Search Constraints

Start Over
Filtering by: Language English Remove constraint Language: English

Search Results

  • Design Proposal for Notification of Dangerous Water Levels

    Article thumbnail: Design Proposal for Notification of Dangerous Water Levels
    Type:
    Article
    Description/Abstract:
    To limit the harm and damage caused by river flooding, signs to indicate dangerous water levels are placed along the river, particularly where there is a danger of overflow. However, the general level of awareness of such signs is low. In this study, we examined ways to efficiently convey information that people have little interest in and find difficult to understand. Dangerous water levels are quantified and communicated using colors to indicate the degree of danger, and this information is conveyed to the public with signs on bridge piers and slopes. Various other measures are also employed, e.g., adding evacuation pictograms to signs, displaying signs separate from graduated water level indicators, and providing detailed information via the river office website. In addition to using Internet channels such as websites and Facebook, it is common to create and distribute pamphlets and other kinds of printed notifications to communicate such important information as widely as possible. Nevertheless, information that is essential in an emergency but unnecessary at ordinary times is difficult to communicate widely and effectively, even if all these measures are taken. This is because even if people accept that such information must be understood, they remain uninterested and find the information difficult to understand. To solve this problem, we created a story featuring mascot characters for each danger level. This story, presented as a picture book, overturns the conventional attitude toward such information. We thereby developed a medium for communicating important information in a way that better captures people’s interest.
    Creator/Author:
    Morita, Yoshitsugu; Sugimoto, Yoshitaka, and Sogabe, Haruka
    Submitter:
    Lora Alberto
    Date Uploaded:
    11/16/2017
    Date Modified:
    03/01/2018
    Date Created:
    2017-10-31
    License:
    Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International

  • From ANT to Material agency: a design and science research workshop

    Article thumbnail: From ANT to Material agency: a design and science research workshop
    Type:
    Article
    Description/Abstract:
    This paper studies a design workshop that investigates complex collaboration between fundamental physics and design. Our research focuses on how students create original artefacts that bridge the gap between disciplines that have very little in common. Our goal is to study the micro-evolutions of their projects. Elaborating first on Actor Network Theory (Latour, 1996; 2005) we study how students’ projects evolved over time and through a diversity of inputs and media. Throughout this longitudinal study, we use then a semiotic and pragmatic approach to observe three “aesthetical formations”: translation, composition, and stabilization. These formations suggest that the question of material agency developed in the field of archeology and cognitive science (Knappett & Malafouris, 2008) need to be considered in the design field (Renon, 2016) to explain metamorphoses from the brief to the final realizations.
    Creator/Author:
    Gentes, Annie; Renon, Anne-Lyse, and Bobroff, Julien
    Submitter:
    Lora Alberto
    Date Uploaded:
    11/16/2017
    Date Modified:
    01/30/2018
    Date Created:
    2017-10-31
    License:
    Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International

  • Surveying Stakeholders: Research Informing Design Curriculum

    Article thumbnail: Surveying Stakeholders: Research Informing Design Curriculum
    Type:
    Article
    Description/Abstract:
    Fundamental to design education is the creation and structure of curriculum. Neither the creation of design curriculum, nor the revaluation of existing curriculum is well documented. With no clear documentation of precedent, best practices are left open to debate. This paper and presentation will discuss the use of a survey as a research tool to assess existing curriculum at Iowa State University in the United States. This tool allowed the needs and perspectives of the program’s diverse stakeholders to be better understood. Utilizing survey methods, research revealed the convergence and divergence of stakeholders’ philosophies, theories and needs in relation to design curriculum. Accreditation and professional licensing provide base level of guidelines for design curriculum in the United States. However, each program’s curricular structure beyond these guidelines is a complicated balance of resources, facilities, faculty, and the type of institution in which it is housed. Once established, a program’s curriculum is rarely reassessed as a whole, but instead updated with the hasty addition of classes upon an existing curricular structure. Curriculum is infrequently re-addressed, and when it is, it is typically based on the experience and opinions of a select group of faculty. This paper presents how a survey was developed to collect data to inform curricular decision- making, enabling the reduction of faculty bias and speculation in the process. Lessons learned from the development of this research tool will be shared so it might be replicated at other institutions, and be efficiently repeated periodically to ensure currency of a program’s curriculum.
    Creator/Author:
    Quam, Andrea
    Submitter:
    Lora Alberto
    Date Uploaded:
    11/16/2017
    Date Modified:
    02/08/2018
    Date Created:
    2017-10-31
    License:
    Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International

