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Engagement e TV sociale: coinvolgere gli utenti di FriendTV
No full textFriendTV è un'app realizzata dal gruppo Innovation di TIM/Telecom Italia scaricabile dagli Store e utilizzabile come "second screen" della TV: consente infatti di consultare la programmazione TV, di votare i programmi preferiti e di vedere e twittare quello che guardano e commentano i propri amici. L'utilizzo dei social network ha valorizzato l'attratività e aumentato gli scaricamenti. La ricerca descritta in questo articolo ha come obiettivo quello di valutare come l'introduzione di nuove dinamiche d'interazione (quali i meccanismi del "genuine engagement" derivanti dalla gamification) possano incrementare l'attuale base utenti ed aumentarne l'engagement. Partendo da un'indagine sulle abitudini dei fruitori TV, sono stati definiti e poi dettagliati i Personas (Cooper A., 1999), i principali potenziali target del servizio ed i relativi scenari di utilizzo. Questo ci ha guidato nella progettazione di un mockup interattivo, valutato con gli utenti in sessioni di focus group. I principali risultati mostrano che la gamification applicata al contesto di TV sociale, deve accompagnare le fruizione dei programmi TV e non interromperla, proponendo un'interazione "partecipativa" sui contenuti specifici del programma in cors
SOCIETY: a social reading application to join education and social network experience
No full textAbstract. This paper describes a social reading application designed for education
and school communities based on electronic book reading experience. Both
design and evaluation followed a user centered approach in order to obtain a
custom made application called SOCIETY, to be used by community based
groups with similar reading interests, running both on IOS and Android System.
A special emphasis was given on personal and social aspects in writing and
sharing notes with the community groups and the “facebook or twitter” large
community to better understand how that can improve the learning process.
Beside showing a high interest on society@school app our trial evidenced the
need to separate school community from wider social networks, a need which
seems to be important for students. That stresses the importance of privacy
management in school applications design, because students seem to be worried
about sharing information and mixing school and social networks contexts
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
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
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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