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User Requirements for a Health Care Service Based on Point-of-care Testing in the Context of Ambulatory Care and Telemedicine for Older People.
No full textIn healthcare, point-of-care testing, i.e., diagnostic testing at the time and place of
patient care, allows for early diagnosis and therefore timely treatment of various diseases.
These on-site tests are particularly beneficial to people living in remote areas
and those with limited mobility. Our study focused on the design of a service for
older people, whereby ambulatory care and telemedicine consultations are based on
point-of-care testing. Its aim was to elicit user requirements, specifically for the use
case of iron deficiency in older people. A textual scenario was developed which formed
the foundation for the simulated or “enacted” scenario, with both undergoing
participatory evaluations. A wide range of “socio-technical” requirements were elicited
that are expected to be crucial for the implementation of this service. Based on
content analysis they were categorized into technology-, people-, organization- and
environment-related requirements. The results are discussed regarding the specific
use case and methods used
Towards Agile Worth-Oriented Systems Engineering for Future (AWOSE 4F) – Considering Sustainability Goals and Issues in Development Processes
No full textStrenge B, Schack T. Towards Agile Worth-Oriented Systems Engineering for Future (AWOSE 4F) – Considering Sustainability Goals and Issues in Development Processes. In: Human-Centered Design and User Experience. Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics International. Vol 114. AHFE Open Access; 2023: 338-348.The Agile Worth-Oriented Systems Engineering (AWOSE) approach is a flexibly applicable methodology to identify and assess potential ethical issues with respect to a (socio-)technical system and systematically incorporate them in a corresponding agile development process. Originally, AWOSE used the model for the ethical evaluation of socio-technical arrangements (MEESTAR), which refers to ethical dimensions exclusively focused on the direct needs of human stakeholders, and fuzzily demanded to extend these with environment- and nature-related aspects. This part of the methodology was meant to merely safeguard against potential harm, whereas an independent set of “worth elements” describing the intended positive outcomes of the system’s usage was pursued as the primary goals of development. Both potential ethical issues and intended worth were then integrated into so-called Worth Maps and explicitly connected to associated system features and components. The Worth Maps then facilitated appropriate design decisions during agile development of the system. As a proposed advancement and tentative successor, AWOSE for Future (AWOSE 4F) strives to concretize the consideration of non-human life and emphasize its interdependence with human requirements based on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) defined by the United Nations. Previous research on sustainability in the context of software and other information and communication technology-based system development commonly distinguished between “green IT” or “software sustainability”, i.e., making technical systems themselves greener, and “green by IT” or “sustainability by software”, i.e., using technical systems as tools to encourage sustainable action. AWOSE 4F can potentially address both of these, depending on the placement of SDGs within Worth Maps. Using SDGs to extend or replace the "ethical dimensions" of MEESTAR should ensure that the system itself is made sufficiently sustainable, whereas establishing SDGs as “intended worth" would foster encouragement of sustainable actions or decisions through the system. In principle, AWOSE 4F could be used in the research and development of a broad range of different upcoming technical systems. Setting SDGs as intended worth appears especially promising for the creation of future cognitive assistance systems that shall help human users select and execute sustainable (micro) actions in daily life, as well as for making appropriate long-term strategic decisions
Advancing the Development of Intelligent Wearable Robots for Elderly Assistance: An Innovative User-Centric Co-Creation (UC3) Framework
Full text linkSarcopenia is an involuntary loss of muscle mass along with age, bringing pressure and challenges to older adults who demand independence. Wearable robots are promising solutions to address the adversities brought by sarcopenia. Using an innovative User-Centric Co-Creation (UC3) Framework, we conducted an iterative, transdisciplinary, multistage study in Hong Kong, to develop intelligent wearable robots to assist older adults in performing daily living tasks. A multimethod approach combining participatory workshops, quantitative assessments, and laboratory experiments was adopted. A total of 16 participants joined six sessions of participatory workshops to provide user requirements. 91 healthy older adults joined an experiment to provide reference data, and 55 older adults with sarcopenia potential joined an experiment to provide user data. User requirements provide insights for robotic design, reference group data informed the robotic team on system design, and user experiments in turn provided evidence for the robotic group to further improve robotic systems and identify outcome indicators at three levels, including physiological level, functional level, and behavioral level. Following the UC3 Framework, we involved users as equal partners in the development process and collected insightful data to develop wearable robots in iterative cycles.published_or_final_versio
Transforming Energy Marketing Practices for Enhanced Solar PV Adoption
Full text linkThe adoption and use of solar PV systems is a complex and multifarious process influenced by personal, social, economic, technical and regulatory factors. Solar PV companies involved in the sales and interaction with the customers can play an important role in facilitating adoption. Companies’ ability to effectively market the product, disseminate information, frame value offerings and address consumers concerns can play an important role in this regard. The small size of the domestic market, an amplified competition and limited resources highlight the need to alter the way companies have been carrying out their operations. The qualitative study explores how solar PV companies can transform their marketing operations by integrating through the use of advanced digital technologies to facilitate the process.© 2022. Published by AHFE Open Access. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).fi=vertaisarvioitu|en=peerReviewed
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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