950 research outputs found
Digital and physical ergonomics towards a new-old generation of self-driving cars
No full textIn the context of the aging society and digitalization, this contri bution aims to illustrate how a more inclusive and ergonomic ap proach can enhance well-being related to the daily mobility of the
elderly. In the first part of the contribution the most important fac tors influencing the elderly’s mobility needs are highlighted, and
then are analysed with two significant cases of autonomous vehicles
for older users. Autonomous cars have the potential to enhance the
safety and efficiency of silver mobility with two types of interven tion: digital ergonomics offers great flexibility with the potential to
simplify functions and graphics layout, while physical ergonomics
can explore new shapes and functions to make transportation tech nology more intuitive for seniors
An Experience of Co-Design with Elderly People in the HABITAT Project: Improving Older Users’ Lifestyle with Assistive Home Systems
No full textThe ageing trend involving populations all over the world is focusing Design Research’s attention on smart devices addressed to older people with specific needs. The project HABITAT, carried out by a multidisciplinary research team with the participation of several companies, aimed to develop and test a smart platform composed of smart interoperable objects able to adapt themselves to satisfy the user’s necessities. The final objective of the project was the realization of an assistive, safe and reconfigurable environment, able to enhance the person’s autonomy in daily activities, postponing the personal necessity of assistance or hospitalization. The project was designed following a User Centered approach involving older users, their relatives and care-givers, and some stakeholders, in the different stages of the design process. Co-Design workshops were practiced to improve the project usability by designing with users’ solutions able to satisfy their needs and requirements
A Florentine family in crisis: the Strozzi in the fifteenth century.
No full textPhDIn 1434 the Strozzi lineage had held a leading position in
Florentine society and government for at least one hundred and fifty
years, and was one of the largest and wealthiest of the city's
patrician lineages. The records of the catasto of 1427 and of the
scrutiny of 1433 are used to give a profile of the dominant social,
economic and political position of the Strozzi before the advent of
Medicean dominance. Their record of electoral success, and the
political and cultural leadership of influential and respected men
such as Palla di Nofri and Matteo di Simone, with other factors, put
the Strozzi amongst the greatest enemies of the victorious Medicean
regime of late 1434. The effects of political opposition and exile
on the lineage are examined both directly, through records of office-holding,
and indirectly through such indicators as marriage alliances
and household wealth. The two most prominent lines of the Strozzi
were exiled after 1434. Palla di Nofri's life and preoccupations in
his Paduan exile are examined, together with the lives of his sons;
none of these Strozzi ever returned to Florence, pursued as they were
by the enmity of the Medicean regime. The very different careers of
Filippo di Matteo and his brother Lorenzo are also examined: how they
succeeded in founding a lucrative bank in Naples, and in returning to
Florence to 'rebuild' (rifare) the position of the Strozzi lineage
there. The final decades of the century saw the Strozzi in an
economically more secure position, due substantially to the efforts
of Filippo. Except for a very small number of its members admitted
into the regime, most of the lineage is here shown to have remained
excluded from significant political office until after the fall of
the Medici regime in 1494
Human-Centered Design to Enhance the Holter Monitor Experience for Elderly People
No full textThis contribution investigates the Human-Centered Design approach in the specific case of the design of the Holter Monitor device for elderly people
How to Enhance Elderly Care Products, Services, and Systems by Means of IoT Technology and Human-Centered Design Approach
No full textNowadays world is characterized by two significant factors: a progressively ageing society and the digitalization process. While the first phenomenon is mainly due to the ageing of the Baby Boomer generation (those born between 1946 and 1964), as well as to increased
longevity and the decrease of birth rate (Aguiar and Macário in Transp Res Proced 25:4355–4369, 2017 [1]; WHO, 2014 [2]), the digitalization
process is spreading all over the world thanks to the enormous evolution of the Internet and Information Communication Technology (Gartner Information Technology Glossary: Definition of Digitalization, 2021 [3]). The related changes of these factors can be considered from two perspectives. On the one hand, they are a harbinger of possibilities and opportunities, but on the other hand, they also involve a high potential of exclusion, especially for fragile categories, such as elderly people. In this situation, the role of Human-centered design (HCD) is not only to design products and services that meet the needs of the elderly, but also to support an inclusive society where the elderly can actively age and continue their economic, social, and cultural routines. In particular, this contribution investigates the role of HCD in leveraging IoT technologies to enhance the elderly care scenario on three different levels: products, services, and systems. Finally, based on these three levels, the role of HCD methodology is discussed in relation to the context of elderly care and IoT technology
Progettare per la società liquida. Uno sguardo verso una differente prospettiva human-centered
No full textI dati provenienti dal monitoraggio di attività degli utenti o da altri prodotti connessi, hanno il potenziale, non solo di aumentare l’efficienza nello
sviluppo di prodotti, processi e servizi innovativi, ma anche di supportare e gestire la complessità che caratterizza il mondo attuale. Nella Design Research all’oggi il modello dell’Internet of Things rende evidente come gli oggetti computazionali, gli smart objects, siano ormai paragonabili a dei
veri e propri agenti che non vengono più intesi con una prospettiva asimmetrica e subordinata alle necessità del soggetto umano, ma diventano soggetti al pari di quest’ultimo, capaci di imparare, agire ed evolversi in maniera anche indipendente rispetto alla componente umana. Il presente paper presenta i progetti PASSO e PLEINAIR, entrambi caratterizzati da una forte componente di intelligenza artificiale, il primo riguardante la scala del dispositivo wearable, il secondo dedicato allo spazio. I due progetti descritti raccontano il design di smart objects che, grazie alle capacità collegate ai dati raccolti, elaborati ed interpretati, diventano potenziatori intelligenti per il corpo umano e per il suo ambiente di vita. L’intelligenza data dalla capacità di leggere il presente e intervenire per migliorare il futuro, cerca di rafforzare salute e benessere e aumentare la qualità della vita di diverse categorie di utenza interrelate tra loro.Data from user activity monitoring or from other connected devices, have the potential not only to increase efficiency in the development of innovative products, processes and services, but also to support and manage the complexity that characterizes today’s world. In Design Research today, the Internet of Things model makes it clear how computational artifacts, smart objects, are now comparable to real agents that are no longer perceived with an asymmetrical perspective and subordinated to the needs of the human subject. but they become subjects, capable of learning, acting and evolving independently of the human component. This paper presents the PASSO and PLEINAIR projects, both characterized by a strong artificial intelligence component, the first concerning the scale of the wearable device, the second dedicated to the environment. The two projects describe the design process of smart objects which, thanks to the capabilities connected to the data collected, processed and interpreted, become intelligent enhancers for the human body and its living environment. The intelligence given by the ability to read the present and intervene to improve the future, tries to strengthen health and well-being and to increase the quality of life of different categories of users who are interrelate
Vues présentes sur le celtique cisalpin
No full textPresent views on Cisalpine Celtic.
