Essays about: "communicative device"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 essays containing the words communicative device.
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1. The fragmented smart home : A comprehensive analysis of available interoperable solutions to connect wireless smart home communications
University essay from Högskolan i Skövde/Institutionen för informationsteknologiAbstract : The current smart home communication can be viewed as protocol stacks interlocked by their proprietary capsule solutions, locking the consumer into a single market of devices, without integration from other manufacturers. This research heads out to discover frameworks to adapt the heterogenous proprietary communicative offerings within the smart home, to a shared communicative interoperable and centralized controlled home, to enable the end-user to adapt the most efficient device for each scenario without having to consider which wireless communicative protocol or having to install more proprietary solutions to adapt additional technologies, thus neglecting centralized control. READ MORE
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2. Where did the book go? - An empirical study about reading habits and reading ecologies of Swedish Kindle-users
University essay from Malmö högskola/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)Abstract : Through the introduction and popularisation of e-books and e-readers, the way books are read is changing. This paper aims to investigate the reading habits of five Swedish-based Kindle users to understand their reading ecologies and what place the Kindle has in their reading ecologies. READ MORE
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3. Microphone Transitions as a Gestural Practice in Dyadic Television Interviews
University essay from Institutionen för kultur och kommunikationAbstract : The main purpose of this research is to discuss the specificity of the microphone as a gestural tool through which the sequence organization of media two-party interviews is accomplished. The study focuses on the practical communicative problems of microphone operations in a media setting where the parties have alternating turns, and addresses the question of who of the participants speaks next and for how long. READ MORE
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4. Does training with the PhonicStick improve phonological awareness? : A meta study including one new pilot study
University essay from Institutionen för neurovetenskap; LogopediAbstract : The PhonicStick is a joystick which has been developed as a communicative device to be used by people with severe physical disabilities. During the developmental phase the possibility of using this device in order to train the phonological awareness of 6 – 8 year old children was examined. READ MORE
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5. A case study of aided story telling : Comparing the Step-by-Step™ with the How Was School Today Prototype
University essay from LogopediAbstract : The main purpose of this study was to compare how the Step-by-Step™ (S-b-S) and the newly developed How Was School Today (HWST) prototype can support participation in narrative activities for a 10-year-old boy with complex communication needs (CCN) when he interacts with two typically developed peers. The researchers wanted to find out how the use of the different communication aids affected interaction. READ MORE
