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Virtual reality in lighting design: Insights from academia and an international survey among professionals
No full textThe potential of virtual reality (VR) in lighting design remains underexplored, despite its growing technological advancements. This study aims to evaluate VR's applicability in lighting design by investigating its benefits, limitations, and adoption among professionals and researchers. A comprehensive literature review highlights VR's capabilities in replicating light distribution and its impact on perception. An international survey conducted from August to December 2023 gathered 57 responses from lighting professionals from 31 countries. Findings reveal that while 83 % of respondents are familiar with VR technologies and recognise the benefit of using VR in practice, its use in lighting design remains limited, with 70 % using VR rarely (46 %) or never (24 %). Key barriers for adoption include a lack of experience, training, time, financial constraints, and hardware limitations. VR is mainly applied for client presentations or conceptual designs, showcasing its potential to enhance client satisfaction despite the basic nature of most environments. This study underscores the need for simple, intuitive, and open-source VR tools to bridge the gap between academic research and professional practice. By aligning VR tools with professional needs, the findings provide a foundation for improving adoption rates and advancing the integration of VR in lighting design. Future research should focus on cost-effectiveness to better evaluate VR's role in improving professionalism and decision-making in the field. The study contributes to filling a critical gap in understanding the practical application of VR in lighting design
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
DEVELOPMENT OF VIRTUAL REALITY AS A TOOL OF SPACE INTERPRETATION
No full textWraz z rozwojem technologii powstają nowe media, które mają potencjał, aby wejść na stałe do naszego życia codziennego. Już pod koniec lat pięćdziesiątych XX wieku Morten Heilig opracował pierwszą maszynę do wyświetlania wirtualnej rzeczywistości. Mimo wieloletniego zapomnienia, VR została wskrzeszona poprzez łatwo dostępne smartfony o dużej mocy. Używając kartonowych gogli każdy z łatwością jest się w stanie przenieść w podróż w niedostępne wcześniej miejsca - nie tylko istniejące, ale i takie ze snów. Otwiera to nowe możliwości, gdyż użytkownik nie musi już słuchać interpretacji o wydarzeniu czy miejscu, a może je doświadczyć własnymi zmysłami. Z tego mogą skorzystać także architekci, wykorzystując wirtualną rzeczywistość, rozszerzoną rzeczywistość oraz rzeczywistość mieszaną nie tylko do przedstawienia swoich pomysłów i wizji, ale także do wspólnego zrozumienia i poprawiania doświadczeń poprzez możliwość natychmiastowych zmian i testów.As the technology develops, new media that has the potential to join us with our day to day life are created as well. Already at the end of the 1950s, Morten Heilig developed the first virtual reality display machine. Despite many years of oblivion, VR was resurrected by easily accessible high-performance smartphones. Using cardboard goggles, everyone is able to travel easily to previously unavailable places, not only existing ones but also those from dreams. This opens up new possibilities, as the user does not have to listen to the interpretation of the event or place anymore. He can experience it with his own senses. Architects should benefit from such a turn of events. Using virtual reality, augmented reality and mixed reality not only to present their ideas and visions but also to jointly understand and improve experiences through the possibility of immediate changes and tests
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
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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