381 research outputs found
#TheDay: Triggering User Generated Videos in Participatory Media Productions
No full textTraditional media such as television are increasingly adopting interaction logic as a way to engage viewers. In this paper, we report on the design of a smartphone application that facilitates the participatory production process of #TheDay, a two-minute item in an infotainment TV show, which is broadcasted twice a week on national television. #TheDayleverages a co-creation approach as it allows viewers to submit and discuss self-produced video content, this way empowering them to share their take on topics imposed by TV producers. We report on #TheDay’s eight-month deployment. Through a mixed methods approach, we learn how the TV producers succeeded in triggering viewer interaction, also on a long-term. From our findings, we distill three considerations for the design of interactive applications that support professional producers in deploying participatory forms of media production with sustained user commitment
Visualising Things. Perspectives on How to Make Things Public through Visualisation
No full textIn this paper, we will be discussing how visualisations can facilitate participatory processes by way of conveying issues of public concern as ‘things’. In the line of Latour’s plea to ‘make things public’ (Latour and Weibel, 2005), visualisations can be purposefully designed to trigger and encourage public debates concerning a wide range of issues. For this, we explore how a visualisation can be both transparent (i.e. visualising the complex entanglement of backstories of an issue) and readable. Specifically we clarify the aspect of designing a readable visualisation of ‘things’. First, drawing from different fields of literature (i.e. Information Visualisation, Science, and Technology Studies and Human-Computer-Interaction) we will articulate three main aspects of readability: engaging people to interact with a visualisation of complex issues, supporting sense making and encouraging reflection. Then, based on three empirical case studies, we indicate different design considerations in terms of engaging people to interact with a visualisation: contextualising a visualisation (via its location or medium), staging interaction and allowing people to provide their own perspective on the issue displayed. As a conclusion we propose a scenario that allows the visualisation to gradually become more transparent in support of its readability.status: Publishe
Claes Oldenburg : Raw Notes : Documents and Spirits of the Performances : "Stars", "Moveyhouse", "Massage", "The Typewriter" with Annotations by the Author
No full textReproduces Oldenburg's complete unaltered collection of documents (including scripts, notes, instructions, theory) relating to four performances dating from 1963-1968, transcribed from their original form. Includes annotations by the author and examples of the original manuscripts
Parade's End and the modernist legacy of nineteenth-century literary Toryism
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Lease of land from Hilletje Jans, widow of Ide Cornelius Van Vorst, to her son-in-law Jan Ariense Sip, 1694
No full textDocument in which Hilletje Jans, widow, asserts that she has leased a tract of land to her son in law Jan Arianse Sip, and agrees to continue the lease until her death, at which point all of her land is to be divided among her heirs, with certain exceptions detailed in document. Deed recorded by Town Clerk Claes Arentse Toers.Deed in Colonial Dutch from 1694, with transcription and translatio
DNA fusion gene vaccination mobilizes effective anti-leukemic cytotoxic T lymphocytes from a tolerized repertoire
No full textThe majority of known human tumor-associated antigens derive from non-mutated self proteins. T cell tolerance, essential to prevent autoimmunity, must therefore be cautiously circumvented to generate cytotoxic T cell responses against these targets. Our strategy uses DNA fusion vaccines to activate high levels of peptide-specific CTL. Key foreign sequences from tetanus toxin activate tolerance-breaking CD4+ T cell help. Candidate MHC class Ibinding tumor peptide sequences are fused to the C terminus for optimal processing and presentation. To model performance against a leukemia-associated antigen in a tolerized setting, we constructed a fusion vaccine encoding an immunodominant CTL epitopederived from Friend murine leukemia virus gag protein (FMuLVgag) and vaccinated tolerant FMuLVgag-transgenic (gag-Tg) mice. Vaccination with the construct induced epitopespecificIFN-c-producing CD8+ T cells in normal and gag-Tg mice. The frequency and avidity of activated cells were reduced in gag-Tg mice, and no autoimmune injury resulted. However, these CD8+ T cells did exhibit gag-specific cytotoxicity in vitro and in vivo. Also, epitope-specific CTL killed FBL-3 leukemia cells expressing endogenous FMuLVgag antigen and protected against leukemia challenge in vivo. These results demonstrate a simple strategy to engage anti-microbial T cell help to activate epitope-specific polyclonal CD8+ T cell responses from a residual tolerized repertoire
