This study was designed to determine the effect of touch on the interpersonal attraction between therapist and patient. Four instruments were used to measure the effect, those measurements included "Client's Personal Reaction Questionnaire," "Attitudes Toward Psychotherapy and Psychotherapists Scale," actual physical distance and actual timed verbal measure. The general nature of the research hypotheses stated that the touch technique would increase the interpersonal attraction of the patients toward the therapist as indicated by the four measures. The results of the study led to the conclusion that touch during a single interview session effects statistically significant change in interpersonal attraction when measured by actual physical distance. However change in interpersonal attraction was not found when measured by the "Client's Personal Reaction Questionnaire," "Attitudes Toward Psychotherapy and Psychotherapists Scale" and an actual timed verbal measure. Implications of the study, based on observations of the experimenter, were that touch is successful in helping hospitalized neuropsychiatric patients increase their interpersonal attraction and that this attraction cannot always be measured by global questionnaires and specific amounts of verbalization. A similar study should be replicated with subjects other than neuropsychiatric patients, such as hospitalized medical patients, college students and children.

This thesis is a reading of Jacques Derrida's critique of an ontology of touch, otherwise known as 'haptocentrism'. It takes as its focus Derrida's reading of Husserl's Ideen II in his book Le Toucher-Jean-Luc Nancy. This is a text that has received much less attention from commentators who focus on Derrida's relationship to phenomenology. Through this reading, we hope to fill an important gap in the critical literature on this subject. Through our reading, we hope to destabilise the concept of the body proper.

This design project places itself in the field of knit, smart textiles and inclusive design. Knitting is a technique that can create interactive objects, for children with autism that may need support to interact with their surroundings. Therefore, this work sets out to support these individuals, using objects that offer different tactile sensations, to provide focus and calmness. To achieve this, the aim is to design inclusive knitted objects that encourage individuals with autism to interact with knitted forms through stimulating textures, vibration, and colours. Through technical research on Shima Seiki, Dubied and Silver Reed, 3D objects with various bindings are developed to create stimulating textures. Sensors and other electronics are also investigated and integrated, to make the textiles smart. Further investigations are made using surveys with an autism community, to accommodate their needs during the design process. The result of this project is three textile objects that provide two kinds of stimulation. Two pieces which react to touch with vibration, and one object with different tactile textures. As well as knowledge about how to knit forms with textures, and how to insert electronics into knitted structures. It is also how people with autism can be helped by using the objects as tools, to facilitate sensory processing or non-verbal communication, in their everyday life.

Zustandsveränderungen von Maschinensystemen äußern sich in der Erhöhung, Verschiebung oder Häufung von Schwingungsamplituden. Die dynamische Datenerfassung war schon immer das Herzstück jeder Schwingungsmessung. Es reicht aber nicht aus, nur Daten zu erfassen, sondern es muss auch möglich sein, die Rohdaten zu analysieren, zu verarbeiten und in aussagekräftige Inhalte zu interpretieren, um Rückschlüsse auf den Qualitäts-, Wartungs- und Schädigungszustand ziehen zu können. Diese Arbeit behandelt die Entwicklung eines App-basierten Messsystems zur messtechnischen Erfassung, Analyse und Visualisierung von Schwingungssignalen, um eine aussagekräftige Zustandsbeschreibung vorzunehmen. Ferner betrachtet sie verschiedene normative Verweise, welche in der Messgeräteentwicklung und Schwingungsdiagnostik relevant sind. Ein Vergleich der LabView- und Matlabprogrammierung und deren analytischen Ergebnissen sowie ein Ausblick schließen diese Arbeit ab.:1 Einleitung 9 2 Hintergrund 11 3 Normative Verweisungen 18 3.1 Weitere Techniken 24 4 Hardware 25 4.1 Visualisierung Neopixel 31 5 Software 33 5.1 LabView 33 5.2 Main 34 5.3 Benutzeroberfläche „page 1“ 35 5.3.1 Time Signal 35 5.3.2 Fast Fourier Transform 36 5.3.3 Wavelet 38 5.3.4 Enveloping 39 5.3.5 Enveloping Spectrum 40 5.4 Benutzeroberfläche „page 2“ 41 5.5 Benutzeroberfläche „page 3“ 43 5.6 Mathematik und programmatische Umsetzung 44 5.6.1 Main 44 5.6.2 Time Signal 46 5.6.3 Fast Fourier Transform 50 5.6.4 Wavelet 53 5.6.5 Enveloping 62 5.6.6 Cepstrum 66 5.7 Messungen 68 5.7.1 Hinweise zur Verwendung des VMS 68 5.7.2 Time Signal 69 5.7.3 Fast Fourier Transform 70 5.7.4 Enveloping 71 5.7.5 Enveloping Spectrum 71 5.8 Zusammenfassung und Rahmenbedingungen 72 6 Schlussbetrachtung 75 7 Quellenverzeichnis 78 8 Abbildungsverzeichnis 81 9 Tabellenverzeichnis 84 10 Eidesstattliche Erklärung 85 11 Anhang 86 11.0.1 Spezifikationen 86 11.0.2 Arduino-Sketch 87

This work is dealing with custom screens programming for Mitsubishi M7 series controller. These custom screens will be working as graphic user interface for easy workpiece zero position measuring and also for precise measuring of length and diameter of tools used for working on the work piece.

