A “New” View of Proof-of-Concept Practices Through the Lenses of Activity Theory and Hermeneutics

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 118-135
Author(s):  
Antonio Jose Rodrigues Neto ◽  
Maria Manuel Borges ◽  
Licinio Roque
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Activity Theory ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
New Products ◽  
Learning Outcome ◽  
Proof Of Concept ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
New View

In this study, the authors acknowledge Proof-of-Concept (PoC) as an activity with a set of practices performed by its practitioners and consumed by organizations that aim to explore new products or technologies and achieve knowledge production and consumption. PoC practices are poorly explored and characterized in the scientific literature. The motivation of this research is the clarification of an approach to PoC. This article introduces a “new” and different view of PoC practices using Activity Theory and Hermeneutics. The authors debate that it is not possible to understand the whole PoC until its constituent parts and context have been understood. Therefore, the process of appropriation of knowledge in PoC occurs in social interaction between one practitioner and another, through an activity that is mediated in the relations between those practitioners, and an activity between the triad—subject (practitioner), object of learning (outcome), and mediating artifacts—with the aim of improving PoC practices.

scholarly journals Health and Sustainability in Public Meals—An Explorative Review

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 621
Author(s):  
Karin Höijer ◽  
Caroline Lindö ◽  
Arwa Mustafa ◽  
Maria Nyberg ◽  
Viktoria Olsson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Food Consumption ◽  
Food Habits ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
The Other ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
Concepts Of Health ◽  
The World ◽  
The One

The world is facing a number of challenges related to food consumption. These are, on the one hand, health effects and, on the other hand, the environmental impact of food production. Radical changes are needed to achieve a sustainable and healthy food production and consumption. Public and institutional meals play a vital role in promoting health and sustainability, since they are responsible for a significant part of food consumption, as well as their “normative influence” on peoples’ food habits. The aim of this paper is to provide an explorative review of the scientific literature, focusing on European research including both concepts of health and sustainability in studies of public meals. Of >3000 papers, 20 were found to satisfy these criteria and were thus included in the review. The results showed that schools and hospitals are the most dominant arenas where both health and sustainability have been addressed. Three different approaches in combining health and sustainability have been found, these are: “Health as embracing sustainability”, “Sustainability as embracing health” and “Health and sustainability as separate concepts”. However, a clear motivation for addressing both health and sustainability is most often missing.

scholarly journals Using Nanoinformatics Methods for Automatically Identifying Relevant Nanotoxicology Entities from the Literature

2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miguel García-Remesal ◽  
Alejandro García-Ruiz ◽  
David Pérez-Rey ◽  
Diana de la Iglesia ◽  
Víctor Maojo
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Named Entity Recognition ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Entity Recognition ◽  
Toxic Effects ◽  
Proof Of Concept ◽  
Named Entity ◽  
Potential Applications ◽  
Dependent Tasks ◽  
Fold Cross Validation

Nanoinformatics is an emerging research field that uses informatics techniques to collect, process, store, and retrieve data, information, and knowledge on nanoparticles, nanomaterials, and nanodevices and their potential applications in health care. In this paper, we have focused on the solutions that nanoinformatics can provide to facilitate nanotoxicology research. For this, we have taken a computational approach to automatically recognize and extract nanotoxicology-related entities from the scientific literature. The desired entities belong to four different categories: nanoparticles, routes of exposure, toxic effects, and targets. The entity recognizer was trained using a corpus that we specifically created for this purpose and was validated by two nanomedicine/nanotoxicology experts. We evaluated the performance of our entity recognizer using 10-fold cross-validation. The precisions range from 87.6% (targets) to 93.0% (routes of exposure), while recall values range from 82.6% (routes of exposure) to 87.4% (toxic effects). These results prove the feasibility of using computational approaches to reliably perform different named entity recognition (NER)-dependent tasks, such as for instance augmented reading or semantic searches. This research is a “proof of concept” that can be expanded to stimulate further developments that could assist researchers in managing data, information, and knowledge at the nanolevel, thus accelerating research in nanomedicine.

