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Item Open Access Interacting with large high-resolution display workplaces(2018) Lischke, Lars; Schmidt, Albrecht (Prof.)Large visual spaces provide a unique opportunity to communicate large and complex pieces of information; hence, they have been used for hundreds of years for varied content including maps, public notifications and artwork. Understanding and evaluating complex information will become a fundamental part of any office work. Large high-resolution displays (LHRDs) have the potential to further enhance the traditional advantages of large visual spaces and combine them with modern computing technology, thus becoming an essential tool for understanding and communicating data in future office environments. For successful deployment of LHRDs in office environments, well-suited interaction concepts are required. In this thesis, we build an understanding of how concepts for interaction with LHRDs in office environments could be designed. From the human-computer interaction (HCI) perspective three aspects are fundamental: (1) The way humans perceive and react to large visual spaces is essential for interaction with content displayed on LHRDs. (2) LHRDs require adequate input techniques. (3) The actual content requires well-designed graphical user interfaces (GUIs) and suitable input techniques. Perceptions influence how users can perform input on LHRD setups, which sets boundaries for the design of GUIs for LHRDs. Furthermore, the input technique has to be reflected in the design of the GUI. To understand how humans perceive and react to large visual information on LHRDs, we have focused on the influence of visual resolution and physical space. We show that increased visual resolution has an effect on the perceived media quality and the perceived effort and that humans can overview large visual spaces without being overwhelmed. When the display is wider than 2 m users perceive higher physical effort. When multiple users share an LHRD, they change their movement behavior depending whether a task is collaborative or competitive. For building LHRDs consideration must be given to the increased complexity of higher resolutions and physically large displays. Lower screen resolutions provide enough display quality to work efficiently, while larger physical spaces enable users to overview more content without being overwhelmed. To enhance user input on LHRDs in order to interact with large information pieces, we built working prototypes and analyzed their performance in controlled lab studies. We showed that eye-tracking based manual and gaze input cascaded (MAGIC) pointing can enhance target pointing to distant targets. MAGIC pointing is particularly beneficial when the interaction involves visual searches between pointing to targets. We contributed two gesture sets for mid-air interaction with window managers on LHRDs and found that gesture elicitation for an LHRD was not affected by legacy bias. We compared shared user input on an LHRD with personal tablets, which also functioned as a private working space, to collaborative data exploration using one input device together for interacting with an LHRD. The results showed that input with personal tablets lowered the perceived workload. Finally, we showed that variable movement resistance feedback enhanced one-dimensional data input when no visual input feedback was provided. We concluded that context-aware input techniques enhance the interaction with content displayed on an LHRD so it is essential to provide focus for the visual content and guidance for the user while performing input. To understand user expectations of working with LHRDs we prototyped with potential users how an LHRD work environment could be designed focusing on the physical screen alignment and the placement of content on the display. Based on previous work, we implemented novel alignment techniques for window management on LHRDs and compared them in a user study. The results show that users prefer techniques, that enhance the interaction without breaking well-known desktop GUI concepts. Finally, we provided the example of how an application for browsing scientific publications can benefit from extended display space. Overall, we show that GUIs for LHRDs should support the user more strongly than GUIs for smaller displays to arrange content meaningful or manage and understand large data sets, without breaking well-known GUI-metaphors. In conclusion, this thesis adopts a holistic approach to interaction with LHRDs in office environments. Based on enhanced knowledge about user perception of large visual spaces, we discuss novel input techniques for advanced user input on LHRDs. Furthermore, we present guidelines for designing future GUIs for LHRDs. Our work creates the design space of LHRD workplaces and identifies challenges and opportunities for the development of future office environments.Item Open Access Adaptive higher order discontinuous Galerkin methods for porous-media multi-phase flow with strong heterogeneities(2018) Kane, Birane; Siebert, Kunibert (Prof. Dr.)In this thesis, we develop, analyze, and implement adaptive discontinuous Galerkin (DG) finite element solvers for the efficient simulation of porous-media flow problems. We consider 2d and 3d incompressible, immiscible, two-phase flow in a possibly strongly heterogeneous and anisotropic porous medium. Discontinuous capillarypressure functions and gravity effects are taken into account. The system is written in terms of a phase-pressure/phase-saturation formulation. First and second order Adams-Moulton time discretization methods are combined with various