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Guo, Yuxia. "User/group administration for RBAC." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape7/PQDD_0001/MQ42067.pdf.
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Kruse, Arne. "User-group identity in Scandinavian place-names." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/29207.
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I have from my publications selected one book and four articles I believe show an inherent theoretical and methodological consistency within the field of onomastics. The following are submitted: <i>Mål og med, Målføre og médnamn frå Smøla, </i>Tapir Akademisk Forlag, Trondheim 2000; ‘Sjønamn på medfjella’, in <i>Namn of Nemne </i>15/1998 (:21-31); ‘Norse Topographical Names on the West Coast of Scotland’, in <i>Scandinavia and Europe 800-1350 Contact, conflict and co-existence</i>, ed. By J. Adams and K. Holman, Brepols, 2004 (:97-108); ‘Explorers, Raiders and Settlers. The Norse Impact on Hebridean Place-Names’, in <i>Cultural Contacts in the North Atlantic Region: The Evidence of Names, </i>ed. By P. Gammeltoft, C. Hough and D. Waugh, 2005 (:141-56), and ‘Scandinavian-American place-names as viewed from the Old World’, in <i>Language Contact Across the Atlantic</i>, ed. By I. Clarkson and S. Ureland, Tübingen, 1996 (:255-67). In addition I submit an essay ‘Fashion, Limitation and Nostalgia: Scandinavian Place-Names Abroad’, which discusses the underlying theory of the selected work. The book and articles argue the importance of considering the user-group when analysing patterns concerning distribution and time-span of productive use of classes of place-names. I have built on and extended theoretical ideas from Magnus Olsen, who was the first to show that our inventory of names is dependent upon the group(s) we function within, and from WHF Nicolaisen’s writings about our individual onomasticon. In my book and articles it is shown how this is of importance within a fisherman’s milieu on the west coast of Norway, where highly specialised place-names are part of a very restricted and exclusive in-group language. Further, it is demonstrated that certain strata of Norse names in Scotland belong to time periods when the Norse arrived as explorers, while other names date to when the Norse came as settlers. Finally, this is exemplified with Scandinavian place-names from the relatively recent immigration to North America, where it is demonstrated that place-names fulfil a function as cultural signs within an immigrant group in need of identity markers.
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Omidvar, Tehrani Behrooz. "Optimization-based User Group Management : Discovery, Analysis, Recommendation." Thesis, Université Grenoble Alpes (ComUE), 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015GREAM038/document.
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Les donn ́ees utilisateurs sont devenue de plus en plus disponibles dans plusieurs do- maines tels que les traces d'usage des smartphones et le Web social. Les donn ́ees util- isateurs, sont un type particulier de donn ́ees qui sont d ́ecrites par des informations socio-d ́emographiques (ex., ˆage, sexe, m ́etier, etc.) et leurs activit ́es (ex., donner un avis sur un restaurant, voter, critiquer un film, etc.). L'analyse des donn ́ees utilisa- teurs int ́eresse beaucoup les scientifiques qui travaillent sur les ́etudes de la population, le marketing en-ligne, les recommandations et l'analyse des donn ́ees `a grande ́echelle. Cependant, les outils d'analyse des donn ́ees utilisateurs sont encore tr`es limit ́es.Dans cette th`ese, nous exploitons cette opportunit ́e et proposons d'analyser les donn ́ees utilisateurs en formant des groupes d'utilisateurs. Cela diff`ere de l'analyse des util- isateurs individuels et aussi des analyses statistiques sur une population enti`ere. Un groupe utilisateur est d ́efini par un ensemble des utilisateurs dont les membres parta- gent des donn ́ees socio-d ́emographiques et ont des activit ́es en commun. L'analyse au niveau d'un groupe a pour objectif de mieux g ́erer les donn ́ees creuses et le bruit dans les donn ́ees. Dans cette th`ese, nous proposons un cadre de gestion de groupes d'utilisateurs qui contient les composantes suivantes: d ́ecouverte de groupes, analyse de groupes, et recommandation aux groupes.La premi`ere composante concerne la d ́ecouverte des groupes d'utilisateurs, c.- `a-d., compte tenu des donn ́ees utilisateurs brutes, obtenir les groupes d'utilisateurs en op- timisantuneouplusieursdimensionsdequalit ́e. Ledeuxi`emecomposant(c.-`a-d., l'analyse) est n ́ecessaire pour aborder le probl`eme de la surcharge de l'information: le r ́esultat d'une ́etape d ́ecouverte des groupes d'utilisateurs peut contenir des millions de groupes. C'est une tache fastidieuse pour un analyste `a ́ecumer tous les groupes trouv ́es. Nous proposons une approche interactive pour faciliter cette analyse. La question finale est comment utiliser les groupes trouv ́es. Dans cette th`ese, nous ́etudions une applica- tion particuli`ere qui est la recommandation aux groupes d'utilisateurs, en consid ́erant les affinit ́es entre les membres du groupe et son ́evolution dans le temps.Toutes nos contributions sont ́evalu ́ees au travers d'un grand nombre d'exp ́erimentations `a la fois pour tester la qualit ́e et la performance (le temps de r ́eponse)<br>User data is becoming increasingly available in multiple domains ranging from phone usage traces to data on the social Web. User data is a special type of data that is described by user demographics (e.g., age, gender, occupation, etc.) and user activities (e.g., rating, voting, watching a movie, etc.) The analysis of user data is appealing to scientists who work on population studies, online marketing, recommendations, and large-scale data analytics. However, analysis tools for user data is still lacking.In this thesis, we believe there exists a unique opportunity to analyze user data in the form of user groups. This is in contrast with individual user analysis and also statistical analysis on the whole population. A group is defined as set of users whose members have either common demographics or common activities. Group-level analysis reduces the amount of sparsity and noise in data and leads to new insights. In this thesis, we propose a user group management framework consisting of following components: user group discovery, analysis and recommendation.The very first step in our framework is group discovery, i.e., given raw user data, obtain user groups by optimizing one or more quality dimensions. The second component (i.e., analysis) is necessary to tackle the problem of information overload: the output of a user group discovery step often contains millions of user groups. It is a tedious task for an analyst to skim over all produced groups. Thus we need analysis tools to provide valuable insights in this huge space of user groups. The final question in the framework is how to use the found groups. In this thesis, we investigate one of these applications, i.e., user group recommendation, by considering affinities between group members.All our contributions of the proposed framework are evaluated using an extensive set of experiments both for quality and performance
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Keller, Margaret S. "Perceptions of unaffiliated users in academic libraries and other issues associated with this user group." Thesis, School of Information and Library Science, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1901/403.
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This study describes a questionnaire survey of seven university libraries across the country. The study was conducted to determine the perceptions of librarians in regards to unaffiliated users, and how well librarians understand the policies at their institutions. The results show that while affiliated patrons are seen most in instructional sessions and at the reference desk, there is no dominating area of interaction with unaffiliated patrons. And despite the multitude of opinions surrounding how unaffiliated users are and should be treated compared to those associated with an institution, librarians still show a strong desire to treat all patrons as fairly as possible.
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Sonnenwald, Diane H., Paul Soloman, Noriko Hara, Reto Bolliger, and Tom Cox. "Collaboration in the large: Using video conferencing to facilitate large group interaction." Idea Publishing Co, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/106015.
