os museus de ciências, pesquisas sobre as concepções de público acerca da Evolução são desenvolvidas principalmente nos cenários europeus e estadunidenses. No contexto nacional, são escassas aquelas que buscam compreender as interações entre públicos e instituição e que poderiam subsidiar o desenvolvimento de atividades educativas para o ensino de Evolução em nossos museus. O presente trabalho buscou investigar como o público da exposição \"Do macaco ao Homem\", apresentada no Catavento Cultural e Educacional, na capital paulista, significa os conceitos evolutivos em suas interações em uma Atividade de Visita, frente aos possíveis obstáculos a esse processo. Com o aporte teórico da Teoria da Atividade, cujo foco de análise se localiza na importância das tensões e contradições dos Sistemas de Atividade para o surgimento e desenvolvimento de Ciclos Expansivos de Aprendizagem, buscou-se compreender como os obstáculos ao ensino de Evolução podem se constituir como oportunidades para o desenvolvimento desses Ciclos na Atividade de Visita. A análise correspondeu, em um nível macro, à caracterização das atividades de concepção, de formação de mediadores e de mediação a fim de compreender como este Sistema de Atividades em interação estruturam a Atividade de Visita. O nível micro se realizou pela categorização das interações conversacionais entre mediadores e visitantes em cinco visitas, a partir dos obstáculos ao ensino e aprendizagem de Evolução levantados pela literatura, bem como de elementos emergentes dos dados coletados. As principais contradições foram localizadas a nível das percepções, concepções e valores dos sujeitos sobre a exposição e a práxis de mediação. Percebeu-se que as escolhas na concepção da exposição e do setor educativo culminaram em uma estrutura da Atividade de Visita que, regulada principalmente pelos valores de mediação no âmbito de suas regras, privilegia a centralidade do discurso do mediador. Foi possível observar o surgimento de Ciclos Expansivos de Aprendizagem a partir de tensões no âmbito dos recursos expográficos, interrompidos por conflitos na significação dos conceitos de variabilidade e de espécie tanto por parte da visitante quanto do mediador. Salientamos, assim, a importância do mediador e da concepção expográfica no desenvolvimento de Ciclos inteiros, tomando os obstáculos como oportunidades no desenvolvimento de abstrações teóricas acerca dos processos evolutivos. Acreditamos que a compreensão das questões levantadas no âmbito desta pesquisa pode ajudar a orientar o desenvolvimento de estratégias para a mediação de temáticas evolutivas em exposições museais. Como contribuição deste trabalho, apresentamos uma categorização de elementos com potencial para promover tensões na Atividade de Visita. / In the face of the acknowledged importance of Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection as central theme in the understanding of biological phenomena by citizens, it has been given great attention to its integration in education. A growing amount of researches, whether formal and informal education, has sought to understand how the evolution teaching and learning process occur; which obstacles are involved; and how people understand the evolutionary concepts. Regarding science museums, researches on public conceptions about evolution are mainly developed in the European and American scenarios. In the national context, there are rarely those who seek to understand the interactions between public and institution and who could subsidize the development of educational activities for the evolution teaching in our museums. This study aimed to investigate how the public of the exhibition \"Do macaco ao Homem\" (From Monkey to Man), presented at Catavento Cultural and Educational in Sao Paulo means evolutionary concepts in their interactions in a Activity of Visitation, in respect of potential obstacles to this process. With the theoretical framework of Activity Theory, which focuses the analysis in the importance of the tensions and contradictions of Activity Systems for the emergence and development of Expansive Learning Cycles, we sought to understand how the obstacles of the evolution teaching can become an opportunities for the development of these Cycles in the Activity of Visitation. The analysis was, on the macro level, the description of the activities of conception, mediators\' training and mediation, in order to understand how this Activity Systems in interaction set up the Activity of Visitation. The micro level was held by the categorization of conversational interactions between mediators and visitors in five visits, from the obstacles to teaching and learning Evolution raised in the literature as well as emerging elements of the collected data. The main contradictions were located at the perceptions level, views and values of the subjects of the exhibition and the mediation praxis. It was noticed that choices related to exhibition\'s concepts and the educational sector resulted in a given structure of Activity of Visitation that is mainly regulated by the values of mediation and their rules, emphasized by the centrality of the mediator\'s speech. It was possible to observe the appearance of Expansive Learning Cycles from tensions within the exhibition resources, disrupted by conflict in the meaning of the concepts of variability and species, both by the visitor as the mediator. We highlight the importance of the mediator and exhibition design in the development of whole cycles, taking obstacles as opportunities to develop theoretical abstractions about evolutionary processes. We believe the understanding of the issues raised in this research can help to guide the development of strategies for mediating the evolution theme in museological exhibitions. As a contribution of this work, we present a categorization of elements with a potential to promote tensions in Activity of Visitation.

