116 research outputs found
Towards the practice of narrative planning
No full textThesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2001."June 2001."Includes bibliographical references (leaves 88-96).The author explores the constitutional qualities of place, the role of narratives in framing land-use controversies, and the possibilities of narrative-focused dialogue as a placemaking activity. She suggests planners engage communities in democratic land-use decision-making through the use of narrative-oriented deliberation. Three stories about land use controversy are elaborated, illustrating the importance of narrative in land use planning.by Jonna Anderson.M.C.P
Rhetorical Strategies of Visual Pleasure in Situation Comedies: \u27Friends\u27 and Female Body Image
No full textThe visual messages conveyed by and about the female characters on Friends reinforce hegemonic ideals of femininity and an ideal female body image that is excessively thin. Messages of narcissism, voyeurism, and fetishism draw adolescent female viewers to identify with the images, characteristics, and behaviors of Rachel and Monica as models and to distance themselves from the images, characteristics, and behaviors of Phoebe and “Fat Monica” as anti-models. The messages sometimes overtly and often covertly perpetuate hegemonic stereotypes about women. Messages advocate that the ideal female body image is a sex object, and the most desirable sex objects are excessively thin. Implications from this analysis include: (1) Happiness and success for women are defined and restricted by hegemony. (2) “Beauty” is crucial to a young woman’s happiness and success. (3) “Beautiful women” are excessively thin at all costs, even costs related to physical health and professional achievement
Socialchefer inom socialvården på Åland - Varför söka sig till socialchefsarbetet och varför bli kvar eller sluta?
No full textAuthor: Jonna Granberg Title: Social directors in social work at the Aaland Islands – why become a social director and why stay or leave? Supervisor: Karin Kullberg Assessor: Håkan Jönson The purpose of this article was to examine which factors that influence the choise to become a social director and which factors that influence the desire to stay or leave the profession. To obtain the purpose, in-depth interviews were carried out with eight respondents, all social directors at the Aaland Islands. I was inspired by the analytical method Grounded Theory in the analysis. The finding is that the motivation of the social directors is multifaced, complex, often emotionally charged and contradictory. My conclusion is that the social directors chose the job because of future carrier opportunities, because of the interest in social work and because of the possibility of obtaining a higher salary. Too much administrative work at the recent job was another motivator and the solitude of the profession of a social director somewhat hindered them. The results further showed that the social directors stay at their jobs because of a feeling of satisfaction originated from a sense of community with others, a sense of having a meaningful job and status. For some of the social directors the opportunities for achievement, the salary, to work with certain work tasks, closeness to the clients, the wide line of work, the support within the organization and the possibility to influence and have power and the municipal resources was motivating. For others the opportunities for achievement seemed claim filled, certain work tasks was demotivating, the salary was considered too low, the influence and power meant too much responsibility and the support within the organization was not enough. The social directors further experienced the work load as too great and felt they had too little staff. This entailed stress and dissatisfaction, which ultimately might increase the social directors will to resign
MuM'23 Workshop on Interruptions and Attention Management
No full textAttention management systems seek to minimize disruption by intelligently timing interruptions and helping users navigate multiple tasks and activities. While there is a solid theoretical basis and rich history in HCI research for attention management, little progress has been made regarding their practical implementation and deployment. Building sophisticated attention management systems requires a great variety of sensors, task- and user models, and multiple devices while considering the complexity of user context and human behavior. Novel AI technologies, such as generative systems, reinforcement learning, and large language models, open new possibilities to create intelligent, practical, and user-centered attention management systems. This proposed workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from diverse backgrounds to discuss and formulate a research agenda to advance attention management systems using novel AI tools to manage and mitigate interruptions from computing systems effectively.Human Information Communication DesignHuman-Centred Artificial Intelligenc
Gamified apps for sustainable consumption: A systematic review
No full textMobile apps are ubiquitous, affecting our everyday practices because “there is always an app for that”. In this vein, there have been a significant number of apps devised to support people’s lifestyles to make them more sustainable. This study aims to draw an overview of gamified mobile apps for sustainable consumption. Following a systematic process, this study analyzes 67 gamified apps’ sustainability approaches and gamification concepts. It was found that (1) sustainable consumption is generally presented as the efficient use of resources to impact the environment positively, rarely addressing societal impacts or economic gains from shifting consumption practices. Other findings include (2) a lack of diversity in gamification characteristics, given the prevalence of direct communication with the user, the absence of virtual identities, and most apps targeting behavior change without attitude change. A potentially problematic design choice is (3) the presence, in some cases, of external rewards that are often contradictory to the message of sustainable consumption as they lead to more consumption. Nonetheless, based on most apps embedding sustainable consumption activities in the gamification concept and having a large number of users, it is possible to conclude that gamification has the potential to motivate shifts in their users’ lifestyles.Energy and Industr
Author Correction: Genome-wide analyses of ADHD identify 27 risk loci, refine the genetic architecture and implicate several cognitive domains
No full textIn the version of this article originally published, the first name of Jonna Kuntsi, of the ADHD Working Group of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium, was misspelled as Joanna. In addition, the Acknowledgements omitted to thank the employees and research participants of 23andMe for making this work possible. The errors have been corrected in the HTML and PDF versions of the article.</p
Author Correction: Genome-wide analyses of ADHD identify 27 risk loci, refine the genetic architecture and implicate several cognitive domains
No full textCorrection to: Nature Genetics https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-022-01285-8. Published online 26 January 2023.