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This chapter discusses the social, organizational and technical challenges and solutions that emerged when facilitating collaboration through videoconferencing for a large, geographically dispersed research and development (R&D) organization. Collaboration is an integral component of many R&D organizations. Awareness of activities and potential contributions of others is fundamental to initiating and maintaining collaboration, yet this awareness is often difficult to sustain, especially when the organization is geographically dispersed. To address these challenges, we applied an action research approach, working with members of a large, geographically distributed R&D center to implement videoconferencing to facilitate collaboration and large group interaction within the center. We found that social, organizational and technical infrastructures needed to be adapted to compensate for limitations in videoconferencing technology. New social and organizational infrastructure included: explicit facilitation of videoconference meetings; the adaptation of visual aids; and new participant etiquette practices. New technical infrastructure included: upgrades to video conference equipment; the use of separate networks for broadcasting camera views, presentation slides and audio; and implementation of new technical operations practices to support dynamic interaction among participants at each location. Lessons learned from this case study may help others plan and implement videoconferencing to support interaction and collaboration among large groups.
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Lu, Jiajun. "Sharing semi-heterogeneous single-user editors for real-time group editing." Texas A&M University, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/3881.
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A new approach is proposed to transparently share familiar single-user editors
without modifying their source code. This approach tweaks a classic diff algorithm
to derive edit scripts between document states. Concurrent edit scripts are merged
to synchronize states of coauthoring sites. Our concept-proving prototype currently
works with familiar, heterogeneous text editors such as GVim and WinEdt that can
be adapted to support two basic interfaces, GetState and SetState. The adaption
is less expensive and more robust than recent approaches such as ICT and CoWord,
which must understand and translate editing operations at the operating system level.
Experimental data show that our approach is able to provide sufficient performance
for near-realtime group editing.
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Suner, Sedef. "Preschool Children As A User Group: Design Considerations For Musical Toys." Master's thesis, METU, 2012. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12614074/index.pdf.
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Early musical experiences are very important for social, cognitive and physical
development of children, as well as their future musical competences. Preschools
present this environment with various musical materials. However, suitability of
these materials in terms of developmental needs of children and educational goals
is questionable. The purpose of this study is to transfer knowledge from relevant
literature to design considerations of musical toys for preschool children.
Literature review was conducted to determine various aspects to be considered
while designing musical toys by compiling knowledge from developmental
psychology and pedagogy literature<br>governments
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Poudel, Tirtha Raj Raywadee Roachanakanan. "Relationship between household's economic status and benefit sharing in community forest user group : a case study in Tal Danda community forest user group, Tanahun District of Nepal /." Abstract, 2006. http://mulinet3.li.mahidol.ac.th/thesis/2549/cd386/4737902.pdf.
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Edvardsson, Ingrid, Margareta Troein, Göran Ejlertsson, and Lena Lendahls. "Snus user identity and addiction : a Swedish focus group study on adolescents." Högskolan Kristianstad, Avdelningen för Hälsovetenskap, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hkr:diva-9969.
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BACKGROUND:The teenage years are the years when adolescents seek their identity, and part of this involves experimenting with tobacco. The use of tobacco as such, and norms among their friends, is more important to the adolescents than the norms of parents when it comes to using tobacco or not. The aim was to explore the significance of using snus for adolescents, and attitudes to snus, as well as the reasons why they began using snus and what maintained and facilitated the use of snus.METHODS:Adolescents who use snus were interviewed in focus groups. The material was analysed using content analysis.RESULTS:Four groups of boys and one group of girls were interviewed, a total of 27 students from the upper secondary vocational program. Three themes related to the students' opinions on and experiences of using snus were found: Circumstances pertaining to snus debut indicate what makes them start using snus. Upholding, which focuses on the problem of becoming addicted and development of identity, and approach, where the adolescents reflect on their snus habits in relation to those around them. A number of factors were described as relevant to behaviour and norm building for the development into becoming a snus user. Attitudes and actions from adults and friends as well as - for the boys - development of an identity as a man and a craftsman influenced behaviour.CONCLUSIONS:The results showed that development of identity was of major importance when adolescents start using snus. The adolescents were initially unable to interpret the early symptoms of abstinence problems, but subsequently became well aware of being addicted. Once they were stuck in addiction and in the creation of an image and identity, it was difficult to stop using snus. These factors are important when considering interventions of normative changes and tobacco prevention in schools as well as among parents.
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Erel, Erinc. "Multi-generational Workforce As A User Group: A Study On Office Environments." Master's thesis, METU, 2010. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12611328/index.pdf.
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Today, as a result of the improvements especially in the area of medical sciences, conditions of life have changed and the work period has been prolonged. Currently more than one generation has been living together, and even working together. In recent years, it is observed that generationally diverse environments and product or services addressing multi-generational user groups have attracted the attention of particularly the marketing sector and this attention to the generational diversity has become a trend in the design field just as it has in many other areas.
This study analyses the design assets of the office environments from the perspective of the important characteristic of the workforce, namely the generational diversity. Designing the office environment by taking only the current and future generations into consideration is not a sufficient way anymore. So, office designers are expected to consider also the older generations existing at the same environment. This trend towards generational diversity has started with the designs and arrangements of home environments<br>later, due to the advantages it has provided for the organizations&rsquo<br>success, it has gradually spread towards the designs of office environments.
In this study, the work habits of generations have been analyzed initially and then it has been related to the office environments and work cultures. At the end of the study, the effects of multi-generational workforce on the office environment design assets have been discussed.
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Vu, Xuan Truong. "User-centered and group-based approach for social data filtering and sharing." Thesis, Compiègne, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015COMP2179/document.
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Les médias sociaux occupent un rôle grandissant dans de nombreux domaines de notre vie quotidienne. Parmi d'autres, les réseaux sociaux tels que Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn et Google+ dont la popularité a explosé ces dernières années, attirent des millions d'utilisateurs qui se communiquent, publient et partagent des informations et contenus à un rythme sans précédent. Outre les avantages reconnus, les réseaux sociaux ont également soulevé des problèmes divers. Nous sommes particulièrement intéressés par deux problèmes spécifiques : surcharge d'information et cloisonnement de données. Ces deux problèmes empêchent les utilisateurs d'exploiter pleinement et efficacement la richesse des informations poussées sur les réseaux sociaux. Les utilisateurs ont des difficultés pour filtrer tous les contenus reus, pour découvrir de nouveaux contenus au-delà de leurs réseaux personnels, et surtout pour partager les contenus intéressants avec leurs différents groupes d'intérêt. Pour aider les utilisateurs à surmonter ces difficultés, nous proposons une Approche centrée sur utilisateur et basée groupe pour filtrer et partager des données sociales. Cette nouvelle approche a un double objectif : (1) permettre aux utilisateurs d'agréger leurs données sociales en provenance de différents réseaux sociaux, d'en extraire des contenus de leur intérêt et (2) organiser et partager les contenus au sein de différents groupes. Les membres d'un groupe sont en outre en mesure de choisir quelle partie de leurs données à partager avec le groupe et définir collectivement les sujets d’intérêt de ce dernier. Pour implémenter l'approche proposée, nous spécifions une architecture de système comprenant plusieurs modules extensibles, et nous développons un prototype fonctionnel basé Web, appelé SoCoSys. Les résultats expérimentaux, obtenus des deux tests différents, valident les valeurs ajoutées de notre approche<br>The social media have played an increasingly important role in many areas of our every day life. Among others, social network sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and Google+ have recently exploded in popularity by attracting millions of users, who communicate with each other, share and publish information and contents at an unprecedented rate. Besides the recognized advantages, social network sites have also raised various issues and challenges. We are particularly interested in two of them, information overload and "walled gardens". These two problems prevent the users from fully and efficiently exploiting thewealth of information available on social network sites. The users have difficulties to filter all incoming contents, to discover additional contents from outside of their friend circles, and importantly to share interesting contents with their different groups of interest. For helping the users to overcome such difficulties, we propose a User-centered and group- based approach for social data filtering and sharing. This novel approach has a twofold purpose : (1) allow the users to aggregate their social data from different social network sites, and to extract from those data the contents of their interest, and (2) organize and share the contents within different groups. The members of a group are moreover able to choose which part of their social data to share with the group, and collectively define its topics of interest. To achieve the proposed approach, we define a modular system architecture including a number of extensible modules, and accordingly build a working Web-based prototype, called SoCoSys. The experimental results, obtained from the two different tests, confirm the added values of our approach
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Almquist, Arne J. "The Adoption and Use of Electronic Information Resources by a Non-Traditional User Group: Automotive Service Technicians." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2006. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc5301/.
