30 research outputs found
Entangled ethnography : Towards a collective future understanding
In this work, we develop a vision for entangled ethnography, where constellations of people, artefacts, algorithms and data come together to collectively make sense of the relations between people and objects. This is grounded in New Materialism’s picture of a world understood through entanglement, through resonant constellations, through a multiplicity of unique individual viewpoints and their relationships. These perspectives are especially relevant for design ethnography, in particular for research around smart connected products, which collect data about their environment, the networks they are a part of, and the ways they are used. However, we are concerned about the current trend of many connected systems towards surveillance capitalism, as data is colonised, machinations are hidden, and a narrow definition of value is extracted. There is a key tension that while design, particularly of networked objects, attempts to go beyond human centeredness, the infrastructures that support it are moving towards a less than human perspective in their race to accumulate and dispossess. Our work tries to imagine the situations where participants in networked systems are richly engaged, rather than exploited. We hope for a future where human agency is central to a respectful and acceptable collaborative development of understanding
Designing for the End of Life of IoT Objects
The Internet of Things (IoT) and ubiquitous computing are leading to an increase in objects with a short lifespan - either through breakage, “bricking” by the manufacturer, or discontinued use by the owner. This leads to a surplus of material and e-waste that cannot or is not readily recycled, upcycled or otherwise reused, aggravating material scarcity. In part, this is due to custom-built hardware, and use of unrecyclable materials. However, it is also due to the limited value people place on these objects (e.g., sentimental and environmental). This one-day workshop will explore how the configuration of values designed into IoT objects influences the end-user practices of disposal, recycling and upcycling. Through this lens, we will collectively consider potential design strategies that can be instilled during the process of design, to support the continuity of the material life of IoT objects after their “death”
Magnetic properties of Co-W thin films
In this paper, the magnetic properties and structure of the Co-W films of different compositions prepared by magnetron sputtering on glass substrates without and with Ta or Ru buffer layers were investigated. The dependences of coercive force on the W content for the studied films were non-monotonic. The peak value of the coercive force of about 400 Oe was observed for the films on glass and Ta layers with W content of 8-9 at. %. The films deposited on Ru layers had a coercive force of 4 times less, and it was practically independent of the W content in a wide range from 6 to 20 at. %. © Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd.Russian Science Foundation, RSF: 18-72-10044This work was carried out under the financial support by the RSF grant, project No. 18-72-10044
Chatty factories:A vision for the future of product design and manufacture with IoT
Chatty Factories is a three-year investment by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) through its programme for New Industrial Systems. The project explores the transformative potential of placing IoT-enabled data driven systems at the core of design and manufacturing processes. The research focuses on the opportunity to collect data from IoT-enabled sensors embedded in products during real-time use by consumers, explores how that data might be immediately transferred into usable information to inform design, and considers what characteristics of the manufacturing environment might optimise the response to such data. The project also considers implications arising for skills development in the education sector as well as ethics in manufacturing. In this paper we provide a vision for future “Chatty Factories”
Measurement of the pion formfactor with CMD-3 detector and its implication to the hadronic contribution to muon (g-2)
The cross section of the process has been measured in
the center of mass energy range from 0.32 to 1.2 GeV with the CMD-3 detector at
the electron-positron collider VEPP-2000. The measurement is based on an
integrated luminosity of about 88 pb out of which 62 pb
constitutes a full dataset collected by CMD-3 at center-of-mass energies below
1 GeV. In the dominant region near -resonance a systematic uncertainty of
0.7% has been reached. The impact of presented results on the evaluation of the
hadronic contribution to the anomalous magnetic moment of muon is discussed.Comment: 6 pages, 3 figure
Measurement of the cross section from threshold to 1.2 GeV with the CMD-3 detector
The cross section of the process has been measured in
the center of mass energy range from 0.32 to 1.2 GeV with the CMD-3 detector at
the electron-positron collider VEPP-2000. The measurement is based on a full
dataset collected below 1 GeV during three data taking seasons, corresponding
to an integrated luminosity of about 62 pb. In the dominant
-resonance region, a systematic uncertainty of 0.7% has been reached. At
energies around -resonance the production cross section was
measured for the first time with high energy resolution. The forward-backward
charge asymmetry in the production has also been measured. It
shows the strong deviation from the theoretical prediction based on
conventional sQED framework and is in good agreement with GVDM and
dispersive-based predictions. The impact of presented results on the evaluation
of the hadronic contribution to the anomalous magnetic moment of muon is
discussed.Comment: 52 pages, 36 figures; cosmetic changes of the text, fix fig.2 , fix
comment on used selection cuts in the attached radiative correction tabl