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Student And Parent/Guardian Perceptions Of The Effects Of Extra-Curricular Drumming Ensemble Participation On Social-Emotional Learning In A Title I Elementary School, Jennifer Nicole Gray Oct 2023

Student And Parent/Guardian Perceptions Of The Effects Of Extra-Curricular Drumming Ensemble Participation On Social-Emotional Learning In A Title I Elementary School, Jennifer Nicole Gray

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

The purpose of this phenomenological study was to examine the perceptions of students and parents/guardians regarding the effects on social-emotional learning of extra-curricular drumming ensemble participation while attending a Title I school in North Texas. The aim was to understand how participants and their parents/guardians perceived any changes to social and emotional development as a result of participating in a drumming ensemble beyond the traditional school day. The study was conducted at a Title I elementary school campus encompassing grades kindergarten through fifth in a suburban region of North Texas and concentrated on the fifth-grade students enrolled at that campus. …

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A Phenomenological Study Exploring The Lack Of Baptist Church Participation In Seminole County, Florida, Ismael Melendez Oct 2023

A Phenomenological Study Exploring The Lack Of Baptist Church Participation In Seminole County, Florida, Ismael Melendez

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

This phenomenological study explores the reasons for a lack of participation in in-person Baptist churches and the rise of participation in online Baptist churches in Seminole County, Florida. The theory guiding this study was Martin Heidegger’s hermeneutical framework which focuses on the commonality of experiences. Heidegger believed that to arrive at the essence of a phenomenon a researcher must go through the revisionary process of what Heidegger termed the Hermeneutic Circle. The principal research question in this study explored existing relationship(s) between in-person and online Baptist church leaders and how such relationship(s) contributed to a lack of church participation. The …

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The Difficult Search For Life After Death, Corinne Stonebraker Oct 2023

The Difficult Search For Life After Death, Corinne Stonebraker

Quill & Scope

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The Grizzly, October 12, 2023, Marie Sykes, Michael Nieves-Hoblin, Nico Yanzaguano, Andrew J. Perez, Adam Denn, Dominic Minicozzi Oct 2023

The Grizzly, October 12, 2023, Marie Sykes, Michael Nieves-Hoblin, Nico Yanzaguano, Andrew J. Perez, Adam Denn, Dominic Minicozzi

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Meet the New Professors on Campus • Center for Career and Post-Graduate Events • Professor Feature: Dr. Andy Davis • Let's Do the (Rocky Horror: A Breakaway Student Production) Again • The Captivating Collegeville Diner • Crossword Puzzle • Ursinus Field is Keeping the Program's Legacy Alive • Sports Shout-outs!

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Cover, Title Page, Table Of Contents, Introduction, Messay Kebede Oct 2023

Cover, Title Page, Table Of Contents, Introduction, Messay Kebede

Ethiopian Modernization: Opportunities and Derailments

This book examines and theoretically articulates the various facets and crucial phases of Ethiopia’s encounter with the modern world and the challenges its efforts to modernize faced during the course of three consecutive yet highly divergent political regimes. These phases roughly correspond to Haile Selassie’s and post-Haile Selassie’s Ethiopia, with the post-period spreading over two milestones, namely, the revolutionary shift of the Provisional Military Administrative Council (the Derg) and the no less critical reshaping of the Ethiopian political system by an ethnonationalist agenda subsequent to the Tigray People's Liberation Front’s (TPLF) seizure of state power. Despite their drastic differences, a …

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Chapter I — On Theories Of Modernization, Messay Kebede Oct 2023

Chapter I — On Theories Of Modernization, Messay Kebede

Ethiopian Modernization: Opportunities and Derailments

The vast literature pertaining to development and modernity discloses philosophical questions that instigate the controversies dividing the various theories of modernization. Of these philosophical issues, the most crucial and recurrent is the question of the prime factor or mover of modernization. The reason for the philosophical issue of primacy derives from the fact that modernization involves cultural as well as socioeconomic changes. Following the philosophical distinction between the spiritual and the material, the clash between the two basic schools of idealism and materialism frames the philosophical approach around the question of knowing whether the prime cause of modernization is cultural …

