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“Shake it out” - How Motion Capture and Smartphone-Assessed Movement Can Predict Properties of Music
(2017)
Der Erinnerungsort auf dem Campus der HS Düsseldorf erinnert an die Deportation der jüdischen Bevölkerung in Ghettos und Vernichtungslager. In dem Projekt wurden die biografischen Angaben aus dem Digitalen Archiv auf der Website des Erinnerungsortes publiziert. Die familiären Beziehungen werden grafisch dargestellt und auf die Website von Yad Vashem verlinkt.
Die vorliegende Bachelorarbeit befasst sich mit der Fragestellung, inwiefern Progressive Web Apps zum jetzigen Zeitpunkt in der Lage sind, native Apps zu ersetzen. Dazu wurde ein Vergleich auf Basis ausgewählter Vergleichskategorien durchgeführt. Zur Eingrenzung des Umfangs beschränkte sich der Vergleich auf native Android Apps. Die beiden App-Typen wurden im Rahmen einer Literaturrecherche und auf Basis ausgewählter Vergleichskategorien untersucht und verglichen. Zudem wurde ein Prototyp einer Progressive Web App implementiert, um die Plattformunterstützung und Funktionalität zu überprüfen. Außerdem wurde auch ein Prototyp einer nativen Android App implementiert. Dabei wurde nur die Benutzeroberfläche umgesetzt, um das Look and Feel vergleichbar zu machen. Die Untersuchung und der Vergleich haben gezeigt, dass Progressive Web Apps, anders als native Apps, mit Webtechnologien entwickelt und keine plattformspezifischen Programmiersprachen benötigt werden. Sie werden im Browser ausgeführt und sind dadurch Plattformunabhängig. Zudem wurde gezeigt, dass Progressive Web Apps über Funktionen und Eigenschaften verfügen, die bisher nur nativen Apps vorbehalten waren. Dennoch können sie noch nicht auf alle Funktionen und Komponenten eines mobilen Gerätes zugreifen. Darüber hinaus verfügen sie aber auch über Funktionen und Eigenschaften, die native Apps nicht bieten. Des Weiteren wurde mithilfe eines Prototyps die Plattformunterstützung von Progressive Web Apps überprüft. Die Überprüfung zeigte, dass die Unterstützung durch das Betriebssystem Android weit fortgeschritten und bei iOS hingegen nur sehr eingeschränkt ist. Dadurch variiert der Funktionsumfang je nach Browser und Betriebssystem. Die Untersuchung und der Vergleich der Prototypen zeigten, dass Progressive Web Apps aufgrund ihrer Eigenschaften, Funktionen und die app-ähnliche Benutzeroberfläche, ein ähnliches Look and Feel bieten können, wie native Apps. Außerdem wurde gezeigt, dass Progressive Web Apps, anders als native Apps, i. d. R. nicht über App Stores angeboten werden. Sie durchlaufen dadurch keinen Überprüfungs- und Freigabeprozess und sind nicht an die Richtlinien der App Stores gebunden. Stattdessen können sie über eine URL und über Suchmaschinen aufgerufen und aufgefunden werden. Die durchgeführte Untersuchung und der Vergleich haben gezeigt, dass Progressive Web Apps aufgrund des eingeschränkten Zugriffs auf Geräte- und Software-Funktionen sowie fehlender Browser- und Betriebssystemunterstützung, zum jetzigen Zeitpunkt native Apps noch nicht vollumfänglich ersetzen können.
Für moderne interaktive Anwendungen wird es immer wichtiger, einen Benutzer durch zusätzlichen Ballast so wenig wie möglich einzuschränken. Daher bietet sich eine kamerabasierte Interaktionserkennung an. Viele existierende Verfahren benötigen dazu aber einen weitestgehend statischen Hintergrund. In der gegebenen Anwendung allerdings befindet sich im Sichtbereich der Kameras eine Projektion bewegter Inhalte, mit denen ein Benutzer interagieren kann. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit sollte ein bestehendes, auf Infrarotlicht basierendes System verbessert werden, das sich bisher als beleuchtungsabhängig erwiesen hat. Dazu wurden zunächst mehrere Verfahren zur Trennung von Vorder- und Hintergrund auf ihre Tauglichkeit untersucht. Das favorisierte Verfahren sollte anschließend durch stereoskopische Bildaufnahme - und damit tiefenbasierte Trennung - so verbessert werden, dass der bewegte Hintergrund sicher unterdrückt wird. Dies erwies sich für die gewünschten Anwendungen zwar als nicht praktikabel, dennoch wurden mögliche andere Anwendungsbereiche gefunden. Auch die Untersuchung der einzelnen Trennungsverfahren lieferte ein Ergebnis, das - mit weiteren Tests - zur Verbesserung der bestehenden Installation beitragen kann.
