One of the essential needs of human beings is to be involved in a social context. The intention of this study was to see if the opportunity to have an IPod Touch, could make it possible for students with literacy difficulties to participate in the regular classes and if the implementation of IPod Touch in the school setting would result in informal learning outside the school. In this case study two pupils with literacy difficulties have been using an IPod Touch in their daily school activity. The pupils as well as their teachers have been interviewed about their experiences of implementing IPod Touch as a tool in the regular classroom teatching. The results indicate that IPod Touch can help students to be in inclusive education and that they use the IPod Touch outside school.

One of the essential needs of human beings is to be involved in a social context. The intention of this study was to see if the opportunity to have an IPod Touch, could make it possible for students with literacy difficulties to participate in the regular classes and if the implementation of IPod Touch in the school setting would result in informal learning outside the school. In this case study two pupils with literacy difficulties have been using an IPod Touch in their daily school activity. The pupils as well as their teachers have been interviewed about their experiences of implementing IPod Touch as a tool in the regular classroom teatching. The results indicate that IPod Touch can help students to be in inclusive education and that they use the IPod Touch outside school.

One of the essential needs of human beings is to be involved in a social context. The intention of this study was to see if the opportunity to have an IPod Touch, could make it possible for students with literacy difficulties to participate in the regular classes and if the implementation of IPod Touch in the school setting would result in informal learning outside the school. In this case study two pupils with literacy difficulties have been using an IPod Touch in their daily school activity. The pupils as well as their teachers have been interviewed about their experiences of implementing IPod Touch as a tool in the regular classroom teatching. The results indicate that IPod Touch can help students to be in inclusive education and that they use the IPod Touch outside school.

One of the essential needs of human beings is to be involved in a social context. The intention of this study was to see if the opportunity to have an IPod Touch, could make it possible for students with literacy difficulties to participate in the regular classes and if the implementation of IPod Touch in the school setting would result in informal learning outside the school. In this case study two pupils with literacy difficulties have been using an IPod Touch in their daily school activity. The pupils as well as their teachers have been interviewed about their experiences of implementing IPod Touch as a tool in the regular classroom teatching. The results indicate that IPod Touch can help students to be in inclusive education and that they use the IPod Touch outside school.

First-year students at Linköping University have developed a prototype that graphically visualizes a medical record in a new way. The customer of that project was the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Linköping University. They now want a usability evaluation to be performed of the prototype. The prototype is to be used by employees in the public health care and is supposed to be used on a small portable unit with a multi-touch interface. For this reason the prototype will be used as a complement to existing systems when the users work near the patients.

AbstractPurpose/Aim: My study aims to analyse, using Pierre Bourdieu´s theory, whether the social background plays a significant part in the attitudes and use of Apples mp3-player iPod. The study also aims to determine whether it is possible to group the focus groups used in my study and iPod into Bourdieu´s model.Material/Method: The reference material used in this paper is mainly gathered from books concerning Pierre Bourdieu´s theories. I have also had four focus groups of two different characters, to study their attitudes towards Apples mp3-player iPod. I have then applied the results of the focus groups to Bourdieu´s theories and models concerning habitus, social fields, capital and lifestyles, and studied whether there are any divergences in attitudes between the groups.Main results: My findings are that the focus groups as well as iPod can be put into Bourdieu´s model. According to the responses from the people in the focus groups, the attitude and usage of iPod do not mirror people?s social class or background, which goes against Bourdieu´s? theory.

Denna uppsats a?r en fallstudie med fokus pa? huruvida iPod uppfyller det teoretiska krav som fo?religger fo?r ett starkt varuma?rke. Apple a?r ett fo?retag med ett varuma?rke som anses vara ett av de starkaste i va?rlden och da?rfo?r finner vi det intressant att studera hur de har ga?tt tillva?ga na?r det ga?ller mp3- spelaren iPod. Det a?r av intresse att studera just iPod da? det a?r en produkt som har lyckats na?r man ser till fo?rsa?ljningssiffror och produktens sta?llning pa? marknaden.