Bakgrund: Beröring frisätter hormonet oxytocin i kroppen. Beröring har även visats ha betydelse för hjärnans utveckling hos spädbarn. Inom det holistiska tankesättet menas att sjuksköterskor som vårdar en patient med hjälp av beröring arbetar utifrån hela patienten och fokuserar inte främst på den sjukdom och symtom patienten har.Syfte: Syftet med litteraturöversikten var att beskriva patienters upplevelser av beröring inom sjukvården.Metod: Metoden utfördes som en litteraturöversikt. En datainsamling genomfördes i databaserna Cinahl, PubMed, Psycinfo. En sekundärsökning gjordes i Scopus och en personsökning genomfördes i Summon. I litteraturöversiktens inkluderas 14 vetenskapliga artiklar som är publicerade mellan 1999 och 2021. Av dessa artiklar var sju kvalitativa och sex kvantitativa studier samt en mixed-method studie.Resultat: Resultatet i litteraturstudien visar att majoriteten av patienter som har erfarenhet av beröring upplever det som en positiv händelse. Patienterna upplever att beröring har haft god effekt på att minska oro och smärta samt att beröringen har bidragit till känslan av att känna sig sedd som person och inte endast som en person med sjukdom. Patienterna upplever att beröringen även bidragit till att en känsla av samhörighet har uppstått mellan patient och sjuksköterska. Dock finns det patienter som kan uppleva beröring som en obehaglig upplevelseSlutsats: Beröring har många positiva effekter på patienter som befinner sig inom sjukvården. Patienter upplever att beröring som ges på ett lugnt och omtänksamt sätt lindrar oro och smärta samt ger patienten en känsla av tröst. Beröring höjer även patientens självkänsla och känsla av kontroll över den egna situationen. / Background: When the body is receiving touch the hormonesystem releases the hormone oxytocin. It has also been shown that touch helps to develop the brain in infants. In the holistic way of thinking, it is meant that nurses who care for a patient with the help of touch work based on the entire patient and do not focus primarily on the disease and symptoms the patient has.Aim: The purpose of the literature study was to describe the experience of touch among patients in healthcare.Method: The method was performed as a literature review. A data collection was carried out in the databases Cinahl, PubMed and a secondary search in Scopus was made. The literature review includes 14 scientific articles published between 1999 and 2021. Of these articles, seven were qualitative and six quantitative studies and one article were mixed- method.Results: The results of the literature study show that most patients experience touch as a positive event. Patients feel that touch has had a good effect on reducing anxiety and pain and that the touch has contributed to the feeling of being seen as a person and not just as a person with an illness. Patients feel that the touch has also contributed to a feeling of belonging between patient and nurse.Conclusion: Touch has many positive effects on patients who are in healthcare. Patients experience that touch given in a calm and thoughtful way relieves anxiety and pain and gives the patient a feeling of comfort. Touch also raises the patient's self-esteem and sense of control over their own situation

The primary objective of this master’s thesis is to discuss a design and development of proximity touch control panel, which contains two simulated buttons and one rotary slider simulating functions of the potentiometer using specialized sensor controllers. The first part is describing functions and different technologies used to create touch sensors. It also introduces its usage in practice, advantages and disadvantages of different technologies which provides the readers with basic theoretical knowledge and introduction into the touch sensors. The second part as follows describes the definition of Integrated Circuits MPR083 and MPR084, outline of the features and methods of their functions. Displays internal connection of these circuits and describes forms of the serial communication with microcontroller connected to I2C bus. In these part there are in details described individual internal registers of these Integrated Circuits and theirs typical setups. It shows how it is possible to use the external interrupts and examples of their practical application. In the last chapter of these thesis is described the layout of the individual modules and construction of the whole designed device. The work is introducing two different concepts of programming the microcontrollers and consequently also construction of the appropriate ISP and JTAG programmers. It also introduces construction of the display units for visual feedback with the user and approach of the communication for the control LED matrix and graphical LCD display. The main part of this thesis is the construction of the control circuit, which includes key part, microcontroller ATmega16. It also presents the description of the program written in development environment AVR Studio in programming language C and his specific functions. In conclusion of the thesis are listed real measured behavior of the communication on I2C bus and their description.

Thesis describes worldwide operating systems for smart phones with focus on third party application development possibility. Also describes touch control and writing using the virtual keyboard of smartphones. The second part describes the analysis and projection of virtual keyboard with emphasis on ergonomic use for handicapped person. One solution is selected and programmed for operating system Android. Thesis contains complete procedure of application developing, starting with first request, through designing, programming and ending with debugging, testing and release application on Android Market.

This work deals with design of PC remote control, which is able to control computer with operating system Windows and Linux using Wifi connection. There was also created necessary support software for both operating systems. Communication was secured by ciphering algorithm.

This thesis discusses informatik systems in companies, their technologies and new trends in hardware domain, used to simplify, speed up and streamline business processes. Consequently thesis deals with the extension of an information system in a real environment, aimed to getting more detailed data, processing and subsequent evaluation to adjustable reports.