interior penalty DG discretizations in space, such as the symmetric interior penalty Galerkin (SIPG), the nonsymmetric interior penalty Galerkin (NIPG) and the incomplete interior penalty Galerkin (IIPG). These fully implicit space time discretizations lead to fully coupled nonlinear systems requiring to build a Jacobian matrix at each time step and in each iteration of a Newton-Raphson method. We provide a stability estimate of the saturation and the pressure with respect to initial and boundary data. We also derive a-priori error estimates with respect to the L2(H1) norm for the pressure and the L∞(L2)∩L2(H1) norm for the saturation. Moving on to adaptivity, we implement different strategies allowing for a simultaneous variation of the element sizes, the local polynomial degrees and the time step size. These approaches allow to increase the local polynomial degree when the solution is estimated to be smooth and refine locally the mesh otherwise. They also grant more flexibility with respect to the time step size without impeding the convergence of the method. The aforementioned adaptive algorithms are applied in series of homogeneous, heterogeneous and anisotropic test cases. To our knowledge, this is the first time the concept of local hp-adaptivity is incorporated in the study of 2d and 3d incompressible, immiscible, two-phase flow problems. Delving into the issue of efficient linear solvers for the fully-coupled fully-implicit formulations, we implement a constrained pressure residual (CPR) two-stage preconditioner that exploits the algebraic properties of the Jacobian matrices of the systems. Furthermore, we provide an open-source DG two-phase flow simulator, based on the software framework DUNE, accompanied by a set of programs including instructions on how to compile and run them.Item Open Access Modeling recommendations for pattern-based mashup plans(2018) Das, SomeshData mashups are modeled as pipelines. The pipelines are basically a chain of data processing steps in order to integrate data from different data sources into a single one. These processing steps include data operations, such as join, filter, extraction, integration or alteration. To create and execute data mashups, modelers need to have technical knowledge in order to understand these data operations. In order to solve this issue, an extended data mashup approach was created - FlexMash developed at the University of Stuttgart - which allows users to define data mashups without technical knowledge about any execution details. Consquently, modelers with no or limited technical knowledge can design their own domain-specific mashup based on their use case scenarios. However, designing data mashups graphically is still difficult for non-IT users. When users design a model graphically, it is hard to understand which patterns or nodes should be modeled and connected in the data flow graph. In order to cope with this issue, this master thesis aims to provide users modeling recommendations during modeling time. At each modeling step, user can query for recommendations. The recommendations are generated by analyzing the existing models. To generate the recommendations from existing models, association rule mining algorithms are used in this thesis. If users accept a recommendation, the recommended node is automatically added to the partial model and connected with the node for which recommendations were given.Item Open Access Numerical and experimental study of concrete structures exposed to impact and fire(2018) Ruta, Daniela; Ožbolt, Joško (Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil.)During their service life concrete and reinforced concrete structures may be exposed to extreme loading conditions such as fire, explosions, impact, earthquakes and terroristic attacks. In particular situations, as in case of chemical industries where the probabilities of explosions are relatively high, combination of extreme loadings represents a major risk. To assure safety conditions in terms of cost and lives losses for the involved structure as well as for the surrounding buildings, it is important to take into account the effect of multi-hazard phenomena. The aim of this work is to study the dynamic concrete behaviour after thermal exposure analyzing the change of the material state and structural response, by means of experimental tests and numerical analysis. In the literature, few studies can be found on the behaviour of concrete and RC structures subjected to coupled thermal and dynamic loads. The results of the study are also useful to extend the experimental and numerical database available in the literature. Experimental and numerical investigations on fire exposed plain concrete (compact tension specimen) and full scale reinforced concrete structures (slabs and frames) under high loading rates are presented and discussed.Item Open Access iWindow - Intelligentes Maschinenfenster(Düsseldorf : VDI Verlag, 2018) Sommer, Philipp; Verl, Alexander; Kiefer, Manuel; Rahäuser, Raphael; Müller, Sebastian; Brühl, Jens; Gras, Michael; Berckmann, Eva; Stautner, Marc; Schäfer, D.; Schotte, Wolfgang; Do-Khac, Dennis; Neyrinck, Adrian; Eger, Ulrich; Sommer, PhilippDas Verbundforschungsprojekt iWindow: Intelligentes Maschinenfenster beschäftigte sich mit der visuellen Unterstützung von Maschinenbedienern an Werkzeugmaschinen. Diese konnten bisher nur auf wenige bis keine Systeme, die sie bei ihren täglichen Aufgaben direkt an der Werkzeugmaschine unterstützen, zurückgreifen. Das Forschungsprojekt verbindet reale und virtuelle Welt in der Werkzeugmaschine durch Technologien wie Virtual und Augmented Reality, digitaler Zwilling, Simulation