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Design beyond the eyes: a web-based tool for designers working with people with visual needs
No full textThe proportion of the global population who are elderly is growing which will lead to more people with physical conditions including vision loss. Every person with visual needs has different lived experiences considering their living condition, vision condition, and how long they have been living with vision loss or no vision.
There is a gap between the needs of adults experiencing vision loss and the addressing of those needs by existing products and services, due to the lack of a deep understanding of their needs and challenges by designers. Designers who are not familiar with working with people with visual needs have to gain a deeper understanding of their lived experiences and their variety of needs to be able to design for them effectively. Designers need tools and techniques that will prevent them from generalizing the experiences and challenges of their user group, which can lead to considering only one solution for everyone without understanding and considering their individual and different needs.
Although the focus of this project is on the communication between designers and people with visual needs, the individuality of each participant as a human being with different characteristics and experiences played an important role in the path of this project. The primary research included several online interviews and co-creation sessions with people with visual needs and those who have daily communication with them to understand their needs and experiences comprehensively. As a result of the experimental phase, the author realized that there is a need for improving the interaction between designers and individuals with visual needs which would result in a deeper understanding of the real needs of the users to be considered in the design process.
To meet this goal, journey maps (explained below) were found to be the most effective tools that would give the opportunity to the participants to share their experiences safely, openly, and in detail. Therefore, a web-based tool was created for use by designers who are new to the area of visual needs. It provides them with the required information about this area, as well as guidelines for how to proceed with the design process to produce flexible, adaptable, and accessible journey maps that would give space to everyone to share their personal journey.
The components of this tool help designers in the process of creating journey maps with participants with low or no vision. First, designers get familiar with the common definitions that they need to know before starting the interaction with participants including the kinds and causes of vision loss, and existing assistive technologies. Then, they receive guidelines about how to identify their user group by asking the right questions, as well as guidelines for conducting the interviews which would lead to creating the journey maps. The guidelines for creating the visual and non-visual journey maps provide the designers with the characteristics of the maps and how to make them accessible for the participants considering their vision level and their accessibility to technology.Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2022-01-12 without embargo termsThe student, Shafagh Hadinezhad, accepted the attached license on 2021-07-20 at 13:03.The student, Shafagh Hadinezhad, submitted this Thesis for approval on 2021-07-20 at 13:05.This Thesis was approved for publication on 2021-07-22 at 16:12.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #17016 on 2022-01-12 at 12:46:18Made available in DSpace on 2022-01-12T21:46:56Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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A comparison between the structure of Hamidi’s Maqamat and Sa’di’s Golestan
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Maqamat are successive stories in which the hero is the same in all of them. The hero does strange things or in other words stunts and in the end disappears and no one knows his conclusion and again in another story appears in a new character. Maqame can be considered as the highest grade of Picaresque stories that was customary in Spain in the sixtheenth century. Picaresque derived from the Spanish word Picaro which means janus-faced, sly and cunning and Picaresque was the attribute for romances that proceed to Picaros’ actions.
The main Maqame in Farsi, is Hamidi’s Maqamat composed by judge Hamid od-Din Balkhi (d. 559 AH) who was chief justice of Balkh that wrote it in (551 AH) following Maqamat of Badi’ oz-Zaman Hamedani and Hariri.
In discussing about structure of the story, elements such as subject, theme, characterization, plot, point of view, setting, language, time and place are considered as main topics.
Hamidi’s Maqamat imitating of Arabic Maqamat, in most cases has used Arabic words and compounds and did not welcome to Persian style statements as much. That is the reason it is full of complex and difficult words and idioms. Saadi's profound knowledge of Persian-language capabilities, understanding people's alive and vibrant slang and proficiency in fusion power of Persian-language, more use of prefix and simple verbs, utilization of metonyms, observance the brevity and briefness, abstaining from difficult words, avoiding of hyperbaton and formality, accuracy in selecting the words, all are effective factors at his innovative work which is Golestan.
In some of Golestan stories, Sa’di himself is the hero and the main character. In some he plays an important role and in some others plays the minor role or is only a spectator and event viewer. The characters are static in Hamidi’s Maqamat. That means at the end of the story, the characters are the same they have been at the beginning. Story events have low impact on them and do not change them. The space and scene of the story in Maqamat, because Balkhi has tendency to periphrasis description, transmits to reader with more details while Saadi's descriptions are very brief and he quickly passes through the atmosphere and the scene of the story.
Plot of Hamidi’s Maqamat in comparison with Golestan, is more consistent and somewhat follows the logic. But the plot of lots of Golestan stories is not more than a joke or sketch, and those stories that involve advice has been written without any sketch.
Most of the Maqamat stories narrate from the exterior view perspective and the narrator as omniscient leads the story characters. But in Golestan the view perspective is fisrt person and the author is a storyteller.
