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Playscapes: Creating Space for Young Children's Physical Activity and Play
No full textYoung children often lack opportunities to play in a physically active way. This is particularly the case for children with cancer and other chronic diseases, who regularly undergo periods of hospitalization. Promoting their physical activity and play can contribute to their health, wellbeing, and development. This thesis develops ‘Playscapes’ – a design perspective that emphasizes the unstructured and spontaneous nature of young children’s physical activity. Playscapes encourages designers to enable such physical activity through the design of open-ended and ambiguous playthings. By designing such playthings for children with cancer, this thesis contributes to turning hospital environments, such as patient rooms and waiting areas, into potential ‘landscapes for physical activity and play’.Human Information Communication DesignDesign Aesthetic
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Doordraaischijf: a product proposal to capitalize the helping hand for people with confused behavior
No full textThis master thesis describes the outcome of the graduation project “Capitalizing the helping hand” which is executed for, and commissioned, by WeHelpen. The project aims to find new ways of helping in the informal domain in order to extend the services provided by WeHelpen, and to consider the interests of the stakeholders and members comprising cooperation WeHelpen. By doing so, it anticipates the desire to innovate in the informal helping context as researched in The Netherlands. A new angle on the interest group has been established, focusing on a type of behavior perceived as confused, rather than the underlying mental reasons for this confusion. This report presents the proposal doordraaischijf which is developed for cooperation WeHelpen. A first overview of the main elements of the product-service combination can be seen in here, accompanied by a brief summary. This proposal will be elaborated on in more detail throughout the report, as well as the reasoning behind the embodiment and development. The project approach is a “lean” version of Vision in Product Design. It is an adaptation using specifically the context projection element to place an intervention in a future context. The researched contexts are presented. In the following chapters, different aspects of the design will be further elaborated on, and as of why this intervention is appropriate for the context of confusion. The proposal chapter will feature different aspects of the design are the interactions that are taking place, the context of use, the underlying working principles, shape, form, color, material, and finish. In the arguments, the reasoning behind elements of the development is explained additionally. The co-creation sessions with experiential experts are explained in the chapter focus group results. The relevancy for stakeholders of WeHelpen, the users, as well as society as a whole is argued. The user evaluation chapter presents the study conducted to answer the research question if people who should carry the intervention are able to formulate the scenarios and instructions related to their confusion. The journey-chapter focuses on the process in chronological order, also explaining the steps which did not contribute to the final proposal directly, but had influence on the process. A personal reflection considering several themes of the graduation project are included. The references present all the literature, multimedia publications, and the professionals which have been interviewed. The appendices provide insight in the materials that evoked insights as well as the results that served as a foundation for argumentation. The doordraaischijf is a handheld disc which allows carriers to communicate their needs in a moment of confusion to others. The specific shape is a reference to a parking disc, except this disc has two sides that hold content. One side (orange) holds the scenarios the carrier has formulated related to confusion, while the other side (purple) displays the appropriate instruction to the helping hand for improving the situation. A digital platform complements the physical presence of the disc.The carriers are people prone to confusion; those with a history of confused behavior or a higher chance of developing confused behavior. As people in confusion might be temporarily unable to formulate those needs, the disc holds predefined personalized scenarios and corresponding instructions for improving those situations. A lot of people would like to help another who might be in confusion, but do not know how to intervene. This disc provides a perspective for action to the helping hand: the personalized instructions assist the helper in offering the appropriate help. The helping hand can be anyone that passes by. A carrier will rotate the insert disc to select the unfolding scenario in relation to confusion. The helping hand will consider the appropriate instruction on the other side of the casing, which is automatically and synchronously displayed when the carrier selects the scenario. The instructions are formulated personally by the carrier at a different moment in time, so the helper can rely on the content. This is also a safeguard for the intervention, as people in confusion might voice different options than when they are in a more accountable mental state. The instructions will leave room for interpretation by the helping hand, as the personal considerations as well as the variables surrounding the moment influence the interaction.The digital platform facilitates all the support interactions. It allows for the creation of the personal content as well as the production and delivery. The helping hand can instigate contact through a personal connect code at a convenient moment.Design for Interactio
Build your food city
No full textThe following report outlines a design project about self-tracking, a food diary app, with the goal of encouraging young adults to record and understand their eating behaviour. The project was executed for the graduation course, as part of the Master’s program at the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering at TU Delft. This report begins with an introduction to the project, including the background of self-tracking, assignment and approach. The design will focus on young adults who live alone and work full time. Next, from the literature research and user research, insights were drawn on the current experience of using food-tracking tools. Self-Determination Theory and Gamification Theory were applied to help with analyzing the user characteristics and contextual factors. Based on research, the design goal was formed: Engaging young adults who live alone and work full time to record and better understand their eating behaviour. Users should feel supported and competent when interacting with the design, reporting the food-related data without pressure and unpleasant feeling, and at the same, keep engaged through using. Based on this goal, I next explored the solution space, narrowing it down to three possible concept directions that would take the redesign in three different extreme directions. Evaluations for all three tests were conducted with seven participants. The results showed that a combination of various elements from the three concepts should be used for the redesign in order to optimize the user experience. Next, after a redesign workshop and a cognitive walkthrough, the final concept was detailed and a high-fidelity prototype was created. This prototype was evaluated in a user test with six participants. The results demonstrated the strength of many of the design decisions, while also showing areas of improvement; such as the need to better guide the user when choosing their weekly goal. The recommendations and limitations were discussed as well in the end.Design for Interactio
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Objects with intent: Designing Everyday Things as Collaborative Partners
No full textIn HCI there is an increasing trend to approach computing artifacts as agents. In this article, we make a case for "Objects with Intent" (OwI's) as an emerging type of agents that take advantage of the meaning of everyday things as the site for their intelligence and agency. After reviewing relevant existing research in HCI and related fields, we demonstrate how OwI's provide a new perspective on human-agent interaction. We then elaborate on how the notion of OwI's is informed by Dennett's theory of intentionality and Leontiev's Activity Theory. Thereafter, we illustrate the application of OwI's through the design case of Fizzy, a robotic ball used to stimulate hospitalized children to engage in physical play. We end by discussing the nature and merit of OwI's and reflecting more broadly on the challenges involved in designing OwI's.</p
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe 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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