und Mehrwertdienste. Durch Nutzung jeweils für die aktuelle Arbeitssituation passender Dienste, werden Mitarbeiter befähigt, sich an die steigende Individualisierung der Produkte und die flexiblere Produktion anzupassen. Kunden und Geschäftspartner werden durch die Möglichkeit eigene mehrwertgenerierende Dienste zu entwickeln und anderen Anwendern zur Verfügung zu stellen in den Wertschöpfungsprozess eingebunden. Diese Publikation beleuchtet die im Rahmen des Forschungsprojekts erarbeiteten Ergebnisse hinsichtlich für ein intelligentes Maschinenfenster benötigter Technologien und Entwicklungen.Item Open Access Precise voltage measurement for power electronics with high switching frequencies(2018) Nitzsche, Maximilian; Zehelein, Matthias; Tröster, Nathan; Roth-Stielow, JörgIn this paper different approaches in precise measurement of gate voltages as well as drain-source voltages of modern SiC and GaN transistors are compared. An approach to calculate the necessary bandwidth of a voltage probe to reproduce the voltage slope is presented. Furthermore, state-of-the-art voltage probes are compared in means of bandwidth, common mode reduction and response on EMI.Item Open Access Evaluating mobile monitoring strategies for native iOS applications(2018) Sassano, MatteoThe success of a company is often influenced by the service and by a product they offer. If the supplied service or the offered product is a software system, a good performance will be essential to achieve desired goals such as high product sales. Slow applications and server responses due to performance issues, may cause a negative chain reaction. The amount of actual and potential users will probably decrease, and so does the users’ satisfaction and the number of product sales. Application Performance Management (APM) is necessary to avoid these cases. The usage of APM could help detecting eventual software problems and to remediate performance issues afterwards. Meanwhile, the usage of mobile devices, e.g., smartphones and tablets, for accessing enterprise systems is increasing in every application category. This expands the space where a potential software problem might be located in. Performance of mobile applications is more influenced by external circumstances, e.g., user location and access from bandwidth limited networks. APM tools not supporting mobile monitoring, are not able to recognize the mentioned performance issues. There are different implementation strategies for application monitoring agents such as call stack sampling and full source code instrumentation. The goal of this thesis is to research agent strategies for mobile devices, to develop an own version of each agent type, to analyze and evaluate the different agent approaches in combination of various mobile application types. The evaluation will be done with a series of experiments, by measuring the outcoming overhead of the developed agents, integrated into previously selected representative iOS open-source applications.Item Open Access Benutzerinteraktion in Virtual Reality mittels Eye Tracking(2018) Groß, AnjaIn den vergangenen Jahren nahmen VR und AR eine immer bedeutendere Rolle sowohl im wirtschaftlichen, als auch forschungsorientierten Bereich ein. Die verfügbare Hardware wurde zunehmend erschwinglicher und leistungsfähiger. Im Hinblick auf den Bereich der Immersive Analytics und der auftretenden Ermüdungserscheinungen bei herkömmlichen VR Systemen, beschäftigt sich diese Arbeit mit Eye Tracking als Eingabemechanismus für VR Anwendungen. Es werden zuerst allgemeine Probleme bei System, welche Eye Tracking als Eingabemedium verwenden, dargestellt, sowie bereits entwickelte Formen der Interaktion mithilfe von Eye Tracking vorgestellt. Mithilfe des FOVE VR HMD, welches über integriertes Eye Tracking verfügt, wird ein im Rahmen dieser Arbeit entwickelte Prototyp zur Manipulation von Objekten im virtuellen Raum vorgestellt. Die Interaktionen bestehen dabei aus einer Kombination aus Eye Tracking Input und einfachen Eingaben in Form eines Knopfdruckes eines Controllers statt. Mithilfe einer Benutzerstudie werden die entwickelten Konzepte evaluiert und anschließend die Ergebnisse präsentiert und diskutiert. Auf dieser Basis werden mögliche Verbesserungen der Konzepte und Erweiterungen der Anwendung vorgestellt. Die aus dieser Arbeit gewonnenen Erkenntnisse können ebenfalls für AR Anwendungen verwendet werden.Item Open Access Indefinite linear quadratic optimal control: periodic dissipativity and turnpike properties(2018) Berberich, JulianItem Open Access Vision assisted biasing for robot manipulation planning(2018) Puang, En YenSampling efficiency has been one of the major bottlenecks of sampling-based motion planner. Although being more reliable in complex environments, Rapidly-exploring Random Tree for example often requires longer planning time than its optimisation-based counterpart. Recent developments have introduced numerous methods to bias sampling in configuration-space. Gaussian mixture model, in particular, was proposed to estimate feasible regions in configuration-space for low-variance task. Unfortunately this method does not adapt its biases according to individual planning scene during inference. Therefore, this work proposes vision assisted biasing to adapt biases by changing the weights of Gaussian components upon query. It uses autoencoder to extract features directly from depth image, and the resulted latent code is then used for either nearest neighbours search or direct weights prediction. With a modified pipeline, these extensions show improvements on not only the sampling efficiency but also path optimality of simple motion planner.