scholarly journals Subtask A: User perspective and requirements - A.3 Personas

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Szybinska Matusiak ◽  
Justyna Martyniuk-Peczek ◽  
Sergio Sibilio ◽  
Claudia Naves ◽  
David Amorim ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Living Conditions ◽  
Time Schedule ◽  
User Perspective ◽  
Building Type ◽  
User Groups ◽  
Build Environment ◽  
Typical Day ◽  
Typical User ◽  
Visual Conditions ◽  
The Way

The consumption of energy for lighting in buildings depends very much on the way people interact with the build environment. In this study the following building types were studied, office, school, university, commercial and industry buildings. For each building type typical user groups were identified. Then, Personas have been created for each group. As opposed to describing users with numbers and statistics, a single Persona reflects a group and is presented with a narrative. The Persona has a name, a family and living conditions that are representative for the group, also her/his values and interests are not uncommon. The Personas “typical day” includes a time schedule typical for the group. Visual conditions are common for the group, but some specific challenges connected to the visual conditions that may occur in the group are also mentioned.

scholarly journals Teaching Semantic Ethnography to Architecture Students

2014 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Galen Cranz ◽  
Georgia Lindsay ◽  
Lusi Morhayim ◽  
Hans Sagan
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
Human Behavior ◽  
World Semantic ◽  
User Perspective ◽  
Design Project ◽  
Diverse World ◽  
User Groups ◽  
User Perspectives ◽  
Research And Design

Learning about human behavior, cultural diversity, and user perspectives are all part of the NAAB-required curriculum for educating architects. Beyond that, these skills help architects compete in a global and diverse world. Semantic ethnography offers a method for understanding the user perspective in cultural settings. We present a research and design project centered on semantic ethnography as a way to teach architecture students about how to design for user groups. A survey administered to two years of students indicates that this project is indeed helpful for teaching students about how to find and listen to the user perspective.

scholarly journals Revising Computerized Therapy for Wider Appeal Among Adolescents: Youth Perspectives on a Revised Version of SPARX

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Theresa Fleming ◽  
K Stasiak ◽  
E Moselen ◽  
E Hermansson-Webb ◽  
M Shepherd ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Behavioral Therapy ◽  
Random Order ◽  
User Choice ◽  
Low Mood ◽  
Universal Approach ◽  
Potential Population ◽  
User Groups ◽  
Stated Purpose ◽  
The Way

© Copyright © 2019 Fleming, Stasiak, Moselen, Hermansson-Webb, Shepherd, Lucassen, Bavin and Merry. Background: The way in which computerized therapy is presented may be important for its uptake. We aimed to explore adolescents’ views on the appeal of a tested computerized cognitive behavioral therapy (CCBT) for depression (SPARX), and a revised version (SPARX-R). The versions were similar but while SPARX is presented explicitly as a treatment for depression, SPARX-R is presented as providing skills that could be useful for young people for when they were depressed, down, angry, or stressed. Methods: We held 9 focus groups with a total of 79 adolescents (13–19 years old; 47 females; 34 New Zealand European; 22 Māori or Pacific; 60 reported having experienced feeling down or low for at least several days in a row). Groups viewed the opening sequences of SPARX and SPARX-R (in random order), then took part in a semi-structured discussion and completed a brief questionnaire. Responses were analyzed using a general inductive approach. Results: Participants considered both SPARX and SPARX-R useful and considered the stated purpose of the program to be important. Four themes contrasted the two approaches. The first, “naming depression is risky”, referred to perceptions that an explicit focus on depression could be off-putting, including for adolescents with depression. The second theme of “universality” reflected preferences for a universal approach as young people might not recognize that they were depressed, and all would benefit from the program. In contrast, “validation” reflected the view of a significant minority that naming depression could be validating for some. Finally, the theme of “choice” reflected a near-unanimously expressed preference for both options to be offered, allowing user choice. In questionnaire responses, 40 (68%) of participants preferred SPARX-R, 13 (18%) preferred SPARX, while 10 (14%) “didn’t mind”. Responses were similar among participants who reported that they had experienced at least a few days of low mood and those who had not. Conclusions: The way a CCBT program is presented may have implications for its appeal. The potential population impact of CCBT programs explicitly targeting depression and those targeting more universal feelings such as being stressed or feeling depressed should be explored for varied user groups.