During the last twenty years, the knowledge of Lepontic and of Italian Gaulish has been notably enriched by very important finds, and also by numerous studies. The author proposes a synthesis of all new linguistical and cultural data provided by epigraphy in this particular resort.Dans les vingt dernières années la connaissance du lépontique et du gaulois d’Italie a été notablement enrichie par certaines trouvailles fort importantes ainsi que par de nombreuses études. Tableau synthétique des nouvelles données linguistiques et culturelles apportées par l’épigraphie de ce domaine.Motta Filippo. Vues présentes sur le celtique cisalpin. In: Etudes Celtiques, vol. 29, 1992. Actes du IXe congrès international d'études celtiques. Paris, 7-12 juillet 1991. Deuxième partie : Linguistique, littératures. pp. 311-318
How Co-design Leads Mobility Innovation Towards a More Inclusive and Senior-Friendly Transportation System
No full textIn the context of Economy instability, ageing society the automotive sector is characterized by a strong innovation due to new driving models, electrification, car digitalization, and the technology of autonomous driving. While this innovation comes with many interesting opportunities it also increases the chance of exclusion for fragile category like elderly people. The Design Research with the Human Centered Design and Co-design approaches is trying to innovate this sector not only with services that meet the elderly mobility needs but it is also playing a leading role in transforming the current mobility contest into a more equitable and inclusive transport system. Three significant case study are here presented with a special focus on the methodology used and common features are evaluated. Finally, it is presented the current and forecasted trajectory of the Human design research methodology with Co-design tool as leading factor for a design by people
Cittadinanza smart thing: Smart objects al servizio di città più attive e inclusive
No full textAttualmente, grazie al fenomeno dell’Internet of Things, diversi smart objects hanno l’occasione di far parte dell’infrastruttura cittadina e di partecipare, in modo proattivo, nella costruzione di una realtà sociale attiva, inclusiva e rivolta ad aumentare la salute e il benessere dei cittadini stessi. Pertanto, il contributo vuole illustrare i cambiamenti e le opportunità che gli smart objects offrono, in termini metodologico-progettuali e di interazione con l’uomo, per migliorare la sostenibilità sociale del contesto urbano, descrivendo un progetto di ricerca degli autori stessi, come esempio progettuale per promuovere lo sviluppo di ambienti inclusivi e stili di vita più attivi attraverso l’uso di arredi urbani connessi e intelligenti.Nowadays, due to the paradigm of Internet of Things, various smart objects have the opportunity both to be integrated in the city infrastructure and to create proactively a more active and inclusive social realm for increasing the health and well-being of the citizens themselves. Based on the above assumption, the contribution illustrates how those smart objects are capable of changing and improving social sustainability of the urban context – in terms of design methodologies and interaction with humans – describing, at the same time, a research project conducted by the authors as a design example to promote the development of inclusive environments and more active lifestyles through the use of smart and connected urban furniture
Occhi pieni e mani vaganti. Movimenti, emozioni, astrazioni.
No full textFilippo FIMIANI, Occhi pieni e mani vaganti. Movimenti, emozioni, astrazioni, «Fata Morgana», 12/2010, pp. 147-164. ISSN 1970-5786.
ITALIANO. Una piccola sequenza da un episodio della serie televisiva Mad Men in cui la relazione sensoriale emozionale tra lo spettatore e un corpo in movimento, precisamente un corpo danzante, è l’oggetto di questo articolo, che intende così verificare la cosiddetta naturalizzazione della fenomenologia e del corpo vissuto operata dalle scienze cognitive applicate agli studi visuali. L’autore mostra anche i rapporti tra la cosiddetta simulazione incarnata e una memoria simbolica e iconografica profonda, e discute in particolare la polarità tra proiezione e introiezione, attività e passività nell’esperienza empatica delle immagini in movimento.A short filmic example from the AMC's award-winning series Mad Men in which the sensorial and emotional relationship between the spectator and a moving body, i.e., a dancing body, is explicitly put into play. The essay wants to deal with the so called naturalization of phenomenology and of the living body, trained by the cognitive sciences reading the visuality. The author shows the relationship between the so called ‘embodied Simulation’ and a symbolic and iconographic deep memory of the pictures, and he gives an in-depth attention to the polarity between projections and introjections, activity and passivity of the spectator’s body during the empathic experience of the moving pictures
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