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The Animal In The Wild In Hwang Sun-Mi’S The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly, Sarah Yoon Oct 2023

The Animal In The Wild In Hwang Sun-Mi’S The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly, Sarah Yoon

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

Hwang Sun-mi’s The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly has become a contemporary classic children’s story in Korea since its original publication in 2000. Since then, the story has been translated and redesigned with new illustrations in almost thirty different countries (Y. Kim). The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly centers on a hen that raises a duckling as her “baby,” with the story drawing upon a rich reservoir of cultural associations between humans and nature in East Asian traditions. In this story, the hen leaves the human-dominated barnyard, based on profit, exploitation, and competition, for a reconnection with moral …

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Are All Pokémons Created Equal? Assessing The Value-Neutrality Of Pokémon Tcg Design Process, Minoru Matsui Oct 2023

Are All Pokémons Created Equal? Assessing The Value-Neutrality Of Pokémon Tcg Design Process, Minoru Matsui

IASDR Conference Series

The cultural evolution research program is useful for quantitatively explaining complex creative processes such as design. From a design studies perspective, its variation generation process is particularly intriguing. However, cultural transmission theorists have long modelled the process as a random novelty invention, far from the real-life modern design process. Here we show an instance of such a deviation, examining how the design process and its resulting frequencies of Pokémon TCG variants deviate from a neutral model in which an agent randomly selects and introduces cultural variants to the population from the design pool.

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Design Activating Agency: A Study On Rural Community Co-Creation In China Under Non-Anthropocentrism, Xin Zhao, Duoduo Zhang Oct 2023

Design Activating Agency: A Study On Rural Community Co-Creation In China Under Non-Anthropocentrism, Xin Zhao, Duoduo Zhang

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Community co-creation, centered on human values, fosters favorable conditions for stakeholder participation in design collaboration. Sustainable development of local communities, including their culture, relies on the interaction between humans, artificial systems, and nature. Firstly, this article describes the trend of community co-creation in guidance frameworks, activity tools, and collaboration processes, pointing agency as the platform trigger for community co-creation development. Secondly, based on the bioinclusive involvement framework and practices in various countries, this article summarizes 3 co-creation models and their characteristics in rural communities, and the third model shows chances in local culture and multi-species stakeholders. Thirdly, this article analyzes …

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An Investigation Into The Product Attachment Between Single-Person Household And Their Home Appliances, Ga-Eul Han, James Andrew Self, Chajoong Kim Oct 2023

An Investigation Into The Product Attachment Between Single-Person Household And Their Home Appliances, Ga-Eul Han, James Andrew Self, Chajoong Kim

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Products that are emotionally bonded are more likely to be successful in the market than those that are not. Emotional bonding is defined as product attachment. It induces positive relationships between user and product by offering a more expansive, holistic approach to design for higher longevity from the sustainability perspective. Although it is an important factor in product development, little research has been done towards understanding product attachment, especially for home appliances. The study aimed to further understanding of product attachment in home appliance design. A total of ten home appliances were selected by cross-mapping of physical interaction density and …

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Using Ar Hmd In Exhibition: Effects Of Guidance Methods And Spatial Relative Positions, Kexing Wang, Zhenlin Song, Xuanhui Liu, Pei Chen, Lingyun Sun Oct 2023

Using Ar Hmd In Exhibition: Effects Of Guidance Methods And Spatial Relative Positions, Kexing Wang, Zhenlin Song, Xuanhui Liu, Pei Chen, Lingyun Sun

IASDR Conference Series

AR devices have the potential to augment the space of exhibitions, provide flexible and diverse interactions between visitors and exhibits, and enhance the viewing experience. To keep the virtual objects from blocking the real exhibits, the virtual objects may appear out of view and cause extra searching efforts for the visitors. Current studies have provided multiple guidance methods to deal with the out-of-view problem, yet they haven’t provided specific advice in the exhibition scenario. This research conducted a within-subject experiment in an exhibition to compare three kinds of guidance methods (i.e., arrow, radar, and spatial sound) with relative positions covering …

