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Imagination meets algorithm: redefining design practices in the coming AI age
Full text linkThe summer of 2022 marked the advent of accessible text-to-image tools, revolutionizing image rendering with distinctive styles swiftly. This generated a creative shift among designers, generally addressed as ‘prompt design’, although this expression scarcely captures the profound interaction between design and digital tools.
This paper elucidates the potential synergy between designers and AI through one pragmatic workshop engaged by university students. Our approach was focused on an exercise to foster a rich imaginative process before the text-to-image creation. The result is a discussion over the relevance of structured imaginative process and the capabilities of generative AI technologies,supporting an enriched dialogic interaction between design and dataset-based imagery: insights on the different conceptual layers between AI and narrative, a discussion for the development of improved narrative & AI tools, and reflections on conceptual aspects of co-creativity in the context of scenario design practice and AI.
By positioning AI as a tool for conceptual exploration rather than simple automation, the study offers a novel perspective on the evolving relationship between computational systems and design practice. The structured methodological framework, integrating speculative scenario design and iterative AI interactions, provides a replicable model for studying the practical dimensions of AI-assisted creative processes
Analysis and Visualization of Personal Data : the Value of Images in the Social Networks
No full textThe goal of this research project is the analysis and development of tools to highlight and interpret personal data that is freely shared on the social networks of the web. Starting from the premise that images taken by mobile phones can be considered to all effects personal data representing values that can be displayed through a system of interactive maps, we will develop a strategy to identify the means for comparing different sets of data in order to reveal temporal and geographical information. The current project is an online platform for collecting and displaying interpolated data obtained by cross-reading the social networks Twitter and Instagram. The comparison between tweets and the pictures shared on Instagram will find some correlations that will be read and interpreted through an interactive interface. The results will be visualised on the basis of their hashtags and geolocation. Given a defined time interval, a geographical reference located in metropolitan areas, and a matrix of different hashtags, the software will create interactive maps by collecting different sets of data. This will provide the user with a tool for analysing and interpreting certain complex phenomena related to certain specific socio-cultural aspects. The selection of case studies for the research has been carried out mainly within the social context that revolves around fitness. The underlying reason is that the use of camera images is strongly linked to personal motivation and self-confirmation. The correlation between the satisfaction of achieving a specific performance in sports (though not a professional one) and the temporal and geo-referenced context becomes a tool to analyse and understand complex dynamics evolving within a multifaceted environment such as the one that orbits around sharing online pictures of the results as self-confirmation
Forme di collaborazione con l’Università IUAV = Forms of collaboration with the University Iuav
No full textInnovare le funzioni, i modi d’uso e l’interazione con l’utente
No full textLa funzione prioritaria di qualsiasi tipo di packaging è ovviamente la protezione del contenuto, per garantire il mantenimento della qualità
originale del prodotto e la sua integrità fisica. Tuttavia il packaging non si limita a questo, ma si sta rapidamente evolvendo verso funzioni
sempre più articolate, nell’ottica di una progettazione costruita sull’utente, sulle sue esigenze e sulle sue aspettative.
In particolare la funzione comunicativa e quella informativa dell’imballaggio acquisiscono sempre maggiore importanza, così che si possa definire «non soltanto dunque scocca o involucro di un contenuto (per conservarlo, proteggerlo, trasportarlo, ecc.) o interfaccia tra consumatore e prodotto (per facilitarne l’uso e il consumo), ma medium che si riconfigura per diffondere anche contenuti comunicativi “altri”».
Analysis and Visualization of Personal Data: the Value of Images in the Social Networks
No full textThe goal of this research project is the analysis and development of tools to highlight and interpret personal data that is freely shared on the social networks of the web. Starting from the premise that images taken by mobile phones can be considered to all effects personal data representing values that can be displayed through a system of interactive maps, we will develop a strategy to identify the means for comparing different sets of data in order to reveal temporal and geographical information. The current project is an online platform for collecting and displaying interpolated data obtained by cross-reading the social networks Twitter and Instagram. The comparison between tweets and the pictures shared on Instagram will find some correlations that will be read and interpreted through an interactive interface. The results will be visualised on the basis of their hashtags and geolocation. Given a defined time interval, a geographical reference located in metropolitan areas, and a matrix of different hashtags, the software will create interactive maps by collecting different sets of data. This will provide the user with a tool for analysing and interpreting certain complex phenomena related to certain specific socio-cultural aspects. The selection of case studies for the research has been carried out mainly within the social context that revolves around fitness. The underlying reason is that the use of camera images is strongly linked to personal motivation and self-confirmation. The correlation between the satisfaction of achieving a specific performance in sports (though not a professional one) and the temporal and geo-referenced context becomes a tool to analyse and understand complex dynamics evolving within a multifaceted environment such as the one that orbits around sharing online pictures of the results as self-confirmation
Human-Data Experience Design : progettare con i personal data
No full textLa quotidianità di ciascuno è caratterizzata dall’interazione con un flusso sempre maggiore di dati digitali, che dà ori-gine a una serie di problematiche legate a quella che viene definita “datizzazione” della realtà. Una importante criticità è relativa ai sistemi per la gestione dei personal data che sembrano tendere verso un eccessivo “datacentrismo”, con il rischio di togliere all’individuo il diritto di centralità del pro-prio ruolo. Viene qui suggerito un possibile modello metodo-logico, denominato Human-Data Experience Design, in cui i dati diventano materiale di progettazione, affinché l’utente riacquisti il suo ruolo di soggetto attivo in ogni fase di rela-zione con essi
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
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