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“Gamified” Social Dynamics in the Interactive Systems as a Possible Solution for Increasing Co-Design of Emerging Services in Smart Territories
No full textThe co-design practice aims to involve city users in the (re)design of
products and services of a territory meeting the real people needs. Although its
application gives clear advantages to the territories, many problems of this
practice prevent a real, effective, and continuous active participation of people.
So, its tools, approaches, and methodologies need to be renovated. In this paper
the state of the art of a PhD thesis, aiming to identify how the co-design processes
could be improved, is shown. In details, the preliminary analysis and results of
the research are discussed, focusing on the gamification of the social dynamics
among the city users who take part in the co-design processes as a possible
solution to the emerged problems
DC@CHItaly 2015 Doctoral Consortium of CHItaly 2015 Proceedings of the CHItaly 2015 Doctoral Consortium co-located with the 11th International Conference of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter (CHItaly 2015)
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Proceedings of the CHItaly 2015 Doctoral Consortium (DC@CHItaly 2015)
No full textPreface:
This volume collects the papers presented at the CHItaly 2015 Doctoral Consortium, held in Rome (Italy) on September 28th, 2015. The CHItaly conference is a biannual event organized by the SIGCHI Italian Chapter. After the successful first edition in 2013, it hosted for the second time a Doctoral Consortium with the aim of supporting PhD students to present and share ideas about their research and gather feedback from senior experts. A good number of contributions was received, mainly from Italian PhD students but also from abroad. After a careful review process, we finally selected 7 papers for presentation at the doctoral consortium. The selection was based on the maturity of the described research and its potential impact, and on quality of writing and presentation. The accepted papers span a good variety of themes, showing the vitality of the Italian CHI community and its capability to attract contributions from abroad. During the event, PhD students were provided with a friendly and lively atmosphere for presenting their research ideas and exchanging experiences with other students. They also received useful suggestions from senior researchers for the completion of their dissertation. We are immensely grateful to the panel of experts attending the event, and to the reviewers of the papers, namely Federico Cabitza, Francesco Colace, Daniela Fogli, Stephen Kimani, Andrea Marrella, Stavros Vassos, Andrea Vitaletti, who provided careful reviews and supportive feedbacks on the students’ current research and guidance on future directions. Wealso deeply thank the PhD students, for contributing and enthusiastically presenting their research, and the CHItaly 2015 Conference Chairs for giving us the possibility of organizing the Doctoral Consortium
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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