Data Analytics Tools: A User Perspective

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (01) ◽  
pp. 1950002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Town ◽  
Fadi Thabtah
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Business Intelligence ◽  
Data Analytics ◽  
End Users ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Future Research ◽  
User Perspective ◽  
Evaluative Criteria ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
User Groups

Business Intelligence Tools (BI Tools) can be an intelligent way for individuals to undertake data analysis and reporting for guiding decision-making processes. There are many different BI Tools available in the market today, as well as information to assist organisations in evaluating their effectiveness. This paper focusses on two commercially available BI Tools: Tableau and Microsoft Power BI. It aims to determine which BI Tool is better for data analysis and reporting from an end user’s point of view. This paper undertakes an evaluation of both tools and compares which is more suitable for students using interface (navigation), cost, presence in the market, and available training and help as the evaluative criteria. Results produced in this paper found that overall, Tableau was more highly ranked than Power BI based on the evaluative criteria for end users for data analysis and reporting at least among the samples of the study. Tableau ranked higher than Power BI with its presence in the market, and available training and help. Power BI was rated more highly on its interface and both BI Tools were ranked the same in terms of cost to end users. This research is exploratory and may assist in formulating future research on BI Tools for specific user groups.

Slaves of the Depression

2018 ◽  
pp. 65-98
Author(s):  
Nina Silber
Keyword(s):  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Living Conditions ◽  
White Americans ◽  
Hollywood Films ◽  
A Chain ◽  
Federal Theatre ◽  
Working And Living Conditions ◽  
The Way

The language of slavery reverberated over the course of the Depression, with many Americans describing their working and living conditions in these years as something akin to slavery. Yet the language of “white enslavement” assumed particular power in these years, especially for the way it spoke to the immediate and unexpected economic crisis experienced by white Americans. In contrast, black enslavement seemed quaint and far less troubling. This pattern was apparent in the dramas put on by the Federal Theatre, the interviews conducted by writers in the WPA with former slaves, and in Hollywood films like I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang; Judge Priest; and the Prisoner of Shark Island.

scholarly journals Ethnicity and Public Space in the City: Ethnic Precincts in Sydney

2009 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jock Collins ◽  
Patrick Kunz
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Ethnic Diversity ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
Immigrant Entrepreneurs ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
Symbolic Economy ◽  
Build Environment ◽  
The City ◽  
Little Italy ◽  
The Way

Ethnic precincts are one example of the way that cultural diversity shapes public spaces in the postmodern metropolis. Ethnic precincts are essentially clusters of ethnic or immigrant entrepreneurs in areas that are designated as ethnic precincts by place marketers and government officials and display iconography related to that ethnicity in the build environment of the precinct. They are characterized by the presence of a substantial number of immigrant entrepreneurs of the same ethnicity as the precinct who line the streets of the precinct selling food, goods or services to many co-ethnics and non co-ethnics alike. Ethnic precincts are thus a key site of the production and consumption of the ethnic economy, a commodification of place where the symbolic economy of space (Zukin 1995:23-4) is constructed on representations of ethnicity and ‘immigrantness’. To explore some dimensions of the way that ethnic diversity shapes public space we present the findings of recent fieldwork in four Sydney ethnic precincts: Chinatown, Little Italy, Auburn (“Little Turkey”) and Cabramatta (“Vietnamatta”). This fieldwork explores the complex and sometimes contradictory relationship between immigrant entrepreneurs, local government authorities, and ethnic community representatives in shaping the emergence of, and development of, ethnic precincts. It demonstrates how perceptions of the authenticity of precincts as ethnic places and spaces varies in the eyes of consumers or customers according to whether they are ‘co-ethnic’, ‘co-cultural’ or ‘Others”. It explores relations of production and consumption within the ethnic precinct and how these are embedded within the domain of regulation in the daily life of these four Sydney ethnic precincts.

scholarly journals Information systems – tool for changing our future 

2012 ◽  
Vol 52 (No. 10) ◽  
pp. 447-450
Author(s):  
E. Šilerová ◽  
K. Lang
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Information Search ◽  
Information Needs ◽  
Specific Information ◽  
Web Portal ◽  
Agrarian Sector ◽  
Web Access ◽  
User Groups ◽  
Typical User

The article deals with the usage of the information systems and expansion of the portals. In the part “results”, there is elaborated a questionnaire applied on the agrarian sector. Today, the approach to the development of the information systems is oriented to the implementation of the portal solutions, which enables us a web access to the information and applications with an effective possibility of management and administration. Here, we are able to find typical user groups with quite specific information needs, who would find the specialized web portal very useful. This is because such kind of portal could offer them “everything at once and at one place”, it means all of their needs would be satisfied immediately and users do not have to waste time with an information search at other places. 

