scholarly journals THE DESIGN OF THE PROTOTYPE MOBILE MUSIC APPLICATION

2020 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 27-32
Author(s):  
S. L. Gutarova ◽  
Ye. A. Maksakova ◽  
Ye. A. Mosina ◽  
Ye. V. Nekrasova ◽  
S. P. Rassadina
Keyword(s):  
Popular Music ◽  
Mobile Application ◽  
Team Work ◽  
Design Study ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Mobile Music ◽  
Streaming Services ◽  
Music Market

The article analyses the UI and UX concepts of popular music platforms and streaming services in terms of usability and functionality. Popular analogues of music apps are analysed – Apple music, YouTube music, Yandex music, Boom. The results of a design study devoted to the problem of promoting young performers to the music market are presented. Topicality of the problem is confirmed by the growing popularity of music services and applications among users. The stages of developing a prototype of a music application using the Figma programme are presented. The process of team work on a prototype of a mobile application with planning of project stages and distribution of tasks between team members, using scrum technology is shown.

scholarly journals H3ABioNet genomic medicine and microbiome data portals hackathon proceedings

Database ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Faisal M Fadlelmola ◽  
Kais Ghedira ◽  
Yosr Hamdi ◽  
Mariem Hanachi ◽  
Fouzia Radouani ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Genomic Medicine ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Team Work ◽  
Significant Progress ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Pan African ◽  
Scientific Expertise ◽  
Microbiome Data ◽  
Made In

Abstract African genomic medicine and microbiome datasets are usually not well characterized in terms of their origin, making it difficult to find and extract data for specific African ethnic groups or even countries. The Pan-African H3Africa Bioinformatics Network (H3ABioNet) recognized the need for developing data portals for African genomic medicine and African microbiomes to address this and ran a hackathon to initiate their development. The two portals were designed and significant progress was made in their development during the hackathon. All the participants worked in a very synergistic and collaborative atmosphere in order to achieve the hackathon's goals. The participants were divided into content and technical teams and worked over a period of 6 days. In response to one of the survey questions of what the participants liked the most during the hackathon, 55% of the hackathon participants highlighted the familial and friendly atmosphere, the team work and the diversity of team members and their expertise. This paper describes the preparations for the portals hackathon and the interaction between the participants and reflects upon the lessons learned about its impact on successfully developing the two data portals as well as building scientific expertise of younger African researchers. Database URL: The code for developing the two portals was made publicly available in GitHub repositories: [https://github.com/codemeleon/Database; https://github.com/codemeleon/AfricanMicrobiomePortal].

COLLABORATECOM SPECIAL ISSUE ANALYZING DISTRIBUTED WHITEBOARD INTERACTIONS

2012 ◽  
Vol 21 (03) ◽  
pp. 199-220
Author(s):  
LUTZ GERICKE ◽  
RAJA GUMIENNY ◽  
CHRISTOPH MEINEL
Keyword(s):  
Internal Structure ◽  
Team Work ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Distributed Work ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Work Settings ◽  
Simplified Analysis ◽  
Digital Whiteboard

We present the digital whiteboard system Tele-Board, which automatically captures all interactions made on the all-digital whiteboard and thus offers possibilities for a fast interpretation of usage characteristics. Analyzing team work at whiteboards is a time-consuming and error-prone process if manual interpretation techniques are applied. In a case study, we demonstrate how to conduct and analyze whiteboard experiments with the help of our system. The study investigates the role of video compared to an audio-only connection for distributed work settings. With the simplified analysis of communication data, we can prove that the video teams were more active than the audio teams and the distribution of whiteboard interaction between team members was more balanced. This way, an automatic analysis can not only support manual observations and codings, but also give insights that cannot be achieved with other systems. Beyond the overall view on one sessions focusing on key figures, it is also possible to find out more about the internal structure of a session.

scholarly journals Consumers on Critique: A Survey of Classical Music Listeners’ Engagement with Professional Music Reviews

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 205920432093133
Author(s):  
Elena Alessandri ◽  
Dawn Rose ◽  
Olivier Senn ◽  
Katrin Szamatulski ◽  
Antonio Baldassarre ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Online Survey ◽  
Classical Music ◽  
Contemporary Music ◽  
Music Criticism ◽  
Professional Background ◽  
Musical Engagement ◽  
Streaming Services ◽  
Music Market ◽  
Typical Consumer ◽  
New Generation

Music criticism has a long tradition as a leading agent in the classical music discourse. However, some people question its function in the contemporary music market. We explored the topicality of classical music critique by asking: Who reads professional reviews today? And what do readers expect from review? Through an online survey (English/German), we profiled the listening habits of classical music listeners ( N = 1200) and their engagement with professional reviews. Our participants were more actively engaged with music, but contrary to the ‘highbrow’ stereotype, not more highly musically trained than the general population. They consumed music and opinion sources in a variety of ways. Approximately two-thirds ( n = 741) of the participants had recently engaged with professional reviews, which were perceived as the most useful form of opinion, followed by short written commentaries and, lastly, ratings. A multiple logistic regression model suggested that the typical consumer of professional music critique was older with higher levels of musical engagement and education, had a higher inclination to purchase music and lower usage of streaming services, and had a preference for detailed reviews from traditional sources (e.g. newspapers). According to review readers, reviews should cover a variety of topics and offer evaluations underpinned with reasons. Reviewers should be constructive, open-minded, respectful, and well informed; their professional background was less relevant. Professional reviews should not necessarily provide a recommendation on what to buy, but rather guide listeners’ musical appreciation and understanding. Professional criticism still has an audience, although more so among older, musically educated listeners. Critics need to explore various channels in order to connect to a new generation of classical music listeners.

