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Perspective Chapter: Designing for Dignity – The Role of Esthetic Empathy in Assistive Technologies
Get PDFAssistive technology (AT) has long been seen as a marker of disability rather than a tool of empowerment due to clinical esthetics, stigma, and abandonment. This chapter challenges the function-over-form approach, arguing that esthetic empathy—the integration of emotional, cultural, and functional considerations—can redefine AT as desirable rather than necessary. This chapter examines the evolution of AT, exploring cultural perceptions of disability and the psychological impact of design, where poor esthetics amplify stigma and isolate users. It compares how thoughtfully designed AT fosters dignity, pride, and inclusion, using case studies to show how universally designed products increase adoption and shift perceptions. The rise of consumer-grade AT, such as Apple’s AirPods Pro with assistive listening features, demonstrates that accessibility can move beyond the medical realm into mainstream products. Despite technological progress, barriers still hinder universal design integration, including cost constraints, manufacturing limitations, and outdated paradigms that restrict AT adoption. This chapter envisions a future where AT is no longer a separate category but an integral part of everyday design, erasing distinctions between “assistive” and mainstream products. By prioritizing empathy, esthetics, and user experience, AT can evolve from a stigma-inducing necessity to a universally accepted innovation, ensuring individuals are not just accommodated but valued and fully included in all aspects of society.This book chapter is published Oro, Bruno. 2025. ‘Perspective Chapter: Designing for Dignity – The Role of Esthetic Empathy in Assistive Technologies’. Aesthetics in Cultures, Materials, and Philosophies. Edited by Adam I Attwood., IntechOpen. March 2025, Chapter 16; https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.100961
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
Gansu studio: ‘Plug in’ school unit for rural china
No full textFil: Tenorio, Rosangela. University of Nottingham Ningbo; China.Fil: Yang, Tong. Middlesex University; Reino Unido.Fil: Oro, Bruno. University of Nottingham Ningbo; China.Gansú ‘Plug-in’ Studio was a community outreach project based in China developed over a course of 2 years (2014-2016). It proposed a complementary approach of education to improve quality of learning in primary schools in rural areas. The premise for the work was to engage higher education institutions such as UNNC and primary education institutions, such as HEPAN, by exchange of resources, (e.g. physical or human - staff and students as well as contexts as real opportunities for learning). It worked using design as a tool for development and environmental awareness. It worked in partnership with industry and government institutions and it involved over 120 students and 15 staff from 5 different areas (Architecture, Product Design, Environmental Engineering, Film Studies and English/Education). Through interactive workshops with academics and industry practitioners, UNNC students were guided to realise their ideas through innovative design and sustainable engineering solutions, also developed their communication and team working skills for real to help rural education and community development
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
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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