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Evergreen game design principles
No full textThis chapter discusses common design lessons learned from successful early games in the 8- and 16-bit generation and discusses if, and how, those principles can still be relevant today. In other words, can old games help us understand some "golden rules" of game design that can be applied successfully today within the domain of modern games, specifically within the indie, casual and mobile realms
Analyzing games with the AGE and 6-11 frameworks
No full textInspired by the original Mechanics, Dynamics, Aesthetics (MDA) model proposed in R. Hunicke et al, the Actions, Gameplay, Experience framework was gradually formalized following the original work in R. Dillon and ultimately finalized in Dillon. Analyzing Actions and Gameplay should be relatively straightforward, but the Experience involves emotions and can be, henceforth, subjective. Like the original MDA, it breaks down a game into three different conceptual layers. At the most basic level we have the Actions, which represent the atomic actions a player can perform in a game. Virtual reality should make the fundamental aspect of games played in a first-person perspective very straightforward and easy to accomplish. The onboarding process and tutorial works well and players have a chance to know more about the world the game takes place in by checking out newspaper articles and TV news, which are easily available and scattered all around
Digital Transformation in a Post-COVID World: sustainable innovation, disruption, and change
No full textThis book explores the innovations, disruptions and changes that are required to adapt in a fast-evolving landscape due to the extraordinary circumstances triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic. Recognized experts from around the world share their research and professional experience on how the working environment, as well as the world around them, have changed due to the pandemic.
Chapters consider how different fields across technology and business have been affected by this new, dramatic scenario and the drastic consequences that the pandemic had on them. With diverse contributions stemming from public health, technology strategies, urban planning and sociology to sustainable management, this volume is articulated into four distinct but complementary sections of People, Process, Planet, and Prosperity influencing the post-COVID world
Reducing cyber risk in remote working
No full textCOVID-19 pandemic has had a widespread and devastating economic impact globally. Companies have struggled to establish and adopt new strategies to survive during the epidemic, resulting in massive financial losses. The lack of finance and resources to develop a business continuity plan and a disaster recovery plan has made it challenging for businesses to sustain and retain their operations. Remote working has positively impacted and altered the outlook of companies on working sustainably over the long term. Nonetheless, remote working is dependent on factors such as secure work equipment and secure home internet infrastructure
Cyber security: evolving threats in an ever-changing world
No full textThe astonishingly fast rate at which technology is evolving has several implications. Not only new tools and opportunities to improve workflows and overall daily life are constantly emerging and becoming widespread but, likewise, a darker side of progress is also evolving in parallel at the same speed, if not even faster. In fact, as technology becomes more powerful and, at the same time, easier to use, so becomes the expertise of cyber criminals. Most importantly, new technologies designed to perform a complex set of tasks, often depending on other tools or services, do potentially offer a multitude of attack vectors that can be exploited to disrupt, steal or gain unauthorised access to data, functionalities or services. Unfortunately, it is safe to say that with new technologies come new, hidden vulnerabilities
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
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