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Theoretische Herleitung, Vorstellung und empirische Erprobung des Konzeptes der „prospektiven Personas“ am Beispiel plattformbasierter Arbeit im Rahmen eines system- und handlungstheoretischen Diskurses
No full textFutures play a role in almost all scientific disciplines, but are sometimes anticipated, without methods and concepts. However, for a purposeful and comprehensible anticipation of futures according to good scientific standards, tested methods and concepts are of great importance, in order for the anticipated futures not to be formulated too tentatively. In the present work, this challenge is addressed: In an interdisciplinary approach based on both Futures Studies and Human Factors, approaches and methods from these research disciplines are exemplarily examined with regard to their suitability for a common concept (Part I). Based on Part I a corresponding concept will be developed (Part II), which will subsequently tested (Part III) and finally critically discussed (Part IV). The procedure is accompanied reflected in terms of systems and action theory. The aim of this work is to derive, present and test a new concept entitled prospective Personas and to discuss the own approach in terms of system and action theory.In order to meet this aim, the disciplinary outlines of Futures Studies and Human Factors are presented (Part I). Subsequently, two exemplary methods from both disciplines are selected for interdisciplinary integration: The Intuitive Logic Method as a scenario method, which is used in Futures Research, and the Engaging Approach Method as a persona method, which is used in User-Centered Design, a design process applied in Human Factors Research. The two methods are combined into a new methodological concept, prospective Personas. In this concept, seven steps are described, in which the empirical based development of prospective personas are focused. Future ways of thinking, behaviors and emotions of these very personas are developed in the prospecting/scenarios (Part II). Afterwards, the concept is empirically tested by means of semi-standardized interviews conducted with platform operators, platform workers, platform users as well as experts. The final result of the testing is a total of four prospects for the field of platform work in the year 2030 as well as two employee personas, referred to as 'Anne' and 'Daniel' in the presented work, which are developed into a total of eight prospective personas (Part III). Finally, there is an overarching discussion that summarizes the results and provides a critical examination of the systems and action theory framework (Part IV).The present work exemplifies how potential weaknesses in persona and scenario research can be addressed and reduced by a new approach. Described futures of actors become thereby more concrete, tangible and comprehensible, which results in a new methodological-conceptual contribution to the interdisciplinary research of futures. It is supported by the accompanying system- and action-theoretical reflection. At the same time, the concept of prospective personas generates images of futures based on empirically elaborated, modelled actors, and makes the description of futures communicatively more tangible which enables a better mediation and an increased contribution to the design of futures
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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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