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Identification of Data Representation Needs in Service Design
Organisations are looking for new service offers through innovative use of data, often through a Service Design approach. However, current Service Design tools conceal technological aspects of service development like data and datasets. Data can support the design of future services but is often not represented or rendered as a readily workable design material. This paper reports on an early qualitative study of the tools used to work with data and analytics in a medium-sized organisation. The findings identify the current representations of data and data analytics used in the case organisation. We discuss to which extend the available representations of data and data analytics support data-driven service innovation. A comparison of our findings and current Service Design representations show that Service Design lack to represent data as design material. We propose the notion of expansiveness as a criterion to evaluate future data representations for data-driven Service Design
Ionization rates in a Bose-Einstein condensate of metastable Helium
We have studied ionizing collisions in a BEC of He*. Measurements of the ion
production rate combined with measurements of the density and number of atoms
for the same sample allow us to estimate both the 2 and 3-body contributions to
this rate. A comparison with the decay of the number of condensed atoms in our
magnetic trap, in the presence of an rf-shield, indicates that ionizing
collisions are largely or wholly responsible for the loss. Quantum depletion
makes a substantial correction to the 3-body rate constant.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figure
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