Background: Nursing staff use touch on a daily basis, often without reflecting over it. It is not only the touch itself that emerges, everyday nursing staff get involved in the meeting with patients. The use of touch can be divided in to different kinds of touch, due to its purpose these are instrumental- and expressive touch. Purpose: The purpose with the study was to illustrate what physical touch means for the meeting between patient and caregiver. Method: A literature review has been done, based on ten scientific articles and by these four domains emerged.

Touch that is performed in a sensitive and gentle way can be a good complement in caring. To be stricken with illness can involve that the individual feels powerlessness and to have no control over the own body. This could lead to both psychical and physical suffering. To strength health is one of the nurses' responsibilities and to touch can be one way. The aim of the study was to describe patients' experience of the effects of touch.

Förstaårsstudenter vid Linköpings Universitet har utvecklat en prototyp som på ett nytt sätt visualiserar en patientjournal grafiskt. Beställare av projektet var Institutionen för medicinsk teknik vid Linköpings Universitet som nu vill att en användbarhetsutvärdering genomförs av prototypen. Prototypen riktar sig till anställda inom sjukvården och ska användas på en liten handhållen enhet med pekskärm. Av denna anledning ska den vara ett komplement till befintliga system när användarna arbetar nära patienterna. Då den ännu befinner sig tidigt i utvecklingsstadiet är det nödvändigt att fortsatt utveckling sker i nära kontakt med användarna.Detta examensarbete syftade till att peka på vilka användbarhetsprinciper prototypen bryter mot, vilka behov den måste tillgodose, att undersöka hur användarna interagerar med en IPod Touch och vad de anser om att arbeta med en sådan enhet.

As new ways of using computers are constantly being developed, other ways of interacting are made possible. One of the most desired types of interaction with computers is a touch-screen where the user can actually organize everything simply by using the fingertips. The purpose of this project is to enhance an existing framework with an application that works with a touch-screen device. The application is to be used as a tool for presentational usage. The result is an application where the user by simple means can use a touch-screen to hold a professional presentation.

The way we interact with computers will soon change dramatically. The input interfaces are becoming more and more intuitive and one of the latest technologies is a touch screen interface capable of dealing with multiple inputs simultaneously. The tools we use to communicate with the computer - such as the mouse and the keyboard, will slowly disappear and be replaced with tools more comfortable and more natural for the human being to use. The purpose of this project was to create a basic framework for future projects dealing with this interface, as well as creating some example programs. This report describes my work and my experiences with this new interface..

For this essay we used pattern theory from interface design and applied it in an analysis of touch games. In order to make full use of the patterns, we selected five of them and adapted these slightly with the help of game related patterns to be useful for the framework of this essay. The selection of games were the top eight games on the App Store?s ?What?s Hot?. The results showed, among other things, that the games had a clear focus on getting a pleasant apperance, and they did it relatively well.

Today multi-touch technology is the basis for many new techniques designed to improve interactions with computers and mobile devices. It seems that multi-touch screen interface makes the user handling very natural in the sense that there is no need for a manual in how to interact with the object on the screen. The aim with this paper is to establish a fundamental set of design principles intended specifically for large multi-touch interfaces. To reach this goal we have implemented a couple of sub-goals beforehand: It was essential that we acquired a good understanding of the current state of the multi-touch interface and the different implementations that exist today. To make this possible we constructed a multi-touch display, "Rosie". Knowing how the hardware is produced today will help us understand the limitations and also the possibilities of the design implementations today and in the future. We also needed to devise a sound interaction design process that conveys the modern designers work.

In the palliative care there are many close encounters between the care-taker and the care-giver. To be touched is foundational to every human being and the care-giver shows his presence to the care-taker, when he touch the care-taker. Touch is an important tool for the care-giver in the care for the care-taker. It becomes a natural way of communicating. The aim of this literature study was to describe which factors that are important, for the care-taker in the palliative care, to receive touch in the purpose of feeling well-being.