  • Designing Supportive Technology for Teaching Assistants Monitoring Collaboration

    Article thumbnail: Designing Supportive Technology for Teaching Assistants Monitoring Collaboration
    Type:
    Article
    Description/Abstract:
    Decisions made by user interface designers play an influential role in how people interact with software, this is especially true when it comes to the creation of tools to support teaching. As technology continues to play a more prominent role in schools, it poses an important question about how the design of learning tools influence what teachers do in classrooms. Data analytics is one opportunity technology offers for teachers to foster collaboration in student groups. Data analytics have the potential to provide teachers with a live view of what students are doing when using technology, which research shows is challenging to implement in classrooms. This paper focuses on the process to design a tool that assists engineering discussion session teacher assistants (TAs) to monitor collaboration within groups. We report on findings from interviews with TAs on what they anticipate they would need in order to support group work, and discuss how their responses influenced the design of this tool.
    Creator/Author:
    Lawrence, LuEttaMae
    Submitter:
    Lora Alberto
    Date Uploaded:
    11/16/2017
    Date Modified:
    04/27/2018
    Date Created:
    2017-10-31
    License:
    Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International

  • A Study on Design for Diagnostic Tool for Language Processing Ability with Aging

    Article thumbnail: A Study on Design for Diagnostic Tool for Language Processing Ability with Aging
    Type:
    Article
    Description/Abstract:
    The deterioration of linguistic abilities is a natural phenomenon along with aging. Therefore, various assessment tools have been developed to measure linguistic abilities of seniors and diagnose degenerative diseases such as dementia. Although most of the tools are composed of images, there are not many studies focusing on the visual design, which could significantly affect performance of the subject. In this regard, this research aims to suggest a design guideline for linguistic ability assessment tools concerning the key characteristics of the elderly, focusing on visual contents and interface. Existing related researches were mostly conducted in English-speaking countries. In order to assess the language processing abilities of Korean-speaking elders more accurately, it is necessary to develop language processing assessment tools that reflect the unique linguistic features and structure of the Korean language. Regarding the existing tools, there is a lack of research on aging, focusing on ‘verb naming. In the literature review section, the paper investigated the physical, cognitive and emotional characteristics of the elderly and extracted the key elements to consider when designing for the elderly. Also, design principles were found based on case studies and problem analysis of the existing assessment tools for language processing abilities. Lastly, we created a prototype model using ‘verb naming.’ Using the model, we have conducted an experiment and comparative analysis between different age groups to verify the validity of contents. In conclusion, we provided a design guideline for visual contents and interface of linguistic assessment tools, focusing on elderly users.
    Creator/Author:
    Choi, Yoo Mi
    Submitter:
    Lora Alberto
    Date Uploaded:
    11/14/2017
    Date Modified:
    10/18/2018
    Date Created:
    2017-10-31
    License:
    Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International

  • IASDR 2017 Conference Proceedings

    Document thumbnail: IASDR 2017 Conference Proceedings
    Type:
    Document
    Description/Abstract:
    Full papers submitted
    Creator/Author:
    Alberto, Lora
    Submitter:
    Lora Alberto
    Date Uploaded:
    11/14/2017
    Date Modified:
    11/14/2017
    Date Created:
    2017-10-31
    License:
    Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International

  • Case record of children admitted to the House of Refuge, covering cases 1-321, October 25, 1850 through July 17, 1852 and cases 4909-5300, September 19, 1883 through September 7, 1885

