This thesis was written as a supporting paper for a graphic design exhibit for a Master of Fine Arts Degree. The focus of my work is to visualize an interpretation of a collection of songs that make up an album in which the design communicates the content of the body of music. This thesis showcases a record that actually exists but has never been released. This affords me the opportunity to create a design that defines the content of the record work in a visual manner. This thesis paper covers the methods and motivations by which I arrived to the final design as well as an analysis of the outcome of the process in regards to the thesis exhibit.

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I denna undersökning utforskar vi hur demens kan illustreras på ett mer fullständigt vis inom film i jämförelse med det nuvarande medielandskapet. Det visuella berättandet har stort inflytande på hur vi lär oss ny information och vårt ändamål är på ett realistiskt sätt visualisera hur en demensdrabbad person ser och upplever sin omgivning och på det viset uppmana filmskapare till att vara mer medvetna med sitt filmskapande. Gestaltningen som gjorts i samband med vår undersökning är en svart-vit stopmotion animerad kortfilm. / In this study we explore how dementia can be illustrated within film, in a more complete way in comparison to the current media landscape. Visual storytelling has a big influence on how we perceive and understand new information and it is our goal to encourage filmmakers to be more attentive with how their films can inform people. The resulting illustration created in conjunction with the study is a black and white stop motion animated short film.

Denna studie berör ämnet musikaliskt uttryck och hur det går att utveckla det musikaliska uttrycket. Under studien har de två metoderna inre bilder och inlevelse använts och syftet med studien är att undersöka hur dessa metoder påverkar det musikaliska uttrycket genom att studera hur de musikaliska parametrarna dynamik, artikulation, tempo och klang påverkas. Studien har utförts på blockflöjt och den musik som har använts har varit svensk folkmusik. Som grund för denna studie presenteras information om musikaliskt uttryck, kopplingar mellan känslor och musik samt information om blockflöjten. Därefter presenteras tidigare forskning inom området musikaliskt uttryck och vidare en beskrivning av det fenomenologiska perspektivet. I metodkapitlet presenteras bland annat de metoder som har använts i denna studie vilka är loggbok och ljudinspelning samt tematisk analys. Svar på studiens frågeställningar redovisas i resultatkapitlet och därefter diskuteras det som framkommit i resultatet. / This study is about musical expression and how to develop in musical expression. In this study the two methods inner images and visualize a feeling are used and the purpose whit this study is to investigate how theese methods affect the musical expression by studying how the musical parameters dynamic, articulation, tempo and tone are affected. This study has been performed on recorder and the music that has been used is Swedish traditional music. As a basis for this study information about musical expression, connections between music and emotions and information about the recorder is presented. Then previous research about musical expression is presented and after that a description of the phenomenological perspective. In the method chapter the methods logbook, audio recording and thematic analysis is presented. Answers for the questions of this study are given in the result chapter and after that the information in the result are discussed.

Optimized memory management is important for a demanding application to achieve high-performance results. But un-optimized or unwanted memory behaviors can usually be difficult to detect without an overview of how memory is structured during run-time. This thesis explores real-time visualization of dynamic memory allocation for applications using the memory pool allocation technique. In the thesis, technical and graphical challenges are described together with their solutions and the design choices that were made. The final result is a program that can visualize dynamic memory management in real time, with the focus on displaying a detailed and comprehensive memory overview that preserves the level of detail over time. / Optimerad minneshantering är viktig för att uppnå hög prestanda i en krävande applikation. Men att upptäcka icke optimerade eller oönskade minnesbeteenden kan vara svårt utan en visuell översikt över hur minnet är strukturerat under programmets exekvering. Denna avhandling undersöker hur dynamisk minnesallokering kan visualiseras i realtid för applikationer som använder allokeringstekniken minnes\-pool. I avhandlingen beskrivs tekniska och grafiska utmaningar tillsammans med deras lösningar och de designval som gjordes. Slutresultatet är ett program som kan visualisera dynamisk minneshantering i realtid och som fokuserar på att visa en detaljerad och omfattande minnesöversikt som bevarar detaljeringsgraden över tiden.

