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ICT Technology for Innovating the Garment Design Process in Fashion Industry
No full textThe Italian fashion industry is nowadays subject to radical transformation; therefore, it needs to remain competitive and, at the same time, innovate itself, in order to strengthen its position in the global market. An important opportunity of innovation can be the introduction of ICT technologies in the garment design process, which today is based on traditional methods and tools. Moreover, this innovation could be particularly important for online sales, in order to reduce the customers’ doubts during purchasing. The research presented in this paper describes a framework for designing clothes as realistic 3D digital models and for allowing customers to evaluate the designed clothes by using realistic virtual mannequins of their bodies instead of the standard ones. A case study will be presented in the paper. The obtained results show that the framework can innovate the traditional garment design process and it could have a huge impact on fashion industry and customers behaviours
Discovering Skeletal Joe Median
No full textThe purpose of this study is to produce an accurate anthropometric reference model, of the median human skeletal anatomy, for posture analysis using computer assisted design (CAD). Also, to determine if a single reference model can be proposed by combining data from existing studies of quantitative anatomy, including the cranium, spine, clavicle and pelvic girdle. A review of existing literature across the disciplines of anthropometrics, ergonomics, clinical anatomy, forensic science, and clinical biomechanics was carried out using books, academic journals, conference proceedings, international standards, government and military reports. Subject selection criteria included white males, from European, American, Middle Eastern, North African and South African sources. Only study samples with documented stature or other scalable references, between the ages of 19-65 years without spinal deformation or degradation were included. These findings were scaled to correspond to 2004 UK median stature data and combined as a process of normalisation. The measurements from existing studies have often been compared to each other, but as the studies have different stature averages, they are not numerically comparable. The current study is more holistic and accurate than existing studies with a resulting reference model, which includes 581 dimensions constructed to a precision of 0.1mm or 0.1° as full scale, 2D engineering drawings with accompanying spreadsheets of normalised dimensions. A resulting static 3D model was produced. This model is easily scaleable for changes identified in ergonomic secular trends. All newly scaled anatomical dimensions still remain closely comparable or confirm findings of other investigators. It was noted no guidelines for dimensioning anatomical data exists. Some recommendations are proposed. An anatomically accurate computer model has been generated which will aid further work in posture analysis
The Making Affect: a co-created community methodology
No full textAHRC: Co-Producing CARE: Community Asset-based Research & Enterprise AH/K006789/
Discovering Skeletal Joe Median
No full textThe purpose of this study is to produce an accurate anthropometric reference model, of the median human skeletal anatomy, for posture analysis using computer assisted design (CAD). Also, to determine if a single reference model can be proposed by combining data from existing studies of quantitative anatomy, including the cranium, spine, clavicle and pelvic girdle. A review of existing literature across the disciplines of anthropometrics, ergonomics, clinical anatomy, forensic science, and clinical biomechanics was carried out using books, academic journals, conference proceedings, international standards, government and military reports. Subject selection criteria included white males, from European, American, Middle Eastern, North African and South African sources. Only study samples with documented stature or other scalable references, between the ages of 19-65 years without spinal deformation or degradation were included. These findings were scaled to correspond to 2004 UK median stature data and combined as a process of normalisation. The measurements from existing studies have often been compared to each other, but as the studies have different stature averages, they are not numerically comparable. The current study is more holistic and accurate than existing studies with a resulting reference model, which includes 581 dimensions constructed to a precision of 0.1mm or 0.1° as full scale, 2D engineering drawings with accompanying spreadsheets of normalised dimensions. A resulting static 3D model was produced. This model is easily scaleable for changes identified in ergonomic secular trends. All newly scaled anatomical dimensions still remain closely comparable or confirm findings of other investigators. It was noted no guidelines for dimensioning anatomical data exists. Some recommendations are proposed. An anatomically accurate computer model has been generated which will aid further work in posture analysis
Improving Aid Through Good Design: A Case Study in Rural Zambia
No full textThis paper presents case study material relating to the application of a process of Human-Centred Design that draws upon Design Thinking for the development of medical products for rural Zambia. The underpinning method was developed in response to calls for the development of culturally and contextually appropriate medical product solutions as opposed to the current solution; directly imported products and methods from industrialised nations. The authors note the benefits and limitations of the approach taken, reflect on the resulting insights and provide recommendations for future studies
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe 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
No full text“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
No full textWe 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
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe 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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