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Exploring the User Needs and Experiences of Bangladeshi Smartphone Users
Get PDFIn this modern age, almost everybody uses smartphones, and users look for a smooth and pleasurable User Experience. In developing or underdeveloped countries, such as, Bangladesh, people do not earn a huge amount of money compared to the developed countries of Europe or North America, and most of the consumers will think a lot before buying a smartphone. So, these people do not have the capability of changing smartphones frequently, and they hope that a smartphone will last for a longer period of time and will provide them with an excellent User Experience. This was the motivating factor for conducting this research. In this research, the user needs and expectations of Bangladeshi smartphone users, whether their needs and expectations are fulfilled or not, and as a result, what kind of User Experience and satisfaction they are getting, etc. is investigated. By combining all of these aspects together, the goal of this research is to explore the user needs and experiences of Bangladeshi smartphone users.
In this research, data has been collected through user surveys from 11 Bangladeshi smartphone users who are living in Bangladesh and 11 Bangladeshi smartphone users who are living in developed countries. Bangladeshi smartphone users who are living in developed countries have experience using both - smartphones that are available in Bangladesh, as well as smartphones that are available in developed countries. The reason for including Bangladeshi smartphone users who are living in developed countries in this research is to understand if there are any notable differences between the user needs and expectations, challenges users are facing, and, as a result, what kind of User Experience and satisfaction, the users from both of these user groups are getting. The surveys were created with open ended questions and in a way that users can share their experiences with sufficient explanations. Qualitative data has been collected through the surveys. Thematic analysis has been used to analyse these qualitative data.
The findings show that, there are some similarities between the two user groups. For example, participants from both user groups use their smartphones to complete similar tasks. In addition, the types of issues they are facing, and their user needs and expectations are pretty much the same. However, Bangladeshi smartphone users who are living in developed countries are facing fewer issues compared to Bangladeshi smartphone users who are living in Bangladesh. Surprisingly enough, some issues are only faced by Bangladeshi smartphone users who are living in Bangladesh. For example, “Green line on the display” issue. It was also being reported by one participant who is living in Bangladesh, that with every software update, the previous phone of the user became progressively slower. In addition, according to another participant who is living in Bangladesh, his expectation towards the smartphone is impacted by the smartphone price. Due to the cost, this participant has lower expectations and believes that he is receiving excellent value for his money when it comes to the service and the User Experience of his smartphone. Another interesting finding is, the previous smartphones that some Bangladeshi smartphone users who are living in Bangladesh had used a few years ago, had offered a highly satisfying User Experience, and those phones had a five to eight years’ lifespan. Finally, even though some issues exist, as long as their smartphones provide good performance and other features function well, most of the Bangladeshi smartphone users who are living in Bangladesh consider that they are getting a good User Experience and they feel satisfied using their smartphones.
Very little research has been conducted in the underdeveloped or developing countries like Bangladesh to discover the user needs and experiences of the smartphone users. Even though this thesis has been conducted on a very small scale and the contribution of this thesis is very small, we assume that this research will help understanding the smartphone users of underdeveloped or developing countries like Bangladesh. Also, it will eventually improve our knowledge about user behaviour, motivate to maintain the highest standards in design, and finally will add these knowledges to the ongoing research of User Experience. We also expect that User Experience designers or smartphone manufacturing companies can get insights about user needs and expectations and, the overall User Experience and satisfaction that Bangladeshi smartphone users are getting from this research, and this research can also guide possible future researchers who would want to conduct this kind of research in any underdeveloped or developing countries in the future
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
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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