Broader use of virtual reality environments and sophisticated animations spawn a need for spatial sound. Until now, spatial sound design has been based very much on experience and trial and error. Most effects are hand-crafted, because good design tools for spatial sound do not exist. This paper discusses spatial sound authoring and its applications, including shared virtual reality environments based on VRML. New utilities introduced by this research are an inspector for sound sources, an interactive resource manager, and a visual soundscape manipulator. The tools are part of a sound spatialization framework and allow a designer/author of multimedia content to monitor and debug sound events. Resource constraints like limited sound spatialization channels can also be simulated.
The Soundtrack Of Your Life
(2012)
The Sound of Success: Investigating Cognitive and Behavioral Effects of Motivational Music in Sports
(2017)
Listening to music before, during, or after sports is a common phenomenon, yet its functions and effects on performance, cognition, and behavior remain to be investigated. Listening to music before, during, or after sports is a common phenomenon, yet its functions and effects on performance, cognition, and behavior remain to be investigated. In this study we present a novel approach to the role of music in sports and exercise that focuses on the notion of musical self-enhancement (Elvers, 2016). We derived the following hypotheses from this framework: listening to motivational music will (i) enhance self-evaluative cognition, (ii) improve performance in a ball game, and (iii) evoke greater risk-taking behavior. To evaluate the hypotheses, we conducted a between-groups experiment (N = 150) testing the effectiveness of both an experimenter playlist and a participant-selected playlist in comparison to a no-music control condition. All participants performed a ball-throwing task developed by Decharms and Davé (1965), consisting of two parts: First, participants threw the ball from fixed distances into a funnel basket. During this task, performance was measured. In the second part, the participants themselves chose distances from the basket, which allowed their risk-taking behavior to be assessed. The results indicate that listening to motivational music led to greater risk taking but did not improve ball-throwing performance. This effect was more pronounced in male participants and among those who listened to their own playlists. Furthermore, self-selected music enhanced state self-esteem in participants who were performing well but not in those who were performing poorly. We also discuss further implications for the notion of musical self-enhancement. // Listening to music before, during, or after sports is a common phenomenon, yet its functions and effects on performance, cognition, and behavior remain to be investigated. In this study we present a novel approach to the role of music in sports and exercise that focuses on the notion of musical self-enhancement (Elvers, 2016). We derived the following hypotheses from this framework: listening to motivational music will (i) enhance self-evaluative cognition, (ii) improve performance in a ball game, and (iii) evoke greater risk-taking behavior. To evaluate the hypotheses, we conducted a between-groups experiment (N = 150) testing the effectiveness of both an experimenter playlist and a participant-selected playlist in comparison to a no-music control condition. All participants performed a ball-throwing task developed by Decharms and Davé (1965), consisting of two parts: First, participants threw the ball from fixed distances into a funnel basket. During this task, performance was measured. In the second part, the participants themselves chose distances from the basket, which allowed their risk-taking behavior to be assessed. The results indicate that listening to motivational music led to greater risk taking but did not improve ball-throwing performance. This effect was more pronounced in male participants and among those who listened to their own playlists. Furthermore, self-selected music enhanced state self-esteem in participants who were performing well but not in those who were performing poorly. We also discuss further implications for the notion of musical self-enhancement.
