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Aesthetics of Design Processes
No full textThe “traditional” values of design: morphology, aesthetics, semiotics and sensorial qualities, inhaling in products their emotional relation to the user, distinguish the discipline from other engineering disciplines. The question this paper wants to investigate is the way of how these values still dominate the design process in an always more immaterial world, and how educational models can drive the required change of knowledge for a new generation of designers. The illustrated case refers to the innovative approach of the Dubai Institute of Design and Innovation (DIDIdidi), a new established Design University in Dubai, United Emirates, as a structure, but also through the specific experience of a workshop-like Course that guides the students between analogue and digital explorations in a seamless and non-linear way, as a narration tool, a constructive method of storytelling inside the product development and a methodology to exploit different technologies beyond their superficial raison d’etre.
The theoretical contributions related to define a form in design underlies different methods, rules and proportional studies, as well as material characteristics and surface treatment. The maxim “Form Follows Function” is a principle associated with 20th-century modernist has been influencing for decades the form giving decisions. But the processes which guide our all lives have changed: the world has become timelessly digital; everything is at the same time everywhere available. Design has become a process rather than a definition of a form, has become a service rather than a function. Consequently, this influences the way of how designer will need to be able to narrate the process, the immaterial service, the augmented reality of physical objects
DESIGN OF THE HUMAN BODY: FROM FICTION TO REALITY
No full textThe capter aims to show a brief history of human acts to improve performance and abilities, from Nietzsche's Uebermensch to W. Gibson's Molly Milion
Design and Responsive Technologies for Human Well-being
No full textThe field of research involving design and well-being, finds in the development of responsive technologies and Artificial Intelligence the latest tools for mutual influence and trans- formation.
Research on this topic, shared at the Disrupting Geographies in the Design World forum, testified to the multiple and contemporary fields of investigation related both to technological development and the human sphere.
The paper proposes a clustering of research on this topic into two sets: the first group gathers research and design approaches that increase human knowledge toward digital data, the second brings together insights on behavioral changes generated by design using emerging technologies.
The results of the debate and the categorizations open new focus points aimed at improving, through the discipline of design, individual and collective well-being
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
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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