Det digitala har de senaste åren blivit en allt större del av vårt samhälle och baserat på de fler och fler oumbärliga funktioner som digitaliseras ser dess roll knappast ut att minska.  Detta arbete undersöker hur närvaron av våra digitala enheter kan användas på nya sätt i konsertanta sammanhang. Arbetet utgår från tre stycken som alla använder webbläsaren för att tillämpa live-elektronik och således öppnar upp möjligheten att framföra dessa stycken utan någon tidigare erfarenhet av exempelvis Max/MSP, SuperCollider eller liknande. Ingen ytterligare utrustning än ens egna smarta telefon eller dator behövs heller vilket återkopplar till idén om att använda våra vardagliga digitala enheter som de kreativa verktyg de potentiellt sätt kan vara. / <p>Bifogad ljudfil till verket "Berätta inte för någon, berätta för alla" framförs av KammarensembleN. Bifogad ljudfil till verket "Kvartett för solo-violin" framförs av Karin Hellqvist.</p>

The goal of this project is to create a mobile phone application, which can use phone camera to get a photography. This photography contains text, application has an ability to find a text, recognize all characters and send output as SMS. In this application there are implemented algorithms for text recognize from pictures based on Hidden Markovov Models. The particular stress is put on training of the model, to maximalise a succes of text recognition. There are some experiments model training with model variables, which are leading in better ability of text recognition. It was achieved a value of 97% succesfully recognized characters.

Investigator: Bc. Iveta Pfeilerová Supervisor: prof. PhDr. Beáta Krahulcová CSc Modern technology in the lives of seniors The thesis titled "Modern technology in the lives of seniors" is focused on a target group of seniors living in a retirement home and their abilities and potential utilization of modern technologies such as cell phone, computer and credit card. The main objective of this thesis was to investigate the relationship that the seniors have to the modern technologies, such as cell phones, computers and credit cards. The thesis and the research was approached with the aspect that these are the seniors who live in a retirement home. In recent years the issue of quality of life of seniors is becoming increasingly hot topic and work with a cell phone, a computer and the Internet can very significantly affect the lives of seniors. The goal was to determine if these visions are reflected in the lives of seniors in housing facilities and if it is possible that the respondents are interested in these technologies. The research was conducted in both theoretical and practical framework. The theoretical part deals with the demographic changes in society, with the aging population and with the old age itself. Further described is the general information lireracy, information needs of seniors and...

This thesis examines determinants of an Internet and mobile phones diffusion and potentially different impacts of these determinants in case of developing and developed countries. For this purpose panel data from 199 countries for period from 1995 to 2012 are used. There is a number of variables including economic, technological, political and human capital factors. Benefits of this thesis are that the research uses updated dataset and it also adds new variables into its econometric model. This thesis also examines in detail the adoption of information and communication technologies in the Czech Republic, which has not been published previously. One of the conclusions is a finding that penetration of mobile phones and the Internet is faster in developing countries than in developed countries. Fixed effects method in the global testing also showed that the economic wealth of a country is an important determinant for the Internet only for developed countries, while for the mobile phones the GDP is a significant variable in both groups of countries. Analysis of the Czech Republic brings different results for both technologies, but the unemployment rate, which was added to the basic model, has proven to be an important determinant for both the Internet and mobile phones. Key words: Mobile phone,...

Aims: The study of cognitive functioning in large epidemiological settings is hampered by a lack of instruments for the remote assessment of cognitive performance, especially when targeting variability across the full range of adult functioning. The present study examined the practicability of such investigations using a recently developed telephone interview (Cognitive Telephone Screening Instrument, COGTEL). Methods: A subcohort of an ongoing epidemiological study in the elderly German population (ESTHER) was interviewed via telephone by trained personnel. These data were combined with sociodemographic information obtained by standardized self-administered questionnaires, and analysed by tabulation, histograms and regression models. Results: A total of 1,697 interviews could be analysed. The eligible participants had a mean age ± standard deviation of 74.0 ± 2.8 years. The COGTEL total scores closely followed a normal distribution with no evidence of a ceiling effect. In adjusted regression models, COGTEL total and subcomponent scores were negatively associated with age and strongly positively with higher education, whereas the association with sex was less consistent. Conclusions: The results suggest that the COGTEL can readily be administered to large study populations and produces plausible and informative results. Education should be considered in all investigations using this instrument and requires further in-depth analyses. Future studies will need to elucidate its associations with risk factors and its prognostic potential for cognitive decline and dementia. / Dieser Beitrag ist mit Zustimmung des Rechteinhabers aufgrund einer (DFG-geförderten) Allianz- bzw. Nationallizenz frei zugänglich.

