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Design for Future Fragilities @2033
Get PDFDesign for All is a systematic, holistic approach that calls for a team of specialists from various disciplines (including at least design, ergonomics and marketing...) to work together in synergy, while consulting with users at all stages of the process. This innovative methodology is promoted and monitored by EIDD-Design for All Europe and its national affiliates, present in 22 European countries in Europe and five more on four continents outside Europe. In the 2004 Stockholm Declaration, Design for All is defined as design for human diversity, social inclusion and equality. The Final Synthesis laboratory of the Milan Polytechnic School of Design aimed to adopt this vision and equip students with a new sensitivity and innovative design practices, suited to the complexity of our times and their constant changeability: necessary conditions for the development of a Master’s Degree Thesis in Integrated Product Design at the School of Design Milan Politechnic. The laboratory at the School of Design Milan Politechnic. was structured in a series of lectures and interventions by experts from various sectors and then in the definition of mini-design workshops to be carried out in groups, aimed at generating new product/service concepts. The first of these, co-ordinated by Giulio Ceppi, was aimed at defining diversities to come (2033), the fears and the opportunities that the future presents us, in order to be able to anticipate them, interpret them and make allowance for them. In fact, we want to design a future world of equal opportunities, rights and awareness that all need to be addressed and guided: design has the ethical task of anticipating sociocultural behaviours and trends, not just responding to the market. The 9 meta-design profiles that emerged were used in subsequent exercises, becoming the shared heritage of the laboratory and the final degree theses
INCLUSIVE DESIGN- A pragmatical review
No full textThis book does not aim to provide perfect solutions or to make people believe that there is a single and absolute methodology for designing the topic of inclusion. It is about rethinking in a practical way what needs to be done, broadening horizons, showing examples that are quite heterogeneous, trying to understand to what extent more inclusive design can bring clear advantages, not only for users, but also for clients and managers.
There is no a priori limit in inclusive design: any theme, any brief can be seen with different eyes and become an opportunity for inclusion, for valorizing human differences.
The author brings 25 examples that touch on the fields of design, communication, interiors and architecture, up to research and education: worlds that are quite different from each other, in terms of professional and disciplinary fields, as well as in terms of project types and relative markets, but all fertile ground for designing inclusively
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
IL FUTURO PROSSIMO DEL BENESSERE/THE IMMINENT FUTURE OF WELLBEING
No full textFUNZIONI IBRIDATE, TECNO-MATERIALI CHE DIALOGANO CON L'ORGANICITA', SLOW WELLNESS, BAGNO METABOLICO: IL CAMBIAMENTO SECONDO GIULIO CEPPI, OSSERVATORE PARTICOLARMENTE ATTENTO ALL'EVOLUZIONE TECNOLOGICA E DEGLI STILI DI VITA
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
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