In visual programming the developer specifies her code, using visual tools. Within the range of visual programming languages lay icon-based languages, form-based languages, and diagram languages.Mediator is a multimedia authoring tool that allows the user to create interactive CD-ROM presentations, dynamic HTML pages and Flash projects, without any coding or scripting. The user can create interactivity in her project, using event driven and icon-based visual programming, through a ?drag and drop? user interface. This report intends to determine some of the qualifications of a tool of this kind, as well as its limitations.The report is based on a case study, in which a smaller software application was to be updated using Mediator 9.

The aim of this study is investigating how some Elementary School teachers of special classes describe how they use iPad as an educational tool when teaching Swedish. To find out I have carried out an interview investigation. I have analyzed results using theoretical concepts from the sociocultural perspective, scaffolding and artefacts.The cummulative result shows that teachers describe that they practice linguistic consciousness and that pupils are trained in writing Swedish in this subject. Another result shows how all teachers describe that they work face-to-face with pupils using iPads in Swedish lessons. Further results show how teachers present possibilities of using iPad as an educational tool when teaching Swedish.

The main focus of this study is to describe how, and for what reasons teachers use literature and fiction as a pedagogic tool. A qualitative study was made by interviewing four teachers about their language teaching. Working with fiction as a teaching-aid in school can in many ways be favorable to both teachers and pupils. In terms of children?s language development, research shows that using fiction as an educational tool can stimulate pupils? well-being as well as their linguistic improvement.

Detta är en jämförande studie av textförfattarverktyg och dess påverkan på min skapandeprocess. Mitt syfte var att undersöka hur skapandeprocessen påverkas av olika textförfattartekniker och vilka verktyg jag får mest nytta av i mitt egna textskapande.Jag genomförde detta genom att skriva sex låtar och genom att dokumentera skapandet av dessa för att sedan diskutera verktygens påverkan på texternas skapandeprocess.Jag fick en djup insikt i textförfattandets hantverk och en del av de verktyg man kan använda som hjälpmedel för sitt textskapande. Jag har insett att alla verktyg inte är optimala i alla avseenden och att jag gärna väljer verktyg beroende på vilken typ av låt jag ämnar skriva. Jag har även funnit en kedja av verktyg och moment som jag känner mig bekväm i och som hjälper mig prestera bättre än när jag skriver texter utan verktyg. .

The aim of this essay is to examine fan culture?s role in Swedish public libraries. I have interviewed, via email, six librarians who encounter and use fan culture in their daily work. The theoretical elements of my essay are based on a modified set of theories by Dorte Skot-Hansen that identifies six ideal types of cultural political rationalities. My study reveals that fan culture is used in Swedish libraries as a tool in increasing user participation in library activities.

The purpose of this study is to examine how a particular niche in tourism can attract international visitors to a certain destination. To do this, the Swedish food culture was used as a tool to find out how it is marketed to attract international visitors to Sweden. International visitors today wants to find destinations with a rich culture, authentications and traditions to get closer to the destinations identity. The study examines how three of the biggest companies, who works with the promotion of Sweden to an international audience, using the Swedish food culture as a marketing tool. We find that the visitor would like to get closer to the Swedish identity, which the Swedish food culture helps with..

Manne Bouveng, CEO of Optimel AB had an idea for a new kind of storage cabinet that could be adapted especially for townhouse owners. I came in contact with Manne by a familiar friend for us; we met and decided that it would suit as my thesis.What was needed to be done was a market research that would possibly show that there was a need for a new kind of storage cabinet on the market. Because of this we continued to work on the basic idea. We came up with a solution where we developed a box that resembles Optimels known mailbox Biggi Rondo, the storage cabinet is a new solution of a storage cabinet, adapted after a market that need of a lot of new space. The solution is based on a simple construction which sits an inside hang-off device which can attach tool hooks, tool holders and shelves and so on.The purpose of the assignment was to develop a new type of storage cabinet with some kind of solution to attach tools and other garden related stuff. With this we have succeeded and the concept meets the requirements we set ourselves at the beginning of the project..