The diploma thesis The influence of brand on consumer buying behaviour is focused on the market of mobile phones. The aim of this thesis is an evaluation of particular factors that affect customer´s buying decisions regarding mobile phones. The principle is to find out whether the affect of the brand predominates the price, availability, advertising, etc. The thesis includes six brands of mobile phones that, according to the secondary data, have the biggest market share. A part of this thesis is also a survey that ascertains opinions of respondents on mobile phones. Thanks to the survey we can evaluate what operation system is favoured by the customers and whether the size, manageability, price and screen size are important for them. The finding, if customers are affected by the advertisement, which buying spot they prefer and what experience they have with mobile phones, is also important. None of the cell phone brands received an extremely low rating, but at each of them were found certain deficiencies. The management of the cell phone producers should focus on product quality and maintaining long-term customer relations. Some of the producers should reconsider their pricing policy and stimulate their vendors to improvement of customer awareness and increase of sales.

The Internet has become the dominant medium in the last decade, and increasingly, mobile phone use is a natural part of our lives, and in any age category. Tobacco use is currently very popular, according to the State Health Institute (2018), a total of 25.2% of smokers in the adult population in 2017. The thesis deals with the research carried out in 2018, focusing on the use of mobile phones and the use of tobacco products by members of the Police of the Czech Republic, comparing the use during working hours against use outside of working hours. Data collection was conducted through a standardized questionnaire survey. To determine the use of tobacco, the Cigarettes Scale Questionnaire was used and a Chen Internet Scale Questionnaire was used to determine the use of the mobile phone. In the form of simple, deliberate selection on the basis of possibilities and availability, the members of the Police of the Czech Republic in the Česká Lípa District were included in the research and were included in twelve local offices. The number of respondents involved in the survey was 100 policemen. The data I received from the questionnaires was summed up before the statistical processing and the categorization of the answers was done. The results obtained were rewritten into a table in MS Excel, where they were...

Title: The use of free time activities for the pupils of secondary schools within the school breaks. Intention:. The aim of this research is to find out whether the observed pupils spend less time on their mobile phones when there are provided sport or other kind of activities which are carried out by school for this particular reason within the school breaks. Methodology: This was a quantitative analysis a comparison of the time spent on a mobile phone in older school age pupils during a twenty-minute school break with time spent on a mobile phone in the event of the same break but with sport and leisure activities. By random selection, one class was selected from the 6th, 7th and 8th class. The research was attended by children of the upper school age (11-15 years). A total of 77 pupils from 6, 7, 8. classes and 40 pupils of the 9th class. This research included a vulnerable group of minors. The 9th year was used in the research to implement the activities themselves and to assist in systematic structured observation. Results: The complete analysis shows higher percentage of mobile phone use in two classes with the emphasis on the days with activities rather than without. The approximate time that the pupils spent on their mobile phones was shorter when there were school activities carried out in...

I determined the preferences of mobile phone attributes on the basis of an on-line consumer research, which I conducted with a questionaire created in the Google Docs application. Thanks to the questionaire, I was able to gain information about the evaluation of the importance of 19 functional parametres made by the queired respondents. Through the use of this evaluation I counted the strength for particular parametres and various segments of customers. Differences in the importance of atributes for selected segments were found especially among the categories of age and sex. The teenage generation prefers Bluetooth or a high capacity of the mobile phone memory also in means of memory stics. Enquired young men attach the highest importance to the same attributes as teenagers, but for women in the same category is crucial particularly the visual image of the mobile phone, such as the size of the display, its proportions and weight. What did not have any success among the particular parametres, was the function of TV, which was put on the last place on the imaginary ladder of importance. I stated the recommended telephones on the basis of calculated stregths of the attributes, point evaluation of the experts and price of the selected mobile phones. Among the five recommended products I would like to mention telephone brands {\clq}qNOKIA 6300``, {\clq}qSONY ERICSSON W910i``, {\clq}qNOKIA 3110``, {\clq}qSONY ERICSSON W760i`` a {\clq}qSAMSUNG SGH i8510``.

The topic of this thesis is "Psychosocial effects of the use of mobile phones in children under the age of 12 years." Children in connection with the use of mobile phones are more vulnerable compared to adults regarding the unwilling behavior. Czech public (neither lay nor professional) has not paid sufficient attention to this issue so far. The aim of this work was to monitor attitudes of children to mobile phones, the manner and extent of their use. At last but not at least, it was also the aim to describe the position of mobile service providers to child customers. There was also a market analysis carried out to describe offers, products and services suitable for children. The first part of this thesis describes the current situation in the Czech Republic and is complemented with statistical data of the numbers of mobile phones in the Czech Republic. There are also specifics of children as users of mobile phones mentioned and the risks that are connected to the use of mobile phones, such as reliance on mobile or nomophobia, fears of loss of signal etc. In the following chapters objectives of the research are described, hypotheses and research methodology. The results are shown in graphical form. They are followed by the results of market analysis and expert observations on the issue, the methodology and the research itself. The last part of this thesis is the discussion on the methodology and research results. Research results are also compared and discussed in relation to the literature.