197 research outputs found
Backfiring and favouring:how design processes in HCI lead to anti-patterns and repentant designers
Design is typically envisioned as aiming to improve situations for users, but this can fail. Failure can be the result of flawed design solutions, i.e. anti-patterns. Prior work in anti-patterns has largely focused on their characteristics. We instead concentrate on why they occur by outlining two processes that result in anti-patterns: 1) backfiring, and 2) favouring. The purpose of the paper is to help designers and researchers better understand how design processes can lead to negative impacts and to repentant designers by introducing a richer vocabulary for discussing such processes. We explore how anti-patterns evolve in HCI by specifically applying the vocabulary to examples of social media design. We believe that highlighting these processes will help the HCI community reflect on their own work and also raise awareness of the opportunities for avoiding anti-patterns. Our hope is that this will result in fewer negative experiences for designers and users alike
Exploring the NRO Opportunity for a Hubble-sized Wide-field Near-IR Space Telescope -- NEW WFIRST
We discuss scientific, technical and programmatic issues related to the use
of an NRO 2.4m telescope for the WFIRST initiative of the 2010 Decadal Survey.
We show that this implementation of WFIRST, which we call "NEW WFIRST," would
achieve the goals of the NWNH Decadal Survey for the WFIRST core programs of
Dark Energy and Microlensing Planet Finding, with the crucial benefit of deeper
and/or wider near-IR surveys for GO science and a potentially Hubble-like Guest
Observer program. NEW WFIRST could also include a coronagraphic imager for
direct detection of dust disks and planets around neighboring stars, a
high-priority science and technology precursor for future ambitious programs to
image Earth-like planets around neighboring stars.Comment: 76 pages, 26 figures -- associated with the Princeton "New Telescope
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The Meerkat Effect: Personality and Market Returns Affect Investors’ Portfolio Monitoring Behavior
Karlsson, Loewenstein and Seppi (2009) found that, following market downswings, investors are less likely to login to monitor their retirement portfolios. They concluded that, rather like (apocryphal) ostriches sticking their heads in the sand, investors avoid unpleasant information by reducing portfolio monitoring in response to news of negative market movement. We apply generalized non-linear mixed effects models to test for this selective information monitoring at an individual level in a new sample of active online investors. We see different behavior in this new sample. We find that investors increase their portfolio monitoring following both positive and daily negative market returns, behaving more like hyper-vigilant meerkats than head-in-the-sand ostriches. This pattern persists for logins not resulting in trades and weekend logins when markets are closed. Moreover, an investor personality trait – neuroticism - attenuates the pattern of portfolio monitoring suggesting that market–driven variation in portfolio monitoring is attributable to psychological factors
Exploring the NRO Opportunity for a Hubble-Sized Wide-Field Near-IR Space Telescope - New WFIRST
We discuss scientific, technical, and programmatic issues related to the use of an NRO 2.4m telescope for the WFIRST initiative of the 2010 Decadal Survey. We show that this implementation of WFIRST, which we call "NEW WFIRST," would achieve the goals of the NWNH Decadal Survey for the WFIRST core programs of Dark Energy and Microlensing Planet Finding, with the crucial benefit of deeper and/or wider near-IR surveys for GO science and a potentially Hubble-like Guest Observer program. NEW WFIRST could also include a coronagraphic imager for direct detection of dust disks and planets around neighboring stars, a high-priority science and technology precursor for future ambitious programs to image Earth-like planets around neighboring stars
Science Frontiers In Galaxy Evolution: Deep-Wide Surveys
Astro2010: The Astronomy and Astrophysics Decadal Survey : Science White Papers no 79. Available online : http://www8.nationalacademies.org/astro2010/DetailFileDisplay.aspx?id=24
Childhood in Sociology and Society: The US Perspective
The field of childhood studies in the US is comprised of cross-disciplinary researchers who theorize and conduct research on both children and youth. US sociologists who study childhood largely draw on the childhood literature published in English. This article focuses on American sociological contributions, but notes relevant contributions from non-American scholars published in English that have shaped and fueled American research. This article also profiles the institutional support of childhood research in the US, specifically outlining the activities of the ‘Children and Youth’ Section of the American Sociological Association (ASA), and assesses the contributions of this area of study for sociology as well as the implications for an interdisciplinary field.Yeshttps://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/manuscript-submission-guideline
A Design Exploration of Health-Related Community Displays
The global population is ageing, leading to shifts in healthcare needs. It is well established that increased physical activity can improve the health and wellbeing of many older adults. However, motivation remains a prime concern. We report findings from a series of focus groups where we explored the concept of using community displays to promote physical activity to a local neighborhood. In doing so, we contribute both an understanding of the design space for community displays, as well as a discussion of the implications of our work for the broader CSCW community. We conclude that our work demonstrates the potential for developing community displays for increasing physical activity amongst older adults
Infância e Escola: tempos e espaços de crianças
Resumo: A infância é abordada, neste artigo, como viés para pôr em discussão o tempo cronológico, demarcado por uma linearidade ordenada pelo progresso e pela racionalidade. Conjugando escritos poéticos de Mario Quintana com os diálogos e os mapas vivenciais das crianças em uma escola, este texto tem como objetivo discutir como tempos e espaços repercutem na construção da infância e nos processos educativos de crianças, no sentido de problematizar as dimensões calculadas e previsíveis que essas categorias assumem nesse contexto social. Buscamos, assim, dar visibilidade ao tempo do inusitado nas experiências das crianças, na escola, ao destacar como, nesse espaço, elas operam rupturas com a temporalidade contínua, progressiva e linear
Minimizing the Dangers of Air Pollution Using Alternative Facts: A Science Museum Case Study
A science museum exhibition about human health contains an exhibit that minimizes health impacts of air pollution. Relevant details, such as the full range of health risks; fossil fuel combustion; air quality statutes (and the local electrical utility’s violations of these statues), are omitted, while end users of electricity are blamed. The exhibit accomplishes this, not through outright falsification, but through selected “alternative facts” that change the focus and imply misleading alternate explanations. Using two classical rhetorical concepts (the practical syllogism and the enthymeme) allows for the surfacing of missing evidence and unstated directives underlying multimodal rhetoric. By stating multimedia arguments syllogistically, a technique is proposed for revealing hidden political sub-texts from beneath a putatively disinterested presentation of facts. The piece should be of interest to researchers, message designers and policy makers interested in the rhetoric of science, ecology, health and museums
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