The purpose of this study is to highlight the opportunities of using social media as a communicative tool to attract and engage customers on different social media platforms. In recent years social media has become an important way for business to communicate with people both national and global. The idea behind this thesis was found when we saw different approaches of how companies used social media as a marketing tool. Through a qualitative approach we did eight interviews with six different companies and two social media consults which have given us a basis of what companies really want to achieve with social media. With these interviews we were able to analyze and discuss the abilities to interact with people and how companies distribute content that engage users and increase their credibility to the company..

According to a decision of the European Commission, measures are to be taken to reduce the use of energy in the EU. The goal is to reduce it by 20 % compared to the current use. This shall be done to the year 2020 (European Commission, 2011). One industry that use large amounts of energy is the construction of buildings which account for almost a third of the energy use (Brogren, 2012). The major part of the energy that is used in the construction industry is not used when the buildings are built, but rather during the rest of their subsequent lifetime.

The purpose of this thesis was to get a deeper understanding of why and how companies work with background music in event marketing and also how it can affect on companies image. In our research a case study was conducted and based on interviews with four respondents who all have experience working with background music throughout their careers. The study has shown that background music can be a very effective promotion tool in event marketing when it's used in the right way. Furthermore this study has shown that companies consciously use background music to enhance the experience and emotional affect the attendant through choice of music and the music can affect companies' image. Event marketing combined with background music is an effective tool for companies to generate positive associations to image and to reach their target group when right music is correctly conducted..

Syftet med denna uppsats är att ge en förståelse för hur en kompositionsprocess kan se ut. Analysen följer, genom skisser och loggbok, komponerandet av de två verken The Legend of Baddabah för kammarensemble och Reflektioner över trasig vänskap för symfoniorkester. Materialet ses i relation till tidigare forskning av kompositionsprocessen och undersöker hur Stan Bennetts schematiska modell stämmer in på mitt arbetssätt. Jag redogör för hur två egna verk komponeras från första idé till färdigt partitur. I diskussionen behandlas dels hur Bennets modell till vissa delar stämmer överens med min skapandeprocess, dels hur jag använder olika metoder när jag komponerar som improvisation och matematik, dels hur jag låter personer i min omgivning påverka min gestaltning av musiken, och dels hur tidspressen tvingar mig till handling..

The design process of an interaction design student is mostly collaborative and computer oriented. Based on this, it?s hard to believe that we have not yet found a tool that will facilitate our needs. With this in mind, which elements do we need to promote collaboration in a virtual design process? This thesis will include design processes, collaboration, creativity and virtual awareness, amongst others.

Today, companies work with issues concerning Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). A higher demand from customers and other stakeholders as well as an extended legislation are great reasons. Framework and guidelines for sustainability reporting has been developed which includes indices that companies are able to report. Though, for a long term work with sustainability a functional system and internal tool is necessary. Balanced Scorecard, BSC, is a useful tool and efforts have been made to integrate BSC and CSR with purpose to establish the work with sustainability in a more concrete and clear way.

The aim of my study is to investigate if and in that case how the writing process and texts written by students in the upper secondary school are affected by the writing tool; does it matter if they write their texts on a computer or by longhand? Another objective is to compare such an effect with the findings of previous studies performed on earlier generations of writers. The first part of my study was a survey. It showed that two thirds of the 67 students participating thought that they would have written better texts in the national writing test if they had been able to use computers. In the second part of the study each of the fourteen participants wrote one text on computer and another by hand.

Syftet med arbetet är att utveckla min förmåga att utföra jazzimprovisation på gitarr genom att undersöka och jämföra olika utvalda övningsmetoder: Att använda ackords-, led- och närmandetoner, att sjunga det man spelar samt hämta inspiration från andra jazzimprovisatörer. Jag kommer att undersöka var och en av dessa metoder individuellt för att slutligen jämföra och diskutera kring dem. I arbetets klingande delar improviserar jag över olika jazzstandards och utgår då ifrån de utforskade övningsmetoderna.Efter att ha undersökt de tre övningsmetoderna har jag kommit fram till att det är mycket lärorikt att angripa ett så pass stort ämne som jazzimprovisation från olika håll. Metoderna skiljer sig åt samtidigt som de kompletterar varandra väl. Om man lär sig kombinera dem på ett balanserat vis när man improviserar har man kommit en bra bit på vägen mot att bli en bra jazzimprovisatör..