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Integration through communication tools. How design can facilitate social system integration processes.
No full textCombining the opportunity offered by the findings of the Complexity Science, that has provided a theoretical framework to understand and study Complex Systems, with the empirical
and theoretical knowledge about integration processes, this research investigates where Communication Design artefacts can intervene to facilitate in designing integration processes.
This paper presents the result of an on-field research in Emergency hospital in Cambodia. The on-field investigation has used a qualitative research methodology (Grounded-Theory) and has led to design a model of sustainable integration. This paper results from a design oriented qualitative study aiming to define social integration in the context of the Complexity science findings, construct a conceptual model and develop an empirically derived theory that explains how to facilitate sustainable integration
Citymurmur
No full textThe traditional topological forms of mapping and representing the city are becoming inadequate as new forces shape urban development. To meet these new needs, cartographers are building new maps based on co-extensive visions that define and visualize the city’s physical and social networks. These new mapping activities not only describe quantitative data, but also create new narrative forms.
The CityMurmur project addresses this issue by sketching an image that shows the influence of media on the city. It describes information flows by linking them to physical geography. In addition to the noticeable city and the historic city, CityMurmur reveals a number of emerging cities shaped by invisible but real drivers. It depicts a city as seen by local media, full of places and events distributed over the territory; a city of international media, reduced to the crucial point of political and cultural activities; the cultural city and the sports city; and all the cities created by intersections of media traces. Each city is outlined by faint signals that are real and important when they are considered as a whole.
Online newspapers, information agencies, blogs, personal web sites, and thematic media are monitored to highlight the pattern of perceptions in the urban space. This monitoring activity leads to creation of an atlas that produces different maps based on news sources, themes, and time. The atlas allows users to understand the urban space as a function of the city’s media attention, biases, and social and cultural diversity
RESHAPING COMMUNICATION DESIGN TOOLS: COMPLEX SYSTEMS STRUCTURAL FEATURES FOR DESIGN TOOLS
No full textInternational audienceDuring the last thirty years the level of interest in Complexity Science has been constantly increasing. Combining the opportunity offered by the findings of the Complexity Science with the framework of the multi-disciplinary debate on the meaning and use of diagrams, we propose a design methodology to help designers support their interventions in complex environments. The structural features analysis of Complex Systems has been our key point to outline this methodology to offer designers a new mindfulness in the use of design tools. This methodology is based on five phases: analysing, representing, pinpointing, timing and telling. It provides a theoretical framework that incorporates many tools suggesting a different use of them with a special attention to improve the designer's consciousness of the system he is designing in. When design is addressing complexity, diagrams could become generative tools that can be used to produce metadata relevant to the design process
Tell them anything but the truth: They will find their own. How we visualized the map of the future with respect to the audience of our story
No full textThis paper is part of a research project about the visualization of complex systems. More specifically, it focuses on the emerging need for a narrative approach in the understanding of complex networks
New maps from the media-city: CityMurmur as a tool for the visualization of urban space
No full textThe aim of the paper is to present the first results of the CityMurmur project and to discuss the potential of the tool in the description of the new shape of the media-city. CityMurmur aims to show how different media differently describe the urban space through a set of maps resulting from the intersection of news sources and the geographical reality of the city. In this context, cartography is taken into consideration not as passive representation of reality but as a tool for interpretation and action on the urban space. In the first part of the paper the concept and objectives behind the project are explained, the second part aims at providing a description of the CityMurmur Project, in the final part some preliminary results and case studies are discussed
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
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