In an ever more competitive environment Sandvik Materials Technology,SMT, runs a large-scale program to improve their processes for product development.The purpose with the program is to increase the company’s profitability by increasingthe number of new products in their product portfolio. The strategies SMT is usingfor reaching their goals are to change the way they work with product development byreducing lead time and learning how to prioritize products with the highestprofitability. In the R & D Department the work of improvement pursue by adaptingLean R & D to their way of working. Lean R & D encourages working withcontinuous improvements and eliminating waste.The main purpose for this Master’s Thesis is to develop didactic support to make iteasier to implement Lean in SMT R & D department. With use of interviews,observations and taking part in education at SMT and at Sandholm Associates has thisMaster’s Thesis resulted in modifying of the internal education material at Sandvik anddevelopment of a concept of Stickers for the computer screen. The main product ofthis Master’s Thesis project is a Lean game adapted for Sandvik SMT R & Ddepartment.This report contains suggestion for Sandvik how to improve the communication ofknowledge between their departments with purpose to reduce external consultationsand to achieve a more pleasant working environment. / I en allt hårdare marknad bedriver Sandvik MaterialsTechnology, SMT, ett omfattande förändringsarbete kring produktförnyelse.Programmets målsättning är att öka företagets lönsamhet genom ökad mängd nyaprodukter i produktportföljen. Strategin som SMT använder för att nå de uppsattamålen är att förändra arbetssättet med produktutveckling så att ledtider blir kortareoch att de produkter som utvecklas har potentiellt hög lönsamhet. Inom forskning &utveckling bedrivs förändringsarbetet genom implementering av Lean R&D. Lean R& D uppmuntrar till ett arbetssätt som gynnar ständiga förbättringar och att undvikaslöserier.Lean är ett förbättringskoncept med stark kundfokusering som utformas genom ettresurssnålt och effektivt arbetssätt, vilket innebär att slöserier elimineras och attständigt sträva efter att förbättrar verksamhetens processer och produkter med småmedel.Huvudsyftet med detta examensarbete har varit att utveckla didaktiska hjälpmedel föratt underlätta införandet av Lean i SMT:s forsknings och utvecklingsavdelning. Medhjälp av intervjuer, observationer och deltagande i utbildningar både hos Sandvik ochhos Sandholm Associates har examensarbetet resulterat vuxit fram.Huvudprodukten av detta examensarbete är ett Leanspel som anpassats förstålforskningens verksamhet. Leanspelet har dessutom flera varianter beroende påvilka aspekter och scenarios som man vill framhäva. Även vetskapen att SMT Bandhar ett produktionsspel som visar Lean produktion medför att SMT nu har tillgång tillett produktions och ett administrativt Leanspel.Även revidering av Sandviks befintliga utbildningsmaterial har utförts samt att ettkoncept på ”Stickers” för datorernas bildskärmar har framtagits.Rapporten innehåller även rekommendationer på hur kunskaps- och erfarenhets-återgivandet kan förbättras genom kommunikation mellan SMTs affärsområden, vilketkommer att minska behovet av externa konsultuppdrag samt att ett lättsammarearbetsklimat kommer uppnås.

Visual analytics of large amounts of spatio-temporal data is challenging due to the overlap and clutter from movements of multiple objects. A common approach for analyzing such data is to consider how groups of items cluster and move together in space and time. However, most methods for showing Spatio-temporal Cluster (STC) properties, concentrate on a few dimensions of the cluster (e.g. the cluster movement direction or cluster density) and many other properties are not represented. Furthermore, while representing multiple attributes of clusters in a single view existing methods fail to preserve the original shape of the cluster or distort the actual spatial covering of the dataset. In this thesis, I propose a simple yet effective visualization, FlockViz, for showing multiple STC data dimensions in a single view by preserving the original cluster shape. To evaluate this method I develop a framework for categorizing the wide range of tasks involved in analyzing STCs. I conclude this work through a controlled user study comparing the performance of FlockViz with alternative visualization techniques that aid with cluster-based analytic tasks. Finally the exploration capability of FlockViz is demonstrated in some real life data sets such as fish movement, caribou movement, eagle migration, and hurricane movement. The results of the user studies and use cases confirm the advantage and novelty of the novel FlockViz design for visual analytic tasks.

The reduction of the impact of energy consumption is a priority issue and a major challenge that concerns every country in the world. This is a complex task that needs to be tackled from several angles in the search for areas where optimizations and savings can be made. In Sweden an electricity meter reading reform was fully implemented by 1st July 2009, including 5.2 million customers, and this created new set of circumstances in the Swedish electricity market. The main purpose of this thesis work has been to investigate the possibilities of increasing the use of remote meter readings. Two research questions have been: “How can the electricity market benefit from remote collected meter readings?” and “Where do barriers appear when utilizing meter readings?”. The work started in 2000/2001 to study Internet based applications that visualize electricity consumption patterns. Over these years the daily internet users have increased from approximately 40 % to 73 % and new markets for web-based applications have evolved. These solutions can be important in the forthcoming years as energy portals that hold new energy services. Experiences from new installations indicate that at least interested customers do submit information concerning building and household properties through internet. Still, it is challenging to enable the majority of customers to take part in these new solutions. It may therefore be important to remind customers on a regular basis in order maintain the frequency using the application and to make it habitual. Further the introduction of demand-based pricing allows electricity distribution utilities to achieve a stronger correlation between peak loads in the distribution network area and their revenues.

Big amounts of data are produced every day in companies. By analyzing and visualizing the data a lot of insights can be gained. The company Solution Xperts wanted to create a system that could import and visualize Big Data. In this work a system was created and evaluated. The report shows that it can be difficult to visualize Big Data, but when a system is created it can easily be adapted to data coming from different companies and provide a lot of value to companies and organizations.