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Understanding Parenting Stress through Co-designed Self-Trackers
No full textNew parents often experience significant stress as they take on new roles and responsibilities. Stress management and mental wellbeing are two areas in which personal informatics (PI) research has gained attention, and there is an opportunity to investigate how parenting stress can be mitigated through PI practices. In this paper, we present the results of a co-designed technology probe study through which we deployed individualized self-trackers with new parents. We investigate the stress management topics new parents are interested in tracking and how A- and with what goals - -they engage in self-directed PI practices. Our findings indicate that PI practices can potentially enable parents to: re-discover positive aspects of their everyday lives; identify better-suited stress management strategies; and facilitate spousal communication about shared responsibilities. We discuss how self-tracking experiences for the mental wellness of parents can be better designed.N
Investigating the Self-tracking Use for Mental Wellness of New Parents
No full textNew parents often experience significant stress as they take
on new roles and responsibilities. Personal informatics practices have increasingly gained
attention as they support various aspects of wellness of individuals by
providing data-driven self-insights. While several PI systems have been
proposed to support mental wellness of individuals not only by providing
self-knowledge but also by helping individuals deal with negative emotions, few
studies investigated how parenting stress can be managed through PI practices. In
this paper, I set out to investigate how new parents make use of flexible
self-tracking practices in the context of stress management. The findings of
this study indicate that flexible self-tracking practices enable individuals to
develop self-knowledge as well as to better communicate with their spouses through
data. Based on the findings, I discuss how the self-tracking experiences for the
mental wellness of parents can be better designed and provide some
considerations for future research and design for parenting stress management.</p
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
The impact of curriculum visualization on decision making among students : an honors thesis (HONRS 499)
No full textWorking with course catalogs, the DAPR system, the course shopping cart, and the course request system is confusing for most students. With these resources it is difficult for students to make good decisions about which courses to enroll in, the order in which to take a sequence of courses, which minor to choose, and to which major or option to switch. CurricVis is a system that utilizes curriculum visualizations to help students build more accurate mental models of curricular programs, allowing them to make more informed curricular decisions.The purpose of the study was to measure the effects a curriculum visualization tool has on students' abilities to make decisions. We compared those findings with the effects of using only traditional, text-based curricular data. The hypotheses tested in this study were: students build more feasible plans with the aid of the curriculum visualization tool; students are more confident about their decisions with the tool; and students make their decisions more quickly with the tool. This study shows that CurricVis functions as a positive aid to the decision making process among students. No other research on curriculum visualization has included such a study on usability.Thesis (B.?.)Honors Colleg
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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