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Increasing Preventive Care Through Increased Access To Healthy Foods, Danijela Kaurin, Sarah Syed, Bahra Chabo, Gulad Ali, Adam Sagerman, Santosh Basapur Oct 2023

Increasing Preventive Care Through Increased Access To Healthy Foods, Danijela Kaurin, Sarah Syed, Bahra Chabo, Gulad Ali, Adam Sagerman, Santosh Basapur

IASDR Conference Series

Food deserts are areas that lack the availability of fresh, affordable, and nutritious foods. Almost half of the food in the United States of America is wasted every year, yet somehow there are thousands of food deserts. This lack of nutritious food for people of all ages negatively impacts health outcomes as chronic diseases like obesity, diabetes, and heart disease are rising quickly. Preventive care is a practice in which patients take the initiative to make healthier choices in life to prevent the onset or progression of chronic illness. An example of such initiatives is eating and preparing more nutritious …

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Bio-Brutalism; Five Case Studies Framing The Emergence Of New Raw Aesthetics At The Intersection Of Material Regeneration, Environmental Design, And Craft, Fernando Galdon, Harry Hosker, Hugo Garcia, William Eliot, Anna Tsiganchuk, Shaoyu Wang, Delfina Fantini, Robert Phillips Oct 2023

Bio-Brutalism; Five Case Studies Framing The Emergence Of New Raw Aesthetics At The Intersection Of Material Regeneration, Environmental Design, And Craft, Fernando Galdon, Harry Hosker, Hugo Garcia, William Eliot, Anna Tsiganchuk, Shaoyu Wang, Delfina Fantini, Robert Phillips

IASDR Conference Series

As we move towards a regenerative paradigm for crafts, with new objectives, methods, and practices, questions arise regarding the aesthetics of these emerging forms. To address this issue, the main author developed a module aimed at exploring furniture design at the intersection of regenerative materials, structures, and aesthetics in greater depth. In this context, five cases have been selected to frame the quintessential characteristics of these new raw aesthetics.These case studies showcase varying approaches, with some generating new aesthetic qualities by introducing novel processes, while others embrace a strictly analogue approach to highlight literal aesthetics.The resulting aesthetics have been categorised …

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The Dronetic Moment: Future Of Drone Light Show & Lighting Design In Concerts, Pak Lam Sin, Soojin Jun Oct 2023

The Dronetic Moment: Future Of Drone Light Show & Lighting Design In Concerts, Pak Lam Sin, Soojin Jun

IASDR Conference Series

Stage lighting design in concerts are being transformed along the development of innovative advanced technologies. Drone technology and its potential practices are continuously examined. Adopting drone light shows in concerts is becoming the trend. The purpose of this research is to explore the potential of drone light show application in concerts. This paper will investigate the differences between stage lighting and drone light show in five main perspectives. Subjects who had experience watching drone light shows in concerts are recruited for survey and in-depth interview to gain insight of their experiences. Findings from the research show that contextual communication, large …

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Design Characteristics In Outdoor Seating Areas – A Study Of Coffee Shops In Hong Kong And Copenhagen, Mia Münster Oct 2023

Design Characteristics In Outdoor Seating Areas – A Study Of Coffee Shops In Hong Kong And Copenhagen, Mia Münster

IASDR Conference Series

Transitional spaces, or ‘in-between’ areas, those connecting the interior and exterior spaces of shops, cafés and restaurants–these are spheres of interaction between commercial and public spaces. In them, through the use of design elements, stores communicate the nature of their offerings, their services, and their values to the outside world; consumers, in turn, decode these elements as a part of their decision to patronize the store. Increasingly, these transitional spaces incorporate areas for outdoor seating. In these areas, parts of the surrounding neighborhood are pulled into the store’s sphere, while the store’s sphere is simultaneously projected into the surrounding area. …