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The growing complexity of machines has led to a concomitant increase in the amount and complexity of the information needed by those charged with servicing them. This, in turn, has led to a need for more robust methods for storing and distributing information and for a workforce more sophisticated in its use of information resources. As a result, the service trades have "professionalized," adopting more rigorous academic standards and developing ongoing certification programs. The current paper deals with the acceptance of advanced electronic information technology by skilled service personnel, specifically, automotive service technicians. The theoretical basis of the study is Davis' technology acceptance model. The purpose of the study is to determine the effects of three external factors on the operation of the model: age, work experience, and education/certification level. The research design is in two parts, beginning with an onsite observation and interviews to establish the environment. During the second part of the research process a survey was administered to a sample of automotive service technicians. Results indicated significant inverse relationships between age and acceptance and between experience and acceptance. A significant positive relationship was shown between education, particularly certification, and acceptance.
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Posey, P. Steven. "A prototype graphical user interface for Co-oP: a group decision support system." Thesis, Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/24017.
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Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited<br>A properly designed user interface has the potential to greatly enhance an application by reducing user effort ad enhancing interaction. This thesis designs and develops a prototype Graphical User Interface (GUI) for Co-oP, a Group Decision Support System (GDSS) for Cooperative Multiple Criteria Group Decision Making. The GUI has been created in a Windows operating environment and intended to be used on an IBM compatible microcomputer. Design methodology builds upon general interface design principles of User Control, Screen Design, and Screen Layout utilizing standard GUI control mechanisms.
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Zhang, Lanyun. "Using mobile technology to facilitate the user experience of group holiday decision-making." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2018. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/51935/.
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With the increasing expenditure of international tourism around the world, the topic of studying group holiday decision-makings has drawn attentions in the fields of tourism research and business management (Mottiar & Quinn, 2004; Wang et al., 2004; Carr, 2005; Jacobsen & Munar, 2012; Assayer et al., 2011). Yet, the user experience of tourists in groups has been reported to be in need of improvements (Garcia et al., 2009). For example, such user experience lacks effective information sharing among group members, a convenient communication environment, and an efficient decision-making support (Decrop, 2005). A possible solution is technology, such as smart phones, that this technology has evolved from single-purpose communication devices into dynamic tools that support users in a wide variety of tasks (Böhmer et al., 2011). This thesis is devoted to studying the user experience related to technology-supported group holiday decision-making. It aims to investigate how mobile technology can help a group of people to make holiday decisions with a view to enhance the user experience. This thesis reviews theoretical approaches to help understand the concepts and related works (Chapter 2). Research methods are also discussed, including the framework of user-centred design employed in this research, and the challenges of exploring user experience in this context (Chapter 3). This thesis investigates the user experience of how tourist groups plan their trips, including an understanding of user behaviour and requirements. It proposes a model of group trip planning process to describe the core elements of group holiday planning (Chapter 4). Then, it explores a number of factors that influence the group holiday planning process (Chapter 5). Next, tourism information presentation is examined in terms of exploring the characteristics of different types of textual tourism information on the Internet and how the perceptions of tourists are affected by these different types of information accordingly (Chapter 6). Design implications are derived and discussed to guide the design of technology, for the purposes of facilitating group holiday planning process. Chapter 7 describes the three key elements considered in this design of mobile technology: usability, personalisation, and enjoyable user experience. The development of a prototype of this technology, #GT-Planner, is also elaborated (Chapter 7). Finally, this thesis investigates the user experience of this prototype (#GT-Planner), in which both subjective approaches (i.e., questionnaires and interviews) and objective approach (i.e., physiological measurement) are employed (Chapter 8). #GT-Planner is shown to facilitate the group holiday decision-making process and result in an enriched user experience. The thesis primarily discusses the understandings of the user experience of group holiday decision-making, the design implications for group holiday decision-making, the framework of user-centred design, and methods for examining the users in a group and evaluating the technology. Finally, findings and conclusions are specified and highlighted, along with a discussion of the contributions derived from this thesis and the avenues for future work.
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Benson, Adam Douglas. "Does group member experience affect decision quality and user satisfaction with collaborative technology? a study of the technology-group interaction process /." Online access for everyone, 2008. http://www.dissertations.wsu.edu/Dissertations/Summer2008/a_benson_080508.pdf.
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Jusufovic, Dennis, and Aly Bardan. "The Design Of A Check In Application For User Safety : Development of a user centered application, adapted to a wide user group with the purpose of specific location human activity forecasting." Thesis, Luleå tekniska universitet, Institutionen för ekonomi, teknik, konst och samhälle, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-86315.
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The covid-19 pandemic initiated this master thesis project. The pandemic has spread globally causing a lot of fear and uncertainty. We noticed the big shift in people’s daily routines, with the current state being that many individuals are stuck at home, scared to go outside, scared to meet with family members that are within the risk group. The future is very uncertain, people not knowing when society will return to normal. To provide people with a sense of safety, a tool for an easier daily routine, the feeling of more control in their daily lives, an opportunity to help others. These are all purposes that embody the reason for this master thesis.The goal of this master thesis project is to develop a digital prototype of an application concept. The application’s purpose is to provide users with insight of high activity areas of people in their vicinity or specific locations, to hopefully result in the user feeling more in control and hence more safe. The workflow used in this project is based on design thinking, using experience gained from the industrial design engineering program combined with research on the topic of user interfaces to develop and test the concept. The focus of the research in this thesis is placed heavily on usability and graphic design.The process was divided into phases following the process of design thinking, with potential users included in every phase. From interviews, questionnaires and personas during the first phase of context immersion to workshops during the second phase, ideation, to finally usability testing during the third phase, implementation. To ensure that the needs of the user were always focused on throughout the entirety of this master thesis we included potential users in each phase of the project. During the different phases, Tensaii AB provided guidance on decisions made by us, as well as provided feedback on specific methods and results presented during the weekly meetings.The result of this master thesis is an application prototype, the design based on all the data gained from participants and collected literature. A design that, through a high level of usability, enables a wider group of users to easily use it. The concept was named Milocus, translated from Latin to ”my place”. An application that through a check in function can collect data about activity in different areas. The application clearly shows the activity to the user through three categories, calm, busy and very busy. The color choices and design of the application were made using the online tool Material Design.
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Hasan, M. Redwan. "Understanding the user resistance of M-banking – for the student group in the context of Bangladesh." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för informatik (IK), 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-54519.
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This thesis has focused on understanding why m-banking as an innovative banking service have not been accepted and used widely in Bangladesh. The study was conducted upon students who are usually tech-savvy and to comprehend the problem from their perspective. An in-depth literature review was done upon many similar and related topics. 2 research questions were developed and a qualitative approach was taken containing two different methods – semi-structured interviews and focus groups, to explore the reasons why m-banking have been resisted by Bangladeshi students. The results showed concepts/factors ranging from internal competition to lack of legal framework to security issues to inability of minor payments etc. Total of 15 participants were involved in the thesis and an extensive data collection and analysis was conducted to come up with concepts/factors which answered the research questions. The thesis then moved forward to discuss the findings, stating implications, limitations and encouraging potential future research.
