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Balancing sensors and seniors: introducing sensors sensitivity, human sensors and future-self goals
No full textBeing monitored at home as an independent and fit elderly person for the sake of illnesses onset prevention poses big challenges in the design of a meaningful sensors system. In this paper we discuss how a critical understanding of seniors’ felt experience around a predictive sensors system was gained through fieldwork and experience prototyping. Starting from the fieldwork insights, several disruptive opportunity areas for the design of such monitoring systems are elicited and deployed into future scenarios, which explore the possibility of sensors sensitivity attunement; the introduction of the human sensors and the personal setting of future-self goals. The proposed concepts challenge current mainstream research on active ageing, ICT solutions for the elderly population and AI as a black box disjoint from human experience, opening up to a complete new perspective of seniors as agent of their sensors monitoring system
Cars with an Intent
No full textIn a near future autonomous cars will likely populate the urban environment together with traditional cars and other road users. While they will actually consist of urban- scale robots immersed in a socio-technical context, so far autonomous cars have been almost exclusively looked at from the perspective of safety and functionality and they have not been designed towards acting as social urban beings. ”Cars with an Intent” is a design- research driven PhD project which envisions cars beyond their core objectives of functionality and safety, and probes how positive and enriching car-to-human and human-to-human relationships can be prompted by embedding social intentions and behaviours in the car. After an initial exploration in the two different directions, the research delves into the specific concept called "Co-Drive", pursuing human-to human relationships. First, I describe the Co-Drive concept as an extended reality experience (XR); next I develop an early-stage prototyping methodology that allows me to test it with real people in their context without having the fully developed technology. Through three prototyping interventions, I draw the first conclusions on the social values of the "Co-Drive" concept and I suggest that the social intent of autonomous cars may emerge through i) teledriving, as a combined intent between the autonomous car and the human; and ii) the in-car interfaces, as a way to spot and board remote passengers and to embody them in the car.In un prossimo futuro le automobili a guida autonoma popoleranno probabilmente l'ambiente urbano insieme alle auto tradizionali e ad altri utenti della strada. Sebbene siano a tutti gli effetti dei robot a scala urbana immersi in un contesto socio-tecnico, finora le auto autonome sono state considerate quasi esclusivamente dal punto di vista della sicurezza e della funzionalità di guida e non sono state progettate per agire come esseri urbani sociali. "Automobili con una Intenzionalità" è un progetto di dottorato che segue un processo di “ricerca attraverso il design” (design research) e che immagina le automobili oltre i loro obiettivi principali di funzionalità e sicurezza. Il progetto infatti esplora quali relazioni positive e arricchenti possano essere attivate tra automobili ed esseri umani e tra gli stessi esseri umani incorporando intenzionalità sociali e nuovi comportamenti nelle automobili e si sviluppa attraverso la prototipazione di nuove relazioni sociali nel contesto reale. Dopo una prima esplorazione nelle due diverse direzioni di ricerca, il progetto si concentra sulla specifica idea intitolata "Co-Drive", approfondendo le relazioni che possono emergere tra gli esseri umani attraverso le nuove capacità delle automobili. In primo luogo, descrivo il concetto di “Co-Drive” come un'esperienza di realtà estesa (XR); successivamente sviluppo una metodologia di prototipazione da applicarsi sin dalla fase iniziale del progetto, che mi consenta di sviluppare e testare l’idea con persone reali nel loro contesto, seppur non disponendo di una tecnologia completamente sviluppata e funzionante. Attraverso tre interventi di prototipazione, traggo le prime conclusioni sui valori sociali dell’idea "Co-Drive" e suggerisco che l’intenzionalità sociale delle automobili a guida autonoma può emergere attraverso i) la capacità di guida remota, come risultante dell’ intenzionalità dell’automobile autonoma e dell'essere umano, e ii) le interfacce all’interno dell’automobile, attraverso cui si possono, da un lato, localizzare e far salire a bordo i passeggeri remoti e, dall’altro, “incarnarli” in appendici robotiche dell’automobile (robotic embodiment)
Designing for place-making in XR: the process of the Co-Drive stops and its atlas
No full textThe study described in this paper shows how the concept of the social construction
of space can support the design of the XR experience called ”Co-Drive” by injecting
acts of place-making along the design process. Co-Drive is a novel service that allows
social virtual travelling by car between a driver of an automated vehicle and a remote
passenger connected via virtual reality from home. In this paper, the focus is on
the Co-Drive stops, the peculiar spaces where the driver and the remote passenger
get to meet for the very first time, and how such spaces turn into places which are
bounded by their physical features; the individual and social experiences; and the
narratives drawn from those experiences
Co-Drive: Next Stop Kumasi!
No full textThis paper describes the fieldwork and the co-creation activities related to the design concept called "Co-Drive", which engaged local people in Kumasi, Ghana, running the traditional Trotro bus service. The research aimed at understanding and probing in context how the "Co-Drive" design concept could be accommodated within the informal mobility infrastructure of Trotro service, which is well established in the country, and the local culture linked to the public collective transportation service run by Trotro drivers and mates. The paper departs from an introduction to the "Co-Drive" concept and then follows with a description of the hybrid design sessions with local Trotro drivers and mates, which happened during the Covid pandemic. Several insights on the accommodation of the Co-Drive concept within the Trotro culture are drawn. The paper concludes with a discussion on the contribution that such Co-Drive research in Kumasi brought to the current discourse on design decolonisation
Design interventions as a form of inquiry
No full textThis paper is about research methods that are explicitly oriented towards qualitative empirical exploration of the open-endedness of the world. In short, we propose that design interventions can be seen as a form of inquiry that is particularly relevant for investigating phenomena that are not very coherent, barely possible, almost unthinkable, and totally underspecified because they are still in the process of being conceptually and physically articulated. We see design interventions as a supplement to existing research methods, one that favors and explores unsettled and imagined possibility, yet employs empiricist virtues of embodiment, empathy and documentary forms
Co-Drive: Experiencing Social Virtual Travel on a Car Trip
No full textThe Co-Drive interactive experience at CHI2021 gives conference attendees the possibility
to experience social virtual travelling by car either as the driver or the remote
passenger. Through the dislocation of two prototypes in two different parts of the
world, Co-Drive trips will be available in two different locations, one of which crowdsourced
among prospective CHI attendees. After experiencing the Co-Drive trip, participants
will be able to share their experience in a collective way through a virtual meeting
held during the conference and subsequently in an individual way through a phone call
or video/audio recording from their car to the main author
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
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