scholarly journals Drawing as transcription: how do graphical techniques inform interaction analysis?

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Albert Saul
Keyword(s):  
Interaction Analysis ◽  
Software Tool ◽  
Embodied Interaction ◽  
Still Life ◽  
Support Interaction ◽  
Spatial Layouts ◽  
Anatomical Detail ◽  
Prototype Software ◽  
Collaborative Data Analysis ◽  
Interaction Research

Drawing as a form of analytical inscription can provide researchers with highly flexible methods for exploring embodied interaction. Graphical techniques can combine spatial layouts, trajectories of action and anatomical detail, as well as rich descriptions of movement and temporal effects. This paper introduces some of the possibilities and challenges of adapting graphical techniques from life drawing and still life for interaction research. We demonstrate how many of these techniques are used in interaction research by illustrating the postural configurations and movements of participants in a ballet class. We then discuss a prototype software tool that is being developed to support interaction analysis specifically in the context of a collaborative data analysis session.

scholarly journals Drawing as transcription: how do graphical techniques inform interaction analysis?

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Saul Albert ◽  
Claude Heath ◽  
Sophie Skach ◽  
Matthew Tobias Harris ◽  
Madeline Miller ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Interaction Analysis ◽  
Software Tool ◽  
Embodied Interaction ◽  
Still Life ◽  
Support Interaction ◽  
Spatial Layouts ◽  
Anatomical Detail ◽  
Prototype Software ◽  
Collaborative Data Analysis ◽  
Interaction Research

Drawing as a form of analytical inscription can provide researchers with highly flexible methods for exploring embodied interaction. Graphical techniques can combine spatial layouts, trajectories of action and anatomical detail, as well as rich descriptions of movement and temporal effects. This paper introduces some of the possibilities and challenges of adapting graphical techniques from life drawing and still life for interaction research. We demonstrate how many of these techniques are used in interaction research by illustrating the postural configurations and movements of participants in a ballet class. We then discuss a prototype software tool that is being developed to support interaction analysis specifically in the context of a collaborative data analysis session.

scholarly journals Drawing as transcription: how do graphical techniques inform interaction analysis?

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Saul Albert
Keyword(s):  
Interaction Analysis ◽  
Software Tool ◽  
Embodied Interaction ◽  
Still Life ◽  
Support Interaction ◽  
Spatial Layouts ◽  
Anatomical Detail ◽  
Prototype Software ◽  
Collaborative Data Analysis ◽  
Interaction Research

Drawing as a form of analytical inscription can provide researchers with highly flexible methods for exploring embodied interaction. Graphical techniques can combine spatial layouts, trajectories of action and anatomical detail, as well as rich descriptions of movement and temporal effects. This paper introduces some of the possibilities and challenges of adapting graphical techniques from life drawing and still life for interaction research. We demonstrate how many of these techniques are used in interaction research by illustrating the postural configurations and movements of participants in a ballet class. We then discuss a prototype software tool that is being developed to support interaction analysis specifically in the context of a collaborative data analysis session.

A Set-Based System for Eliminating Infeasible Designs in Engineering Problems Dominated by Uncertainty

1997 ◽  
Author(s):  
William W. Finch ◽  
Allen C. Ward
Keyword(s):  
Electronic Circuit ◽  
Predicate Logic ◽  
Software Tool ◽  
Design Parameters ◽  
Engineering Systems ◽  
Multiple Sources ◽  
Design Problems ◽  
Engineering Design Problems ◽  
Engineering Problems ◽  
Prototype Software

Abstract This paper gives an overview of a system which eliminates infeasible designs from engineering design problems dominated by multiple sources of uncertainty. It outlines methods for representing constraints on sets of values for design parameters using quantified relations, a special class of predicate logic expressions which express some of the causal information inherent in engineering systems. The paper extends constraint satisfaction techniques and describes elimination algorithms that operate on quantified relations and catalogs of toleranced or adjustable parts. It demonstrates the utility of these tools on a simple electronic circuit, and describes their implementation and test in a prototype software tool.

Validation of a Software Tool (DROPSIM) to Predict the ‘Drop and Getaway’ Behaviour of a Lifeboat

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elia Palermo ◽  
Roberto Tonelli ◽  
Frans Quadvlieg ◽  
Jule Scharnke ◽  
Ingo Drummen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Software Tool ◽  
Free Fall ◽  
Model Tests ◽  
Simulation Tools ◽  
Normal Means ◽  
Strip Theory ◽  
Calm Water ◽  
Validation Procedure ◽  
Prototype Software ◽  
Free Falling