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Straughan, Heather Johnson. "The effectiveness of 'In-Sight' : a user-led lifestyle development group training for people with bipolar disorder." Thesis, University of Hertfordshire, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2299/2977.
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This study explores the effectiveness of “In-Sight”, a holistic recovery-based group training for people with bipolar disorder. Drawn from professional therapies and lived experience of the user-researcher who is diagnosed with having the illness, the training was delivered over 12 weekly sessions. Within a case study approach, an experimental design incorporated pilot (eight participants), main study (five) and control groups (six). Participants with a wide range of DSM-IV bipolar disorders were sought. Three non-bipolar participants experiencing severe mood swings were maintained in the pilot. One bipolar pilot participant later trained as the main study group co-facilitator in delivering the training. Self-report scales measured mood, coping, empowerment and quality of life pre-, post- and six months post-training. Semi-structured interviews noted individual change within the same time frame. Mental health professional interviews, medical note analysis and user-researcher observations also informed the study. Findings from self-report questionnaires indicated promising evidence that participants experienced improved mood stability, symptom severity, coping and quality of life and greater empowerment. A model has emerged to illustrate the various course components that appeared to benefit participants (user-led approach, self-help iii group format, illness management techniques, interpersonal skills development, healthy lifestyle, structure and planning, and intellectual change of perspective). The model illustrates how these components appeared to impact upon coping strategies, in turn leading to greater mood stability, maintaining wellness and personal development resulting in greater empowerment, improved outlook on self and the future and improved quality of life over time. The three non-bipolar pilot participants also appeared to benefit from the training compared to controls albeit to a lesser degree than the bipolar participants. The co-facilitator showed evidence of the greatest improvement. Four controls indicated evidence of continued use of poor coping and risk of further deterioration in illness, of whom two experienced major episodes with psychosis. Two controls indicated slight improvements. The “In-Sight” training is proposed as a step towards a more comprehensive approach for recovery from bipolar disorder informing the development of a new Expert Patients Programme in the UK.
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Catellani, Filippo. "User-Perceived Quality Analysis of the In-Vehicle Ambient Light System." Master's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2021.
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This work examines the so-called in-vehicle ambient lighting, also known as atmosphere light, with particular respect to customers' perceived quality. The ambient light concept applied to the automotive world, in general, is quite recent. It was first developed to make the automobile's interior compartment as comfortable as possible; then, over the past few years, it has been implemented together with other in-vehicle systems such as ADAS and infotainment in order to gain a more functional role.
I had the opportunity to focus on this field of study during my Master's internship at Maserati Innovation Lab headquarters in Modena, where I dealt with the global problem to assess the ambient lighting-related parameters objectively. Due to this notion's newness, there are not any standards available for this system evaluation and development phases. More into detail, while collaborating with the Maserati Perceived Quality team, I have carried out a series of operations in order to gather potential customers' wants and needs. This was achieved through a starting benchmark analysis of Maserati's main competitors, followed by the focus-group research method. Afterward, the ambient lighting prototype for the user test procedure was developed. These procedures allow to define the vehicle technical specifications, that is to say fundamental parameters necessary to respect FCA-Group's directives referring to the vehicle development process.
Despite all the challenges presented by the Covid-19 global pandemic's impact, we managed to carry out our research obtaining satisfying results. As a matter of fact, we identified potential customers' perceptions on ambient lighting, and we designed a user-test useful for gathering lighting-related technical parameters.
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Englund, Madeleine, and Sarah Lorenzo. "Investigating How Design of a Mobile Application Affects Cognitive Load : UI Development of a Mobile Application for the Volvo Group IT." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för psykologi, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-183984.
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Nowadays when most people are used to smartphones the Volvo Group IT would like to look into the use of mobile devices in the production and design an application which can be used in the painting process at the Umeå plant. When learning a new system, whether it is on a computer or a mobile platform, it is crucial for the users’ performance to develop the system in accordance with their needs and wishes. One factor that can affect the performance negatively is if the users experience a high amount of cognitive load while using the system. This paper, therefore, investigates which design choices in a mobile application minimise cognitive load. The study is a single-case study where five different interview sessions and one test to measure cognitive load have been conducted. The sample size in the cognitive load test consisted of 7 participants, where 2 of them were women and the rest were men. The participants were instructed to perform seven different tasks on the prototype while their response times were measured. After each completed task the participants had to answer a mental effort rating. When all tasks had been performed, the participants was asked to rate the difficulty of each task. Each test was recorded using Microsoft Teams and qualitatively analysed. The results showed that three types of design choices used led to a low amount of cognitive load; (1) the use of the right type of icons, (2) the use of colour contrast and edges and (3) preservations of the users’ familiar and prior work experiences.<br>Numera när de flesta är vana vid smartphones vill Volvo Group-koncernens IT-avdelning undersöka användningen av mobila enheter i produktion och utforma en applikation som kan användas i måleriprocessen vid fabriken i Umeå. När man lär sig ett nytt system, oavsett om det finns på en dator eller en mobil plattform, är det avgörande för användarnas prestation att utveckla systemet i enlighet med deras behov och önskemål. En faktor som kan leda till försämrad prestation är om användarna upplever en hög kognitiv belastning vid användandet av systemet. Den här uppsatsen undersöker därför vilka designval i en mobilapplikation som kan leda till minskad kognitiv belastning. Studien är en enfallsstudie där fem olika intervju-sessioner och ett test för att mäta kognitiv belastning har genomförts. Urvalet av deltagare i testet för att mäta kognitiv belastning bestod av 7 deltagare, varav 2 var kvinnor och resterande män. Deltagarna instruerades att utföra sju olika uppgifter på prototypen medan deras responstider mättes. Efter varje slutförd uppgift skulle deltagarna svara på en enkät som mätte mental ansträngning. När alla uppgifter var utförda skulle de svara på en enkät som undersökte den upplevda svårighetsgraden av varje uppgift. Alla testningar spelades in med hjälp av Microsoft Teams och analyserades kvalitativt. Resultaten visade att tre typer av designval som användes ledde till en låg nivå av kognitiv belastning; (1) användning av rätt typ av ikoner, (2) användning av färgkontrast och kanter och (3) bevarande av användarnas bekanta och tidigare arbetsupplevelser.
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Mittleman, Daniel David. "An architectural programming toolbox: Using Group Support Systems technology to increase the effectiveness of user participation in architectural programming." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/187131.
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This dissertation explores the use of Group Support Systems (GSS) to overcome operational bottlenecks in the architectural programming process which constrain user participation. To this end, both architectural programming and GSS literature are reviewed. A model is derived to support the use of GSS in architectural programming and a toolbox of GSS tools is established and validated. Within the toolbox, one new tool, GroupProgrammer, is designed, coded and validated. Three case studies are then undertaken to validate the GSS model. The case studies demonstrate a potential for GSS to balance participation in architectural programming worksessions as well as increase the overall amount of information collected. Nineteen lessons learned and four critical success factors are presented from the case studies. Five potential future directions for this research stream, both for MIS and for architecture are explored.
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Bhatti, Zeeshan Ahmed. "Success of corporate Wiki Systems : an end-user perspective." Thesis, Aix-Marseille 3, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011AIX32069.
