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The Design of a Context-Aware Home Media Space for Balancing Privacy and Awareness
No full textTraditional techniques for balancing privacy and awareness in video
media spaces, like blur filtration, have been proven to be ineffective for
compromising home situations involving a media space. As such, this paper
presents the rationale and prototype design of a context-aware home media
space(HMS) - defined as an always-on video media space used within a home
setting- that focuses on identifying plausible solutions for balancing
privacy and awareness in compromising home situations. In the HMS design,
users are provided with implicit and explicit control over their privacy,
along with visual and audio feedback of the amount of privacy currently being
maintained.We are currently acquiring citations for the work deposited into this collection. We recognize the distribution rights of this item may have been assigned to another entity, other than the author(s) of the work.If you can provide the citation for this work or you think you own the distribution rights to this work please contact the Institutional Repository Administrator at [email protected]
Supporting Coherence with a 3D Instant Messanger Visualization
No full textInstant messengers have become a popular medium for providing
awareness of others and supporting casual interaction. To smoothly move into
and out of computer mediated conversation, coherence is necessary not only as
a means to represent conversations, but also to afford an awareness of who
is around and if they are available for interaction. We have developed a
peripheral visualization for an instant messenger designed to utilize
people's natural cognitive abilities. Each contact is represented by pictures
for each availability state (eg. online, offline) or video snapshots
embedded within a 3D environment using a space metaphor. Contacts that are
more available - determined as a function of availability state and a
viewer-settable interest level - are placed in the foreground and contacts
less available are placed closer to a single focal point in the distant
space. The viewer is able to move contacts throughout the space to create a
spatial mapping. Contacts that are of interest display conversation bubbles
containing incoming messages.We are currently acquiring citations for the work deposited into this collection. We recognize the distribution rights of this item may have been assigned to another entity, other than the author(s) of the work.If you can provide the citation for this work or you think you own the distribution rights to this work please contact the Institutional Repository Administrator at [email protected]
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
Sticky Spots and Flower Pots: Two Case Studies in Location-Based Home Technology Design
No full textEthnographic studies of domestic environments have shown the
fundamental role that contextual locations play in helping people understand
and manage communication information. Yet it is not clear how this knowledge
can be applied to the design of home technologies to effectively support the
routines of home inhabitants. For this reason, we present two case studies in
home technology design that use the results of previous ethnographic studies
on domestic locations to motivate the designs and to make them
location-based. The first case is StickySpots a location-based messaging
system that allows household members to send short digital messages to
various places in their home. The second case is location-dependant
information appliances a pair of physical ambient displays that show
different information depending on where they are placed within the home. We
reflect on these case studies to motivate and discuss an initial set of
guidelines for location-based design in the home.We are currently acquiring citations for the work deposited into this collection. We recognize the distribution rights of this item may have been assigned to another entity, other than the author(s) of the work.If you can provide the citation for this work or you think you own the distribution rights to this work please contact the Institutional Repository Administrator at [email protected]
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
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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