    Document thumbnail: Case record of children admitted to the House of Refuge, covering cases 1-321, October 25, 1850 through July 17, 1852 and cases 4909-5300, September 19, 1883 through September 7, 1885
    Type:
    Document
    Description/Abstract:
    Digital scans of case records for admissions to the Cincinnati House of Refuge.
    Creator/Author:
    Cincinnati House of Refuge
    Submitter:
    Sean Crowe
    Date Uploaded:
    11/08/2017
    Date Created:
    1850
    License:
    Public Domain Mark 1.0

  • Transforming organizations through new partnerships, collaboration, and agile development (Project Briefing). CNI Spring 2015 membership meeting.

    Generic Work thumbnail: Transforming organizations through new partnerships, collaboration, and agile development (Project Briefing). CNI Spring 2015 membership meeting.
    Type:
    Generic Work
    Description/Abstract:
    During the last three years new leadership at the University of Cincinnati (UC) in many senior administrative positions has resulted in a rare culture of collaboration. This presentation will focus on the dynamic that has evolved among the Dean of Libraries, Vice President for Information Technology, and the Vice President for Research; discuss the development of the Research Hub@UC, which will deliver a profile-based customized suite of programs to researchers and scholars throughout the lifecycle; and explore a specific initiative (Scholar@UC) that demonstrates the depth of collaboration and its impact on the partners’ cultures, particularly the libraries’ at all levels. UC’s research support ecosystem has been disjointed, incomplete, ignored, or simply hidden. To grow the university’s research enterprise, these leaders realized that support programs throughout the research lifecycle had to be improved, expanded, and promoted. Presenters will discuss the successes and challenges of bridging different work cultures, funding development in a fiscally austere environment, and establishing collaborative models for operational support. To demonstrate the value and challenges of the partnership, including its impact on the cultures of each partner, presenters will explore two projects that have been enabled by the partnership, including the aforementioned Research Hub@UC and Scholar@UC, a faculty self-submission repository. Using these as case studies, presenters will discuss how agile (including open source) software development projects and broad system integration needs have enabled the partners to develop nimble, user-driven processes and a strong sense of risk taking to deploy new enterprise-wide systems in an environment of lean staff and resources.
    Creator/Author:
    Riep, Josette; Wang, Xuemao; Baldwin, Ted; Newman, Linda, and Vincent, Nelson
    Submitter:
    Linda Newman
    Date Uploaded:
    04/22/2015
    Date Modified:
    02/27/2019
    Date Created:
    2015-04-14
    License:
    Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International

  • Cleistogamy Review Dataset - Species Level

    Dataset thumbnail: Cleistogamy Review Dataset - Species Level
    Type:
    Dataset
    Description/Abstract:
    This is the raw data detailing the type of cleistogamy reported within 628 individual species in the scientific literature, as of October 2005. This data underlies the following study: Culley, Theresa M and Matthew R Klooster (2007) The cleistogamous breeding system: A review of its frequency, evolution, and ecology in angiosperms. The Botanical Review 73(1): 1-30.
    Creator/Author:
    Culley, Theresa and Klooster, Matthew
    Submitter:
    Theresa Culley
    Date Uploaded:
    08/26/2016
    Date Modified:
    08/26/2016
    Date Created:
    2005-10-02
    License:
    Attribution 4.0 International

  • Pattern Logic

    Media thumbnail: Pattern Logic
    Type:
    Media
    Description/Abstract:
    Live audio visual improvisation on 06/10/2016 at Modern Makers in Cincinnati, OH. Ofir Klemperer (electronics), Eddy Kwon (violin), Zach Larabee (percussion), Sayak Shome (images), Charles Woodman (images), Matt Coors (wall treatment), Andy Knolle (projector massage), Harry Sanchez (projector massage), Dan Leonard (live camera), Melissa Godoy (documentation)
    Creator/Author:
    Woodman, Charles
    Submitter:
    Charles Woodman
    Date Uploaded:
    08/08/2016
    Date Modified:
    03/12/2019
    Date Created:
    2016
    License:
    All rights reserved