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Design of smart devices for older people: A user centered approach for the collection of users’ needs
No full textIn this paper, it will be related a part of a design doctoral research that concerns the choice of the typology of users to analyzed to design smart devices for elderly people with physical symptoms related to gait and movement. The author will also explore which are the most advantageous ways to extrapolate from users’ contributions their needs, that in User Centered Design are considered essential to elaborate the project requirements
Monitoring older people: An overview of devices responding to significant needs of elderly affected by parkinson’s disease
No full textThe average age of people all over the world, especially in the most developed countries is constantly increasing, and with it is growing even the request of assistance and health care for older people. The most diffused pathologies related to the degeneration of the neurological system are the ones related to Dementia, in this article will be considered specifically as users older people affected by Parkinson’s Disease, a pathology that worsens movements and gait. Thanks to the new available technologies, is now possible for designers to imagine new devices that help the person to prolong his autonomous life in the own environment, enhancing his quality of life. The authors elaborated an overview of smart objects that satisfy the needs of older patients affected by Parkinson’s disease, to observe how Design Research is facing the requirements expressed by this users
Collaborative quality function deployment. A methodology for enabling co-design research practice
No full textThe Quality Function Deployment, was born in Japan around 1965 as a method to deploy functions forming quality and measurable parameters concerning products, service or processes based on user needs. QFD is normally used in business contexts by multidisciplinary teams that, after significant training, collaborate to compile and to interpret user requirements embedded in a matrix with characteristics and attributes. However, the design discipline is changing, along with methodologies, approaches, multidisciplinary teams and working practice. The rise of recent co-designed methodologies, flexible and holistic approaches in to design research lead to a decreased use of QFD among new designer generations. It has been noticed that when people are not adequately trained, and there is no opportunity to have face to face meetings, some methodological issues can arise while using QFD. The aim of this explorative work is to investigate the key factors that limit the use of QFD in the current multidisciplinary design research practice. A methodological literature review along with holistic experience fostered the development of a manifesto for a collaborative QFD methodology that stimulates collaborative multidisciplinary design research. This research impacts on developing a stimulating approach in to design research and practice, which shall be collaborative, inclusive, flexible, adaptable and open source, following the recent paradigms in cross-disciplines research practice
Phygital Mental Health: Opportunities and Challenges
No full textIn recent years, there has been a growing interest towards the potential hybridisation of digital and physical spaces, an emerging technology paradigm also known as “phygital”. Enabled by the convergence of virtual/augmented/mixed/extended reality, mobile tools, Internet of Things and artificial intelligence, the growing symbiosis between human spaces and computers is leading to the emergence of mixed physical and digital ecosystems, which will have a transformational impact on people's lives. However, the potential role that phygital systems could play in enhancing mental health and well-being is still under investigation. In this chapter, we introduce the concept of phygital interaction for mental health and present some scenarios of how this emerging paradigm can be used to enhance the prevention, promotion and treatment of mental conditions
How to Enhance Aging People’s Wellness by Means of Human Centered and Co-design Methodology
No full textThe average age of the world’s population is constantly growing and all over the world, especially in the most developed countries, older people are nowadays a significant part of our society. The current connected and digital world, brings many advantages for the global population but also many disadvantages especially for older people, who tend to experience a reduction in physical and cognitive capacity as well as a diminished openness to new experiences. Design Research, in order to face this complex context, is experimenting the involvement of the users in the design process with Human Centered Design and Co-Design. In this paper, the authors analyze the usefulness of the HCD approach and its application on some case studies with different scales, regarding design projects addressed to aging users
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
Di materia e di senso. La contemporaneità discronica del design e della moda.
No full textIl saggio riflette sul panorama contemporaneo delle attività rivolte alla produzione di merci che si fondano su presupposti orientati a processi di estetizzazione diffusa del quotidiano. Si tratta di produzioni di beni tangibili e intangibili al centro di fenomeni che provocano inflazione estetica favorita dal modello economico attuale che impone un indiscutibile cambio di paradigma; da un tipo di capitalismo industriale robusto a uno estetico e sensibile definito artista (Lipovetsky, 2013). Si può individuare una fase eroica della produzione di contenuti inscindibili dalla loro identità in forma-merce e dal valore commercializzabile in termini simbolico-estetici; fase dipendente dalla invenzione di economie fondate sui valori del quotidiano che si frappongono tra le economie del lusso e le nascenti economie della omogeneità diversificata. Combinazione paradossale del prodotto dalla doppia natura contrapposta che si gioca tra la produzione industriale di largo consumo e la merce che dialoga con il mercato, per aderire perfettamente alle istanze estetico-emozionali di ogni consumatore /utente
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