The purpose of a free fall lifeboat is to evacuate people from platforms in case of emergency, and when other, normal means of evacuation, are not possible. For instance, when the weather is too rough, and evacuation cannot be performed by helicopters, the lifeboats are the last way of escape. It is thus essential to be able to properly assess the operability of a lifeboat and the safety of its occupants upon evacuation. Over the past four years, methods to quantify the operability limits of a lifeboat were analysed in a research project carried out for Statoil. As part of this project, a prototype software (denominated DROPSIM) was developed to predict the ‘drop and sailaway behaviour’ of a lifeboat. DROPSIM is a simplified method based on strip theory, with the objective to obtain predictions that are consistent with the relevant statistical behaviour of the lifeboat, and for the same target level of probability. Particularly because DROPSIM is a simplified tool, it is vital to verify that the software is adequate for simulating thousands of random lifeboat drops, yielding robust statistical predictions with sufficient accuracy. In order to show the performance of the simulation tool, an extensive validation procedure was established, based on a large amount of model test and data from other simulation tools. The following topics were considered in the validation: A. Verification: basic checks, e.g. related to buoyancy without comparison to model tests B. Consistency of simulated and measured response for basic test cases, including free-falling wedge tests and a variety of impact tests with a bullet shaped model C. Prediction of the sailaway behaviour of a lifeboat in comparison to model tests D. Comparison with integrated drop and sailaway model tests in normal and off-design (extreme) conditions in calm water and in waves. In this paper the results of the validation of DROPSIM are presented and discussed. Another dedicated paper gives insight into the mathematical model of DROPSIM ([1]).

A Prototype Software Tool for Life Time Assessment of Thermal Barrier Coating Systems

2008 ◽  
Vol 595-598 ◽  
pp. 151-158 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Renusch ◽  
Michael Schütze
Keyword(s):  
Accuracy Assessment ◽  
Software Tool ◽  
Life Time ◽  
Analysis Model ◽  
Time Data ◽  
Cycle Frequency ◽  
Software Application ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Windows Applications ◽  
Prototype Software

The modeling equations used for spallation prediction are becoming increasingly more sophisticated due to the consideration of a wider range of thermal and thermo-mechanical loading conditions. Consequently, a software application would make such life time models more practical and may become a desired tool that both academic and applied researchers may want to use. As a starting point for further development a prototype software has been developed based on a simple phenomenological spallation analysis model. This software features a Windows based graphical user interface and works with other Windows applications, such as, Power Point, Excel or Origin. The software analyzes laboratory spallation life time data acquired from isothermal, thermal cyclic and/or burner rig testing and provides confidence limits and accuracy assessment of the analysis model. It further calculates the life time for a given bond coat temperature, temperature gradient across the coating, and thermal cycle frequency.

scholarly journals Visual tools as mediational means: A methodological investigation

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 359-373 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaakko Hilppö ◽  
Lasse Lipponen ◽  
Kristiina Kumpulainen ◽  
Antti Rajala
Keyword(s):  
Interaction Analysis ◽  
Embodied Interaction ◽  
Mediated Action ◽  
Visual Research ◽  
Sociocultural Perspectives ◽  
Research With Children ◽  
Material Environment ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
Mediational Means ◽  
The Moment

In this study, we investigated how Finnish children used photographs and drawings to discuss their preschool day experiences in focus groups. Building on sociocultural perspectives on mediated action, we specifically focused on how these visual tools were used as mediational means in sharing experiences. The results of our embodied interaction analysis highlight the relevance of visual tools for the participants and the task at hand in the moment-to-moment, micro-level flow of interaction and its material environment. More specifically, our analysis illuminates different ways in which the visual tools were relevant for participating children and adults when sharing and talking about their experiences. In all, our study advances present-day understanding regarding how sociocultural and embodied interaction frameworks can guide visual research with children.

Instrumental and moral assistance

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 440-462 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonia L. Krummheuer
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Brain Injury ◽  
Interaction Analysis ◽  
Selection Process ◽  
Acquired Brain Injury ◽  
Embodied Interaction ◽  
Analytical Perspective ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Five Phases

Abstract The present paper takes an ethnomethodological and conversation analytical perspective on assisted shopping as it is done by a person with acquired brain injury in collaboration with her caregiver. My interest is directed towards the interactional and embodied organization of the situated selecting and decision-making processes, while I am aiming to understand the interactional organization of assistance and agency. The embodied interaction analysis is based on two video-recorded examples in which a caregiver treats the institutional resident’s shopping choice as either unproblematic or undesirable. I will differentiate five phases in which the participants systematically organize the selection process. In these phases, the participants take different roles either as shopper or as assistant caregiver; as to the later, I will distinguish between moral and instrumental assistance. The analysis demonstrates an inherent tension in the assistance during shopping activities, as it is oriented to both the incompetence that justifies the need for assistance and to the interactional construction of a competent and independent shopper.

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