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The role of images in the dematerialisation of design presentations during pandemics
No full textThe Spring 2020 lockdown has forced a dematerialisation of project outcomes in the design schools’ university education processes. Final events, to which, in the past, the narrative function of the project was delegated, were redesigned. In this dematerialisation, the image role has changed: from the ancillary role accompanying the physical model to becoming the true and only protagonist of the project narrative.
The case study chosen is the 11th edition of the Master in Transportation & Automobile Design at the Politecnico di Milano, which ended in July 2020. The exhibition of the thesis projects was transformed into an international online event. The narration of the projects involved the construction of a presentation centred on videos and images.
The time available to the students to present their projects was shorter than usual due to the constraints of an online event, making it necessary to do much work to prepare the iconographic material and directorial. As the quality of the images and videos had to be high, training courses, not initially foreseen, were introduced to help students achieve the new objective. The material produced was also used to create a virtual exhibition on the master's website.
The experience gained in the emergency caused by the pandemic will be helpful in the future, especially at the end of the twelfth edition of the master's course (July 2021), given the continuing uncertainty of the scenarios in which we operate because making images the narrative focus will allow greater adaptability to rapidly changing situations
On the use of a Palm Computer for Design Review Interaction in a Virtual Room
No full textIncreasingly often the use of photorealistic models for design review processes involves the setup of special rooms, fully dedicated to visualize digital models onto large display, the so called CADwall. In this scenario an effective interaction with virtual prototypes is a basic need, but it is almost always based on traditional input devices, such as mouse and keyboard. The design review process is usually led by a chief designer, but the use
of traditional interaction tools requires an additional operator. This operator is guided by the chief designer through vocal inputs in a slow, misleading and inefficient way.
In this paper we propose a solution based on a handheld device and an inertial sensor node, with a graphic interface that allows a direct interaction with 3-D digital models inside virtual rooms with large displays
A methodology for color management in the environment of virtual restoration
No full textThe way to setup a virtual environment for evaluating restoration proposals is based on three main steps, the survey, the construction of a model, and
the visualization. Although strategies to manage problems associated with the geometry has been defined, the management of chromatic representation along the entire virtualization process still need to be fully investigated. The paper discusses the approach taken in a project developed to assist the restoration of the “Sala delle Cariatidi” in Milan's Royal Palace
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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