92 research outputs found
A Depiction of the City Life of Georgia in Julier Chevalier's Novel “Noah’s Grandchildren''
No full textNoah’s Grandchildren by Julier Chevalier represents one of the most outstanding and significant works, giving a vivid description Georgian history and its Customs. The author, being American, arouses great interest as well.
The story includes lots of interesting points of exceptional importance but in the above-mentioned paper I'll focus on depicting the city life in Georgia.
As it is obvious and easily noticed from the novel, the population of Batumi at that time was multinational. Russians, Greeks, Turkish, Armenians, Kurds, Persians lived there including Georgians of course. Chevalier provides us with some information of particular significance not only about working lives of aliens in Batumi, but about their everyday ones and customs as well.
The novel draws our attention to the description of Tbilisi as the most important city in our country. According to the author, Tbilisi, like Batumi is the typical city characteristic to Asia. The American author's interest while describing or presenting the city's specific sides, makes the story the focus of attention and interest.
Despite the fact, that the information given by Julier Chevalier is not always free from errors, it can still be considered as a very interesting and considerable work for the researchers interested in Georgian history and its customs
Design Culture: Objects and Approaches:edited by Guy Julier, Mads Nygaard Folkmann, Niels Peter Skou, Hans-Christian Jensen, and Anders V. Munch
No full textIntroductory paragraph: This five-person edited volume by Julier et al. shares the cultural views from twenty international contributors, which is particularly insightful from a European design perspective. At the same time, it is poignant considering the UK’s current political transition. This ambitious endeavour includes fifteen articles framed in four distinct parts and emerged from a design culture conference (University of Southern Denmark, 2014). The changing voice and writing style through multiple author narratives is to be expected, however, has been edited to flow well. Most authors write in an accessible way for academia and industry alike
Integrating Hypermedia Techniques with Augmented Reality Environments
No full textAugmented Reality systems, which overlay virtual information over the real world, can benefit greatly from the techniques established by the Open Hypermedia research field. Storing information and links separately from a document can be advantageous for augmented reality applications and can enable the adaption of content to suit users’ preferences. This thesis explores how Open Hypermedia systems might be used as the information systems behind AR environments. This provides benefits to augmented reality developers, not only because of the existing Open Hypermedia methods but also because of the applicability of Open Hypermedia interaction techniques to the augmented reality domain. Tangible augmented reality techniques, in which graphics are overlaid on physical objects that can be manipulated as input devices, can be used to interact with the resulting information spaces by exposing the adaptation processes in the Open Hypermedia systems. This thesis describes the development of various physical interaction metaphors that allow users to physically manipulate the underlying hypermedia structures to their liking, resulting in a natural and intuitive way to navigate complex information spaces
Bigminis: fetishes of crisis
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Sweetening the Pot
No full textThis chapter begins with a discussion of a dinner party attended by the author to highlight the complexity of social events with food when all the rigid rules of dinner parties are not applicable or desired. For many reasons, the majority of people's social events do not fit into those formal templates, so they must “invent” new ways of doing this. But in doing so, all modifications are fraught with new rules and new ways of negotiating a shared understanding of what is appropriate, what tastes good, and what makes both hosts and guests feel “comfortable,” appreciated, and connected to each other. It argues that the path to intimacy and closeness is not as free of constraints as the ideology of friendship suggests. In fact, people intentionally use these events to create bounded groups whose similarities exclude others.</p
Eating Together
No full textAn insightful map of the landscape of social meals, this book argues that the ways in which Americans eat together play a central role in social life in the United States. Delving into a wide range of research, the author analyzes etiquette and entertaining books from the past century and conducts interviews and observations of dozens of African American and non-ethnic white hosts and guests at dinner parties, potlucks, and buffets. It finds that when people invite friends, neighbors, or family members to share meals within their households, social inequalities involving race, economics, and gender reveal themselves in interesting ways: relationships are defined, boundaries of intimacy or distance are set, and people find themselves either excluded or included. The book focuses on one particular type of sociable activity, the shared meal—and more narrowly, the shared meal that occurs in households and includes non-kin. It explores some of the moral discourses and texts that shape our understanding of food and social life in the United States.</p
Pictograms for resistance : historicity and militant design research in Amazonian Ecuador
No full textPublisher Copyright: © The Author(s), 2023.This article focuses on the experiences of developing and using pictograms as visual devices to support Indigenous communities of Amazonian Ecuador. It recognizes the imbalances and contradictions amidst the complex histories and identities of a Latin American state such as Ecuador. The authors emphasize the need to decolonize the design activist imagination and highlight two key issues. The first is in appreciating how historicity operates in this context. The authors show how a non-teleological, historical consciousness is central to processes of deliberation and collaboration. Secondly, they introduce the concept of ‘militant design research’ to understand the role of the activist researcher in this context. These reflections challenge European and North American conceptions of design activism and social design. Consequently, the design-researcher’s subject position shifts away from an extractivist mode and, instead, commits to the tensions and Indigenous political processes within which the pictograms function.Peer reviewe
Streamlining electronic reporting of serious adverse events (SAEs) using the REDCap data collection system: the eSAE Project
No full textAbstract Background It is essential that electronic data collection (EDC) systems are both compliant with regulations and the principles of Good Clinical Practice (GCP) to allow for the timely and accurate reporting of data including safety data. For clinical trials of investigational medicinal products (CTIMPs), investigators must immediately report to the sponsor any serious adverse event (SAE) that occurs in a site for which they are responsible. It is therefore expected that sponsors provide systems for timely review and reporting should a SAE be classified as a suspected unexpected serious adverse reaction (SUSAR). Challenges arise when data related to adverse events (AEs) needs to be re-entered for SAEs; this can be prone to error and may delay reporting. Additionally, recognising what has changed from an initial SAE report when an investigator responds to queries raised can cause errors. Method A multi-disciplinary working group came together from a UK academic clinical trials unit (CTU) to establish if an electronic system could be created in the unit’s open-source EDC system—REDCap, to manage SAEs in an efficient way. Results A module has been created in REDCap to facilitate electronic SAE reporting: enabling an AE form to automatically trigger an SAE form for any AE which is also a SAE, prepopulating relevant fields of the SAE form, reducing the risk of delay and error when entering data into the SAE form. The system has also been developed with an embedded code to allow for instant visual recognition of any data updated following reporting to allow the sponsor to immediately review and resolve SAEs in a timely manner, complying with UK regulatory reporting. This functionality ‘The eSAE Project’ is now an active project for all of our new trials where data collection is undertaken using the REDCap system. Conclusion The eSAE Project coded into REDCap offers a unique way of populating SAE forms with information already entered in the initial AE forms as applicable, coupled with highlighting any updates during the lifetime of the SAE for sponsors to identify any new information that needs to be reassessed to process and report the SAE
Robust Filtering and Smoothing with Gaussian Processes.
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A Comparison of Quantitative and Qualitative Data from a Formative Usability Evaluation of an Augmented Reality Learning Scenario
No full textThe proliferation of augmented reality (AR) technologies creates opportunities for the devel-opment of new learning scenarios. More recently, the advances in the design and implementation of desktop AR systems make it possible the deployment of such scenarios in primary and secondary schools. Usability evaluation is a precondition for the pedagogical effectiveness of these new technologies and requires a systematic approach for finding and fixing usability problems. In this paper we present an approach to a formative usability evaluation based on heuristic evaluation and user testing. The basic idea is to compare and integrate quantitative and qualitative measures in order to increase confidence in results and enhance the descriptive power of the usability evaluation report.augmented reality, multimodal interaction, e-learning, formative usability evaluation, user testing, heuristic evaluation
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