The role of data visualization in Railway Big Data Risk Analysis

Big Data Risk Analysis (BDRA) is one of the possible alleys for the further development of risk models in the railway transport. Big Data techniques allow a great quantity of information to be handled from different types of sources (e.g. unstructured text, signaling and train data). The benefits of this approach may lie in improving the understanding of the risk factors involved in railways, detecting possible new threats or assessing the risk levels for rolling stock, rail infrastructure or railway operations. For the efficient use of BDRA, the conversion of huge amounts of data into a simple and effective display is particularly challenging. Especially because it is presented to various specific target audiences. This work reports a literature review of risk communication and visualization in order to find out its applicability to BDRA, and beyond the visual techniques, what human factors have to be considered in the understanding and risk perception of the infor-mation when safety analysts and decision-makers start basing their decisions on BDRA analyses. It was found that BDRA requires different visualization strategies than those that have normally been carried out in risk analysis up to now

What Is the Human-Machine Interface?

iency, or satisfaction scores. Effectiveness depends on the users' intentions, goals, or tasks; efficiency depends on users' understanding of the product and on their previous experience; and satisfaction can only be expressed by the users. As a result, the unifying principle of design techniques that deliver usable products is that each recognizes the need to keep users at the center of the process. The overall design process that brings these techniques together is known as "usability engineering." Usability: Why Is It Important? In an increasingly competitive marketplace, those products and services that do not meet customer needs fail. Ease of use is a real user need and most product reviews, whether in consumer magazines or professional journals, usually compare products based on their usability. Research also shows that about 50% of the code in new software applications is devoted to the user interface, making it a significant cost component. Finally, applications have becom

The feminist practice nowadays. New ways of doing History of Architecture

Starting from her research and practise, Bianca Felicori spoke with Silvia Franceschini, senior curator at CIVA Brussels, about feminist practice nowadays. The focus of the conference was the practice of collective research and the fact that female historians are changing the way of doing history by not only talking about great male protagonists. The way of looking at architecture and its 'protagonists' has changed, indeed, the very concept of protagonist itself has been challenged. The conference was part of the public program made in collaboration with CIVA Brussels and the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture under the Italian Council program (12th edition, 2023)

Introduction to the conference "Revivals or Survival? The Resurgences of the Icon from the 15th century to Nowadays"

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Contemporary Feminist Discourse, an Interdisciplinary Approach

Nowadays, feminist discourse requires an interdisciplinary approach, through the sociology ormedia studies. Comparing with other periods of time, the new feminists understood the inherent power ofNew Media and tend to use it as a tool, for making their message more popular. Is it effective? Is it a waste oftime? Although, it is premature to draw conclusions, the social facts that are to be used in this research (news,specific blogs and sites, feedback on social networks) seem to tilt the balance towards a positive impactcreated by recent feminist discourse. The aim of this research is to draw the features of the communicationestablished between feminist organizations, media institutions and media consumers, as it will be revealedduring the three case studies proposed. The pattern can be designed as follows: feminist organizations launcha message; media institutions ignore it or transform it into a piece of news; readers or listeners reach themessage, giving their immediate feedback on social networks, blogs and sites belonging to feministorganizations or media institutions. Feminist organizations are new comers in Romania, since the oldest ofthem being launched 10 years ago, comparing with European Women's Lobby, socially active for decades.Among the current Romanian feminist organizations Centrul Filia (Filia Center), Mame pentru Mame(Mothers for Mothers) and Pro Women will be analyzed. The novelty of this paper consists mostly inrevealing their online impact on Romanian audience