Darbe tyrimo objektu pasirinktus mokinių prosocialaus elgesio raišką bei reakcijas ir ketinimus elgtis nepasitenkinimą sukeliančiose situacijose buvo siekiama tikslo nustatyti mokinių prosocialaus elgesio raišką bei reakcijų ir ketinimų elgtis nepasitenkinimą sukeliančiose situacijoje ypatumus. Siekiant atsakyti į tyrimo tikslą, buvo keliami šie uždaviniai: nustatyti mokinių prosocialaus elgesio raišką lyties aspektu; nustatyti mokinių reakcijas ir ketinimus elgtis nepasitenkinimą sukeliančiose situacijose lyties aspektu; išsiaiškinti dalyvavimo popamokinėje veikloje sąsajas su mokinių prosocialiu elgesiu bei reakcijomis ir ketinimais elgtis nepasitenkinimą sukeliančiose situacijose; išsiaiškinti savijautos ir požiūrio į mokyklą sąsajas su mokinių prosocialiu elgesiu bei reakcijomis ir ketinimais elgtis nepasitenkinimą sukeliančiose situacijose. Tyrime buvo keliamos šios hipotezės: pirma, mergaitėms būdingesnis prosocialus elgesys nei berniukams, jos rečiau reaguotų agresyviai jų nepasitenkinimą sukeliančiose situacijose; antra, prosocialus elgesys būdingesnis dalyvaujantiems popamokinėje veikloje mokiniams ir trečia, popamokinėje veikloje dalyvaujantys mokiniai jų nepasitenkinimą sukeliančiose situacijose rečiau reaguotų agresyviai, negu nedalyvaujantys bendraamžiai. Tyrime dalyvavo 544 (289 mergaitės ir 255 berniukai) aštuntų – devintų klasių mokiniai parinkti taikant klasterinę atranką. Tiriant mokinius taikytas apklausos raštu metodas. Tyrimas parodė, kad mergaitėms... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / The object of the paper is the expression of pupils’ prosocial behaviour and their reactions to and intentions to behave in a certain way in discontent-provoking situations. The aim of choosing such an object is to define the expression of pupils’ prosocial behaviour and the characteristic features of their reactions to and intentions to behave in a certain way in discontent-provoking situations. In order to pursue the aim of research, the following objectives were set: to determine the expression of pupils’ prosocial behaviour on the aspect of gender; to outline pupils’ reactions to and their intentions to behave in a certain way in discontent-provoking situations on the aspect of gender; to find a correlation between the participation in after-school activities and pupils’ prosocial behaviour and their reactions to and intentions to behave in a certain way in discontent-provoking situations; to discover links between pupils’ feeling about school, their attitude to school and pupils’ prosocial behaviour and their reactions to and intentions to behave in a certain way in discontent-provoking situations. This research was focused on the following hypotheses: first, prosocial behaviour is more common in girls than in boys. Girls would rarely behave aggressively in discontent-provoking situations. Second, prosocial behaviour is more common in pupils participating in after-school activities. Third, pupils participating in after-school activities would behave aggressively in... [to full text]

The diploma thesis focuses on learning Maths through French language using the CLIL method at a secondary vocational school. The acronym CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning), EMILE (Enseignement de Matières par Intégration d'une Langue Etrangère) or e.g. AICL (Apprentissage Intégré d'un Contenu et d'une Langue) refers to integrated learning of a content-based subject through an additional language. There are always two aims of such tuition. The first aim is the content goal (e.g. to gain particular specialized knowledge or skill in mathematics); the second aim is the language goal (e.g. to learn essential vocabulary and sentence structures in order to lead a discussion concerning the solution of a quadratic equation in the French language). Based on a literary research, analysis of educational CLIL materials, and especially in connection with theoretical grounds of the method (constructivism, problem-solving, critical thinking, active and communicative approach) there was established a study plan focusing on the topic of quadratic equations. The experimental tuition was put into practice with the 1st year students of a secondary school, where the French language is taught as the second foreign language. The main objective, apart from the tuition itself and its analysis, was to assess the...