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Immersive Innovation: Bridging Digital Design and Virtual Realities in Jewellery.
No full textThe paper presents the results of the workshop "Utopia: Jewelry Beyond the Body," held at the School of Design of the Politecnico di Milano as part of the Master degree program with the aim to develop an innovative design methodology for future creatives. The workshop's main objective was to explore the process of designing a virtual jewelry collection conceived to be worn and experienced in the digital world. The paper describes the workshop's deifferent stages of the methodology, with a specific focus on the use of Artificial Intelligence for the ideation phase, and the creation of a virtual exhibition hosted on Spatial.io, in the final stage.First, the paper addresses the context of the workshop. The jewelry and fashion fields have undergone a profound transformation, with a gradual shift from tangible, physical interactions to the dematerialized domain of the virtual. The pervasive integration of digital technology has affected the entire value chain of these sectors, from design practices to distribution consumptions. Considering this change, the work highlights the need to explore digital manifestations of tangible products and experiment with spaces of digital co-creation. Then the contribution focuses on the methodology implemented in the workshop, integrating digital technologies, such as virtual reality and artificial intelligence.Finally, the document presents the experience's outputs with quantitative and qualitative results. The results provide insights into the effectiveness of the design methodology, highlighting the impact of the research conducted. Furthermore, the experience is evaluated with a focus on the possibilities that can be obtained merging jewellery design and virtual exhibition practices.The "Utopia: Jewelry Beyond the Body" workshop represents an initiative between jewelry design, digital innovation, and academic pedagogy. By describing the workshop's evolving context, methodology, and results, this article contributes to a deeper understanding of the relationship between digital technology, design creativity, and the evolution of the jewelry industry
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
A Jewelry-Tech Experience: Teaching and Learning Model for Academic Training
Full text linkThe paper aims to describe an innovative teaching and learning process in jewelry-Tech design. First of all, the paper analyzes the contemporary and multidisciplinary context, underlining the growing presence of a close connection between digital technologies and the world of accessory design, particularly jewelry. The need to define learning models that aim to integrate different skills to train new professional figures successfully is outlined in this context. Secondly, the paper presents and examines the case study "Living Jewellery" held at the School of Design of the Politecnico di Milano, an international workshop conducted in academic training in collaboration with the Italian jewelry company Roberto Coin. The results obtained during this experience are presented and underline effective methodologies and critical issues in conducting the workshop
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
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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