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Premio tesi di laurea "Antonio Ventura". Migliore tesi di laurea della Facoltà di Ingegneria.
No full textCultural influences on healthcare design. Session Introduction
Full text linkIntroducing the contributions of members of the UIA/PHG at the conference, are highlighted key steps concerning the topic of reconciling the high international design standards of healthcare facilities with different cultural specificities.
The increasing sensibility to Human-centered Design topics, sees integrate multiple disciplines through the participation of staff and consumers.
The Session Introduction is taking part in one of the four parts of the volume that documents the results of the 35th UIA/PHG International Seminar on Public Healthcare Facilities held in Dalian, China, 23-25 May 2015, as part of the more extensive conference entitled “HEALTH FOR ALL, Cultural, Operational & Technological Influence”, organized by UIA - Public Health Group- and GUPHA - Global University Program in Healthcare Architecture
Post Occupancy Evaluation in ambito ospedaliero: uno strumento per la valutazione ex post del comfort visivo negli spazi di attesa
Full text linkIl campo in cui si svolge la seguente ricerca, è quello del settore ICAR/12 Tecnologia dell’Architettura e vuole promuovere l’applicazione della metodologia di valutazione ex-post nel contesto nazionale per le strutture ospedaliere.
Tra le metodologie più accreditate per la rilevazione del feedback sulle prestazioni dell'edificio, troviamo la Post Occupancy Evaluation (POE), definita come l'atto di valutare gli edifici in modo sistematico e rigoroso, dopo che gli stessi sono stati costruiti e occupati per qualche tempo. Nel corso degli ultimi decenni, sono diventate un approccio accreditato in ambito internazionale, basato su evidenze scientifiche, utilizzando dati di natura quantitativa e qualitativa, attraverso il coinvolgimento e la rilevazione del feedback degli utenti. Sono state applicate con successo negli edifici ospedalieri, in quanto in essi si concentrano una serie di specificità dovute alla varietà di utenza, alla differente complessità delle attività funzionali che comporta una diversa richiesta di prestazione dal punto di vista architettonico (adeguatezza degli spazi in rapporto all’attività da svolgere), logistico, organizzativo/ gestionale per le differenti aree funzionali.
L’obiettivo è stato quello di sviluppare prima un quadro generale (framework) per l’applicazione delle metodologie POE nel contesto italiano per gli edifici ospedalieri, partendo da un’analisi dell’evoluzione del metodo, delle tecniche e delle sue possibili applicazioni. A partire dallo studio del contesto internazionale si è operata una semplificazione delle procedure di applicazione ed una sistematizzazione di criteri e sub-criteri di valutazione delle performance dell’edificio ospedaliero.
Per ragioni legate alle tempistiche di svolgimento della ricerca, si è definito poi un modello per la valutazione ex-post rispetto al sub-criterio di comfort visivo. La rilevazione del feedback dagli utenti, accanto alla rilevazione “esperta” dei tecnici, deve avvenire in modo efficace e sistematico, pertanto sono stati sviluppati degli specifici strumenti per la rilevazione dei dati.
L’applicazione ai casi studio ha avuto così lo scopo di valutare i primi esiti dell’uso di tali metodologie per la valutazione del comfort visivo delle sale di attesa ambulatoriali di tre ospedali romani (Presidio Ospedaliero Oftalmico, Presidio Nuovo Regina Margherita, Presidio Ospedaliero S. Spirito).
L’analisi effettuata ha avvalorato l’efficacia dell’uso delle POE, che risulta particolarmente funzionale per gestori e progettisti al fine di individuare linee preferenziali di intervento e modalità delle stesse, in rapporto alle esigenze riscontrate dagli utenti e ai requisiti necessari per il raggiungimento degli obiettivi di performance. La comunicazione “diretta” tra utenti, progettisti e gestori dell’edificio, consente di intercettare i bisogni reali, aumentando l’efficienza e l’efficacia degli interventi una volta realizzati.The following research, carried out in the field ICAR/12 Technology of Architecture, aims to promote the application of the ex-post evaluation methodology in the national sector of healthcare buildings.
Among the most accredited methodologies for the detection of feedback on the performance of a building, we find the Post Occupancy Evaluation (POE), defined as the act of evaluating the buildings in a systematic and rigorous way, after they have been built and occupied for some time. Over the last decades, the POE methodology has become an internationally accredited, evidence- based approach, which gives quantitative and qualitative data, through the involvement and detection of users’ feedback. This methodology has been successfully applied to hospital buildings, as they involve a series of specificities due to the variety of users and the different complexity of functional activities, that involves a different request for performance from an architectural point of view (adequacy of spaces in relation to activities to be performed), logistic, organizational/ management for the different functional areas.
The aim was at first to develop a general framework for the application of POE methodologies to the Italian context for hospital buildings, starting from an analysis of the evolution of the method, the techniques and its possible applications. By studying the international context, a simplification of the application procedures and a systematization of criteria and sub-criteria for evaluating the performance of the hospital building has been carried out.
For reasons related to the timing of the research, a model has been defined for the ex-post evaluation with respect to the sub-criterion of visual comfort. The detection of feedback from users, alongside the “expert” survey of technicians, must take place in an effective and systematic way, therefore specific tools have been developed for data collection.
The application to the case studies has thus had the purpose of evaluating the first outcomes of the use of such methodologies for the evaluation of the visual comfort of the clinics’ waiting rooms of three hospitals of Rome (Ophthalmic Hospital, Nuovo Regina Margherita Hospital, S. Spirito Hospital)
The analysis carried out has confirmed the effectiveness of the use of POE, which is particularly functional for managers and designers in order to identify preferential lines and methods of interventions, in relation to the needs identified by users and the requirements necessary for achieving performance goals. The “direct” communication between users, designers and building managers allows to intercept/catch/understand the real needs, increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of the interventions once they have been realized
Informazioni diffuse e strumenti per la progettazione e gestione dell'ambiente costruito
No full textLe attuali innovazioni nel campo delle tecnologie dell’ICT, tra tutte l’Internet of Things (IoT), possono rappresentare scenari di cambiamento non solo per la gestione urbana, ma anche per la gestione dei patrimoni immobiliari, relativamente ai processi conoscitivi e decisionali. In particolare l’applicazione di soluzioni innovative dell’IoT permette di concretizzare un nuovo approccio alla gestione dei servizi basato sul superamento di processi lineari e di centri di decisione puntuali verso scenari caratterizzati dal concetto di rete, da modalità di acquisizione in continuo delle informazioni e da forme di condivisione della conoscenza
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
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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