From the characterization perspective, story characters in both Magahamat and Golestan do not change. In lots of Golestan stories, the omniscient narrator (author) or third person narrator and other characters have tangible presence. Sometimes Sa’di himself is the hero of the story whole in Hamidi’s Maqamat the main character as the hero of the story even does not have a specified name.
Intense interest of Hamid od-Din Balkhi in word prolongation to describe time and space has caused the time and space factors are not interesting and clear to the reader. Sometimes also in Golestan the time and space factors are vague, concise and unknown. In Hamidi’s Maqamat all of the stories bring up from the view of unlimited omniscient, but Ghazi Balkhi as says ''narrated me my friend who …'' yet tries to express events as if he had been the looker on and supervisor himself by being in one of the story heroes sho
A comparison between the structure of Hamidiâs Maqamat and Saâdiâs Golestan
No full textAbstract Maqamat are successive stories in which the hero is the same in all of them. The hero does strange things or in other words stunts and in the end disappears and no one knows his conclusion and again in another story appears in a new character. Maqame can be considered as the highest grade of Picaresque stories that was customary in Spain in the sixtheenth century. Picaresque derived from the Spanish word Picaro which means janus-faced, sly and cunning and Picaresque was the attribute for romances that proceed to Picarosâ actions.  The main Maqame in Farsi, is Hamidiâs Maqamat composed by judge Hamid od-Din Balkhi (d. 559 AH) who was chief justice of Balkh that wrote it in (551 AH) following Maqamat of Badiâ oz-Zaman Hamedani and Hariri. In discussing about structure of the story, elements such as subject, theme, characterization, plot, point of view, setting, language, time and place are considered as main topics.   Hamidiâs Maqamat imitating of Arabic Maqamat, in most cases has used Arabic words and compounds and did not welcome to Persian style statements as much. That is the reason it is full of complex and difficult words and idioms. Saadi's profound knowledge of Persian-language capabilities, understanding people's alive and vibrant slang and proficiency in fusion power of Persian-language, more use of prefix and simple verbs, utilization of metonyms, observance the brevity and briefness, abstaining from difficult words, avoiding of hyperbaton and formality, accuracy in selecting the words, all are effective factors at his innovative work which is Golestan.  In some of Golestan stories, Saâdi himself is the hero and the main character. In some he plays an important role and in some others plays the minor role or is only a spectator and event viewer. The characters are static in Hamidiâs Maqamat. That means at the end of the story, the characters are the same they have been at the beginning. Story events have low impact on them and do not change them. The space and scene of the story in Maqamat, because Balkhi has tendency to periphrasis description, transmits to reader with more details while Saadi's descriptions are very brief and he quickly passes through the atmosphere and the scene of the story.   Plot of Hamidiâs Maqamat in comparison with Golestan, is more consistent and somewhat follows the logic. But the plot of lots of Golestan stories is not more than a joke or sketch, and those stories that involve advice has been written without any sketch.   Most of the Maqamat stories narrate from the exterior view perspective and the narrator as omniscient leads the story characters. But in Golestan the view perspective is fisrt person and the author is a storyteller. From the characterization perspective, story characters in both Magahamat and Golestan do not change. In lots of Golestan stories, the omniscient narrator (author) or third person narrator and other characters have tangible presence. Sometimes Saâdi himself is the hero of the story whole in Hamidiâs Maqamat the main character as the hero of the story even does not have a specified name.    Intense interest of Hamid od-Din Balkhi in word prolongation to describe time and space has caused the time and space factors are not interesting and clear to the reader. Sometimes also in Golestan the time and space factors are vague, concise and unknown. In Hamidiâs Maqamat all of the stories bring up from the view of unlimited omniscient, but Ghazi Balkhi as says ''narrated me my friend who â¦'' yet tries to express events as if he had been the looker on and supervisor himself by being in one of the story heroes sho
Poetic Return in Afghanistan Persian Poem
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Poetic return movement was started by a group of poets like Moshtagh and Shole Esfehani in the second half of 12 century. Their goal was restoring Persian poem and deliverance of Hindi style decline. Esfahanâs poets initiative was considered only in Iran but in other Persian language and literature areas like India, Afghanistan and Transoxiana it was ignored. After the failure of constitutional Movement in Afghanistan, motion similar poetic return was happened that caused poetic themes, which had gone towards modernism, return to Hindi style again.The present paper attempts to analyze the poetic atmosphere in Afghanistan synchronous the poetic return movement in Iran and investigate socio- political backgrounds of return to Hindi style in Afghanistan after constitution failure.
