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A table for discourse - design to evoke debate about Arctic oil exploration
Full text linkThis is an explorative project which aims to initiate debate about Norwegian oil exploration and production in Northern Norway through the use of discursive objects. The target group is young men. The final proposal is a table for discussion placed in bars. The table will function as catalyst for dialog about climate change and Arctic oil exploration. The future is not something that just happens to us, like we were castaways washed upon a foreign shore. We are the future, and to be able to create the future we want together, we need to discuss it. The tabletop is shaped to illustrate oil spill in a blue ocean. There are three concave volumes on the table, designed to contain ice. The ice will slowly melt into water, which will flow through the channels and drip down on the users. Hence it will function as a provocation to prompt discussion.submittedVersio
Designing a modern rat trap
Full text linkRats and mice are among the most common pests. They destroy property and spread disease, combined with a high rate of reproduction it is necessary for us to control the population and prevent them from entering our homes. The aim of the project was to create a modern rat and mice trap for the private market. The product provides a better alternative than using poison and has improved usability over what is currently on the market. The trap has the ability to connect to a smart home solution so that it can notify the user when there is activity, ensuring swift removal of the rodent. The homeowner doesn’t have to constantly check on the traps and can sleep better at night knowing their house is secure.submittedVersio
Bodily Boundary Objects - Exploring the meaning of identity through discursive design
No full textIdentity is a manifestation of our individual characteristics and intentions. It can be found in many different forms, spanning from physical features to abstract cultural elements. However identity is rarely a passive component of our lives, but rather a powerful tool we apply to make decisions or position ourselves in the society.
Through personal identity we express, we learn, we confront, we find others, we vote, we change, we hate and we love.
Can it be designed as a medium to empower people? Can it be used proactively to prepareusfor times ofuncertainty and hardship (for example in a global Pandemic)?
The bodily boundary objects are“soft speculations” extracted from anomalies of our New Normalcy. These are designed to engage with both general public and decision makers, attempting to offer a glimpse of how design can be used as a versatile tool to find common grounds within complex topics we are facing today, by expanding and adding depth, instead of simplifying and minimizing.submittedVersio
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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