Orientadores: Mauro Sergio Miskulin, Rosana Giaretta Sguerra Miskulin / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Eletrica e de Computação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-04T16:25:51Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Amorim_JonideAlmeida_M.pdf: 4117315 bytes, checksum: d8daf52a049af1bbf040aeceb51c89e1 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2005 / Resumo: Uma das atividades principais na aprendizagem eletrônica é o desenvolvimento de conteúdo. Este conteúdo pode ser de vários tipos: textos, sons, imagens, animações, vídeos, entre outros. De modo geral, espera-se que professores desenvolvam e publiquem tal conteúdo por conta própria. Diante da necessidade de reutilização e compartilhamento de informação na forma de arquivos de diversos tipos por alunos e professores, torna-se relevante investigar novas formas de se aumentar a produtividade durante a autoria ao mesmo tempo em que se busca o favorecimento da aprendizagem. Desenvolveu-se, nessa perspectiva, um aplicativo de autoria de módulos educacionais em hipertexto com modelagem e posterior navegação auxiliada por mapas conceituais. Entre os objetivos pedagógicos do aplicativo desenvolvido, destaca-se o fato deste permitir o trabalho com mapas conceituais, diagramas que buscam favorecer a aprendizagem significativa, a qual guarda forte relação com criatividade e inovação, temas de importância na Educação em Engenharia atual. Contudo, tal aplicativo permite não apenas o trabalho com mapas conceituais, mas também a confecção de hipertexto na forma de páginas HTML, deste modo tornando-se útil no processo de autoria de tutoriais, trabalhos escolares, aulas virtuais ou até mesmo na indexação de arquivos de vários formatos sobre um dado tema. No caso de aulas virtuais, o aplicativo seria utilizado por um especialista em conteúdo, o qual pode ser um professor, para preparar uma primeira versão de um módulo educacional que, posteriormente, poderia ser desenvolvido com mais detalhes por uma equipe, se necessário. O aplicativo de autoria desenvolvido se denomina COMA (Conceitos e Mapas) e seu uso potencial vai além da área de Educação em Engenharia dada a sua facilidade de uso, a sua distribuição gratuita e a sua interface multilingüe / Abstract: One of the main activities in e-learning is content authoring. This content may be of several types: texts, sounds, animations, videos, etc. In general, it is expected from teachers to develop and publish this content by themselves. Due to the necessity of reusing and sharing information formatted as files of several kinds by students and teachers, it is relevant to investigate new ways of increasing productivity during the authoring process while trying to empower learning. In this perspective, it has been developed an application to author educational modules in hypertext with modeling and later navigation aided by concept mapping. Among the pedagogical objectives of the application developed, it can be mentioned that it allows working with concept maps, which are diagrams that favor meaningful learning. This learning theory is strongly related to creativity and innovation, themes of major importance in Engineering Education nowadays. But this application not only allows working with concept maps, it also develops hypertext as HTML pages. This makes it useful in the authoring process of tutorials, school work and virtual classes or in the indexation of files from several formats about a certain subject. In the case of virtual classes, the application would be used by a content expert, which may be a teacher; the purpose would be to prepare the first version of an educational module, which could be improved later on by a group of specialists, if needed. The authoring software is called COMA (Concepts and Maps) and its potential use goes beyond Engineering Education due to its easy of use, its free distribution and its multilingual interface / Mestrado / Eletrônica, Microeletrônica e Optoeletrônica / Mestre em Engenharia Elétrica

This study investigates, within the current health care situation, the interrelationship of the user, resources and tool in the design of a prototype WELLNESS database-driven web site. A shift has taken place in health care, in which the base of conventional medicine has broadened to integrate other systems, practices and worldviews. These include complementary and alternative medicine, health promotion, disease prevention and wellness. Emphasis is placed on the need to take personal responsibility for one's own health and wellness. The global burden of chronic disease, reaching epidemic proportions, is increasingly linked to risk factors resulting from personal lifestyle choices. The growing evidence of the user's need to make personal, informed, lifestyle choices and their reliance on the Web for health information, required investigation. WELLNESS, a specific orientation to health and wellness, formed the framework within which the user and resources were defined and the tool designed. The user was profiled as the WELLNESS health information seeker, hereby contributing significantly to an understanding of the user in this new context. The user profile informed the establishment of resource selection criteria and tool design. The identification of WELLNESS content selection criteria, within a five-dimensional model, was required to ensure quality, relevant and credible resources. The tool is comprised of the WELLNESS thesaurus and WELLNESS database-driven web site. The WELLNESS thesaurus was constructed based on a combination of relevant thesauri. It will be used as an indexing tool. An investigation of existing health information web sites highlighted the importance of designing a specific WELLNESS database-driven web site. A database host was identified against which the original study's conceptual schema was assessed. A low-fidelity prototype web site was designed as the interface between the WELLNESS health information seeker and the database of WELLNESS health information resources. This study has epidemiological, philosophical, epistemological, sociological and psychological relevance. The provision of access to WELLNESS health information resources, made available in the WELLNESS database-driven web site, for personal, informed lifestyle choice by the WELLNESS health information seeker could potentially contribute to the reduction of the global burden of chronic disease. / Information Science / D.Litt. et Phil. (Information Science)