The effect of inattention and cognitive load on unpleasantness judgments of environmental sounds
(2020)
The conductor's philosophy
(2013)
Music-related decision-making encompasses a wide range of behaviours including those associated with listening choices, composition and performance, and decisions involving music education and therapy. Although research programmes in psychology and economics have contributed to an improved understanding of music-related behaviour, historically, these disciplines have been unconnected. Recently, however, researchers have begun to bridge this gap by employing tools from behavioural economics. This article contributes to the literature by providing a discussion about the benefits of using behavioural economics in music-decision research. We achieve this in two ways. First, through a systematic review, we identify the current state of the literature within four key areas of behavioural economics-heuristics and biases, social decision-making, behavioural time preferences, and dual-process theory. Second, taking findings of the literature as a starting point, we demonstrate how behavioural economics can inform future research. Based on this, we propose the Behavioural Economics of Music (BEM), an integrated research programme that aims to break new ground by stimulating interdisciplinary research in the intersection between music, psychology, and economics.
We present a system that exploits mobile rotational tracking and photospherical imagery to allow users to share their environment with remotely connected peers “on the go.” We surveyed related interfaces and developed a unique groupware application that shares a mixed reality space with spatially-oriented live video feeds. Users can collaborate through realtime audio, video, and drawings in a virtual space. The developed system was tested in a preliminary user study, which confirmed an increase in spatial and situational awareness among viewers as well as reduction in cognitive workload. Believing that our system provides a novel style of collaboration in mixed reality environments, we discuss future applications and extensions of our prototype.
Spec2Vec: Improved mass spectral similarity scoring through learning of structural relationships
(2021)
Spectral similarity is used as a proxy for structural similarity in many tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS) based metabolomics analyses such as library matching and molecular networking. Although weaknesses in the relationship between spectral similarity scores and the true structural similarities have been described, little development of alternative scores has been undertaken. Here, we introduce Spec2Vec, a novel spectral similarity score inspired by a natural language processing algorithm-Word2Vec. Spec2Vec learns fragmental relationships within a large set of spectral data to derive abstract spectral embeddings that can be used to assess spectral similarities. Using data derived from GNPS MS/MS libraries including spectra for nearly 13,000 unique molecules, we show how Spec2Vec scores correlate better with structural similarity than cosine-based scores. We demonstrate the advantages of Spec2Vec in library matching and molecular networking. Spec2Vec is computationally more scalable allowing structural analogue searches in large databases within seconds.
Soundscaping im häuslichen Umfeld - Können Wassergeräusche Straßenverkehrslärm erträglicher machen?
(2014)
The Sound Spatialization Framework is a C++ toolkit and development environment for providing advanced sound spatialization for virtual reality and multimedia applications. The Sound Spatialization Framework provides many powerful display and user-interface features not found in other sound spatialization software packages. It provides facilities that go beyond simple sound source spatialization: visualization and editing of the soundscape, multiple sinks, clustering of sound sources, monitoring and controlling resource management, support for various spatialization backends, and classes for MIDI animation and handling.
Situational influences on music selection behavior in daily life: An experience sampling study
(2018)
Singing in different rooms: Common or individual adaptation patterns to the acoustic conditions?
(2020)
Der Autor untersucht im Rahmen dieser Diplomarbeit die Sicherheit des Zugangs zu Netzwerkdiensten in der Fachhochschule Düsseldorf. Dabei werden sicherheitsrelevante Fragen wie Klartext Kommunikation bei der Authentifizierung und beim Transport der Daten über Netzwerkdienste beschrieben und Alternativen hierzu aufgezeigt. Im Rahmen der Diplomarbeit wurde die Teilnahme der Fachhochschule Düsseldorf am Pilotprojekt DFN-PKI-2 für Public Key Infrastrukturen des Deutschen Forschungsnetzes initiiert und organisiert. Weiterhin stellt der Autor die PKI-Technologie und deren praktische Einsatz anhand eines VPN Dienstes zur Sicherung der bestehenden Netzwerkdienste vor.
Despite its impressive complexity the cytoskeleton succeeds to persistently organize itself and thus the cells' interior. In contrast to classical man-made machines, much of the cellular organization originates from inherent self-assembly and self-organization allowing a high degree of autonomy for various functional units. Recent experimental and theoretical studies revealed numerous examples of cytoskeleton components that arrange and organize in a self-regulative way. In the present review we want to shortly summarize some of the principle mechanisms that are able to inherently trigger and regulate the cytoskeleton organization. Although taken individually most of these regulative principles are rather simple with intuitively predictable consequences, combinations of two or more of these mechanisms can quickly give rise to very complex, unexpected behavior and might even be able to explain the formation of different functional units out of a common pool of available building blocks.