In the version of this article originally published, the first name of Jonna Kuntsi, of the ADHD Working Group of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium, was misspelled as Joanna. In addition, the Acknowledgements omitted to thank the employees and research participants of 23andMe for making this work possible. The errors have been corrected in the HTML and PDF versions of the article
Author Correction: Genome-wide analyses of ADHD identify 27 risk loci, refine the genetic architecture and implicate several cognitive domains: (Nature Genetics, (2023), 55, 2, (198-208), 10.1038/s41588-022-01285-8)
No full textIn the version of this article originally published, the first name of Jonna Kuntsi, of the ADHD Working Group of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium, was misspelled as Joanna. In addition, the Acknowledgements omitted to thank the employees and research participants of 23andMe for making this work possible. The errors have been corrected in the HTML and PDF versions of the article
Juuret ja Kuiske : Kierrätysnahka osana pienmallistoa
No full textOpinnäytetyön aiheena oli kierrätysnahan tutkiminen sekä pienmalliston suunnittelu Kuiske Clothing- yritykselle. Työn tekijä on yrityksen omistaja. Työssä tutkittiin kierrätysnahan saatavuutta ja jatkokäyttöä etenkin Pohjois-Savon alueella. Tutkimus tehtiin sähköpostikyselynä.
Malliston suunnittelu oli materiaalilähtöistä ja kierrätysnahka oli yksi materiaaleista. Materiaalit saatiin pääosin Tekstiilikierrätäjät Ry:n kautta. Suunnittelu eteni luonnostelun ja materiaalikokeilujen kautta tuotteiden ensikappaleiden valmistukseen. Mallisto sisältää yhteensä yhdeksän osaa, joista kaksi on asusteita ja loput vaatteita. Valmiit tuotteet kuvattiin mallin päällä ja mallistosta koostettiin katalogi, josta saatiin asiantuntijapalaute. Lopuksi tekijä analysoi malliston ja merkin muiden tuotteiden elinkaarta ja vaikutusta ympäristöön. Hän myös arvoi, mitkä malliston tuotteet olisivat soveltuvia piensarjatuotantoon jatkossa.The subject of the final project with thesis was to design a small women's collection for Kuiske Clothing-brand. The author is the owner of the brand. For the work the author examined the availability and re-use of recycled leather especially in the Northern Savo area.
The author’s design was material-based and she got most of the materials via Tekstiilikierrättäjät Ry. The design work progressed through sketching and material experiments to manufacturing the prototypes of the collection. The collection consists of nine pieces of which two are accessories and the rest are clothes. The finished pieces were photographed on a model. The author produced a catalogue and she got expert feedback on it. Finally, the author analyzed the collection’s lifecycle, effects on the environment and the possibilities of small series production of each collection piece
The Missing Stock: Exploring Concrete Use in Trondheim’s Residential Building Foundations
No full textConcrete is one of the most widely used materials in residential building construction. It contributes about 4% to 7% of global greenhouse gas emissions annually. Thus, better understanding the material stocks and flows of concrete can support efforts to better manage this resource and its use. Concrete is especially popular for the construction of building foundations. Previous research has shown that foundations can account for 25% to 60% of residential housing mass. Despite this, no in-depth analysis of material requirements of foundations has been conducted. Foundation design depends on the housing type and soil type. Considering foundations’ substantial share of building mass, I analyze them in this thesis in the form of a case study of residential housing built in Trondheim between 2010 and 2020. To account for all emissions from cradle-to-construction site I also compare the concrete production emissions to the last-leg transport emissions. The residential building foundations’ material requirements were estimated with a model I specifically developed for this thesis. 507 000 tonnes of concrete were used from 2010 to 2020 to build residential building foundations in Trondheim. The results show that the concrete production emissions represent 99% and the last-leg transport emissions 1% of the total cradle-to-construction site emissions. The average material intensity coefficient across all buildings in Trondheim is 402 kg of concrete in the foundation per one m2 useful floor area. I disaggregated the buildings into five types: single family house, semi-detached house, rowhouse, apartment building, assisted & communal living. When disaggregated, the building types’ material intensities vary, on average, 8% around 402 kg/m2 useful floor area. The largest difference being 20% below the mean. As a result, there are no substantial differences of material requirements per m2 useful floor area between different building types. However, building on peat and bog soils increases the material requirements by 80% compared to all other soil types found in Trondheim. This is due to the low bearing capacity of peat and bog soils. Trondheim currently plans its residential zoning until 2034. 5% of the planned zones are located on peat and bog. A rough estimate suggests that up to 380 000 tonnes of carbon could be stored in the affected peat and bog areas, which could be released as construction on this land begins. Together with the 80% increased material requirements of foundations on peat and bog, this can cause a lot of emissions. As a result, my short-term recommendation is that these areas are either preserved as nature reserves or only light structures that do not need a foundation are constructed. In the long-term I recommend that new zoning types for city planning are developed that take soil types into account. Lastly, the effects of soil types should be taken into account in future studies of the material stock in residential housing. Feel free to contact the author for more information and the supporting information.Industrial Ecolog
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