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L'utilisation croissante des sites en web 2.0 sur internet a favorisé l'utilisation des outils du Web 2.0 par de nombreuses organisations à travers le monde. L’un des outils les plus largement utilisés aujourd’hui dans les organisations est la technologie Wiki, et ce tout particulièrement dans la gestion de projet. Parce qu’un nombre croissant d’organisations déploie des systèmes Wiki et que le Web 2.0 fait encore l’objet d’un véritable battage médiatique, il est important de travailler sur ces technologies collaboratives et de mesurer leur succès en termes d’utilisation dans l’environnement de l’organisation. Cette étude traite de l’utilisation de la technologie Wiki dans les entreprises et du besoin de développer cette technologie. Il s’agit également de déterminer comment mesurer le succès des systèmes wiki internes du point de vue des « end-users ». La littérature sur les systèmes Wiki publics et d’entreprise est également présentée. Cette étude propose un modèle théorique de recherche sur le succès des wikis internes des entreprises, fondé sur la précédente théorie sur le succès des systèmes d’information. Enfin, le modèle proposé est testée empiriquement et les déterminants importants du succès des wikis interne des entreprises sont présentés<br>With the ever increasing use of Web 2.0 sites on the internet, the use of Web 2.0 based tools has been employed by the organizations across the globe. One of the most widely used Web 2.0 tool in organizations is the wiki technology particularly in project management. Since growing number of organisations are deploying wiki systems as Web 2.0 still remains a hype, it is important to investigate into these collaborative technologies and measure the success in corporate environment usage. In this study, we discuss the use of Wiki technology in the enterprise setting, the need for wiki deployment and how can we measure the success of corporate wiki systems from end-user’s perspective. The literature on corporate and public wiki systems is also presented. The paper presents a theoretical research model of enterprise wiki systems’ success based on the previous IS success theory. Finally, the research model of corporate Wiki success is empirically tested and the important determinants of corporate Wiki systems are presented
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Holcman, Jaroslav. "Aplikace Vedení Sportovního Oddílu." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta informačních technologií, 2019. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-403202.
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This text describes the process of creating a mobile application for sport club management and its everyday operations. The main goal of the application is to digitize and unite most of common activities in the sport club. Another goal is to create the user interface which will be primarily intuitive and simple to use while providing straightforward ways of usage during most important user use cases. The thesis studies principles for designing user interfaces, analyzes sports team environment and defines the requirements for a software product to support sports club management. The design of the solution follows the analysis of requirements as well as the description of the implementation of the resulting product and its publishing to the real sports club environment. The thesis ends with description of user testing methods and results of the testing which validate accomplishment of defined goals.
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Rawat, Rakesh. "User behaviour modelling in a multi-dimensional environment for personalization and recommendation." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2010. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/48135/1/Rakesh_Rawat_Thesis.pdf.
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Handling information overload online, from the user's point of view is a big challenge, especially when the number of websites is growing rapidly due to growth in e-commerce and other related activities. Personalization based on user needs is the key to solving the problem of information overload. Personalization methods help in identifying relevant information, which may be liked by a user. User profile and object profile are the important elements of a personalization system. When creating user and object profiles, most of the existing methods adopt two-dimensional similarity methods based on vector or matrix models in order to find inter-user and inter-object similarity. Moreover, for recommending similar objects to users, personalization systems use the users-users, items-items and users-items similarity measures. In most cases similarity measures such as Euclidian, Manhattan, cosine and many others based on vector or matrix methods are used to find the similarities. Web logs are high-dimensional datasets, consisting of multiple users, multiple searches with many attributes to each. Two-dimensional data analysis methods may often overlook latent relationships that may exist between users and items. In contrast to other studies, this thesis utilises tensors, the high-dimensional data models, to build user and object profiles and to find the inter-relationships between users-users and users-items. To create an improved personalized Web system, this thesis proposes to build three types of profiles: individual user, group users and object profiles utilising decomposition factors of tensor data models. A hybrid recommendation approach utilising group profiles (forming the basis of a collaborative filtering method) and object profiles (forming the basis of a content-based method) in conjunction with individual user profiles (forming the basis of a model based approach) is proposed for making effective recommendations. A tensor-based clustering method is proposed that utilises the outcomes of popular tensor decomposition techniques such as PARAFAC, Tucker and HOSVD to group similar instances. An individual user profile, showing the user's highest interest, is represented by the top dimension values, extracted from the component matrix obtained after tensor decomposition. A group profile, showing similar users and their highest interest, is built by clustering similar users based on tensor decomposed values. A group profile is represented by the top association rules (containing various unique object combinations) that are derived from the searches made by the users of the cluster. An object profile is created to represent similar objects clustered on the basis of their similarity of features. Depending on the category of a user (known, anonymous or frequent visitor to the website), any of the profiles or their combinations is used for making personalized recommendations. A ranking algorithm is also proposed that utilizes the personalized information to order and rank the recommendations. The proposed methodology is evaluated on data collected from a real life car website. Empirical analysis confirms the effectiveness of recommendations made by the proposed approach over other collaborative filtering and content-based recommendation approaches based on two-dimensional data analysis methods.
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Kueng, Marius. "Jenseits der Ökonische dank Online-Communities? Eine Untersuchung am Beispiel von umweltfreundlichen Fahrzeugen /." St. Gallen, 2006. http://www.biblio.unisg.ch/org/biblio/edoc.nsf/wwwDisplayIdentifier/01113299001/$FILE/01113299001.pdf.
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Mapoka, Trust Tshepo. "Location based authenticated multi-services group key management for cyber security in high speed broadband wireless multicast communications : multi-service group key management scheme with location based handover authentication for multi-handoffs participating in multi-group service subscriptions, its performance evaluation and security correctness in high speed broadband wireless multicast communications." Thesis, University of Bradford, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/14468.
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Secure information exchanges over cyberspace is on the increase due to the convergence of wireless and mobile access technologies in all businesses. Accordingly, with the proliferation of diverse multicast group service subscriptions that are possible to co-exist within a single broadband network, there is also huge demand by the mobile subscribers to ubiquitously access these services over high speed broadband using their portable devices. Likewise, the Network Providers (NPs) invest hugely in infrastructure deployment to disseminate these services efficiently and concomitantly. Therefore, cyber security in any business is obligatory to restrict access of disseminated services to only authorised personnel. This becomes a vital requirement for a successful commercialisation of exchanged group services. The standard way to achieve cyber security in a wireless mobile multicast communication environment is through confidentiality using Group Key Management (GKM).The existing GKM schemes for secure wireless multicast from literature only target single group service confidentiality; however, the adoption of multiple group service confidentiality in them involve inefficient management of keys that induce huge performance overheads unbearable for real time computing. Therefore, a novel authenticated GKM scheme for multiple multicast group subscriptions known as slot based multiple group key management (SMGKM) is proposed. In the SMGKM, the handovers move across diverse decentralised clusters of homogeneous or heterogeneous wireless access network technologies while participating in multiple group service subscriptions. Unlike the conventional art, the SMGKM advances its security by integrating location based authentication and GKM functions. Both functions are securely offloaded from the Domain Key Distributor (DKD) to the intermediate cluster controllers, Area Key Distributors (AKDs), in a distributed fashion, using the proposed location based authenticated membership list (SKDL). A significant upgrade of fast handoff performance with reduced performance overheads of the SMGKM scheme is achieved. The developed numerical analysis and the simulation results display significant resource economy in terms of reduced rekeying transmission, communication bandwidth and storage overheads while providing enhanced security. The performance of the SMGKM in a high speed environment is also evaluated and has demonstrated that SMGKM outperforms the previous work. Finally, the SMGKM correctness against various attacks is verified using BAN logic, the eminent tool for analysing the widely deployed security protocols. The security analysis demonstrates that SMGKM can counteract the security flaws and redundancies identified in the chosen related art.
