1,720,956 research outputs found
Multicomponent Output: Gift AR platform, Nudge and a Push webinar series, Donate Yourself AR artwork and article
No full text- The AR GIFT (part of INNOVATE UK DATUM) - a mobile app/web-based gifting platform enabling the user to choose, customise and send an AR gift to a friend/colleague, wherever they are in the world, eliminating unsustainable physical gifting practises.These virtual gifts exist on the platform as AR assets, both ready-made and customisable, which are sent by the gift giver and collected by the recipient at a time and location of the gift givers choice. Each bespoke choice by the gift giver is an intimate act in itself. The platform responds to the need for intimate gifting (thank yous, get well wishes, birthday greetings or condolences) into our connected world, local to local and local to global, brought to the forefront in our times of global pandemic lockdowns, isolation and quarantine. It is in direct response to the growing need, through social distancing, for deeper remote intimacy interactions, and the post-lockdown requirements for collective and intimate experiences that are conducted in a safe and responsible manner. While at the same time, this platform encourages ethical consumer behaviour and runs alongside the re-opening of sustainable commerce post pandemic.
- Additionally Boddington curated and moderated a series of 4 future-looking public (live webinar) talks emerging from creators of similar participatory, immersive and interactive experiences. This debate series "A nudge and a push: towards ethical sustainability in an era of (invisible) data harvesting" was streamed live by University of Greenwich during lockdown (2021) and examined topical issues for the VR, AR, XR, immersion, arts and gaming sectors in terms of sustainable and ethical processes, exploring approaches to the production and usage of such outputs for public education and engagement. Speakers were curated from a wide range of international academic, creative industries and arts sectors. The 4 webinars had attendance of over 500 people and led to ongoing debates, research, touring opportunities and partnerships.
- The archive recordings are published on the University of Greenwich Research Space You Tube site as a playlist with educational resource documents for teachers and students created and attached to each webinar. (828 views to end of 2024)
- The first commission output for AR GIFT was Donate Yourself, an Augmented Reality experience co-created by artist Stacey Pitsillides with Ghislaine Boddington and the body>data>space collective. It blends sound and 3D visuals to spark debates about our organs, tissue and body data, accessed by the public through augmented reality via QR codes.The Donate Yourself AR touring artwork was created as part of the AR GIFT development project at body>data>space, supported by Innovate UK and the University of Greenwich (2021-22). Five themes were generated for the augmented reality experiences: care, trust, immortal, consent, future. This triangulation of science, technology and the arts was materialised in a webAR walking trail that ran during November 2021, is still touring internationally and which is accessed by the public via QR codes as part of the larger One Cell At A Time online exhibition, funded by the Wellcome Trust.
- Finally an article about this practice led research for social impact was published exploring how communication and interaction design were used in the augmented reality experience, Donate Yourself. It aims to demystify some of the ethical and personal concerns around the donation of organs, tissue and body data for scientific and medical research. (Pitsillides, Stacey, Boddington, Ghislaine ORCID logo and Vindis, Tadej (2022) Donate yourself: an AR trail exploring the future of organ, tissue and body data donation. Virtual Creativity, 12 (1). pp. 103-123. ISSN 2397-9704 (Print), 2397-9712 (Online) (doi:10.1386/vcr_00064_1
Digital Human Twins: Our Future Data Selves 2021 – 2027. MY AI HYBRID BIOTWIN: a series of keynotes, radio interviews, lectures, panels and presentations around key research focus
Full text linkAcross March 23 to June 24 I prepared and delivered a series of keynotes, radio interviews, lectures, podcasts, panels and presentations using topical materials from my key research theme My AI HYBRID BIOTWIN (part of my long term The Internet of Bodies research umbrella). These invited outputs are linked to my practice-led research into Digital Human Twins - our future data selves. This foresight work has gained a lot of interest. This is due to knowledge of my long term expertise and the high interest in digital twins in a wide variety of sectors. I work with my original content and foresight to translate and facilitate this research and bridge it into knowledge exchange. The aim is to engage a wider public alongside specialists in the field. This supports interdisciplinary and cross sector exchange on the evolution of new forms of virtual representation of the self, creating embodied insights for individuals into the future of the virtual physical blended body, liveness, intimacy and enabling debates about the positives and negatives (ethics) of the integration of AI and biometrics into future body technologies. My aim is to expand knowledge and enabling such discussions as understanding these shifts for the living body in relationship to technological advancements is important for us all. The audiences ranged from radio and podcast listeners (global) , to academics, creative industry experts, artists, students, festival goers, creative industry communities and policy makers (UK and EU). These outputs impact into public discourse on a variety of levels, into arts and cultural sectors, creative industry and corporate sectors and, through the media reach and podcast access, into a global public. I am also maintaining a close adherence to diversity and inclusivity as I explore the topic of future identities.
