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Ethical aspects of individual planning with nursing home clients on issues of dying and death
PETROVÁ, Lucie
The thesis discusses the ethical aspects of individual planning with clients in a nursing home on the issues of dying and death. The aim is to open this topic up, describe and reflect on some ethical situations of individual planning with regard to the wishes and needs of clients at the end of life and their ideas of a good death. The thesis is divided into several parts. It describes old age, aging and the ethical challenges it brings. It discusses the importance of spirituality in old age. It describes dying as a process, its stages and their specific issues. The concept of a good death is introduced and what issues are related to it. It deals with a person's last wishes and individual planning in a nursing home. A conversation is introduced as a central method of communication between the elderly and the caregivers, the purpose of which is to find out the wishes and needs of the elderly as a basis for individual planning with regard to ideas of a good death. Phenomenological research is presented, providing insights on this topic from the perspective of social workers, workers in social services directly serving care and especially clients. The last part of the work contains recommendations for practice, summarizing important principles based on the presented literature and the conducted research.
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Chatbot Based on Artificial Neural Networks
Červíček, Petr ; Novotný, Ondřej (referee) ; Szőke, Igor (advisor)
The thesis pursues the implementation of the chatbot based on neural networks. It uses Long short term memory networks, which remember long-term dependencies. Chatbot was implemented in Python with superstructure Keras and is based on sequence-to-sequence. Chatbot was also tested by BLEU and given to users, who chatted with the chatbot. For a better understanding of the given problematics, there is simple description of the chatbot history and used technologies.
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Art and Motherhood
Olivová, Kateřina ; Koubová,, Alice (referee) ; Kraĺovič,, Ján (referee) ; Klodová, Lenka (advisor)
The dissertation Art and Motherhood deals with the influence of motherhood on the experienced reality of women active in artistic practice - artists, theorists, curators and activists. Using feminist and artistic research methods, I collect and analyse the specific experiences of individual mothers. Capturing the breadth of possible views, perspectives and experiences that motherhood brings is essential to my research. I am not concerned in isolation instances of specific artistic realisations, but rather with the processes, environments and contexts of making, and the creative and life strategies employed in reconciling the personal and professional roles of individual women artists. The content of a series of thirty-five conducted interviews comprises the research material for the work, but is also the source for the practical component of the dissertation - the book Milk and Honey co-published by the wo-men and AVU publishing houses. The practice of two related community-based mothers' groups - Breastfeeding Guerillas and Mothers Artlovers is also examined. While Breastfeeding Guerrilla is a support group for mothers promoting and normalizing breastfeeding, Mothers Artlovers is a support group for parents in the arts. All of these research units set a community-based perspective on all research affecting the universal, multi-layered and inherently collective topic of motherhood.
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Modelling Emotions in Communication Agents
Sivák, Martin ; Černocký, Jan (referee) ; Smrž, Pavel (advisor)
This work deals with current chatterbot systems. It describes problems and possibilities of improvement with emphasis on natural language processing and emotion modeling during conversation. There is an implementation, based on the described knowledge, introduced in the second part of the thesis, also with experimental success rate evaluation.
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Human-like conversations with Digital Personas: Conversational strategies that support mutual understanding
Kunc, Benjamín ; Šipošová, Barbora (advisor) ; Nováková Schöffelová, Miroslava (referee)
Communication is a collaborative process, and as such requires the communicators to create common ground - the assumption that they mutually understand each other on a sufficient level (Clark, 1996). The AI-powered virtual agents capable of using natural language to communicate with humans have recently attracted the attention of both the general public and experts, as the progress enables humans to give virtual agents more complex tasks in which a conversation itself is a crucial part of a task, such as in education, healthcare or mental health. While the virtual agents are getting better at understanding natural language, their ability to fulfill complex independent tasks (conducting semi-structured interviews, tutoring, coaching, etc.) is bounded by the limitations of their communication skills, and thus they perform the best at rather short, domain-specific conversations (Drouin et al., 2022). The goals of this thesis were to 1) create an experimental framework designed for a brief (5min) social voice chat between humans and virtual agents that would allow to experimentally manipulate different conversational strategies; 2) propose the first set of conversational strategies for mutual understanding and suggest appropriate self-report and behavioral metrics to measure the impact of the...
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Art and Motherhood
Olivová, Kateřina ; Koubová,, Alice (referee) ; Kraĺovič,, Ján (referee) ; Klodová, Lenka (advisor)
The dissertation Art and Motherhood deals with the influence of motherhood on the experienced reality of women active in artistic practice - artists, theorists, curators and activists. Using feminist and artistic research methods, I collect and analyse the specific experiences of individual mothers. Capturing the breadth of possible views, perspectives and experiences that motherhood brings is essential to my research. I am not concerned in isolation instances of specific artistic realisations, but rather with the processes, environments and contexts of making, and the creative and life strategies employed in reconciling the personal and professional roles of individual women artists. The content of a series of thirty-five conducted interviews comprises the research material for the work, but is also the source for the practical component of the dissertation - the book Milk and Honey co-published by the wo-men and AVU publishing houses. The practice of two related community-based mothers' groups - Breastfeeding Guerillas and Mothers Artlovers is also examined. While Breastfeeding Guerrilla is a support group for mothers promoting and normalizing breastfeeding, Mothers Artlovers is a support group for parents in the arts. All of these research units set a community-based perspective on all research affecting the universal, multi-layered and inherently collective topic of motherhood.
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The Dialog and Questions in Teaching on Second Level of Basic school
Sumcov, Jan ; Zicha, Zbyněk (advisor) ; Jirásková, Věra (referee)
This thesis describes the integral role of using dialogue and asking questions on second level of basic school. The theoretical part of the thesis aims to point out that guiding students to dialogue and asking questions is essential for the personal development of the individual and also for a deeper understanding of the curriculum. At the same time, based on available literature and research, it summarizes the basic principles and assumptions of the dialogical teaching method. In the second part of the thesis, the author attempts to reflect the findings and examples from his practice in the form of action research and to suggest some methods and procedures that can be used to support dialogical teaching. The author focuses mainly on the questions asked by students and compares his outputs with the theoretical background on which he is based. It examines the contexts and types of questions asked by students in full-time and distance learning and also suggests procedures for encouraging them to take active questions. The results show that students are able to ask questions in the classroom, however, in normal frontally arranged lessons, only a fraction of the, usually participate in speeches in this way. In this case, the possibility of asking questions in writing or encouraging students to...
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