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Reddy, S. Rama Chandra. "User group benefit appropriation in the global commons : an economic analysis of tropical forest management under uncertainty with a case study of India." Thesis, Bangor University, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.263317.
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Bhandari, Rajendra Man Singh Sansanee Choowaew. "Applying adaptive community forest management in Nepal : Silviculture demonstration plot perspective : a case study of Nureni Chisapani Community Forest user group, Makwanpur, Central Nepal /." Abstract, 2007. http://mulinet3.li.mahidol.ac.th/thesis/2550/cd398/4837458.pdf.
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Roth, Hannah Michelle. "Smartphone Privacy in Citizen Science." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/78360.
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Group signature schemes enable anonymous-yet-accountable communications. Such a capability is extremely useful for modern applications such as smartphone-based crowdsensing and citizen science. A prototype named GROUPSENSE was developed to support anonymous-yet-accountable crowdsensing with SRBE in Android devices. From this prototype, an Android crowdsensing application was implemented to support privacy in citizen science. In this thesis, we will evaluate the usability of our privacy-preserving crowdsensing application for citizen science projects. An in person user study with 22 participants has been performed showing that participants understood the importance of privacy in citizen science and were willing to install privacy-enhancing applications, yet over half of the participants did not understand the privacy guarantee. Based on these results, modifications to the crowdsensing application have been made with the goal of improving the participants' understanding of the privacy guarantee.<br>Master of Science
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Clayton, Peter, and n/a. "User involvement in academic library strategic planning: congruence amongst students, academic staff and libary staff at the Canberra College of Advanced Education." University of Canberra. Library and Information Studies, 1988. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20050627.142122.
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The present study attempted to answer two questions: do academic library users have a distinctive and useful input
to make to library strategic planning? If they do, what mechanisms will permit them to participate effectively in this
planning process?
To address these questions research was carried out in two stages at a single institutional site, the Canberra College
of Advanced Education. The first of these utilised a structured group discussion process, Nominal Group Technique
(NGT). This was used both as an indicator of user planning priorities and as a pilot research technique contributing to
the design of a subsequent survey. This survey obtained a response rate of over 90 percent from a sample of 379.
The study attempted to establish that academic staff and students do have a worthwhile input to make to planning by
testing for congruence between the rankings of library planning priorities of these user groups and the rankings of
planning priorities of Library staff. No strong positive correlations were established between the priorities of student
groups and Library staff, although in the survey the priorities of academic staff and Library staff were found to be
related. These results suggest users do have a worthwhile input to make to library strategic planning. Other tests for
congruence were also applied between and within respondent groups, because if a group was found to have different
priorities there would be a prima facie case for consulting members of that group as part of the planning process.
Both mechanisms used in the present study were considered successful. User surveys have been employed for
planning in previous studies with a future-oriented component. However, it appears that this may have been the first
formally reported application of NGT to library management. Experience in the present study suggests it is a highly
suitable technique for situations such as strategic planning, where generation of ideas or comment on priorities is
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However, an attempt to establish congruence between the results obtained using NGT and those obtained from the
survey yielded inconclusive results. It is believed that major changes in the institutional environment were principally
responsible for this, although a methodological limitation may also have contributed.
The study concludes with suggestions for further research.
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Rånlund, Frida, and Karl Norrhäll. "En del av varandra : En kvalitativ intervjustudie om våldutsatta kvinnors upplevelser av en gruppverksamhet." Thesis, Ersta Sköndal högskola, Institutionen för socialvetenskap, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:esh:diva-4809.
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Våld mot kvinnor är ett allvarligt samhällsproblem och enligt socialtjänstlagen skall dessa kvinnor särskilt beaktas. I den tidigare forskning vi har tagit del av finns det bristande underlag kring vilka insatser som våldsutsatta kvinnor är i behov av. Det finns även brist på forskning som undersöker kvinnornas egna upplevelser av de insatser som erbjuds. Syftet med vår studie är att genom kvalitativa intervjuer med kvinnor som varit utsatta för våld skapa en ökad förståelse för vilken betydelse det har haft för dem att delta i en gruppverksamhet genom att lyfta kvinnornas subjektiva upplevelser. Vi har använt oss av semistrukturerade intervjuer och intervjuat fyra kvinnor som har deltagit i en gruppverksamhet. Vi hoppas att vår studie kan lyfta våldsutsatta kvinnors upplevelser av att delta i en gruppverksamhet ur ett brukarperspektiv då vi upplever att detta saknas i tidigare forskning. Vår studie har en abduktiv ansats vilket innebär att vi inte utgått från teori när vi formulerat forskningsfrågan utan i stället valt en teori kring erkännande efter att vi började bearbeta vårt resultat. Vårt intervjumaterial har analyserats med hjälp av tidigare forskning på området och Axel Honneths teori om erkännande. I vår studie kom vi fram till att kvinnorna upplevde gruppen som lyhörd och förstående. De upplevde gruppen som trygg i och med att det var en kvinnogrupp där alla hade liknande erfarenhet. Detta bidrog även till att de kände sig förstådda och mindre ensamma om sin situation. Kvinnorna uppgav även att det fått ökad förståelse för sig själva och det som skett och att denna förståelse varit viktig för att kunna bearbeta och läka från sina erfarenheter. Vi kan konstatera att våldsutsatta kvinnor är en heterogen grupp med skiftande behov. Vissa hade haft nytta av ytterligare insatser både innan och efter gruppen.
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Radimák, Samuel. "Nástroj pro správu Active Directory." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta informačních technologií, 2016. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-255349.
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This thesis is focused on the main concepts of Active Directory and the creation of an application allowing basic management tasks. It introduces the logical as well as physical components and provides an overview of existing servers that are using the services of Active Directory. The functionality of existing management applications is discussed and desired properties of management applications are discovered. On these grounds, a new application concept is introduced and the benefits of the new application over the existing ones is shown. According to the concept, a new application is developed supporting the management of users and groups and implementing additional features such as profile photo editing and a definition of customized object creation process. This application is also tested on different levels and possibilities of future improvements are given.
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Dawit, Milkias. "Vad gör Legimus webbplats användarvänlig? : En fallstudie om vad studenterna på Högskolan Dalarna anser göra www.legimus.se användarvänlig." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Institutionen för information och teknik, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-38087.