Neurophysiologic Collaboration Patterns during Team Problem Solving

2009 ◽  
Vol 53 (12) ◽  
pp. 804-808 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ron Stevens ◽  
Chris Berka ◽  
Marcia Sprang
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Mental Models ◽  
Real World ◽  
Mental Workload ◽  
Team Work ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Collaboration Patterns ◽  
Random Patterns ◽  
Time Critical

We have explored using neurophysiologic collaboration patterns as an approach for developing a deeper understanding of how teams collaborate when solving time-critical, complex real-world problems. Teams of three students solved substance abuse management simulations using IMMEX software while measures of mental workload (WL) and engagement (E) were generated by electroencephalography (EEG). Levels of high and low workload and engagement were identified for each member at each epoch statistically and the vectors consisting of these measures were clustered by self organizing artificial neural networks. The resulting cognitive teamwork patterns, termed neural synchronies, were different across six different teams. When the neural synchronies were compared across the team members of individual teams segments were identified where different synchronies were preferentially expressed. Some were expressed early in the collaboration when the team members were forming mental models of the problem, others were expressed later in the collaboration when the team members were sharing their mental models and converging on a solution. These studies indicate that non-random patterns of neurophysiologic synchronies can be observed across teams and members of a team when they are engaged in problem solving. This approach may provide an approach for monitoring the quality of team work during complex, real-world and possible one of a kind problem solving.

scholarly journals Improving The Effectiveness Of Human Resources Practices Through Transforming Care At The Bedside

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 157-168
Author(s):  
Melanie Lavoie-Tremblay ◽  
Patricia O’Conner ◽  
Joanna Streppa ◽  
Alain Biron ◽  
Judith Ritchie ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
Resistance To Change ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Health Care Organization ◽  
Team Work ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Care Organization ◽  
Team Members

In 2010, in an effort to increase patient involvement in decision-making about health care redesign, a Quebec university health care organization implemented the Transforming Care at the Bedside (TCAB). This article presents the results from a qualitative study exploring health professionals’ perceptions of TCAB and the effect on turnover and overtime. This descriptive, qualitative study utilized focus groups, individual interviews, and a review of administrative documents for data collection. Participants included hospital workers from five units implementing TCAB. The data generated by the interviews and focus groups were analyzed using NVivo with the method proposed by Miles and Huberman (1994). During the first year of implementation of TCAB, the team noted the importance of taking time to see the effects of the changes and thereby facilitate the involvement of other team members. A number of TCAB team members also cited communication as a facilitating element for informing team members of changes. According to the participants, the TCAB strategies that were implemented have had a positive impact on practice and on the work environment, and turnover showed an improvement. There was no change in absenteeism. TCAB has the potential to impact not only nurses’ work, but interprofessional team work as well, through changes that involve everyone. Future research should focus on how to support team members to reduce resistance to change and increase social support in order to implement and sustain changes. 

scholarly journals A Model for Predicting Music Popularity on Streaming Platforms

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 108-117
Author(s):  
Carlos Vicente Soares Araujo ◽  
Marco Antônio Pinheiro de Cristo ◽  
Rafael Giusti
Keyword(s):  
Svm Classifier ◽  
Audio Features ◽  
Popular Songs ◽  
Rbf Kernel ◽  
Streaming Services ◽  
Music Market

The global music market moves billions of dollars every year, most of which comes from streamingplatforms. In this paper, we present a model for predicting whether or not a song will appear in Spotify’s Top 50, a ranking of the 50 most popular songs in Spotify, which is one of today’s biggest streaming services. To make this prediction, we trained different classifiers with information from audio features from songs that appeared in this ranking between November 2018 and January 2019. When tested with data from June and July 2019, an SVM classifier with RBF kernel obtained accuracy, precision, and AUC above 80%.

scholarly journals Trial and Verification of Team Work Education to Enhance Team Members’ Complementary Collaboration

2019 ◽  
Vol 67 (4) ◽  
pp. 4_38-4_43
Author(s):  
Yoichi SUGIMOTO ◽  
Masao ARAKAWA ◽  
Masahiko ISHIMARU
Keyword(s):  
Team Work ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Work Education

Impacts of Team Characteristics and Design Activities on Design Outcomes

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shun Takai
Keyword(s):  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Team Work ◽  
Concept Generation ◽  
Concept Selection ◽  
Design Strategies ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Design Activities ◽  
Team Characteristics ◽  
Cognitive Mode

