Navigating to different locations isn?t always easy. Imagine then how it is for people with a visual impairment to walk across the street or to get from one point to another. The Swedish Association of the Visually Impaired (SRF) has pointed out that today's society is not sufficiently accessible to people with visual impairment and there are improvements that need to get done. Technology is something that has evolved a lot this last decade and occurs today almost everywhere in our environment.In some areas, technology has facilitated people's daily life very much and we have therefore chosen to examine whether a combination of several technical functions integrated into the fictive artifact called Eyenavster can facilitate outdoor orientation and increase the accessibility for people with a visual impairment.Qualitative data collection methods have been used in this study by six interviews to answer our question.

This Master thesis is about elderly visually impaired and their use of libraries. It poses the question how visually impaired elderly looks upon their local library. Their thoughts and opinions are mainly from two sides. One is what they think about the service that they get. The other is what they think about the information concerning this service.

The purpose of this study was to describe the prevalence of self-reported visual and neck/shoulder complaints among individuals with a low vision diagnosis. The study also aimed to examine whether there was an association between the degree of self-rated visual and the neck/shoulder complaints. There was a questionnaire survey that was conducted on patients that visits an eye center in a county in central Sweden. There were a total of 18 people participated in the survey, between 17-92 years old. The questionnaire contained 22 questions and was analyzed with SPSS.

Jag beskriver i detta arbete en klassrumsstudie där fyra seende och en synskadad elev samverkar kring ett taktilt bildarbete. Undersökningen har fokus på den sociala interaktionen mellan ungdomarna. Den metod som använts har främst varit etnografinspirerad, där jag dokumenterat med hjälp av filmkamera tre olika lektionstillfällen, när eleverna gjorde en taktil bild av en känd konstbild. Bearbetningen har skett via en induktiv analys där målet har varit att utgå från mitt filmade material för att hitta vilka former av interaktioner som uppstått under just det ögonblick kameran har fångat handlingarna mellan eleverna.Syftet har varit att få en insikt i hur kunskaper om hur synskadade ska få ökade tillgångar till bilden och bildämnet på grundskolan. Den frågeställning som varit aktuell har fokuserat på hur elever med synskada kan integreras i klassrumsundervisning i ämnet Bild och vilken form av interaktion som uppstått mellan eleverna.Eftersom även den pedagogiska rollen inbegripits beskrivs också skolverkets riktlinjer för att hjälpa elever med synskada eller andra funktionella handikapp att nå målen i kurs -och läroplaner.

Arbetet undersöker de synskadades och blindas uppfattningar om den offentliga miljön, samt belyser förutsättningar och konkreta utformningar som möjliggör de synskadades vistelse i offentligheten.  Arbetet behandlar två olika intressen som står mot varandra; bevarandevärdet och de funktionshindrades möjligheter. Jag undersökte hur synskadade och blinda orienterar sig i offentliga miljöer och på vilket sätt jag kunde applicera deras kunskap i ett trapphus på Birger Jarlsgatan 20 i centrala Stockholm som är blåmärkt. Genom teorier, intervjuer, observationer och självrapporter kunde jag bilda en uppfattning om hur personer orienterar sig i offentlighet. Jag kunde lokalisera farliga platser i den aktuella lokalen samt fick uppfattning om hur det är att inte kunna ta del av den visuella världen..

Rapporten underso?ker en metod fo?r att gestalta en historisk ljudvandring genom Sko?vde stads ljudlandskap under 1700-talets andra ha?lft. Till underso?kningen sammansta?lldes en metodik da?r fundamenten var tankesa?tt och begrepp influerade fra?n tre tidigare forskningsdiscipliner. Baserat pa? metodiken framsta?lldes en prototyp av en ljudvandring genom Sko?vde stad, som synskadade och normalt seende informanter fick ta del av.