Cell migration is associated with the dynamic protrusion of a thin actin-based cytoskeletal extension at the cell front, which has been shown to consist of two different substructures, the leading lamellipodium and the subsequent lamellum. While the formation of the lamellipodium is increasingly well understood, organizational principles underlying the emergence of the lamellum are just beginning to be unraveled. We report here on a 1D mathematical model which describes the reaction-diffusion processes of a polarized actin network in steady state, and reproduces essential characteristics of the lamellipodium-lamellum system. We observe a steep gradient in filament lengths at the protruding edge, a local depolymerization maximum a few microns behind the edge, as well as a differential dominance of the network destabilizer ADF/cofilin and the stabilizer tropomyosin. We identify simple and robust organizational principles giving rise to the derived network characteristics, uncoupled from the specifics of any molecular implementation, and thus plausibly valid across cell types. An analysis of network length dependence on physico-chemical system parameters implies that to limit array treadmilling to cellular dimensions, network growth has to be truncated by mechanisms other than aging-induced depolymerization, e.g., by myosin-associated network dissociation at the transition to the cell body. Our work contributes to the analytical understanding of the cytoskeletal extension's bisection into lamellipodium and lamellum and sheds light on how cells organize their molecular machinery to achieve motility.
Test environments in sound quality research often significantly differ from human’s everyday world. Hence the claim for ecological validity of such experiments is reasonable, but too vague in its bare formulation. The estimation of ecological validity requires theoretical knowledge about the meaning and the totality of factors influencing everyday listening and their interaction. Therefore the influence of “reality factors” on the sound evaluation of household appliances was investigated within the framework of nine experiments. These tests were performed in four different settings with varied reality degrees. The psychological realism and the perceived face validity of the tests were examined by means of interviews. The results reveal, on the one hand, that stimuli are perceived as more pleasant in everyday-like environments. The analysis of the relative judgments shows, on the other hand, that the influence of the experimental realism is moderated by a number of factors. These are the saliency and meaning of the sounds, differences between the assessed devices, and personality traits. The correlation and regression analysis confirms that the perceived sound character is widely independent from experimental realism. However, there is great empirical evidence, that valid assessments of sound quality require the reconstruction of everyday attention and action processes.
Psychologische Einflussfaktoren bei der Beurteilung des Innengeräusches von Elektrofahrzeugen
(2011)
Increasing global awareness of the benefits of electromobility has brought about the need for new concepts in terms of the acoustic design of future vehicle generations. This includes both the creative design process and the development of suitable methods for the evaluation of target sounds by trial participants. The main difference between e-car sound surveys and those carried out on familiar sound categories is the potential consumer’s lack of experience with electric vehicles. Thus the consumer has no, or very unspecific, expectations in this regard. Several studies have consequently shown that many subjects have to construct their personal frame of reference for evaluation within the listening experiment. However, this is possibly at odds with experience-based expectations relating to the sounds of conventional combustion engines. The result is a conflict of objectives between the traditional and the modern, familiarity and strangeness and not least between driving freedom and ecological awareness. In this context, the authenticity of the sound and the subjective interpretability of the sound information also appear as moderator variables. Moreover, associations with other vehicle categories, for example streetcars, also influence the perceived sound quality. In the course of this contribution, these factors will be expounded and their influence on the evaluation of interior noise discussed.
Probing the Potential of Multimedia Artefacts to Support Communication of People with Dementia
(2015)
Als Einführung in die Benutzung der Software SQL Developer Command Line (SQLcl) von Oracle werden folgende Aktionen erklärt: Anmelden, Ausgeben von Tabellen und ihren Metadaten, Verwenden der Befehlshistorie, Formatieren der Ausgabe, Speichern, Bearbeiten und Wiederverwenden von Befehlen sowie das Anlegen von Logdateien. Vorausgesetzt werden geringe Vorkenntnisse von relationalen Datenbankmanagementsystemen mit SQL. Das Video wurde im Rahmen des Projektes EILD.nrw entwickelt, gefördert durch das Ministerium für Kultur und Wissenschaft gemeinsam mit der Digitalen Hochschule NRW (DH.NRW) in der Förderlinie „OERContent.nrw“ (Open Education Resources).