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Truth to Material: Moving from Software to Programming Code as a New Material for Digital Design Practice
No full textThis practice-led research project investigates the key characteristics of the
use and process of programming code when applied to a creative design
environment. The research is motivated by personal practice and a desire to
move beyond the boundaries of software, and is set against a contemporary
background of designers exploring code as a key part of their creative work.
The initial contextual study considers design practice in the context of
contemporary digital technology, and identifies computational design as a
distinct area, apart from software-centred design. Although not a formal term
or grouping, the thesis highlights 'computational design' as an area of
practice which has emerged out of dissatisfaction with the 'limitations' of
software tools. The research establishes links between a range of
contemporary design practitioners, whose work is motivated by a desire to
understand and engage directly with the process and the 'material' of the
computational environment. Using the Arts and Crafts movement as a case
study, the contextual review discusses the ethos, process and material of
software-centred and computational design alongside those of traditional
design values. The research identifies the process and usage of computation
as a distinct area of study for creative design which applies a traditional
concern for the material and process of 'making' within the immaterial
environment of the digital arena.
The identification of computation as a type of raw ‘material’ for creative
practice provides the focus for the rest of the research. Based on the
findings of the contextual review, the practice explores the detail of the
process of ‘making’ using code, by creating two major pieces of
computationally generated work, based on the botanical, decorative
aesthetic of William Morris wallpaper prints. Each key stage of the work is
outlined using the headings 'code', 'visuals' and 'process', providing a
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detailed account of the developing process and relationship between the
designer and the computational material. The study reveals that key to the
use of computation is an understanding and development of structural and
visual flexibility, which is inbuilt into the architecture of the work as part of the
design process. The research identifies three core phases, or ‘layers’ within
the process: ‘concept’, ‘data structure’ and ‘data detail’, each of which
contribute important elements to the flexibility and fluidity of the structure and
visuals. The research adds to the understanding of the process and practice
of computational work within a creative context, increasing knowledge
regarding the use and application of the formal elements of code within a
creative design workflow
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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