Digital Human Twins - our future data selves is a practice-as-research initiative led by Ghislaine Boddington (2021-27), exploring and developing a personalised digital human twin, an AI hybrid biotwin, a digital counterpart that grows, learns, and evolves alongside their human partners, that supports and guidance from birth and beyond death. These digital twins are conceived to offer a unique blend of technological innovation and human experience, linked to AI and real-time biometrics. They push the boundaries of personal and professional development, health monitoring and identity management, while extending human presence far beyond physical limitations.
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- BOLD Unconference Austria (12-17 June 2024 Austria) Invited participant, presenter, panel moderator on digital human twins (MY AI HYBRID BIOTWIN). BOLD is the flagship event of the BOLD Community (Austrian Federal Economic Chamber). This Unconference brought together over 50 global visionaries from 27 countries involved in innovative activities in a range of sectors including business, research, policy-making, and the creative industries.
- Plexal, Here East (creative tech hub) - Cyber Lates (12 Dec 2023) Panel member “How to have a better relationship with the internet, take control of privacy, and protect ourselves from online harms”. Creative industry community.
- Frequency International Festival of Digital Culture and University of Lincoln - The Meet Up AI + Exploration: Innovation and Inclusion (27 Oct 2023) Research, preparation and moderation of a roundtable discussion. I bought together a panel of academics and artists to explore how rapid innovation in AI is enabling them to explore and challenge the parameters of practice, inclusion and engagement through experimentation and engagement with audiences and visitors. The opportunity these technologies present to nurture inclusion whilst navigating the ethical challenges and bias was discussed.
- Hybrid Presence Round Table 2 - What is next for DHT Digital Human Twins? (19 Oct 2023) Ghislaine explored the near future potential of “owning and nurturing” our own AI Hybrid BioTwin.
- BBC Radio 4 - "How to Spot Potential" (18 Oct 2023) - invited expert on future skills for young people linked to innovative digital tools, including AI companions for education and work searches. Ghislaine Boddington discuses the concept of digital twins, our very own personalised form of AI.
- The Navigator Podcast - University of Greenwich Generator (3rd Oct 2023) "Mind over Machine' - participant in round table debate on the ethical implications and yet vast potential of using AI in the future and how it will affect both education and the wider world
- AACSB (Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business) Online Learning Affinity Group (OLAG) (21 Sept 2023) lecture on the future student and learning / teaching shifts in next decade linked to research project MY AI HYBRID BIOTWIN - University of Greenwich Business School.
- Synthetic Syntax Conference, Ars Electronica - Keynote Speaker (10 Sept 2023) This fourth edition of the symposium Synaesthetic Syntax presented different perspectives on haptic bodies, their impact, liveliness and procedurality in the context of performance and concluded with a keynote lecture by Ghislaine Boddington.
- Tomorrow Unlocked Fast Forward Series 2. (June to August 23)
Ep. 4 "Extended self - our future digital twins": Uncover the transformative power of personalised body data and the boundless possibilities it offers. What about the lack of diversity of the data available? Guests: Michael D. Geer, Co-Founder of Humanity Inc. and Marija Butkovic, Founder of Women of Wearables (wearables, health tech & femtech)
Ep. 5 - "Cyborg Shifts – embedding technologies into our bodies": Discover groundbreaking advancements in cyborg technology, as prostheses and implants converge, creating opportunities for shifts towards cyborg existences. Guests: Dani Clode, University of Cambridge and trans-species artist Neil Harbisson. I was commissioned to research, script and present these podcasts as two of a series of six.
- BBC Radio 3 - "Free Thinking" (7 June 2023) - invited expert to talk about digital human twins
- The Brains Lab Launch, Kingston University – Keynote Speaker (22 May 2023) on "The Internet of Bodies - alive, connected and collective' with final section on digital human twins.
- BBC Radio 4 - "Super Senses" (9 May 2023) invited expert to talk about touch and intimacy in digital age in relationship to virtual bodies.
- BBC World Service Digital Planet (8 March 2023). “Digital identity: Where are we now?” exploring and overviewing the biometric led digital identity systems fast emerging in various continents – from China to the US and India and Europe. Show researched, scripted and co-presented by Ghislaine Boddington
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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