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Interdisciplinary Research Perspectives on the Role of Design in Combining Social, Technological and Business Development
Full text linkIntroduction to DPPI 2011
No full textIntroduzione ai Proceedings della Conferenza Internazionale Designing Pleasurable Products and Interfaces
Designing the empathic experience. A workshop
No full textThe paper reports a workshop held by the author at the University of Aveiro. Part of an ongoing PhD research focused on the possibility of designing the empathic experience, the workshop Design for Empathy involved 4 PhD students in Design, with research interests in design for social innovation, and a professor of UX design. The participants were asked to assess and review a list of ‘enablers’ of the empathic experience, previously identified by the author among some case studies presented in the workshop along with the relevant ‘enablers’. The ‘enablers’ are intended as conditions that make the empathic experience happen within relational situations, The research stems from the assumption that these conditions can be designed to some extent. In the present paper the workshop Design for Empathy will be reported providing an insight in its structure and development, as well as some of the results achieved. Nevertheless, being the workshop part of an ongoing research, the argumentation leaves room to a wide range of conclusions that will not be stressed here
Co-created by customers or co-designed by end-users?
No full textDesign centrato sull'utente, open innovation e processi di cocreazione del valor
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
Service Design logic: An Approach Based on Different Service Categories
No full textAs the manufacturing sector declines services sector grow, both in terms of the numbers
employed and in its importance for the world economy. However, as with manufactured products,
services must be designed and this design must be managed. Services has been studied for long time from
management [22, 23]. Today the service dominant logic view [6, 7, 22] is gradually replacing the
traditional contradiction between services and goods presenting services as value co-creation that involve
both tangible things and intangible activities. As contrary, Service Design, as a conscious discipline, born
in the early 90’s [18, 1, 9] and is now establishing its own tools, definitions, models and scope [19]. In the
practices of services innovation what seems to be important is to link service strategy and logic together
with service design [11]. Starting from this assumption the paper exploits the idea of the services
dominant logic in order to re-define the role and the scope of services design by discussing three different
cases of innovation for three different service typologies: (i) check-in before flight services; (ii) chronic
disease health services; (iii) video-games entertainment services
“Design Doing”: What if We Put More Design into Design Thinking?
No full textToday’s organisations are increasingly shifting their innovation processes from a top-down approach to bottom-up collaborative practices. These activities can involve multiple kinds of stakeholders that can vary from employees of different departments of the same company to potential final users of the new product/service to be developed.
The processes adopted are usually identified as ‘design thinking’, because they take advantage of a set of principles drawn from the design discipline (Kolko, 2015). Hence, many companies are building in-house design capabilities or seeking design consultancies to accompany them throughout the process (Muratovski, 2015).
This paper intends to draw a first context framing of the current situation around the topic in Italy, obtained as a result of a desk and field investigation. Moreover, it sets the ground for the analysis of the impact of such collaborative practices and their outcomes: why organizations are looking to design to innovate? What are their main goals while adopting collaborative design processes? How does design deal with such processes?
These are some of the questions that set the criteria to understand the attributes of ‘design doing’ which is the ambition of my Ph.D. research: a new course of action able to boost the design potential in organisations approaching collaborative innovation, in order to make it result-oriented more than process-driven and therefore more impactful
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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