Poetic Return in Afghanistan Persian Poem
No full textAbstract
Poetic return movement was started by a group of poets like Moshtagh and Shole Esfehani in the second half of 12 century. Their goal was restoring Persian poem and deliverance of Hindi style decline. Esfahan’s poets initiative was considered only in Iran but in other Persian language and literature areas like India, Afghanistan and Transoxiana it was ignored. After the failure of constitutional Movement in Afghanistan, motion similar poetic return was happened that caused poetic themes, which had gone towards modernism, return to Hindi style again.The present paper attempts to analyze the poetic atmosphere in Afghanistan synchronous the poetic return movement in Iran and investigate socio- political backgrounds of return to Hindi style in Afghanistan after constitution failure
Evaluation of Diaphragmatic Injuries in Patients With Negative Diagnostic Peritoneal Lavage and Penetrating Thoracoabdominal Trauma via Video-Assisted Thoracoscopy
No full textDevelopment and characterization of single polymer composites prepared by compression molding of polyamide 6 empty microcapsules and novel woven textile structures
No full textSupplementary material related to this article can be found, in the online version, at doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mtcomm.2020.100912.In the present study, novel polyamide 6 based woven single polymer composites (WSPC) were developed by
powder-coating of woven textile structures with polyamide 6 empty microcapsules (EMC) and subsequent
compression molding. To synthesize EMC, activated anionic ring-opening polymerization of ε-caprolactam by
solution/precipitation was applied. Stitched plain fabrics that are promising novel class of woven fabrics and two
conventional woven patterns (plain and satin-5 harness) were used as textile reinforcements. The thermal and
mechanical properties of all composites were characterized and related to the reinforcements´ morphology, fiber volume fraction and ply orientation. For better understanding of the bonding state at the matrix-fiber interface, stereo-optical microscopy and SEM image analysis by image processing were performed. The data obtained confirmed the existence of a transcrystalline layer (TCL) in the interface region. The mechanical behavior of the composites was related also to the PA6 polymorph content of the samples and their crystallinity indexes determined by wide-angle X-ray diffraction experiments.All authors gratefully acknowledge the support of the project TSSiPRO-NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-000015 funded by the regional operational program NORTE 2020, under the PORTUGAL 2020 Partnership Agreement, through the European Regional Development Fund. The partial support by FEDER funds through the COMPETE program and by national funds through FCT – Foundation for Science and Technology within the project POCI-01-0145-FEDER-007136is also acknowledged. S. D. Tohidi acknowledges FCT for the financial support through the project SFRH/BD/94759/2013. Moreover, the first author thanks for the financial support of the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), through the operational program for COMPETE 2020 and
by FCT within the project PTDC/EMEEME/30967/2017 and NORTE 0145-FEDER-030967. Additionally, N. Dencheva is also grateful for the financial support of FCTin the frames of the strategic project UID/CTM/50025/2013 and the personal program-contract CTTI-51/18-IPC
Development of polyamide 6 based single polymer composites reinforced by novel stitched plain fabrics
No full textIn the present study, novel woven reinforced single polymer composites (WSPC) based on polyamide 6 (PA6) is developed via a combination of powder-coating of PA6 textile reinforcements with PA6 empty microcapsules (EMC) and compression molding techniques. Activated anionic ring-opening polymerization of ε-caprolactam was employed to synthesize the PA6-EMC which was transformed during the compression molding into WSPC matrix without damaging the PA6 textile reinforcements. A promising novel class of PA6 woven fabrics, stitched plain, which are patented by Jakob Müller company AG® were used as reinforcements. The tensile properties of stitched plain reinforced WSPC were studied and compared to ones reinforced by the plain-woven structure and the PA6 neat matrix reference materials. The parametric studies are performed on the stress field along the elements of reinforcements, using image processing to correlate the influence of reinforcement architectures with the failure mechanism of WSPC.All authors gratefully acknowledge the support of the project TSSiPRO-NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-000015 funded by the regional operational program NORTE 2020, under the PORTUGAL 2020 Partnership Agreement, through the European Regional Development Fund. The partial support by FEDER funds through the COMPETE program and by national funds through FCT – Foundation for Science and Technology (Portugal) within the project POCI-01-0145-FEDER007136 is also acknowledged. SDT acknowledges FCT for the financial support through the project SFRH/BD/94759/2013. Moreover, the first
author thanks for the financial support of the European Regional Development Fund ERDF, through the operational program for COMPETE 2020 and by FCT within the project PTDC/EMEEME/30967/2017 and NORTE-0145-FEDER-030967. Additionally, N. Dencheva is also grateful for the financial support of FCT in the frames of the strategic project UID/CTM/50025/2013 and the personal program contract CTTI-51/18-IPC
Supporting Cyber-Physical Systems with Wireless Sensor Networks: An Outlook of Software and Services
No full textSensing, communication, computation and control technologies are the essential building blocks of a cyber-physical system (CPS). Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are a way to support CPS as they provide fine-grained spatial-temporal sensing, communication and computation at a low premium of cost and power. In this article, we explore the fundamental concepts guiding the design and implementation of WSNs. We report the latest developments in WSN software and services for meeting existing requirements and newer demands; particularly in the areas of: operating system, simulator and emulator, programming abstraction, virtualization, IP-based communication and security, time and location, and network monitoring and management. We also reflect on the ongoing
efforts in providing dependable assurances for WSN-driven CPS. Finally, we report on its applicability with a case-study on smart buildings
