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Strumenti per un approccio quantitativo allo studio delle interazioni. Il software Net Miner e i Log File
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Online and Offline life: key factors for a functional use of the Internet
No full textStarting from the concepts of functional organ and inverse instrumentality, we present an ongoing research whose purpose is to analyze the use of social Web during the lifespan. Specifically, the research explores processes that underline a problematic use of the social Web compared with those that develop and improve human abilities through the functional use of the Internet
Online and offline life: The functional use of the internet during the life cycle
No full textThis research aims to clarify when, how and under which conditions the Internet usage is functional for people during the life cycle in 574 adolescents, 671 younger emerging adults, 163 older emerging adults, 722 adults. Starting from Leontev studies, it is possible to consider the Internet as a functional organ. The goal is to verify which factors (Gender, Hours per day spent Online, Online Social-Support, Number of Online Contacts (NOCs), Life Satisfaction, Job Satisfaction) lead people to a Functional Internet Use (FIU). Significant results were found in all factors considered, including gender differences. © 2018, Interactive Media Institute. All rights reserved
Using educational robot to enhance the potential of creative thinking in children
Full text linkThis research analyzes the effectiveness of the non-humanoid robot Ozobot as interactive-tool for school- children to enhance their potential of creative thinking. The study compares three experimental condition (Ozobot Single Work, Ozobot Pair Work, and Control) in a problem-solving task (programming the robot to perform a given route in a paper labyrinth) in 171 children aged between 9 and 10 years (85 females, 86 males). Results show that children who performed the task alone with the robot (Ozobot Single Work) improved their potential of creative thinking significantly compared with those who perform the task in pair with the robot (Ozobot Pair Work) and the control group. No gender differences occurs
MecWilly in your pocket: On evaluating a mobile serious game for kids
No full textThis paper presents a mobile serious game, which exploits the Socio-Cognitive Conflict (SCC) by means of a game with the aim of supporting preschool and primary school children in understanding two important concepts: (i) topographical orientation, and (ii) recycling. In fact, an important competency that children deal with is the topographical orientation, particularly as regards the relativity of the objects positions with respect to a specific point. To reach this goal we have designed and developed a serious game for mobile devices (e.g. tablets), where kids need to move a character in a grid, with the aim of helping it in associating specific garbage to the right recycling container (taking into account the relative position of the character and of all the objects in the grid). Such a character represents a humanoid robot named MecWilly. We have conducted a first assessment of our serious game by involving six preschool and primary school kids. The first result we have obtained show that kids were very interested in playing such a game and in experiencing more game levels. Further experimentations have been already planned and will be conducted in three primary schools, stressing the SCC by contrasting the mobile serious game with a similar version of the game played by interacting with humanoid robots
Network Text Analysis and Sentiment Analysis: An Integration to Analyse Word-of-Mouth in the Digital Marketplace
No full textThrough Social Media, like social networking sites, wikis, web forums or blogs, people can debate and influence each other. Due to this reason, the analysis of online conversations has been recognized to be relevant to organizations. In the chapter we introduce two strategic tools to monitor and analyze online conversations, Sentiment Text Analysis (STA) and Network Text Analysis (NTA). Finally, we propose one empirical example in which these tools are integrated to analyze Word-of-Mouth regarding products and services in the Digital Marketplace
La trasformazione digitale nelle PMI italiane: un’analisi esplorativa
Full text linkDigital transformation is a key challenge for Italian SMEs, in that it does not require the simple adoption of digital technologies, rather an organization-wide alignment of people, processes, organizational mechanisms, and business models. Recent research reports that Italian SMEs are still in the early stages of digital transition, and that such transition appear to be only partially being developed (i.e., limited to investments in physical facilities). However, there is also wide evidence of the fact that, Italian SMEs hold key capabilities which allow them to rapidly adapt and survive to complex environments denoted by sudden changes and difficulties, thus allowing them to exhibit notable competitiveness at the international level. In this study, the authors provide some exploratory insights about the key capabilities denoting SMEs which may reveal central in supporting their digital transition. By means of a quantitative pilot study and the discussion of a case study, the authors explain the central role of the absorptive capacity of the organization and of organizational culture in creating optimal conditions for an actual digital transition to take place
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
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