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Faultlines irish design research conference 2015: book of abstracts
No full textWelcome to the Irish Design
Research Conference 2015,
an initiative of designCORE at
the Dargan Centre, Institute
of Technology Carlow. This all
island and event has been cosponsored
by ID2015 as part of
Year of Irish Design. It aims to
provide a national forum for
current design researchers to
disseminate emergent design
research taking place within
the discipline.
Ireland is showing clear
indications of economic
recovery, and a policy objective
for ID2015 is to achieve growth
within the Irish design sector.
This timely forum seeks to draw
leading academic researchers,
from across the disciplinary
bandwidth, into a stimulating,
challenging and rewarding
interdisciplinary discourse. This
can provide the growing Irish
design research community,
a means to engage with each
other, exchange experiences and
share insight. The conference
theme, FAULTLINES-Bridging
Knowledge Spaces seeks to
explore the interstices
between knowledge and
practice. For cross-disciplinary
relevance, the sessions address
the more global themes of how
design research can inform
policy, impact society and find
intervention in industry.
The importance of design
research and innovation to
the health and commercial
development of the Irish SME
sector is clear. FAULTLINES
also seeks to bridge the spaces
between academia and industry
partners. Through the various
associated events and networking
opportunities organised, it is
hoped you may identify further
potential collaborative action; for
mutual benefit.
I would like to thank keynote
speakers and delegates for their
contribution and all who have
assisted in organising this event.
I also wish to thank our sponsors
for their generous support.
While your time in Carlow and
your contribution is critically
important to the success of the
conference, I hope you will also
have a chance to visit VISUAL
Arts Centre and experience
the engaging international
exhibition in augmented reality
being held there. There are
also many events occurring
around Carlow as part of EIGSE
Arts Festival which will be of
interest. More importantly,
during the conference, I hope
you have an opportunity to grow
your networks and that you are
inspired to extend beyond the
conference itself to develop
further meaningful dialogues
together.ye
Project design for sustainable innovation: Learning rods
No full textConsulta en la Biblioteca ETSI Industriales (9039)[EN] This report describes the statement and evolution of a twelve-week design project. It aims to create an aid for children (even blind or partially sighted) to learn and comprehend mathematics. It also describes difficulties found and reasoning taken. In the end the product finish in a tangible product and then it is stated a possible business plan and a service system.Blom-Dahl Oliver, J. (2012). Project design for sustainable innovation: Learning rods. https://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/28803.Archivo delegad
Towards a technological university: A design approach to knowledge creation
No full textIrish economic strategies, in line with broader global strategies, aim to promote innovation and knowledge creation. The past notion that knowledge was a learned entity which stopped and was repeated as needed no longer fits. It is considered that in order to develop innovative fluid thinking and new knowledge creation, the focus shifts from the actual knowledge to the competencies and skills that the practice and application of the knowledge brings.
In direct response to this, the Irish Higher Education system is witnessing a period of transition. As part of this transition, some of the Institutes of Technology (IOTs) will merge to become Technological Universities (TUs). The TU focus will extend beyond teaching and learning towards innovation and knowledge creation. The Irish design education sector is innovation focussed and is based on a tradition of practice oriented learning. This thesis aims to position the role of practice oriented learning in the context of innovation and knowledge creation within Irish design education. The approach may now be of value as a process in knowledge creation in other disciplines, as they transition to the emergent Irish TU model.
In order to achieve this the overall research area was refined and broken down into the following research questions:
1. What is the strategy behind the focus on knowledge creation and innovation within the transitioning higher education system?
2. How is knowledge created within design education?
3. What role does practice oriented learning play in achieving knowledge creation?
4. How can the value of practice oriented learning benefit an emerging TU culture?
Design research is based upon the ability to identify and implement the most appropriate approach to data collection and the analysis of collected material. The ‘research through design’ approach was the selected methodology for the project.
Research through design presumes an interpretative understanding of the material or data being collected. It works when there is an openness and readiness to engage in new or surprising situations in the course of research. This methodology has a focus on synthesising information to form creative insights. The approach was selected as it does not pursue verification or falsification, but rather an interactive interpretative dialogue with the design situation (Frayling, 1993). This is appropriate when the research seeks to uncover strategy as opposed to gathering facts or data, we seek instead to make meaning of the data.
One approach to synthesising information involves deep interaction with the data through visual mapping. This approach was selected on the basis that visual mapping would provide a means to deal with the complexity of considering three key areas of research namely; policy, industry and education. The visual mapping enables us to see how and when policy, industry and education interact to arrive at today’s strategy for the emerging TU’s. This involves decision making throughout the project based on analysis and findings to provide direction. Whilst this method provides a clear rationale for the project direction there is still an amount of subjective interpretation. In order to provide further rigour to this method, a pragmatic approach was taken to test findings through field research using interviews, observations and workshops. In addition to this, peer review and publications were carried out throughout the project. The peer reviews acted as a test bed for the latest thinking in this research area from an international context.
The findings to date indicate the strategy behind the transitioning Irish Higher education system is to promote knowledge creation as opposed to the traditional knowledge consumption. This is being driven by economic demands in response to the global shift from production based economy to knowledge based economy. The economic demands are both national and International and strive for innovation through knowledge creation. The thesis defines knowledge creation within design education as a specific process of tacit and explicit knowledge exchanges that occur within a shared space or context. Tacit knowledge is explored as informal knowledge based on experiences, insights and intuition. The findings show that tacit knowledge is produced through practice oriented learning approach used in Irish design education. This approach, used by design may be of value to other disciplines as existing structures transition towards the emerging model of TU with the aim of promoting knowledge creation.ye
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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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