A case study of professional interaction designers' usage of design materials was conducted. Five interviews were performed in order to gain insight in the systems used by designers, how these work, how they collaborate within them, and what they think of recent research about them. Design studios allow collaboration for several users at once. Digital material (mockups, pictures, etc.) are commonly used, but needs to be made analog, e.g. printed, to be usable in the design studio environment.

Design management är ett arbetssätt som har börjat tillämpas av allt fler företag de senaste åren, men det kan fortfarande vara svårt att förstå betydelsen av design management. I uppsatsen undersöks det vilken betydelse en design managers kompetens och position har för samarbetet mellan det designköpande företaget och en designkonsult under ett designinköp. Genom ett flertal intervjuer, utifrån både design managers och designkonsulters perspektiv, undersöks det hur samarbetet fungerar mellan dessa parter. En analys av intervjumaterial med hjälp av en teoretisk referensram bestående av design management-teori, design som en integrerad process och beslutsrollsteori har lett fram till ett antal slutsatser om design management. Några av slutsatserna är att design management, enligt teorierna, som arbetssätt inte är så vanligt och att det finns en viss samarbetsbrist enligt de intervjuade designkonsulterna, som i viss mån underlättas om design managern har kunskap om vad design innebär..

In our study, we investigated how the streamed TV domain relates to existing design principles for web design. Further, we have investigated whether there are specific characteristics of the domain that the design principles do not cover. In the survey we have studied two sites which are representative of the streamed TV domain. Finally, we discuss how applicable the design principles are for the domain and the specific characteristics that would require new or further developed design principles..

The final stage of a designers work is always a bit tricky. Design is an abstract phenomenon and no one can tell when a design is really finished. The design process that designers work within has been thoroughly studied but cannot be truly mapped with strict constraints which the designer can follow to succeed. Therefore, in this paper we take a look at the final stage in the design process. The main goal is to get more knowledge and highlight key factors about what designers face when they are about finish their design or what forces them to leave a project that can stay in development for eternity.

I work on a lighting design for a dance performance to be on tour. A lighting design adapted for three different conditions was made: - One comprehensive where I allow myself a great deal of creative freedom, adapted for the stages with major technical conditions. - One smaller version for stages with less equipment and with less time for preparation on site. - One design for very simple conditions. I also examine the specific differences between typical theatrical lighting design and typical dance lighting design, and the best way to prepare for the hands-on stage design phase..

A design methodology to mitigate timing problems due to long wire delays is proposed. The timing problems are taking care of at architecture level instead of layout level in this design method so that no change is needed when the whole design goes to backend design. Hence design iterations are avoided by using this design methodology. The proposed design method is based on STARI architecture, and a novel initialization mechanism is proposed in this paper. Low frequency global clock is used to synchronize the communication and PLLs are used to provide high frequency working clocks.

This thesis introduces Kongjian Yu?s design approach in terms of industrial heritage conservation in connection to transformation and urban design. The approach is examined respectively on two cases from China and USA. The thesis give a brief introduction to current achievement in conservation research and general profile of industrial conservation practice. Based on case and theory study, Yu?s design approach is carefully applied to an industrial area Nyhamnen in Malmö and a design proposal is produced.

Service Design is a relatively new, unexplored and exciting phenomenon that through an interdisciplinary work methodology designs services. A discussion has been going on for a long time regarding whether there is a difference between products and services. Services are often classified as immaterial, heterogeneous, non-storable and inseparable in relation to products. A question that arises is if something specific characterises the work methodology used regarding service design. The aim with this paper is thus to explain the work methodology when working with service design.

A current issue today is to try to implement creative design as a way to solve wicked problems in scientific contexts such as HCI. Since the problems are wicked, they have no given solution which makes the traditional methods inadequate. In these cases, creative design can be an alternative. Creative design is not used in scientific contexts because it is viewed as something unaccountable.In this essay we argue that creative design not necessarily have to be unaccounted. We discuss various views of creative design and translate theory to a practical context.