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Interaction Design for Children - IDC 2009
No full textFor young people today, technology is pervasive in many aspects of life. From childhood onwards, they learn and play using computers and other technological devices; as they grow, they build and maintain friendships using computers and mobile phones; they interact with one another virtually; and even find critical interpersonal support and therapy using computers, the web, and other technology-enhanced artifacts.
The IDC 2009 conference will continue IDC's tradition of better understanding children’s and youngsters’ needs in relationship to technology, exploring how to create interactive products for and with them, and investigating how technology-mediated experiences affect their life.
IDC 2009 will present and discuss the most innovative contributions to research, development, and practice in these areas, gathering the leading minds in the field.
As in previous years, IDC 2009 would like to invite researchers to address the wide diversification of technology for young people, from computers to mobile phones to any form of “smart” interactive device, and to consider the requirements of different profiles, in terms of age (from very young children to adolescents) and of psychological, social, or physical needs. In addition, IDC 2009 would like to foster an investigation of technological and methodological issues related not only to learning and play, but also to social awareness of young people in relationship to environment, cultural heritage, cultural roots of minorities, local identity vs. wider community identity. Finally, IDC 2009 would like to explore interaction design for young people in the family context and from an adult’s perspective, e.g., how to help parents understand and master the complexity of a scenario in which technology is more and more part of their children’s life.
The program will include full-day and half day workshops, invited talks by prestigious speakers, panels, papers sessions, posters and demos sessions. Social events will complement the scientific program and will be a chance for participants to meet and discuss in the context of a gorgeous informal setting, and to build future collaborations.
This conference builds on the successes and high standards of the previous IDC conferences (IDC 2008 in Chicago, US, IDC 2007 in Aalborg, Denmark, IDC 2006 in Tampere, Finland, IDC 2005 in Boulder, USA, IDC 2004 in Maryland, USA, IDC 2003 in Preston, UK and IDC 2002 in Eindhoven, the Netherlands)
Interactive Story Telling, Cooperative e-Learning, and kids: the FaTe2 Field Study.
No full textIl design dell'interazione applicato allo sviluppo di strumenti per il supporto dell'apprendimento del pensiero narrativo nei bambini di scuola elementar
The MUST Tool: Exploiting Propp's Theory
No full textThis paper investigates, through a case study, the interaction para-digms that can be adopted in a museum exhibition involving hybrid interactive artifacts, i.e., installations that support visitors manipulating and interacting with physical and digital exhibits [6], [1]. We discuss the design principles and solutions we adopted in a temporary exhibition titled “The Fire and The Moun-tain”, where we integrated technological and physical artifacts within a multi-sensory exhibition space to foster enjoyment, engagement, and, ultimately, learning, and to promote a variety of social behaviors among visitors interact-ing together and with hybrid exhibits. We also discuss a field study we carried on to evaluate the user experience in "The Fire and the Mountain", and the les-sons we learnt
The Fire and The Mountain: Tangible Interaction in a Multimedia Museum Exhibition for Children
No full textL'articolo racconta il progetto di una mostra interattiva basata sul paradigma di interazione touch base
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
From parchment to the network : manuscripts management and cataloguing
No full textConservation libraries have the responsibility of preserving documents as long as possible and disseminating them as largely as possible, whereas usually documents are available only to those scholars who can reach reading rooms. To this aim, libraries have first to catalogue manuscripts, facing the problem of their diversity: each manuscript, document or archive has its own features, due to its history. Consequently, catalogues reflect this diversity and even the criteria used for shelf marking are subjective and highly non-standard. Information technology can help librarians both to record ancient documents descriptions and to allow their dissemination. Digitization projects in fact make manuscripts available to anyone through the Web, while original copies can be protected.
DSI of the Università degli Studi di Milano collaborates with Biblioteca Ambrosiana to find
solutions to a variety of problems related to management, catalogue and description of these documents. In this paper we present the result of this collaboration: a topographical
inventory and the experience of adopting the DTD for manuscripts defined by the EU Project MASTER, to export manuscript descriptions in MANUS, a relational DB distributed in Italy by ICCU and vice versa import in MANUS descriptions originally given in SGML
Variations on the Author
Full text link“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
Full text linkWe 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
Full text linkWe 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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