The Fragility of Liberalism: David Hume and the Problem of Virtue
No full textDegree awarded: Ph.D. Politics. The Catholic University of AmericaThe Fragility of Liberalism: David Hume and the Problem of VirtueNong Cheng, Ph.D. Director: Claes G. Ryn, Ph.D. David Hume has often been seen as a representative of interest-based liberalism, as distinct from, for example, Lockean, rights-based liberalism or Kantian, autonomy-based liberalism. This dissertation considerably revises or qualifies this interpretation by demonstrating that in Hume's political theory virtues play a significant role in motivating compliance with rules.The dissertation shows the importance of a distinction between interest as justifying rationale and interest as direct motive. Hume's argument for liberal institutions is essentially based on considerations of self-interest. However, he has deep reservations about self-interest being the motive for action. Given Hume's theory of reason and passion, he cannot expect people to be always clearheaded and to be constantly calculating relative advantage. Only preexisting, unreflective dispositional tendencies can ensure and explain strict rule-following. These dispositions form the core of liberal virtues.What is special about Hume's account of liberal virtues is that he juxtaposes the self-interest motive and the virtuous motive and has to explain their relationship. The typical liberal idea of the self-interest motive, understood as involving autonomous rational agency and reflective calculation, conflicts with the dispositional view of the virtuous motive. But Hume's notion of the self-interest motive is context-dependent, and the interests in the concrete contexts are diverse and heterogeneous. This particularized sense of interest is more like an unreflective tendency than a reflective calculation. As such it plays a major role in the formation of the corresponding virtuous motive and gradually gives place to the latter. The dissertation brings out that a stable liberal order cannot rely on either voluntary commitment or rational calculation, but depends on virtuous tendencies widely possessed by a people. These virtuous tendencies are shaped primarily through habituation, and their formation involves a protracted historical development and a particular way of life.Made available in DSpace on 2011-06-24T17:11:28Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1
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The Impact of a Narrative Design Strategy for Information Visualization on a Public Display
No full textPublic displays are increasingly deployed to make civic data easily and publicly consumable. While augmenting such public visualizations with a narrative design strategy could be promising to engage a lay audience, they might perform differently on public displays than on common online media because of the more context-sensitive environment. We therefore report on a comparative in-the-wild study of a public display that contrasts an identical public visualization with and without a narrative structure, and unravel how this affects the user engagement and insight creation process. Our findings indicate how a narrative strategy in relation to contextual aspects supports deeper, more personal reflection on data, connects authorship to the surrounding environment, and overcomes comprehension issues. We believe these results are useful for making public visualizations more effective, as well as understanding why and how lay users interact with and learn from narrative data visualization in general.status: Publishe
Ekonomistyrning i småföretag : En fallstudie av ett israeliskt och ett svenskt småföretag
No full textSammanfattning Kandidatuppsats i företagsekonomi inom ekonomistyrning. Ekonomihögskolan Linneuniversitetet Vårterminen 2012. Författare: Claes Lindberg Handledare: Jan Alpenberg Titel: Ekonomistyrning i småföretag Syfte: Syftet med denna studie är: Att bidra till ökad förståelse för användningen av ekonomistyrsystemen i ett tillverkande småföretag i Israel och jämföra med dito i Sverige. Att beskriva användandet av ekonomistyrsystemen samt analysera olikheter och likheter emellan dem. Metod: Jag har i den här undersökningen valt att göra en fallstudie med två företag, ett israeliskt och ett svenskt. Den metod som jag använt definierar jag som en fallstudieteknik med en kvalitativ metod som enligt Yins dimensioner faller under multipel fallstudie med ett holistiskt tillvägagångssätt. Själva analysen har utförts med hjälp av ”contingency theory”. Slutsats: I studien har framkommit att det är stor skillnad i hur de två företagen har använt sina ekonomistyrsystem. Det är stor skillnad i hur man ser på ekonomistyrsystemen och vilket mervärde de tillför organisationen. Det svenska företaget har ett ekonomistyrningssystem som är väldigt traditionellt uppbyggt och där det anses viktigt för att leda företaget på effektivt sätt. Dessa skillnader har troligtvis uppkommit både på grund av skillnader i omgivningen men också av skillnader i företagens affärsidé, koncept och också pga. skillnader i VD/ägares personlighet. Vi kan dock konstatera att båda dessa företag har verkat under längre tid med