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No full textPotency of self-assembled antimicrobial peptides against biofilms. Image courtesy of Carla Langella, Gabriele Pontillo, Roberta Angari and Stefania Galdiero
Digital Design and Data Visualization for Society Health and Wellbeing
No full textThe contribution deals with the theme of the design of wearable and active devices, capable of communicating with the end user, mediators of the health condition and perceived and effective well-being of individuals.
The state of the art on the subject highlights how the use of wearable devices in the field of e-health, capable of monitoring the biometric data of individuals, has grown. Nonetheless, these devices are used for limited periods of time, becoming – in fact – a sort of fad, or in any case a passing phenomenon. One therefore wonders whether it is possible to intervene on the design of this type of artefact, in such a way as to trigger a relational link between the object and the user, in order to increase the latter’s awareness of his/her health condition, with an impact relevant, with respect to the widespread quality of life, especially in cases in which one is confronted with more fragile sections of the population, in the presence of some pathological conditions, and for which monitoring of this type is therefore relevant.
The approach used will make use of the analysis of the scientific literature and the state of the art of reference, useful for understanding the interest and relevance of the contribution, especially after a hybridization between knowledge and between different disciplinary areas of the design culture, namely that of digital design, communication design and data visualization, used to outline an innovative approach described in the contribution
Echinodesign: a new model for facilitating the dissemination and effectiveness of the biomimetic design culture.
No full textThe chapter presents a novel approach to carry out biomimetic researches and disseminate the culture of bioinspired designs. It describes the results of an interdisciplinary project, named Echinodesign, i.e., a design-driven biological investigation aimed at understanding the characteristics, principles, and logic of echinoids as well as at facilitating the development of innovative inspired products and services. In particular, the echinoids are marine invertebrate organisms, commonly known as sea urchins, which have a long history as inspiring models for transferring bio-inspired solutions. Through a hybrid approach between biology, design and engineering, these organisms with their unique functional features were re-interpreted and applied in different design fields, including furniture, biomedical, lighting, and sports. The resulting inspired design products were finally showed in a dedicated exhibition, proposed as a tool to disseminate and amplify the results of the biomimetic research
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
L'archivio ibrido. Il design per l'archivistica digitale.
No full textDi archivistica digitale si parla ormai da diversi anni, e sono sempre più numerose le esperienze di ricerca applicata a questo settore, che coinvolgono tanto i contesti accademici e universitari, quanto quelli istituzionali, dei musei, delle fondazioni, delle associazioni di settore. L'intento consiste principalmente nel comprendere cone preservare dal deterioramento, fisico ed informatico, quegli artefatti che presentano una valenza culturale, spendibile ai fini sociali, formativi e di ricerca.
Il volume tratta dunque questo tema, approfondendolo dal punto di vista delle metodologie, dei processi e delle tecnologie, evidenziando la natura ibrida del patrimonio culturale e degli archivi digitali.
Ci si interroga quindi sul ruolo del design nel settore della conservazione del patrimonio culturale e delle memorie umane, prima ancora che elettroniche, digitali e artificiali, intersecando tra loro aspetti come l'analisi dei media digitali e dei dati, lo studio degli standard e delle linee guida di riferimento, nonché l'impiego dell'intelligenza artificiale in questo settore
L'archivio ibrido. Il design per l'archivistica digitale
No full textDi archivistica digitale si parla ormai da diversi anni, e sono sempre più numerose le esperienze di ricerca applicata a questo settore, che coinvolgono tanto i contesti accademici e universitari, quanto quelli istituzionali, dei musei, delle fondazioni, delle associazioni di settore. L'intento consiste principalmente nel comprendere cone preservare dal deterioramento, fisico ed informatico, quegli artefatti che presentano una valenza culturale, spendibile ai fini sociali, formativi e di ricerca.
Il volume tratta dunque questo tema, approfondendolo dal punto di vista delle metodologie, dei processi e delle tecnologie, evidenziando la natura ibrida del patrimonio culturale e degli archivi digitali.
Ci si interroga quindi sul ruolo del design nel settore della conservazione del patrimonio culturale e delle memorie umane, prima ancora che elettroniche, digitali e artificiali, intersecando tra loro aspetti come l'analisi dei media digitali e dei dati, lo studio degli standard e delle linee guida di riferimento, nonché l'impiego dell'intelligenza artificiale in questo settore
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
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