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Legimus är ett online bibliotek som tillhör Myndigheten för tillgängliga medier. Myndigheten för tillgängliga medier arbetar för att ge männi-skor med olika förutsättningar tillgång till litteratur och samhällsin-formation. Legimus är ett verktyg som används för att ge människor med läsnedsättningar tillgång till litteratur. Legimus har en webbplats som användare kan få tillgången att läsa litteratur på. Som ett viktigt koncept i inom interaktionen mellan människan och da-torn påverkar användbarheten och webbplatsens användarvänlighet besökarens upplevelse. På grund av detta fokuserar detta arbete på an-vändarvänligheten på Legimus webbplats. Syftet med detta arbete är att göra en fallstudie kring vad som gör Legi-mus användarvänlig samt att fokusera på vald målgrupp för att ta reda på svårigheter och vad de förväntar sig av användningen av den valda webbplatsen. Den valda frågeställningen är följande: Har Legimus lyck-ats attrahera sin prioriterade målgrupp hos studenterna på Högskolan Dalarna med webbsidans design och användarvänlighet. För att utföra detta arbete har en kvalitativ metod valts där studenter på Högskolan Dalarna intervjuas, därefter analyseras resultaten med hjälp av fyra teman som intervjufrågorna är uppdelade i. Resultatet visar att respondenterna hade olika uppfattningar kring an-vändarvänligheten. En del respondenter ansåg webbplatsen vara otydlig till en början, men med tiden lärt sig använda webbplatsen. Majoriteten av respondenterna ansåg webbsidan vara enkel samt tydlig. Responden-terna fick möjligheten att ta fram deras egna synpunkter angående webbplatsen. Där hade majoriteten av respondenterna förslag på för-bättringar av webbsidans design. Den slutsats som dragit är inte att respondenterna upplevt webbsidans design lockande. Respondenterna ansåg att de hade använts sig av webbplatsen även om designen var sämre med tanke på behovet av Le-gimus verktyg. Majoriteten av användarna ansåg att webbplatsen var användarvänlig men för att säkerställa min slutsats avslutades intervjun med frågan om respondenterna ansåg webbplatsen vara användarvän-lig. Samtliga respondenterna ansåg den vara användarvänlig, vilket stär-ker min slutsats.<br>Legimus is an online library owned by the Myndigheten för tillgängliga medier. Myndigheten för tillgängliga medier provides people with dif-ferent circumstances the access to public literature and information. Legimus is a tool that enables people with reading difficulties to access literature. Legimus has a website where users can read the literature. As an important concept in the interaction between man and computer, the usability and user-friendliness of the website affects the visitor's ex-perience. Because of this, this work focuses on the user-friendliness of the Legimus website. The purpose of this work is to do a case study on what makes Legimus user-friendly and to focus on the selected target group to find out diffi-culties and what they expect from the use of the selected website. The chosen question is as follows: Has Legimus succeeded in attracting its priority target group of the students at Dalarna University with the web-site's design and user-friendliness. To carry out this work, a qualitative method has been chosen where stu-dents at Dalarna University are interviewed, after which the results are analysed with the help of four themes into which the interview ques-tions are divided. The results show that the respondents had different views on user-friendliness. Some respondents considered the website to be unclear at first, but over time learned to use the website. Most of the respondents considered the website to be simple and clear. The respondents were given the opportunity to express their own views regarding the website. There, most respondents had suggestions for improvements to the de-sign of the website. The conclusion drawn is not that the respondents found the website's design attractive. The respondents considered that they had used the website even if the design was worse given the need for Legimus webpage. Most of the users considered the website to be user-friendly, but to ensure my conclusion, the interview ended with the question of whether the respondents considered the website to be user-friendly. All the respondents considered it to be user-friendly, which strengthens my conclusion.
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Evyapan, Naz A. G. Z. "The design process of a toy with educational objectives for blind and visually impaired pre-school children : a design process model for problem identification, novel concept development, and frequent involvement of the user group." Thesis, University of Kent, 2002. http://www.research.ucreative.ac.uk/id/eprint/1056.
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This thesis investigates design methods and phase models towards a reinterpretation of the design process towards a specific design task. The study reveals the essence of the process as a design process core, onto which may be built design process models to suit design tasks of diverse nature and scale.
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Biello, Tim Rikoon J. Sanford. "A case study on the use of focus groups as participatory research." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/6562.
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The entire thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file; a non-technical public abstract appears in the public.pdf file. Title from PDF of title page (University of Missouri--Columbia, viewed on October 20, 2009). Thesis advisor: Dr. James (Sandy) Rikoon. Includes bibliographical references.
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Allen, John F. "The use of small groups in sermon preparation." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1989. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p100-0077.
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Lagrone, James W. "The use of community groups to facilitate growth in First Southern Baptist Church of Bryant, Arkansas." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1996. http://www.tren.com.
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Irani, Taronish H. "Multicultural Group Screening Form (MGSF): Development of a Pre-Group Screening Form for Use with Diverse Groups at University Counseling Centers." Wright State University Professional Psychology Program / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wsupsych1308924515.
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Gottschall, Holli M. "Faculty and student attitudes towards group work in higher education and why faculty use groups." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2006. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3232561.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Instructional Systems Technological, 2006.<br>"Title from dissertation home page (viewed July 9, 2007)." Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-08, Section: A, page: 2899. Adviser: Barbara A. Bichelmeyer.
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Chang, Artemis C. F. "Time in groups :\bgroup development, time management, appraised structured use of time, and group effectiveness /." St. Lucia, Qld, 2001. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe16095.pdf.
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Riordan, Timothy E. "Developing a strategy for the use of small groups at Crestview Baptist Church of Griffin, Georgia." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2003. http://www.tren.com.
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St, Pierre Betsy. "The Use of Experiential Groups in the Training of Group Workers: Student Attitudes and Instructor Participation." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2010. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1277.
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Both the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Education Programs (CACREP) and the Association for Specialists in Group Work (ASGW) require counselor education programs to provide experiential training to group workers (CACREP, 2009; ASGW, 2000). However, no specific models are given to counselor educators to implement the experiential component. Only two research studies have examined the overall structure and type of instructor involvement commonly used in counselor training programs (Anderson & Price, 2001; Merta, Wolfgang, & McNeil, 1993). In addition, researchers have documented ethical concerns in the use of experiential training methods (Davenport, 2004; Furr & Barret, 2000; Riva & Korinek, 2004) including the role of dual relationships, confidentiality, and competency. Student experience of the experiential training is impacted by both the structure of the experiential group and the ethical pitfalls associated with each (Goodrich, 2008). Thus, the purpose of this study was to determine the current models of group work and how the structure of these models impacted student attitudes toward ethical concerns of dual relationships, confidentiality, and competency and overall student experience. Members of the American Counseling Association (ACA) who had graduated with their master's degree in the past five years were asked to respond to the Survey of Student Attitudes and Instructor Participation in Experiential Groups online survey. The findings of this study suggested that the most common group work training model is to have a full-time faculty member both instruct the group work course and facilitate the experiential group. In addition, concern over ethical issues was found to be an important component in student's comfort level and belief that the experiential group was instrumental in their development as a group counselor. These results do not support the findings of Anderson and Price (2001) which suggested a growing trend of group work instructors not being both the facilitator of the experiential group and the instructor of the course. However, the findings do support previous research which indicated that ethical concerns do negatively impact student involvement in the experiential group (Davenport, 2004; Hall, Hall, Harris, Hay, Biddulph, & Duffy, 1999).
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Miller, Craig L. "The development and use of a pilot program to begin small group ministry at Grace Baptist Church." Deerfield, IL : Trinity International University, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.2986/tren.006-1589.
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Wallace, Rick L., Nakia J. Woodward, and Rachel R. Walden. "Understanding User Needs Through Focus Groups." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2016. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/8704.
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Sproul, Michael D. "Building believers and reaching unbelievers in a young, mobile, and ethnically diverse community through the use of small groups a model for the military chaplain /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 1995. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p066-0003.
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Henry, Jo-Ann Theresa Juchniewicz. "The Recognition of Icons Among Four Groups of Computer Users." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1991. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc332661/.
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One idea common in the computer industry today is that by the time a technological innovation reaches the mass market it is already obsolete. News of recent technological developments race quickly through the computer industry, creating large scale competition among various businesses for the dollars of both educational institutions and industries. In an effort to produce sophisticated and powerful software readily accessible to users whose area of expertise is not programming, software developers have increasingly turned toward the simplest form of language and concept representation--the icon. As icons become increasingly sophisticated and their function grows, so will their availability in various interfaces. The number of users who operate them will also increase. Advanced help systems and animation will assist in relieving some difficulties while creating others. In either case, icon recognizability will be a crucial factor for anyone (novice or expert) who will use them. The purpose of this study was to verify whether all users unfamiliar with a graphical user interface (GUI) system, specifically icons, will require assistance with 40' "W those icons that are unrecognizable in either form or function. Based on the results of this study, an icon recognizability does exist among different groups of computer users. This recognizability is based upon the experience of the users and not upon the type of software they may use most often.