This paper presents an analysis of design team characteristics and design activities that are significantly associated with design outcomes (i.e., project performances) in sophomore-level project-based design courses. Besides efficient team work, a team needs to successfully perform three design activities: concept generation, concept selection, and prototyping. In the design course, teams are formed based on students’ choice of teammates as well as on instructor assigned teams which maximize cognitive mode diversity among members. A regression analysis is performed to find variables that are significantly associated with design outcomes. These variables include team size, teaming preference, diversity of cognitive modes among team members, the average number of power tools team members have used in the past, whether or not a team experienced a team-working difficulty, the number of concepts generated before and after using creativity techniques, whether or not a team had the most successful strategy (called “winning” concept in this study) in a set of concepts from which one concept is chosen for prototyping, and timing of selecting the winning concept (at concept selection, at proof-of-concept testing, or at final testing). Design strategies used by teams, the winning concepts, results of regression analysis (variables significantly associated with design outcomes) are discussed.

scholarly journals Mutual Support, Role Breadth Self-Efficacy, and Sustainable Job Performance of Workers in Young Firms

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (12) ◽  
pp. 3333 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Cheah ◽  
Shiyu li ◽  
Yuen-Ping Ho
Keyword(s):  
Job Performance ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Team Work ◽  
Path Model ◽  
Mutual Support ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Moderation Effect ◽  
Young Firms ◽  
Technical Requirements ◽  
Coworking Spaces

Coworking space has flourished in the past decade. Unlike traditional shared services organizations, coworking spaces put a much greater emphasis on ‘sharing’. Members not only can share the physical office space, but also the virtual social spaces created by the coworking space operators managing the office. As coworking spaces provide a community to foster the culture of sharing, which gives rise to social interactions and thus knowledge and idea exchange, entrepreneurs favor such coworking spaces to achieve a higher level of job performance among their workers. Although it is generally accepted that a worker’s job performance varies over time within a job, there have been limited studies on within-person performance sustainability and its comparison with between-person sustainability. We sampled 101 workers of young firms operating in six coworking spaces in Singapore who completed daily surveys twice a day across ten consecutive workdays. By treating participants as the first level and daily observations as the second level, our study develops a dual-path model to explain how daily mutual support influences daily job performance. Our results indicated that daily mutual support is positively related to sustainable job performance after controlling for sleep quality, job requirements and workload stress. Within-person sustainability in mutual support was found to account for part of within-person variance in job performance. We established that mutual support not only predicts job performance, but also varies across workdays. As the collaboration of team members depends on cooperation rather than competition, mutual support is considered essential for team work and thus employees’ job performance. Our study also demonstrated the importance of role breadth self-efficacy as a moderator in the link between mutual support and sustainable job performance. Role breadth self-efficacy refers to the extent to which people feel confident that they are able to carry out a broader and more proactive role, beyond traditional prescribed technical requirements. The results revealed an enhancing moderation effect, where increasing the role breath self-efficacy would enhance the effect of the mutual support predictor on sustainable job performance of workers in young firms operating in the coworking space.

Communication and Conflict Resolution in the Workplace

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 25-46
Author(s):  
MARK DIRIKORIGHA SALVATION
Keyword(s):  
Performance Appraisal ◽  
Communication Skills ◽  
Team Building ◽  
Effective Communication ◽  
Team Work ◽  
Work Team ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Good Communication ◽  
Performance Teams ◽  
The Right

Good communication is required to build and maintain mutual relationship in project teams. This is because effective communication can enable a work team to achieve their goals. This stems from the fact that when the employees understand the management expectations and target goals, they will be able to do their work task based on the required standard. Also, effective communication is critical to the success of team work because the ability to work together without issues is determined by conveying the right information at the right. However, despite the crucial role played by effective communication in a productive work environment, it was found that Matrix Coating Resource Sdn Bhd (MCR) often experience communication issues among the workforce and this result to workplace conflict and employee relationship issues. It was on this note that this consultancy project critically examined the communications and employee relationships practices of MCR in order to determine key areas required to improve project tasks completion. A sample of 50 respondents were chosen from the workforce using both interview and questionnaire instruments. The study found that the staff of Matrix often experience communication issues and this leads to disagreements and misunderstanding among the workforce. This is because proper communication using appropriate channel can help to ease both the number and severity of workplace conflicts. Driven by this, it was proposed that the management of Matrix should do well to employ people with solid communication skills because this will allow them to work together cohesively and professionally, address the issue through training exercises and behaviour modeling. It should conduct constant training programmes especially for the new staff so as to improve their ability to communicate clearly and concisely with colleagues and work team members, include communication skills in the appraisal of employees’ performance and tie the organization’s objectives into performance appraisal so as to achieve the goals of the company and develop team building exercises to strengthen intra-office relationship. This is because high performance teams often become more cohesive overtime as they gain experiences working and communicating with other teams in the workplace. Therefore, exciting activities such as informal networking groups, team exercises and others so as to enable the staff to work together in a cohesive way. The team building process will allow the team members to learn the best ways to work together through team experience without issues.

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