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A Participatory Product Design Process With Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder [master Thesis]
No full textBu tez, otizmli çocuklara tasarım sürecinde merkezi bir rol vererek ve bu bozukluktan etkilenen öğretmen ve ebeveynlerin de süreçte söz sahibi olmalarını sağlayarak, otizmli çocukların katılımcı ürün tasarım süreçlerine dahil edilme yollarını keşfetmeyi amaçlamaktadır. Otizmli çocukların, bu bozukluklarından kaynaklanan etkileşim, iletişim, duyu işleme ve öğrenme gibi becerilerinde bozulmalar olması dolayısıyla, otizmin doğasını, bu çocukların kendi sosyal ve materyal çevreleri ile etkileşimleri ve günlük yaşamlarında karşılaştıkları problemleri anlamak tasarım süreci için büyük önem taşımaktadır. Bu düşünceden hareket ile, sekiz endüstriyel tasarım öğrencisi, sekiz otizmli çocuk, yedi veli ve yedi öğretmen ile İzmir'de yer alan Güzelbahçe Özel Eğitim, Uygulama ve İş Eğitim Merkezi'nde bir durum çalışması gerçekleştirilmiştir. Geleneksel trambolin tasarımının sağladığı faydalar ışığında yeniden değerlendirilmesini hedefleyen tasarım konusunun davranışsal ve eylemsel örüntüler ve harekete dayandığı göz önünde bulundurularak, gözlem, görüşme ve anket uygulaması yapılmış, ortak toplantılar ve tartışma toplantıları gerçekleştirilmiştir. Durum çalışması sayesinde, otizmli çocuklarla tasarımcı süreç gerçekleştirilmesi, katılımcıların rolleri, aralarındaki etkileşim ve iletişim, katılımcı tasarıma karşı tavır ve ilgileri ve tasarım süreci ile fikirlerinin otizmli çocuklar için potansiyel faydalarına dair bulgular elde edilmiştir.This thesis aims to explore the ways of involving children with autism in participatory product design processes by giving them a central role and a voice to their teachers and parents, who are also affected by the disorder, in the design process. Since children with autism have impaired skills, such as interaction, communication, sensory processing, and learning, caused by the disorder, understanding the nature of autism and how these children interact with their social and material surroundings as well as the problems they struggle with in their daily lives is of great importance in the design process. Considering this, a case study was conducted with eight industrial design students, eight children with autism, seven parents, and seven teachers at Güzelbahçe Special Education, Application, and Vocational Training Center, in İzmir, Turkey. Regarding that the design task, which was to reconsider the conventional trampoline design with respect to the benefits it provides, was based on the patterns of behaviors, actions, and movement, observations, interviews, and questionnaires were applied as well as holding collaborative meetings and discussion meetings. Through the case study, several findings on conducting a participatory process with children with autism, the roles of the participants, interaction and communication among them, their attitude towards and interest in the participatory design, and the potential benefits of the design process and ideas for the children with autism were obtained
Children With Autism Providing a Knowledge Base for Educational and Therapeutic Product Design
No full text8th International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies (EDULEARN) -- JUL 04-06, 2016 -- Barcelona, SPAINBesides everyday objects and environments, children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) engage with a wide range of educational and therapeutic tools, equipment, and environments that aim to improve their social interaction, communication, and motor skills, sensory systems, and enhance cognitive abilities, self-maintenance, and independence. Such products and environments play a significant role in ASD-specific schools and special education centers. In Turkey, public schools apply the curriculum that is approved by the Ministry of National Education, whereas private special education centers apply more specific ASD intervention and educational methods accepted worldwide. These schools and special education centers are equipped with products that vary depending on whether the school or center is a public or a private one, since they apply different curricula. However, these products used in integration with various methods do not always fully suit the needs of these children. In that sense, participatory product design has much to offer to children with ASD in terms of increasing their overall wellbeing and quality of life. Participatory design, as a design method giving participants the right to have a say both in the design process and the final product, enables the involvement of these children and others also affected by the disorder, such as parents and special educators, in shaping their surroundings. In this study, examining a public and a private special education center in Izmir, Turkey, the physical environments provided to children with ASD as well as the possibilities of participation of the children and their caregivers in these centers in the design of educational and therapeutic products, are discussed with examples, in terms of children's attachment to the products in these environments and their contribution to children's quality of life in return, through observations and interviews. The findings showed that the participatory design processes conducted with children with ASD, their parents, and caregivers, were helpful in collecting significant information that is not readily available elsewhere, and that can be a base for new educational and therapeutic product design for children with ASD
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
Tasarım Eğitiminde Stratejik ve Yapılandırmacı Bir Pedagojik Yaklaşım Olarak “Katılım”
No full textBu çalışma, artırılmış katılım fırsatlarının tasarım stüdyosunda eğitmenler ve öğrenciler arasında daha gerçekçi bir diyalog kurarak öğrenmeyi geliştirme potansiyeline sahip olduğu konusunu tartışmakta ve proje tabanlı tasarım öğreniminin yapılandırmacı görüşüne ve karşılıklı ve sürekli bir öğrenme süreci olarak tanımlanan katılım kavramına dayanmaktadır. İlk olarak, katılımcıların görüşleri aracılığıyla ana tartışmaya bir temel oluşturmak için eğitmenler ve öğrencilerle bir atölye çalışması gerçekleştirilmiştir. Ardından, elde edilen çıktılar bir ikinci sınıf endüstriyel tasarım dersinde uygulanmıştır. Ders koordinatörü ile yapılan bir görüşmeye ek olarak öğrenciler ile yarı yapılandırılmış bir odak grup çalışması gerçekleştirilmiştir. Sonuçlar, öğrenme ve katılım konusundaki farklı motivasyon ve tercihlere rağmen, katılımın öğrencilerin hem tasarım hem de öğrenme süreçlerini anlamlandırmalarına yardımcı olduğunu göstermektedir
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
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