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Digital Craft Factory
No full textDigital Craft Factory wants to investigate the relationship between design and craftsmanship in the new era of digital fabrication: how this has transfigured the knowledge and workflow exchanges between designer and craftsman. The result is a new type of artisanship in which the designer's critical thinking, to plan and project any problems in a single abstract solution, is embedded with the craftmanship’s critical experience, that acts more like a step by step process.
Due to the algorithms aided design is now possible to overcome any boundaries between the two disciplines and design a merging work flow, in order to transfer it in the new world of the rapid manufacturing. In particular, it was possible to develop an assisted creation system that helps guitar makers to fasten the design of the instrument morphology, according to the preference of the customers, and possible to produce easily through rapid manufacturing, in a file-to-factory optic.
It’s an algorithm-aided-design process that helps to customize the guitar according to some open inputs, generating the relative digital output. This made possible to develop a unique shape, without losing the functionality.
This new kind of design modality emerges from a close observations of the artisan techniques and then is embedded in the design process thanks to flexible and accessible tools of generative thinking, in which the consciousness and creativity of the artisan work is crystallized in a responsive process, able to iterate all the possible solutions
Digital Craft Factory. Sistema di progettazione generativa assistita per l’artigianato post-industriale
Full text linkLa sfida affrontata dalla ricerca è quella di trovare un approccio morfogenetico avanzato di collaborazione designer-artigiano che fondi il “Saper Fare” delle maestranze con le attuali esigenze di mercato e con gli strumenti tecnologici. L’obiettivo generale di stabilire un modello di Neo-Artigianato, grazie a processi evoluti di co-design. Il flusso di lavoro risultante vuole fornire un approccio che rappresenti un modo di interpretare il rapporto creazione-produzione e la tradizionale collaborazione tra designer-artigiano. Il Generative Design ha dimostrato di poter incorporare tutti questi valori in artefatti che accolgono queste energie di crescita, con approcci sistematici e strategici autonomi di form-finding. I progetti pilota sviluppati hanno l’obiettivo finale di testare un’infrastruttura in grado di accogliere la progettazione industriale all’interno del processo mentale costruttivo artigianale, senza perdere o sostituire il lavoro con cui l’artigiano si identifica, ma per aumentare e assistere la fase creativa, e di trasformare il processo in risultati virtuali producibili tramite direct manufacturing. Digital Craft Factory propone un modello in cui sono specificati i ruoli dell’artigiano, del design e della macchina, ma allo stesso tempo generare un sistema di interscambio dei singoli professionisti in cui la presenza di uno sia fondamentale per il sviluppo dell’altro
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
Post-Series Design: a tool for catalysing the diffusion of personalisable design.
Full text linkToday a range of increasingly mainstream Digital Fabrication tools help designers not only in prototyping, but also in the production of final parts for consumer products. These hardware tools, while still have significant limitations, they already offer new levels of morphological freedom and logistical flexibility, which allows the efficient production of personalisable products – supposing advanced software tools of Parametric Design. However, since DF, PD and personalisation are still marginal, one may suspect that the Design profession has a shortage of adequate capabilities. Therefore, this contribution proposes a conceptual tool focused on valorising the previous hardware and software tools to achieve meaningfully personalisable products. The proposed canvas tool is structured specifically to facilitate opportunity identification and conceptual design, based on a set of key advantages (variabilities) derived from numerous case studies of existing personalisable products realised with DF. The new approach and tool have been experimented with a class of product design students, but it also aims to facilitate product development at enterprises, coherently with the emerging Industry 4.0 paradigm
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
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