Typing Biometric Keypads

2012 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-63
Author(s):  
Benjamin Ngugi ◽  
Peter Tarasewich ◽  
Michael Recce
Keyword(s):  
User Authentication ◽  
Routine Activities ◽  
Remote User Authentication ◽  
Key Press ◽  
User Groups ◽  
Remote User ◽  
The Way

Pervasive online applications are changing the way people perform routine activities. But while providing convenience to individuals and organizations, these applications can pose a significant remote user authentication challenge. Current authentication systems can be strengthened by adding an additional biometric layer to an existing authentication process. This paper addresses implementing such a solution by 1) presenting a novel biometric method that uses key-press pressure and timing patterns from a typed password to determine whether the person typing it is its true owner (even with a compromised PIN); and 2) investigating differences in perceptions of biometric keypads between two user groups, nursing and computing majors. Results reveal that combining pressure and timing patterns leads to better authentication compared with timing patterns alone. Furthermore, nursing majors are more cautious in accepting biometric keypad technology than computing majors, suggesting that care must be taken when introducing such technologies to different groups of people.

scholarly journals På felttur i fortiden. Etnografien bag bogen om folkloristen Evald Tang Kristensens fodtur blandt folk på heden 1873

2014 ◽  
Vol 49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Palle Ove Christiansen
Keyword(s):  
Living Conditions ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Historical Reconstruction ◽  
Literary Genres ◽  
Folk Tales ◽  
Point Of Departure ◽  
The Disappeared ◽  
The Way ◽  
Walking Tours

NB: Artiklen er på dansk, kun resuméet er på engelsk. The article deals with the interdisciplinary, methodological background to the book, De forsvundne. Hedens sidste fortællere [The Disappeared. The Last Storytellers From The Moors], by Palle Ove Christiansen and Else Marie Kofod (2011). The publication integrates work methods from folklore, history and anthropology. The point of departure is a presentation of selected ballads and folk tales recorded by the world’s greatest folklorist, Evald Tang Kristensen (1843-1929). Rather then publish the material in the form of literary genres or the informants’ personal repertoire, the authors chose to present it in the way it was collected “in the field” on one of Tang Kristensen’s walking tours on the heaths of Jutland in 1873. This perspective draws much more attention to the modern, full-time fieldwork in the 1870s in which Kristensen was a pioneer in Denmark. The account of this fieldwork required micro-historical reconstruction of Kristensen’s route (through heathland that has now disappeared), the informants’ domiciles and living conditions. In order to fill in the gaps in our archival knowledge, it was necessary to trace various historical circumstances in the localities where the 1873 expedition’s informants lived. The authors thus ended up carrying out a form of historical fieldwork themselves. The article illustrates the advantages to the project of combining work methods from various disciplines. Three selected cases are used to describe some of the problems that the authors encountered in carrying out their historical fieldwork in the former heathland and human traces left on them.

scholarly journals Environmental safety of a territory due to the dangerous processes of flooding.

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olena Voloshkina ◽  
Julia Bereznitska
Keyword(s):  
Water Resources ◽  
Water Balance ◽  
Calculation Method ◽  
Environmental Safety ◽  
Living Conditions ◽  
Filtration Flow ◽  
Filtration Resistance ◽  
Drainage Capacity ◽  
The Way

They determined the way the dangerous factors caused by the processes of flooding influence on environment and living conditions, they are the following: they estimated water resources quality, violation of water balance conditions on the flooded territories (the loss of drainage capacity of rivers and underground drainage formation), the process of activation of dangerous exogenous processes, they also theoretically grounded the necessity of correction of calculation method of filtration flow with the use of filtration resistance.

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