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Αλληλεπίδραση για τη σχεδίαση: ένα θεωρητικό πλαίσιο για την περικείμενη συνεργασία
No full textThis thesis explores a range of contiguous issues in ontology, epistemology, philosophy, language, and psychoanalysis for developing an ontological device towards the understanding of interaction in communicative and collaborative contexts of heterogeneous (in)dividuals. It marks a further stage in the authors' project of developing an approach that would point a way of understanding the various dilemmas and dichotomies bequeathed by old-style positivist, modernist and the radical postmodern theories and thus, propose an alternative way of understanding reality, and gaining knowledge about it through a continuum of interaction. The theoretical approach, presented in this thesis, will potentially lead us to new philosophical inquiry. We argue that our aim is not to solve historically unresolved problems in a teleological manner, but to understand them through identifying ways to pluralistically coexist with them by increasing our capacity towards articulating new non-logocentric practice of inquiry. Throughout this thesis we attempted to provide a thorough review of the major philosophical tenets of our age regarding the ways that knowledge constitution leads us to the understanding of interaction, communication, and collaboration. By critically observing them, and with a purpose to identify their main competing ideologies, our aim was to reverse this assumption and outline an ontological critical framework that places knowledge at the centre of interaction, while interaction remains closely related to it. This type of knowledge is not the absolute positivistic knowledge, but a rational and socially determined knowledge that is fragmented but still continuous and important for the development of our society and culture. As it has been suggested, this type of interaction, through an ontological contextualisation of the personal, the social, and the material, reconfigures the determination of theory and knowledge in terms of a transitive and circular theorisation of reality between the foundational and the reflexive paradigmatic narratives that emerge in every historical era. In comparison to the traditional models of determinism, the proposed framework of (de)construction is never fully achieved as an actual reality, but remains as a symbolic process that attempts to 'ground' representational speculation in knowledge and everyday practice. Of course, this is not a simplistic monist formulation of understanding reality and developing knowledge through interaction. What is proposed in this framework, is that non-deterministic collaborative interaction consists to a continuous development of quasi-representational means towards describing reality. Therefore, by contrasting the practices of objective and hermeneutic empiricism, we propose a speculative ontological framework that provides us with a reflexive understanding of knowledge. We support that this framework succeeds to provide the means towards a dialectical conception of interaction through the analysis of the (in)dividual, the (con)text - where an interactive activity is taking place -, the process of the activity itself, as well as to include in the (con)text the metaphysically desirable final goal. In reflecting upon possible future research and application directions for the theories and methods reviewed in this thesis, the scope is both diverse and far-reaching. The (de)constructive framework and the proposed multi-methodology can be extended and applied in socio-technical realms of human activity that include, collaborative design and collective networks of design practice, mass-collaboration in online communities, collaborative virtual environments, organisational contexts, and contexts of social interaction etc.