god lönsamhet trots sina olika sätt att använda de traditionella ekonomistyrsystemen. Abstract Title Management Control Systems in Small Businesses Author Claes Lindberg Supervisor Jan Alpenberg Course Bachelor Thesis in Business Administration 15 ECts Purpose The purpose of the thesis is to: Add understanding to the use of management control systems in a small producing business in Israel and compare it to a similar business in Sweden. Describe the use of the management control systems and analyze the differences and differences between them. Methodology The methodology used in this thesis is a qualitative multiple case study that according to Yins dimensions would be characterized as a holistic case study. The relevant theory for analyzing the result is contingency theory. Conclusions The study has found that there is a big difference in how the two companies are using their management control systems and a big difference in how management see the added value to the organization from these control systems. The Swedish company has a control system that is very traditional in the type of segment where they operate and they consider the system as an important tool to lead the company in the right direction. The Israeli company on the other hand has a system that gives a more general picture and is less complicated and exact compared to the Swedish one. These differences are probably due to differences in the surroundings but also in business concept, customer demands and also difference in character and leader style of company owners. We can conclude that both these companies have been successful for 25 plus years with a profit level way above their competitors despite their different ways of using the traditional management control systems.
Ekonomistyrning i småföretag : En fallstudie av ett israeliskt och ett svenskt småföretag
No full textSammanfattning Kandidatuppsats i företagsekonomi inom ekonomistyrning. Ekonomihögskolan Linneuniversitetet Vårterminen 2012. Författare: Claes Lindberg Handledare: Jan Alpenberg Titel: Ekonomistyrning i småföretag Syfte: Syftet med denna studie är: Att bidra till ökad förståelse för användningen av ekonomistyrsystemen i ett tillverkande småföretag i Israel och jämföra med dito i Sverige. Att beskriva användandet av ekonomistyrsystemen samt analysera olikheter och likheter emellan dem. Metod: Jag har i den här undersökningen valt att göra en fallstudie med två företag, ett israeliskt och ett svenskt. Den metod som jag använt definierar jag som en fallstudieteknik med en kvalitativ metod som enligt Yins dimensioner faller under multipel fallstudie med ett holistiskt tillvägagångssätt. Själva analysen har utförts med hjälp av ”contingency theory”. Slutsats: I studien har framkommit att det är stor skillnad i hur de två företagen har använt sina ekonomistyrsystem. Det är stor skillnad i hur man ser på ekonomistyrsystemen och vilket mervärde de tillför organisationen. Det svenska företaget har ett ekonomistyrningssystem som är väldigt traditionellt uppbyggt och där det anses viktigt för att leda företaget på effektivt sätt. Dessa skillnader har troligtvis uppkommit både på grund av skillnader i omgivningen men också av skillnader i företagens affärsidé, koncept och också pga. skillnader i VD/ägares personlighet. Vi kan dock konstatera att båda dessa företag har verkat under längre tid med god lönsamhet trots sina olika sätt att använda de traditionella ekonomistyrsystemen. Abstract Title Management Control Systems in Small Businesses Author Claes Lindberg Supervisor Jan Alpenberg Course Bachelor Thesis in Business Administration 15 ECts Purpose The purpose of the thesis is to: Add understanding to the use of management control systems in a small producing business in Israel and compare it to a similar business in Sweden. Describe the use of the management control systems and analyze the differences and differences between them. Methodology The methodology used in this thesis is a qualitative multiple case study that according to Yins dimensions would be characterized as a holistic case study. The relevant theory for analyzing the result is contingency theory. Conclusions The study has found that there is a big difference in how the two companies are using their management control systems and a big difference in how management see the added value to the organization from these control systems. The Swedish company has a control system that is very traditional in the type of segment where they operate and they consider the system as an important tool to lead the company in the right direction. The Israeli company on the other hand has a system that gives a more general picture and is less complicated and exact compared to the Swedish one. These differences are probably due to differences in the surroundings but also in business concept, customer demands and also difference in character and leader style of company owners. We can conclude that both these companies have been successful for 25 plus years with a profit level way above their competitors despite their different ways of using the traditional management control systems.
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