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Staging negotiation spaces as a means for co-designing an insulin service system in India
No full textThis chapter seeks to investigate potential navigational moves of designers through a specific case study of making insulin available to people at the BoP in India and views staging as a central aspect in negotiating concerns in collaborative design projects in general. Staging is the act of building network relations by orchestrating spaces for negotiation (Pedersen 2020) and refers to a process of (a) framing an envisaged performance in a scenic space based on an interpretation of the initial ‘design brief’ of a project; and (b) producing props that inscribe this framing into potential intermediary objects that mediates between actors and allow for discussions and negotiations of controversies. Further navigational moves include (c) circulating these objects amongst diverse actors to facilitate negotiations; and (d) reframing the design brief to stage yet another performance with new actors and props
Circulating objects between frontstage and backstage:Collectively identifying concerns and framing solution spaces
No full textIn this chapter we use a conceptual framework of frontstage and backstage and intermediary objects to investigate how problems (matters of concerns) and solutions are negotiated through an iterative process of producing and inscribing objects backstage and circulating these objects frontstage. This is done by exploring the navigational moves of a team of five third-semester bachelor's design engineering students who sought to improve quality of life for elderly residents with dementia in a nursing home by engaging in a co-design process to develop a new sensory stimulation technology. During this analysis we identify a new type of ‘fluid’ intermediary object that continuously evolves during the design process as new concerns emerge and which thus also frames the solution that is to be designed.<br/
Staging:from theory to action
No full textThis chapter reviews the different origins and theoretical foundations of collaborative staging of design and innovation. It outlines staging as a sensitizing concept and a repertoire of ways to configure and facilitate interactions across actors and objects that is illustrated in different ways throughout this volume. With a starting point in participatory design, shaping of technology and theory of organizing the chapter draws up a metaphorically inspired picture of how to understand the staging of design and innovation, the vocabulary and the process. The key concepts and understandings of staging include the development and circulation of objects to translate knowledge and frame negotiations as well as the shaping of discursive spaces to inform a repertoire of approaches of how to make staging actionable for diverse professions.<br/
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
Sustainable gift-exchange
No full textThis thesis is a sustainable design project targeting a narrow segment of sustainable consumption, gifts. The project is taking a focus point in the practice of gift-exchange, within gift-consumption takes place and is determined by.The project integrates collaborative design, including the Staging negotiation spaces framework by Pedersen (2020) and generative design research (E. Sanders & Stappers, 2013), as well as implements social practice theory (Shove, Pantzar and Watson, 2012). Building upon the theoretical and methodological framework, as well as the literature review, during the thesis 10 semi-structured interviews and 5 generative design workshops have been carried out, where for the latter the scope has been narrowed to second-hand gifts.Findings from the empirical research have been translated to a final concept, which is a boardgame for families. The game facilitates conversations around second-hand gifts and implements strategies for changing the practice of gift-exchange, and thereby aiming to contribute to a sustainable development in gift-consumption
See ME, All of Me! - A Socially Sustainable Healthcare
No full textSustainability is a growing concept and worldwide are companies, organisations and governments working actively with innovative solutions towards a more sustainable society. However, not all sides of sustainability are receiving equal attention and social sustainability have been left behind in the research agenda. Social sustainability is often knotted with health and urban development.I have in this thesis investigated how social sustainability is portrayed within healthcare and what value social sustainability creates. With healthcare being a highly complex system, I have used the Danish municipality of Elsinore as a case study, due to their ongoing construction of a new community health centre.For a decade, the near healthcare has been under development and a continuous struggle of economic pressure and lack of attention has resulted in a healthcare system that is ready for a transition away from the mono-sequential treatment paradigm and towards a more coherent and attentive way of providing healthcare. Medicine has always been about data, but in the process, we lost the human. To rewrite the story, we need to allow the medicine to see the human as a whole and redefine the healthcare paradigm
Nonylphenol i vandmiljøet
No full textThe eelpout (Zoarces viviparus) is strongly affected by xenobiotics (e.g endocrine disrupting chemicals), one of which is suspected to be nonylphenol (NP). The project investigates the endocrine disrupting chemical, NP, its effect on the eelpout, and how it degraded from nonylphenolethoxylates (NPE) into NP during water treatment. Scientifical literature is used to describe how NP finds its way to the aquatic environment, which kind of endocrine disrupting effect it has and how the eelpouts life and hormone cycle works. Previous studies are used to describe NP’s endocrine disrupting effects on the eelpout and other fish species. This study concludes that NP is discharged into the aquatic environment from the water treatment plant. During the water treatment NPE decomposes into NP. The non-branched chains of NP de-compose completely during aerobe process, while the branched chained NP’s are discharged to the aquatic environment and is afterwards consumed by the prey of eelpouts. Experiments show that NP in high concentrations has an effect on adult male eelpouts. This is shown by change in shape and size of the testicles. The em-bryos of the eelpout are expected to be more sensitive to endocrine disrupted chem-icals, than grown eelpouts. This is seen by deformities in the eyes, head and spine. The embryos are affected even at concentrations which has no effect on the adult eelpouts. The cocktail effect (mixture of chemicals) can contribute to an increased effect and clear/more visual deformities. In addition NP is able to bioaccumulate, so it is possible that NP has a damaging endocrine disrupting effect on its own, if the concentration is high enough.The eelpout (Zoarces viviparus) is strongly affected by xenobiotics (e.g endocrine disrupting chemicals), one of which is suspected to be nonylphenol (NP). The project investigates the endocrine disrupting chemical, NP, its effect on the eelpout, and how it degraded from nonylphenolethoxylates (NPE) into NP during water treatment. Scientifical literature is used to describe how NP finds its way to the aquatic environment, which kind of endocrine disrupting effect it has and how the eelpouts life and hormone cycle works. Previous studies are used to describe NP’s endocrine disrupting effects on the eelpout and other fish species. This study concludes that NP is discharged into the aquatic environment from the water treatment plant. During the water treatment NPE decomposes into NP. The non-branched chains of NP de-compose completely during aerobe process, while the branched chained NP’s are discharged to the aquatic environment and is afterwards consumed by the prey of eelpouts. Experiments show that NP in high concentrations has an effect on adult male eelpouts. This is shown by change in shape and size of the testicles. The em-bryos of the eelpout are expected to be more sensitive to endocrine disrupted chem-icals, than grown eelpouts. This is seen by deformities in the eyes, head and spine. The embryos are affected even at concentrations which has no effect on the adult eelpouts. The cocktail effect (mixture of chemicals) can contribute to an increased effect and clear/more visual deformities. In addition NP is able to bioaccumulate, so it is possible that NP has a damaging endocrine disrupting effect on its own, if the concentration is high enough
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