Practising and knowing management: A dialogic perspective

2012 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 373-383 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert MacIntosh ◽  
Nic Beech ◽  
Elena Antonacopoulou ◽  
David Sims
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Prior Work ◽  
Management Research ◽  
Research Organizations ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
Research Relationships ◽  
The Relationship

This article develops a dialogic perspective on practising and knowing management. It builds on prior work which has considered the nature of management research as well as the relationship between those who research organizations and those that manage them. The article argues that practising and knowing are co-constitutive, dialogic processes and that viewing the process in this way helps move beyond views of knowledge production and consumption which centre on translation between communities. The article sheds new light on the nature of research relationships by presenting two ways of mapping the dynamics of these relationships in terms of dialogue.

scholarly journals An App to encourage social interaction by children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A proof of concept study

2018 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-18
Author(s):  
Amanda Wilkinson ◽  
Ashton Edwards ◽  
Mary Gray ◽  
Tharindu Ranabahu ◽  
Megan Steenkamp ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Autism Spectrum Disorder ◽  
Social Interaction ◽  
Children With Autism ◽  
Autism Spectrum ◽  
Spectrum Disorder ◽  
Proof Of Concept ◽  
Concept Study

Digital Rhetoric and Globalization

2016 ◽  
pp. 431-469
Author(s):  
Gustav Verhulsdonck
Keyword(s):  
Activity Theory ◽  
Programming Language ◽  
Continuum Model ◽  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
Digital Rhetoric ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
Global And Local

Digital rhetoric has been discussed by many theorists as comprising a marked shift from ancient rhetoric's focus on persuasion. For some of the earlier theorists, digital rhetoric defined a novel relationship between literacy and the mechanics of text as computer-mediated communication and changed relationships between consuming, producing and engaging with discourse as information on a screen. Later digital rhetoricians argue different approaches and definitions that are more inclusive of the different types of discourse facilitated by multimodal, interactive, immersive, and computer-mediated communication as semantic discourse at the interface level and encoded through computer programming language, servers, and networks. This chapter focuses on the different modes of digital rhetoric in the context of globalization through a convergence-continuum model approach. The model presented approaches rhetoric and discourse from various levels as loosely based on the models of activity theory, multimodality intercultural theories of globalization and integrates them into a continuum model ranging from global, public modes to individual, personal digital rhetorical modes and practices. Instead of being prescriptive, this model is descriptive in recognizing the fluid natures of digital rhetorical interactions whereby global and local, public and private, group and individual, production and consumption, human and technological, physical and virtual and other discourse contexts merge.

Can literary events use Co-Creation to challenge stigmatisation?

2020 ◽  
pp. 155-172
Author(s):  
Christina Horvath
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Comparative Approach ◽  
Arts Festivals ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
Global North ◽  
North And South

This chapter takes a comparative approach to two initiatives developed by artists and cultural promoters from the Global North and South, to challenge clichés attached to French banlieues and Brazilian favelas as places devoid of the production and consumption of literary texts. The ‘Dictée des Cités’, a spelling competition promoted since 2013 in French banlieues by writer Rachid Santaki, and the ‘Literary Festival of the Urban Periphery’ (FLUP) curated in Rio de Janeiro since 2012 by writers Julio Ludemir and Écio Salles, are analysed through the lens of Co-Creation as examples of artist-driven initiatives to encourage large local audiences’ engagement with literary texts, transform literary institutions and canons and challenge stereotypes associated with urban peripheries. While the chapter seeks to evaluate the potential of large-scale literary events to change the perception of disadvantaged urban areas, it also explores differences between the Global North and South. The chapter ends with the conclusion that socially engaged arts festivals and Co-Creation events may promote similar aims, they however differ in their scale, approaches to knowledge production as well as in their strategies promoting engagement with creative methods.

Expressive Resources

2008 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 114-129 ◽  
Author(s):  
Regina Bendix
Keyword(s):  
Popular Music ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Folk Art ◽  
Cultural Expression ◽  
Classification Techniques ◽  
Political Identification ◽  
Multiple Context ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
Aesthetic Affect

Drawing examples from ethnic and popular music as well as from folk art, the paper explores the multivalence of expressive forms as local and European, even global aesthetic resources, whose territorial or ethno-national connection is - due to the power of aesthetic affect - but one among many possibilities of identification. It is argued first that the resource dimension of cultural expression has been furthered by the documentation and classification techniques of ethnological and folkloristic knowledge production, which in turn also facilitated circulation in multiple context. Second, the paper encourages that scholarship expand from recognising a political identification and instrumentalisation of aesthetic resources to understanding the economic appropriation of the production and consumption of such resources.

Targeting and Pricing in Social Networks

2016 ◽  
pp. 775-791 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francis Bloch
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Social Interaction ◽  
Word Of Mouth ◽  
New Products ◽  
Social Effects ◽  
Consumption Externalities ◽  
The Social ◽  
Word Of Mouth Communication

This chapter analyzes the optimal use of social networks by firms that wish to diffuse new products, rely on word-of-mouth communication for advertising, or exploit consumption externalities among consumers. It focuses on two topics: the targeting of individuals to diffuse information or opinions in a social network, and the pricing at different nodes of the social network when agents experience consumption externalities. In both cases, firms take the network of social interaction as given and consider how to optimally leverage social effects to introduce new products or maximize profits .

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