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Haptic microinteractions, silent details in human-space interaction
No full textThe contemporary indoor and outdoor spaces are characterized by digital data. The constant increase in the type and amount of information, lead to a radical change in the design context of physical and digital interfaces.
Technological evolution has stimulated the design of products with communication capabilities that do not stop at the visual component but also encroach into other perceptual contexts. The behaviors of this products adapt to user needs, show themselves through multi-sensory forms and require less focused attention. These behaviors, delivered in response or pertaining to particular moments of interaction contribute to defining what Saffer calls microinteractions.
Haptic stimuli offer multiple characteristics that can be used to construct brief and intuitive microinteractions within scenarios in which people are immersed in spaces with digital data. The model presented in this research defines the characteristics of haptic stimuli based on Saffer’s microinteractions and confirms how the haptic channel is of primary importance in the development of wearable objects capable of mediating information in an augmented space
Human Body Interaction From the Imaginary to Contemporaneity Anticipation Design Processes
No full textInterfaces and prostheses, whether physical, visual, or virtual, are more and more characterized by an ever-increasing level of complexity. In this designing scenario, the relationship with cognitive sciences, ergonomics, semiotics, and the contribution of enabling technologies is transforming the field of product design into that of the design of complex systems that interface the relationship between human and machine.
This paper, starting from the analysis of fiction, scientific literature, and state of the art, analyses the imaginary vision of man-cyborg and the transformation of his body by integrating and becoming dependent on technology to open a debate on a new design relationship between the body and digital artifacts. A new scenario focuses on re-discovering the human body as a design field, paving the way towards a post-human area of application in which artifact and prosthesis are balanced. The research tries to address the transformation of the relationship between the human and the machine through the evolution of Key Enabling Technologies
L’evoluzione dell’interazione uomo-macchina nella ridefinizione dei processi digitali
No full textGli scenari che scaturiscono dall’attuale stato delle tecnologie abilitanti ed emergenti vedono prendere forma processi e pratiche che radicalmente mutano il rapporto tra l’uomo e la tecnologia.
La progettazione di oggetti, ambienti e situazioni intorno al corpo umano è un compito complesso che richiede ponti disciplinari e competenze trasversali. L'articolo fa il punto sulle attuali tecnologie e le modalità in cui queste sono o dovranno essere maneggiate nel futuro prossimo
Human Body Interaction Observatory
No full textL'osservatorio Human Body Interaction nasce con l'obiettivo di costruire una rete di ricercatori professionisti che indaghino a fondo lo stato dell'arte e i possibili sviluppi futuri delle interfacce uomo-macchina.
Attraverso un sistema di ricerca iterativo l’osservatorio individua, raccoglie e analizza casi studio internazionali indaganti i temi del rapporto del corpo con le tecnologie abilitanti ed emergenti. Gli output della ricerca sono condivisi con la rete degli stakeholders attraverso periodiche iniziative come talk e tavole rotonde
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
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