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Social impact-oriented projects & design thinking: A study on social enterprises
No full textThe world is facing social problems unmet. Governments, institutions, companies, organizations and individuals are concerned about these problems by creating social impact. Social entrepreneurship and social innovation are ways in which social impact can be achieved by providing solutions to unmet social needs. Design thinking is also the method to solve problems within the framework of designers’ way of thinking. So, it can be mentioned that they are to create solutions. While social problems surround the world so much, the ways to find solutions should work together more. This study first focuses on literature to show the intervened relationship between social impact-oriented projects and design thinking while approaching problems by defining notions. In the research part of the study, the depth-interview method is used to understand social entrepreneurs’ journey while establishing their projects and creating social impact. Then these interviews are coded and findings are defined according to these codes. The interview results are tabulated according to the entrepreneurs' processes. Although design thinking gives us some stages, it is also seen that social entrepreneurs have different inputs in real life experiences. While personal stories and experiences greatly influence social enterprise journeys, the involvement of stakeholders plays a crucial role in amplifying these initiatives and driving progress. The findings show that the real-life experience may differ from the defined process depending on today's conditions and inputs. There is an opportunity to define design thinking recommendations focused on social impact, even if there are commonalities between their experiences and design thinking. So, social impact issues should be announced more and social impact creators like social entrepreneurs should be listened more to define processes to define the relations.Publisher versio
Generative Design Research for a Culturally Sensitive Subject: Exploring Menstrual Practices and Product Experiences to Inspire Design
No full textThe intimate nature of menstruation and the taboos surrounding it cause numerous challenges for conducting research in this field. To explore menstrual practices and product experiences, in this study, a generative workshop study was designed with participatory research tools and co-design exercises, following a semi-structured interview schedule. The generative research was seen as having the potential to overcome the intimate nature of the research subject and to gather design insights for menstruation. The workshop sessions include physical and visual research tools and generative exercises that are deliberately thought to remind the participants of the context of use, evoke dialog, and inspire new ideas. Understanding the underlying complexities and motives behind menstruation is crucial for the development of better solutions, products, and/or services. The data obtained from the workshops were analyzed to reveal design criteria for menstruation products and experiences by following the procedures of grounded theory. “Failures,” “limitations,” “social codes,” “tactics,” and “improvements” have been identified and discussed as design criteria that could inspire designers
A Study on The Adoption of Virtual Reality in Industrial Design Education
No full textVirtual reality (VR) technology has been commercially and economically accessible to industrial designers for the past seven years, following the introduction of VR glasses and headsets, e.g., the HTC Vive and the Oculus Rift, in 2016. However, despite the growing popularity of VR implementations in education, it remains unclear to what extent industrial design (ID) students and instructors will adopt this technology. Hence, this article discusses the limited adoption of VR technology in ID education based on the analysis of qualitative data obtained from ID students and instructors, specifically their perspectives on integrating VR into the education process. The dataset comprises written and verbal expressions obtained through an online form and a group discussion session. The findings obtained from the analysis conducted through the content analysis approach suggest that both ID students and instructors harbor concerns regarding the incorporation of VR technology in ID education. These reservations primarily revolve around the potential adverse impacts of VR usage on students' skill development in terms of manual dexterity and material knowledge, as well as the effectiveness of its implementation within the context of ID education.Turkish Council of Higher Educatio
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
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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