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Programming Visual Representations. Evolutions of Visual Identities between Tangible and Intangible.
Full text linkThe communication design field it is considerably changed in the last 20 years and more as
well as the role of the designer. Technology has modified the daily work tools, and new
possible relations between the designer, the commitment, and the final user can be
underlined.
Observing some of the most experimental practices, new visual languages have drawn the
attention, affected by innovative approaches and mixed competencies. The area of visual
identities is especially of interest, not excluding other areas of experimentations.
The phenomenon of the so-called dynamic or post-logo identities underlined the
possibilities of using more fluid and expressive, variable, context related, processual,
performative, non-linear, consistent visual languages instead of the usual and static
repetition of a logo or an imposed series of rules (Felsing, 2010). However, also their
contradictions in making recognizable an organization and in the visual identity daily
management.
An interesting evolution to be underlined is in the use of the digital tools, not anymore in a
passive way but in an active way. Visual designers can build their digital tools basing them
on design and esthetic needs. The designer is not anymore just the user of ready-made
digital tools, becoming himself programmer of customized digital toolboxes by using open
source codes or hardware like Arduino. Not just a DIY attitude but something that it is
changing the control knobs of a design system in all its process and development.
As far as technology support is relevant, technical matters are relegated in the background
on behalf of abstraction and data parameterization that means on behalf of a meta-design
level. The use of programming in creative and visual communication design processes
“empowers the designer, freeing he from the constraints of predefined computational tools,
and promoting creative freedom in the construction of visual metaphors” (Duro, Machado,
Rebelo, 2012).The aim of this paper is to argue this recent evolution in the field of visual
identities and the wider area of communication design practices
Communicative Machines Speculating on Death. Classroom projects speculating on the theme of “death” from the School of Design at Politecnico di Milano.
No full textClassroom projects speculating on the theme of “death” from the School of Design at Politecnico di Milano. Using a variety of technologies and media, students find in Speculative Design a fertile field of “cross-disciplinary and integrative” experimentation
What If. An anti-disciplinary design show.
No full textWhat If. An anti-disciplinary design show
4 marzo 2017, Open Dot fablab, Milano
A cura di Francesco E. Guida, Andrea Braccaloni, Pietro Buffa, Alessandro Masserdotti
Emotions behind a Sphere. Experimentations for an Interactive Object Communicating Brand Values and Encouraging Behavioural Changes (or Reactions).
No full textThe line separating visual designer and developer appears to be blurring, and this is not limited to the screen or projected image (Reas, McWilliams and Barendse, 2010). It also affects the design of physical spaces and the empiric field. The increasing accessibility to open technologies allows visual designers to conceptualize and practice new processes and results in the representation of organizations' values and in the design of points of contact. An experimental project (developed during the third year of the Bachelor in Communication Design) gives rise to a discussion of changes in the fields of Communication, Interaction and Experience Design. The brief was to design visual identities, programming and using open source codes and hardware like Arduino, in order to communicate intangible brand values through an interactive and multisensorial experience in a physical space. This brief led some student groups to design objects that act. One of those results is a communicative machine named Phos Light Experience. In order to comprehend the actual interaction with the object persona (Cila et al., 2015), the prototype was tested by real potential users, employing specific sensors to collect biometric data. In addition to the predicted results, unexpected forms of relationship and use emerged, generating new levels of discussion
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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