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Bäckström, Johan, and Faraz Kuhpai. "Improving group-level knowledge re-use." Thesis, KTH, Maskinkonstruktion (Inst.), 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-146606.
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Due to knowledge being difficult to imitate, effective knowledge management provides several key competitive advantages. It involves managing knowledge within organizations in order to ensure the right knowledge reaching the right person at the right time.Scania CV AB is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of trucks, busses and engines for marine and industry purposes. As part of the work with streamlining processes, knowledge management has become a focus area within their R&D. This master thesis has been carried out at four groups grouped under the section UTP Process support, consisting of a mechanical workshop, logistics, improvement coaches, and logistics and measurement. The purpose was to identify areas with potential for improvement, and present suggestions for improvements, with reusability of knowledge as the main focus.A total of 132 interviews and surveys, and four workshops were conducted in order to gather data, generate improvement proposals and anchor ideas. A literature study was conducted to provide a frame of reference.A four-quadrant model was generated, to make possible the mapping of knowledge work within the involved groups. This aims to provide a general model supporting improvements in knowledge management, by establishing a conceptual frame of reference where ambition and current state can be compared, providing a base for improvements and follow-ups over time.The improvement coach group is at the forefront of the issues addressed in this thesis report, which in this context also poses their primary challenge. Suggestions on how work can keep improving are presented, including further developments of the group's so called skills matrix.For the other groups, freeing up time of experienced employees is recommended in order to transfer knowledge to less experienced colleagues. Furthermore, improving the availability of documents controlling the employees’ work is recommended, as well as ensuring these are fully updated to a larger extent. Lastly, the groups should work on increasing knowledge exchange between them and external parties, such as customers and suppliers.Future recommendations include carrying out a pilot study of the proposed model, in order to improve the model and examine how different business units within product development organizations can benefit from it. A follow-up should be carried out to examine if the recommendations have made a difference.<br>En effektiv kunskapshantering kan ge unika konkurrensfördelar, då kunskap är svår att imitera. Knowledge management inbegriper hantering och ledning av kunskap i organisationer för att säkerställa att rätt kunskap når rätt person vid rätt tillfälle.Scania CV AB är en av världens ledande tillverkare av lastbilar, bussar och motorer för marin och industri. I arbetet att effektivisera processer har kunskapshantering blivit ett fokusområde för R&D. Detta examensarbete har utförts mot fyra grupper under sektionen UTP Process support, med en mekanisk verkstad, logistik, förbättringscoacher samt logistik och mätrum. Syftet var att identifiera områden med förbättringspotential och presentera förslag för fortsatt förbättringsarbete, med återanvändbarhet av kunskap som fokus.Totalt 132 intervjuer och enkäter, och fyra workshopar genomfördes för att samla in data, generera förbättringsförslag och förankra idéer. En litteraturstudie genomfördes för att ge en referensram för studien.För att kartlägga hur kunskapsarbetet fungerade på de olika grupperna, genererades en fyrfältsmodell. Denna syftar till att ge en generell metod för förbättringsarbete kring kunskapshantering, genom att formulera en konceptuell referensram där ambitionsnivå och nuläge kan jämföras, för att ge underlag till förbättringsarbete och uppföljning över tid.Gruppen med förbättringscoacher ligger i framkant i frågorna som examensarbetet behandlar, vilket i detta sammanhang också utgör dess främsta utmaning. Förslag ges på hur arbetet kan fortsätta förbättras, däribland en vidareutveckling av gruppens så kallade kompetensmatris.För de övriga grupperna rekommenderas att frigöra tid för erfarna medarbetare att överföra kunskap till mindre erfarna. Vidare rekommenderas att tillgängligheten av dokument som styr arbetet ses över, och att dessa hålls fullständigt uppdaterade i högre utsträckning. Slutligen bör grupperna arbeta för ökat kunskapsutbyte mellan grupperna och externa parter såsom kund och leverantör.Som framtida arbete rekommenderas en pilotstudie av den framtagna modellen, för att förbättra denna och undersöka hur olika grupper inom produktutvecklingsorganisationer kan dra nytta av den. En uppföljning bör genomföras för att undersöka om implementering av givna rekommendationer har gjort skillnad.
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Mitchell, Mark S. "The use of small groups in early Pietism." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 1988. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p090-0112.
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Danyo, Stephen John. "Trail-use conflict on public lands among selected user groups : towards a framework for managing appropriate activities." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/29524.
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Karlsson, Maria. "Läser du instruktionen? : En studie om hur teknikinformation kan utformas utifrån användarnas informationsbehov och förutsättningar." Thesis, Mälardalens högskola, Akademin för innovation, design och teknik, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-32204.
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Research has shown that technical information is often not read by its target group. This can mean that users are unaware of crucial information included in a handbook or manual. Lack of information can cause, for example, inappropriate usage of products. Research has presented several source preference criteria that individuals define when they choose a preferred information source. My goal is to design technical information that derives from these criteria. The question to answer is: How can information for a computer-based rendering software be designed to derive from the situation and information needs of the target group, and from the criteria individuals define when they elect an information source? This study is a collaboration with Company X in Västerås. The aim is to design an artifact that supports the employees of the company during a work procedure in the rendering software Lattice 3D Studio. Based on empirical data and a theoretical framework, I have designed information that derives from the situation and information needs of the target group, as well as from the criteria individuals define when they elect an information source. I have designed an instruction for a rendering software, with step-by-step instructions based on work procedures shown in empirical studies. From this work I conclude that good knowledge of the target group can give a better understanding of what information the target group needs and wants. By designing a sequence of steps based on work procedures documented during empirical methods, the target group can be assisted in their work procedure. By implementing information design principles, user friendly information is created. Based on the theoretical framework and methods, the instruction is designed to meet the criteria individuals have when they elect an information source.<br>Studier visar att teknikinformation ofta inte blir läst av användarna. Detta kan innebära att viktig information i exempelvis manualer inte når fram till användarna, vilket i sin tur kan orsaka felaktig användning av produkt. Forskning har redovisat ett antal kriterier som individer ställer när de väljer informationskälla. I denna studie avser jag att utforma teknikinformation som tar hänsyn till dessa kriterier. Frågan som jag ställer mig är: Hur kan man utforma ett informationsmaterial för ett datorbaserat bildrenderingsprogram som tar hänsyn till målgruppens förutsättningar och informationsbehov, samt de kriterier som individer ställer på en informationskälla för att den ska bli vald? Studien är utförd som ett samarbete med Företaget X i Västerås. Syftet är att jag ska utforma ett gestaltningsförslag som stödjer företagets medarbetare under en arbetsprocess i bildrenderingsprogrammet Lattice 3D Studio. Utifrån empiriska studier och ett teoretiskt ramverk har jag gestaltat ett informationsmaterial som utgår från målgruppens perspektiv: målgruppens förutsättningar, informationsbehov samt de kriterier som individer ställer när de väljer informationskälla. Jag har utformat en instruktion för bildrenderingsprogrammet, med steg-för-steg-instruktioner baserat på de arbetsmoment som framkommit genom empiriska studier. Slutsatser från arbetet är att en god kunskap om målgruppen kan leda till en bättre förståelse för vad målgruppen behöver och vill ha för information. Genom att utforma sekventiella steg baserade på dokumenterade arbetsmoment, erbjuds målgruppen stöd i deras vardagliga arbetsprocess. Med hjälp av informationsdesignsprinciper blir informationen användbar. Utifrån insamlad teori och empiri är instruktionen utformad för att uppfylla de kriterier individer ställer på en informationskälla för att den ska bli vald.