This study investigates, within the current health care situation, the interrelationship of the user, resources and tool in the design of a prototype WELLNESS database-driven web site. A shift has taken place in health care, in which the base of conventional medicine has broadened to integrate other systems, practices and worldviews. These include complementary and alternative medicine, health promotion, disease prevention and wellness. Emphasis is placed on the need to take personal responsibility for one's own health and wellness. The global burden of chronic disease, reaching epidemic proportions, is increasingly linked to risk factors resulting from personal lifestyle choices. The growing evidence of the user's need to make personal, informed, lifestyle choices and their reliance on the Web for health information, required investigation. WELLNESS, a specific orientation to health and wellness, formed the framework within which the user and resources were defined and the tool designed. The user was profiled as the WELLNESS health information seeker, hereby contributing significantly to an understanding of the user in this new context. The user profile informed the establishment of resource selection criteria and tool design. The identification of WELLNESS content selection criteria, within a five-dimensional model, was required to ensure quality, relevant and credible resources. The tool is comprised of the WELLNESS thesaurus and WELLNESS database-driven web site. The WELLNESS thesaurus was constructed based on a combination of relevant thesauri. It will be used as an indexing tool. An investigation of existing health information web sites highlighted the importance of designing a specific WELLNESS database-driven web site. A database host was identified against which the original study's conceptual schema was assessed. A low-fidelity prototype web site was designed as the interface between the WELLNESS health information seeker and the database of WELLNESS health information resources. This study has epidemiological, philosophical, epistemological, sociological and psychological relevance. The provision of access to WELLNESS health information resources, made available in the WELLNESS database-driven web site, for personal, informed lifestyle choice by the WELLNESS health information seeker could potentially contribute to the reduction of the global burden of chronic disease. / Information Science / D.Litt. et Phil. (Information Science)

A domain name is a unique alphanumeric designation that facilitates reference to sets of numbers which actually locate a particular computer on the Internet. Domain names are a fundamental part of the Internet's user interface. Improving the usability of the Internet depends upon effective domain name policy. This study is intended to contribute to improvement in Internet usability for the end users of domain names. Benefits of more usable domain names include: higher sales, customer satisfaction and productivity, and reduced support costs. Domain name policies worldwide vary considerably. Consequently, end users are inconvenienced by contradictory domain name policies, diminishing the predictability of an entity's domain name, and thus decreasing usability for end users. The study objective was to develop criteria with which policy makers can evaluate their domain name policies, in order to improve the usability of domain names for end users. The main research question posed was: What are the criteria for an effective domain name policy? The research methodology included a literature review, domain name policy examination and an ethnographic narrative. The literature review found existing research examining either domain names or usability in isolation. However, research examining the intersection of the two is scarce. The existing research describes domain names as part of the web user interface. In practical terms, this is about how people use domain names to access web sites, email addresses and other Internet resources. It was established that the predictability (and thus usability) of domain names relies on effective domain name policy. The non-standardised and widely delegated process of domain name policy development leads to unpredictable and inconsistent domain names. The narrative recollection presented the researcher's inside perspective on the domain name industry, with a focus on domain name usability. The researcher provided first-hand insights into the evolution of the industry and policy development process, from Australian and international perspectives. To address the problem of poor domain name usability, a framework for domain name policy evaluation is proposed. The framework extends the current research that treats domain names as a user interface by proposing criteria which address usability concerns. The framework allows policy makers to critically assess domain name policies with end users in mind. Examples of the criteria include: understanding who are its intended and untended users, and whether it's consistent with other domain names. The framework has the potential to set an international standard for the critical evaluation of domain name policy, and become the basis for further research. This study was developed from the researcher's perspective as a participant in the domain name industry. A secondary lens regarding the usability of domain names was then applied. This study has only scraped the surface in terms of how the research fields of domain names and usability may be considered together. The research methodology for this study was primarily qualitative and interpretive. A quantitative study of domain name policies globally could provide further insight into areas including: the differences in second level country code domain names, and language implications of domain names.

The purpose of this project is to update the architecture and design of the California State University San Bernardino Graduate Advisor System. This system allows potential students into the Master of Science degree program in Computer Science to complete their application online.