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From gamer boy to gym boy : A design study on gamification
No full textA study investigating how gamification features can be designed within a gym application, how they affect the user’s situated motivation and user engagement, and how these features could increase user loyalty to the product
Success factors for bicycle helmets : How one week with bicycle helmet affects young adults
No full textTrots dokumenterade skyddseffekter av cykelhjälm är användarna en minoritet bland cyklisteri Sverige. Denna studie syftade till att undersöka attityder, erfarenheter och hindren koppladetill cykelhjälmsanvändning bland unga vardagscyklister i åldern 23–27, som är uppvuxnaunder den svenska cykelhjälmslagen upp till 15 år och i dagsläget inte använder cykelhjälm,för att bättre utforma cykelhjälmar som tillgodoser användarnas behov. Genom endesignmetod genomfördes intervjuer samt en sorteringsuppgift, före och efter en vecka medcykelhjälm, för att kartlägga och jämföra hindren och reflektioner. Resultaten visade attsociala, estetiska och praktiska faktorer påverkade cykelhjälmsanvändningen. Cykelhjälmarupplevdes som opraktiska, löjliga, och hade vissa negativa stereotyper associerade med sig förunga vuxna. Trots detta fanns en medvetenhet om hjälmens skyddsvärde men behovetupplevdes generellt som lågt med undantag på vintern. Erfarenheten av att bära cykelhjälmförändrade vissa attityder såsom att problem med komfort och frisyr minskade. Problemensom kvarstod var förvaring, att cykelhjälmen kändes töntigt, och att det fortfarande är enminoritet som använder cykelhjälm. Individuella skillnader fanns i huruvida känslan av attsticka ut och se konstig ut minskade efter veckan med cykelhjälm. Studien mynnade ut idesignrekommendationer för framtida cykelhjälmlösningar baserat på problemen; förvaringoch cykelhjälmens utseende. Det konstaterades att cykelhjälmars design inte kan lösa allaproblemen som finns med cykelhjälmsanvändning, men att olika strategier och störredesignvariation bör prioriteras utifrån cyklisternas individuella behov.Despite the documented protective benefits of bicycle helmets, users remain a minorityamong cyclists in Sweden. This study aims to explore the attitudes, experiences, andhindrances associated with bicycle helmet use among everyday cyclists aged 23–27, whogrew up under the Swedish helmet law regarding those under 15 years but currently do notwear helmets. The goal is to gain information used to improve the design of helmets to bettermeet user needs. Using a design methodology, the study involved interviews and a sortingtask conducted before and after one-week of helmet trial, to identify and compare perceivedbarriers and reflections. The results revealed that social, aesthetic, and practical factors allinfluenced helmet use. Helmets were often perceived as impractical, somewhat silly, andassociated with negative stereotypes among young adults. Despite this, participantsacknowledged and encouraged the protective value of helmets, although the perceived needwas generally low, except in winter conditions. The experience of wearing a helmet shiftedcertain attitudes such as reduced concerns around comfort and hairstyle. However, issuesrelated to storage, feelings of looking uncool, and the perception that helmet use is stilluncommon persisted. Individual differences in whether participants felt less or more self-conscious than expected were noted. The study concludes with design recommendations forfuture helmet solutions, particularly regarding storage and appearance. While helmet designcannot address all obstacles for all cyclists, diverse strategies and greater variation in helmetdesign should be prioritized to better accommodate different cyclists’ needs
From gamer boy to gym boy : A design study on gamification
No full textA study investigating how gamification features can be designed within a gym application, how they affect the user’s situated motivation and user engagement, and how these features could increase user loyalty to the product
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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