Storyspace: a Story-Driven Approach for Creating Musuem Narratives

In a curated exhibition of a museum or art gallery, a selection of heritage objects and associated information is presented to a visitor for the purpose of telling a story about them. The same underlying story can be presented in a number of different ways. This paper describes techniques for creating multiple alternative narrative structures from a single underlying story, by selecting different organising principles for the events and plot structures of the story. These authorial decisions can produce different dramatic effects. Storyspace is a web interface to an ontology for describing curatorial narratives. We describe how the narrative component of the Storyspace software can produce multiple narratives from the underlying stories and plots of curated exhibitions. Based on the curator’s choice, the narrative module suggests a coherent ordering for the events of a story and its associated heritage objects. Narratives constructed through Storyspace can be tailored to suit different audiences and can be presented in different forms, such as physical exhibitions, museum tours, leaflets and catalogues, or as online experiences

VAS (Visual Analysis System): An information visualization engine to interpret World Wide Web structure

People increasingly encounter problems of interpreting and filtering mass quantities of information. The enormous growth of information systems on the World Wide Web has demonstrated that we need systems to filter, interpret, organize and present information in ways that allow users to use these large quantities of information. People need to be able to extract knowledge from this sometimes meaningful but sometimes useless mass of data in order to make informed decisions. Web users need to have some kind of information about the sort of page they might visit, such as, is it a rarely referenced or often-referenced page? This master\u27s thesis presents a method to address these problems using data mining and information visualization techniques

An information presentation method based on tree-like super entity component

Information systems are increasingly oriented in the direction of large-scale integration due to the explosion of multi-source information. It is therefore important to discuss how to reasonably organize and present information from multiple structures and sources on the same information system platform. In this study, we propose a 3C (Components, Connections, Container) component model by combining white-box and black-box methods, design a tree-like super entity based on the model, present its construction and related algorithm, and take a tree-like super entity as the information organization method for multi-level entities. In order to represent structural, semi-structural and non-structural data on the same information system platform, an information presentation method based on an editable e-book component has been developed by combining the tree-like super entity component, QQ-style menu and 1/K switch connection component, which has been successfully applied in the Flood Protection Project Information System of the Yangtze River in China. © 2011 Elsevier Inc

Holistic engineering design : a combined synchronous and asynchronous approach

To aid the creation and through-life support of large, complex engineering products, organizations are placing a greater emphasis on constructing complete and accurate records of design activities. Current documentary approaches are not sufficient to capture activities and decisions in their entirety and can lead to organizations revisiting and in some cases reworking design decisions in order to understand previous design episodes. Design activities are undertaken in a variety of modes; many of which are dichotomous, and thus each require separate documentary mechanisms to capture information in an efficient manner. It is possible to identify the modes of learning and transaction to describe whether an activity is aimed at increasing a level of understanding or whether it involves manipulating information to achieve a tangible task. The dichotomy of interest in this paper is that of synchronous and asynchronous working, where engineers may work alternately as part of a group or as individuals and where different forms of record are necessary to adequately capture the processes and rationale employed in each mode. This paper introduces complimentary approaches to achieving richer representations of design activities performed synchronously and asynchronously, and through the undertaking of a design based case study, highlights the benefit of each approach. The resulting records serve to provide a more complete depiction of activities undertaken, and provide positive direction for future co-development of the approaches

Individual Professional Practice in the Company

Import 22/07/2015Tato bakalářská práce se zabývá mou stáží v nadnárodní firmě ABB. Pracoval jsem tam jako Sharepoint vývojář v nové vytvořeném týmu, který měl se Sharepointem malé zkušenosti. Moji úlohou bylo stále přicházet s novými možnostmi a invencemi a hlavně je poté aplikovat na našich projektech. Tato práce ukazuje můj přínos, který jsem měl na pokrok a zvyšující se složitost našich projektů a schopností. Začal jsem používání webových technologií, které jsem zkombinoval s Sharepoint API a knihovnami. Také jsem pravidelně sdílel své vědomosti a školil členy týmu i zaměstnance. Proces, jakým jsme získávali projekty je rovněž zmíněn v této práci.This bachelor thesis is dealing with my professional practise in the multinational company called ABB. I have been working at the position of Sharepoint developer in a newly created team with little experience with Sharepoint. My role was to continuously come up with new possibilities and inventions in Sharepoint and primarily to use them in our projects. This thesis shows my contribution I had on the progress and increasing complexity of our projects and capabilities. I have started the usage of web technologies and combined them with Sharepoint APIs and libraries. I have also regularly shared my knowledge and trained other team members and employees. The process of getting projects is also mentioned in this thesis.460 - Katedra informatikyvýborn