Αντικείμενο της διατριβής αποτελεί η διερεύνηση των θεωρητικών και μεθοδολογικών προσεγγίσεων που συμβάλλουν στην κατανόηση για την επίτευξη της αλληλεπίδρασης, της επικοινωνίας, και της συνεργασίας σε κοινωνικό-τεχνολογικά πλαίσια εφαρμογής. Η παρούσα διατριβή εστιάζει στην εισήγηση ενός συστημικού οντολογικού πλαισίου βασισμένου στην περικείμενη συσχέτιση ψυχολογικών, κοινωνικών και υλικών παραγόντων και σκοπεύει στην ανάλυση και την περιγραφή των διεργασιών της αλληλεπίδρασης, της επικοινωνίας, και της συνεργασίας. Ο απώτερος στόχος της διατριβής είναι η περιγραφή ενός μη-τελεολογικού (απο)δομητικού οντολογικού πλαισίου για την πλουραλιστική συγκρότηση πολύ-μεθοδολογιών που συμβάλλουν στην ανάδειξη της αλληλεπίδρασης σε περιβάλλοντα ή (περι)κείμενα σχεδίασης (το περιβάλλον το οποίο ερμηνεύεται βάσει της κειμενικότητας του). Τα βασικά θέματα που διερευνώνται στην παρούσα διατριβή μπορούν να συνοψιστούν σε: α) Εισαγωγή στις βασικές θεωρίες αναπαράστασης της γνώσης και της πραγματικότητας (οντολογία - επιστημολογία), β) Ανάλυση των βασικών θεωριών αλληλεπίδρασης, κοινωνικής επικοινωνίας (social communication), και συνεργασίας (collaboration), γ) Εισήγηση του οντολογικού μετά-ερμηνευτικού πλαισίου της (απο)δόμησης, δ) Ανάλυση των εννοιών της δημιουργικότητας και της σχεδίασης βάσει του πλαισίου (απο)δόμησης, ε) Εφαρμογή του θεωρητικού πλαισίου (απο)δόμησης για την παραγωγή πολύ-μεθοδολογιών αλληλεπίδρασης σε (περι)κείμενα σχεδίασης
Σχεδίαση εκπαιδευτικού επιτραπέζιου παιχνιδιού καρτών (card game) για την υποστήριξη της μάθησης μέσω STEAM στην πρωτοβάθμια εκπαίδευση
Get PDFΣτο παρόν άρθρο παρουσιάζεται ένα εκπαιδευτικό επιτραπέζιο παιχνίδι με κάρτες για την υποστήριξη της πρωτοβάθμιας εκπαίδευσης, στο πλαίσιο της προσέγγισης STEAM. Για τη σχεδίαση και την υλοποίησή του, αρχικά αναλύθηκε το παιχνίδι και τα χαρακτηριστικά του, ως μια δραστηριότητα που εκτελείται με σκοπό τη ψυχαγωγία, αλλά εξυπηρετεί πλήθος διαφορετικών λειτουργιών. Διερευνήθηκε εις βάθος η εισαγωγή του στην εκπαιδευτική διαδικασία και ο ρόλος του ως θεμελιώδες εκπαιδευτικό εργαλείο. Στο πλαίσιο αυτό, μελετήθηκε η κατηγορία των παιχνιδιών με κάρτες, αναλύθηκε η δομή τους, τα χαρακτηριστικά τους και η συμμετοχή τους σε επιστημονικά πεδία, ώστε να συλλεχθούν στοιχεία που θα βοηθήσουν στη δημιουργία του νέου εκπαιδευτικού περιβάλλοντος. Στη συνέχεια πραγματοποιήθηκε έρευνα πάνω στο μοντέλο STEAM και στα οφέλη του στην πρωτοβάθμια εκπαίδευση, ενώ δόθηκε έμφαση στο πεδίο των Τεχνών. Συγκεκριμένα, προσεγγίστηκε η έννοια της οπτικής αντίληψης ώστε να μελετηθεί η αντιληπτική ικανότητα των παιδιών, μιας και στο σύγχρονο κόσμο ο «οπτικός αλφαβητισμός» κρίνεται ιδιαίτερα σημαντικός για την εκπαίδευση των παιδιών. Με βάση τη βιβλιογραφική ανασκόπηση, σχεδιάστηκε το παιχνίδι με κάρτες, κατασκευάστηκε και υλοποιήθηκε μια παιγνιώδης διαδικασία, με πραγματικούς χρήστες 14 μαθητές της πρωτοβάθμιας εκπαίδευσης. Μέσα από τη δράση αυτή αποδεικνύεται πως το παιχνίδι αυτό θα μπορούσε να αποτελέσει ένα αξιόλογο εκπαιδευτικό εργαλείο στο πλαίσιο της πρωτοβάθμιας εκπαίδευσης (STEAM)
Designing Sustainable Interactions for Digital Humanism
No full textThe main purpose of Sustainable Interaction Design is to meet global challenges in society, economy and environment to an extent that goes beyond the well-being of human beings but looks forward to the sustained well-being of all beings. This paper examines the relation between Sustainable Interaction Design and Digital Humanism. Interactions as objects of design could/should be characterized as able to afford sustainable behavior for the following reasons: their very existence is sustainable, they are designed to evoke sustainability, or they are part of a sustainable system. Humanity needs to realize that every single human being is part of the humanitarian and ecological crisis. Through Sustainable Interaction Design, we could potentially help users feel that they are part of the solution and that their actions can purposely alter the way they experience life. We seek answers related to the design, the ontology, and the contribution of sustainable interactions in shaping more humane interfaces
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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