Somatic Value in Mechanical Products: Machines as Interactive Media

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shuichi Fukuda
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Mechanical Engineering ◽  
Interactive Media ◽  
Operating Conditions ◽  
Rational Approach ◽  
Traditional Role ◽  
The World ◽  
Mechanical Products ◽  
User Centric

This paper points out the importance of machines as tangible and substantial media for our customers to interact with the outer world. As the world is getting more and more globalized, diversified and complex, and situations are changing more frequently and extensively, it becomes harder and harder for designers to foresee operating conditions. Therefore design is changing quickly from traditional designer-centric to user-centric. It is a user who can understand the current situation and solve the imminent problem. Thus, the role of a machine is changing from a tool to a partner which helps a user understand the situation and solve the problem together. Although traditional role of machines has been primarily an actuator, its role as a sensing media is quickly increasing. Traditional product development has been one way and it is producer-driven, regarding customers as being very passive and just as consumers or users. But customers are very active and creative. The tangible and substantial feature of mechanical products has advantages in satisfying our customers’ needs for creativity and customization of our products to adapt to their needs and tastes and furthermore in creating experience and stories for them, which will add increased value, if not only product value but also process value is considered. To realize such goals, mechanical engineering should introduce more pragmatic approaches in addition to the current rational approach.

scholarly journals Not Just ‘Once’ upon a Time

Genealogy ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 44
Author(s):  
Jarvis
Keyword(s):  
Child Development ◽  
Interactive Media ◽  
Rapid Change ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Multidisciplinary Research ◽  
Learning And Development ◽  
Traditional Role ◽  
Complex Process ◽  
Current Mass

Multidisciplinary research indicates the importance of storytelling in child development, most recently exploring the evolved nature of language and narrative. Many questions remain about how children develop competence within such a vital but highly complex process. The ‘once upon a time’ concept is present within nearly every human language on Earth, indicating what a powerful hold ‘storying’ has over human beings and what a central role it plays within human societies. Sue Lyle proposes that human beings are above all, ‘storytelling animals’. Emergent questions include whether and how current mass-produced storytelling products and interactive media developed by Western technology impact children’s competence in the human ‘storying’ process and, in particular, whether such rapid change should be approached with more reflection and caution than is currently the case. In this article, I will consider the process of child development with respect to language and ‘storying’, the traditional role of stories and ‘make-believe’ in the fabric of children’s lives, how this has changed in the recent past in technologically advancing societies, and how such change may impact children’s learning and development.

scholarly journals Tall trends: quantifying the skyscraper phenomenon

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 ◽  
pp. 01012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason Gabel
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Economic Performance ◽  
Traditional Role ◽  
Mixed Use ◽  
The World ◽  
Percent Increase

The world continues to witness an explosion of growth in the number of 200-plus-meter skyscrapers, with three straight years of record-breaking completions (from 2014 to 2016) and a 441 percent increase on the total number of such towers in the 21st century, from 265 in 2000 to 1,168 at the end of 2016. Fueled largely by strong economic performance, much of this activity is centered in Asia and the Middle East, upending longstanding geopolitical trends. China in particular has dominated worldwide skyscraper construction, accounting for two-thirds of all completions in the last calendar year (2016). Further, the traditional role of the skyscraper has diversified, with residential and mixed-use buildings accounting for a greater share of 200-plus-meter buildings. This paper explores these interconnected trends in detail and analyzes both the causes and impacts of an evolving skyscraper industry.

scholarly journals Extended Supply-Use Tables

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sourish Dutta
Keyword(s):  
International Organizations ◽  
Traditional Role ◽  
Industrial Policies ◽  
National Statistics ◽  
The World

The statistical challenges of globalization are profound. We cannot rely solely on national statistics to understand how economies work and how to create industrial policies focusing on competitiveness. It is necessary to see the whole. National statistics build pictures based on relationships between producers and consumers and the rest of the world. But these relationships, especially those with the rest of the world, have become increasingly more complex. There is an increasing need to consider global production within a global accounting framework. This implies a departure from the traditional role of international organizations as compilers of internationally comparable national statistics to bring together the national tables to create a global table.

Customer Orientation in the Context of Development Projects: Insights from the World Bank

2005 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 100-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Debabrata Talukdar ◽  
Sumila Gulyani ◽  
Lawrence F. Salmen
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
World Bank ◽  
Customer Orientation ◽  
Developing Economies ◽  
Traditional Role ◽  
Private Goods ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
The World ◽  
Marketing Principles

Approximately half of the world's current population lives in poverty, and more than 90% of those people live in developing countries with limited access to basic social and economic amenities. Mired in such widespread poverty, developing countries thus appear to offer little opportunity for the traditional role of marketing to facilitate the monetized exchange of private goods. However, as this synthesized review of the practice of customer orientation at the World Bank shows, fundamental marketing principles and practices play an important role in incorporating the voice and interest of the poor in the provision of public goods that are designed to improve their quality of life and standard of living. This role for marketing in developing economies helps create the necessary socioeconomic infrastructure to facilitate the emergence of vibrant exchange markets for private goods in which the traditional role of marketing plays out. This article helps develop a better appreciation of a typically overlooked dimension in marketing's relationship to society in developing countries.

Robert L. Ayers. Banking on the Poor. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press. 1983. 255pp.Appendices; notes; index.

1983 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 307-309
Author(s):  
Aftab Ahmad Cheema
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
World Bank ◽  
Poverty Alleviation ◽  
Maximum Growth ◽  
Traditional Role ◽  
Poor Countries ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
The World ◽  
Post War

This book is about "Robert McNamara's efforts to reorient the World Bank towards a more explicit concern with poverty alleviation in the world's poor countries." The World Bank is one of the most important (and probably the biggest) financial institutions which have been providing both technical and financial assistance to many developing countries for more than thirty years. The traditional role of the Bank has been that of helping the developing countries in their process of development by providing loans for projects with maximum growth effects. For quite a number of years in the post-war period these loans were granted mainly for infrastructure projects which were considered a prerequisite for development. An evaluation of such projects was relatively easy as their effects on the rest of the economy were easily quantifiable. Loans for social-overhead projects received relatively low priority as their output was not directly measurable and the element of risk was also high in such loans.

Selfies and the World Behind Our Back

2018 ◽  
pp. 48-53
Author(s):  
Ana Peraica
Keyword(s):  
Machine Vision ◽  
Optical Devices ◽  
Self Perception ◽  
Traditional Role ◽  
Rear View Mirror ◽  
The World ◽  
And Control

(an excerpt from the upcoming book Postdigital Arcadia) Selfie photography serves not only a traditional role of photographic (self)recording, but also for manoeuvring the space behind one’s own back. Unfortunately, as two realities, the unmediated and mediated, human and machine vision, are not matching, there are many accidents of selfie-makers due to the crabwalk. By this, the photographic technology based on the rear-view mirror – in which objects (may) appear closer than they are – finally resolves one of the largest tragedies of human self-perception; the inability to see and control the world behind one’s back. Keywords: background, mobile photography, optical devices, photography, selfie

scholarly journals Extended Supply-Use Tables

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sourish Dutta
Keyword(s):  
International Organizations ◽  
Traditional Role ◽  
Industrial Policies ◽  
National Statistics ◽  
The World

The statistical challenges of globalization are profound. We cannot rely solely on national statistics to understand how economies work and how to create industrial policies focusing on competitiveness. It is necessary to see the whole. National statistics build pictures based on relationships between producers and consumers and the rest of the world. But these relationships, especially those with the rest of the world, have become increasingly more complex. There is an increasing need to consider global production within a global accounting framework. This implies a departure from the traditional role of international organizations as compilers of internationally comparable national statistics to bring together the national tables to create a global table.

scholarly journals Improving Skills in Mechanism and Machine Science Using GIM Software

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (17) ◽  
pp. 7850
Author(s):  
Erik Macho ◽  
Mónica Urízar ◽  
Víctor Petuya ◽  
Alfonso Hernández
Keyword(s):  
Mechanical Engineering ◽  
Basque Country ◽  
Learning Activities ◽  
Traditional Role ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
Self Evaluation ◽  
Virtual Laboratories ◽  
The University

The field of education has evolved significantly in recent years as it has incorporated new pedagogical methodologies. Many of these methodologies are designed to encourage students’ participation in the learning process. The traditional role of the student as a passive receiver of content is no longer considered valid. Teaching in mechanical engineering is no stranger to these changes either, where new learning activities have been designed to complement theory-heavy lectures. These activities take place in both physical and virtual laboratories. In case of the latter, the use of the GIM software (developed at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Spain) is a promising option. In this paper, features of the GIM that are most frequently used to support and exemplify the theoretical concepts taught in lectures are described using a case study. In addition, GIM is integrated into different learning activities to show its potential as a tool for learning and self-evaluation.

scholarly journals Characteristics of Fake News and Misinformation in Greece: The Rise of New Crowdsourcing-Based Journalistic Fact-Checking Models

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 417-439
Author(s):  
Evangelos Lamprou ◽  
Nikos Antonopoulos ◽  
Iouliani Anomeritou ◽  
Chrysoula Apostolou
Keyword(s):  
Fake News ◽  
Traditional Role ◽  
Severe Problem ◽  
New Era ◽  
The Public ◽  
The World ◽  
Fact Checking ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
The Public Sphere

Fake news and misinformation are a menace to the public sphere, democracy, and society with sometimes irreversible consequences. Journalists in the new era seem not to be able or willing to play their traditional role of gatekeeper and social media have made the problem even more intense. The need for truth is unnegotiable in modern democracies. Nevertheless, non-true stories and misinformation dominate media outlets with severe consequences and negative impacts on societies all over the world. Fact-checking platforms based on crowdsourcing strategies or automated digital websites might be the answer to a problem that is escalating. Initially, in order to tackle such a severe problem, researchers and experts have to monitor its characteristics. Very few research attempts have been conducted in Greece on fake news, its characteristics, origin, and impact. This dissertation scopes to map the characteristics of fake news and misinformation in an EU country such as Greece, based on the findings of “Ellinika Hoaxes” a fact-checking platform that uses in combination professional fact-checkers and crowdsourcing strategies in collaboration with Facebook. The findings shape new perspectives on the nature of misinformation and fake news in Greece and focus on new communication and fact-checking models.

The Role of VLBI in the Establishment of Coordinate Systems

1975 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 293-295 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. Zhongolovitch
Keyword(s):  
General Solution ◽  
Future Development ◽  
Rational Approach ◽  
Radio Telescopes ◽  
Coordinate Systems ◽  
Tectonic Plates ◽  
Astronomical Observations ◽  
Optical Instruments ◽  
Fundamental Polyhedron

Considering the future development and general solution of the problem under consideration and also the high precision attainable by astronomical observations, the following procedure may be the most rational approach:1. On the main tectonic plates of the Earth’s crust, powerful movable radio telescopes should be mounted at the same points where standard optical instruments are installed. There should be two stations separated by a distance of about 6 to 8000 kilometers on each plate. Thus, we obtain a fundamental polyhedron embracing the whole Earth with about 10 to 12 apexes, and with its sides represented by VLBI.

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