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Social Innovation Through Regenerative Perspectives: A Theoretical Approach On Gender-Based Violence System, Raquel Lima Oct 2023

Social Innovation Through Regenerative Perspectives: A Theoretical Approach On Gender-Based Violence System, Raquel Lima

IASDR Conference Series

Regenerative theories are used in human and non-human dynamics in a sustainable perspective; however, their potential can flourish new applications to deal with other social challenges. This article explores a theoretical approach to possible uses of regenerative theories applied to the gender-based violence (GBV) system and its relevance in social innovation. The answers in GVB are conducted by the government and civil society institutions that collectively act on the field. Despite the efforts to end violence against women, there is a long road to deconstructing inequalities, and social and cultural structures that evidence and contribute to maintaining the phenomenon. Since …

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Ai Logic Of Care: Premises For Upgrading The Smart Bandages For Diabetic Chronic Wounds, Ignacio De La Torre Zapata, Tincuta Heinzel, Roberta Bernabei Oct 2023

Ai Logic Of Care: Premises For Upgrading The Smart Bandages For Diabetic Chronic Wounds, Ignacio De La Torre Zapata, Tincuta Heinzel, Roberta Bernabei

IASDR Conference Series

This paper addresses the relationship between the medical application design and the “logic of care” in the context of smart bandages for diabetic wounds. As one of the major medical issues that involve constant monitorisation, chronic wounds are the centre of interest to a number of stakeholders. From patients, caregivers and medical services providers involved in their monitoring and treatment, to engineers, material scientists and designers involved in the products used to treat them. The research of Annemarie Mol has demonstrated that we encounter two “logics” when it comes to medical interventions: the “logic of care” and the “logic of …

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Navigating Circularity In Practice: Proposing A Decision-Making Tool For Guiding Circular Product Development, Danika Van Kaathoven, Daijiro Mizuno Oct 2023

Navigating Circularity In Practice: Proposing A Decision-Making Tool For Guiding Circular Product Development, Danika Van Kaathoven, Daijiro Mizuno

IASDR Conference Series

Product design and development are considered to be essential in the transition toward a circular economy. Circular product design requires strategies and methods that support a holistic and systems approach considering the complete lifecycle of a product. In order to support designers and businesses in going circular, various theoretical frameworks, methods, and strategies for circular design have been conceived in recent years. Yet, the need for more evidence of how to help circular design in practice remains. This study aims to bridge the gap between theory and practice in the field of circular design by proposing a tool to help …

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Global Goals, Local Future Stories: Unpacking Contrasts And Visions Of Circular Economy Activities In Neighbourhood Makerspaces, María Laura Ramírez Galleguillos, Damla Çay, Aykut Coşkun Oct 2023

Global Goals, Local Future Stories: Unpacking Contrasts And Visions Of Circular Economy Activities In Neighbourhood Makerspaces, María Laura Ramírez Galleguillos, Damla Çay, Aykut Coşkun

IASDR Conference Series

Circular makerspaces have the potential to contribute to sustainable development goals (SDGs) by promoting circular-making activities such as reusing, repairing, refurbishing, and recycling. However, community building is essential for maintaining a circular makerspace, which requires engaging the makers and future users in circular-making activities. In this paper, we argue that involving locals in the design of circular makerspaces can facilitate community building and support makers' sense of belonging to the space. We present the experience of involving citizens in establishing circular makerspaces in seven European cities as part of the EU-funded H2020 project, [Project Name]. We developed a technique, called …

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More Than Human Empathy: A Caring Approach To Ecosystemic Design, Mariana Pestana Oct 2023

More Than Human Empathy: A Caring Approach To Ecosystemic Design, Mariana Pestana

IASDR Conference Series

This paper argues for a caring approach to design based on more-than-human empathy. It proposes that such an empathic turn can provide a useful framework for eco-systemic thinking and practice in design, because it takes into consideration the wellbeing and the rights of people but also that of non-human bodies. To do that, this paper reports on a study concerning the conception and delivery of a design Biennial, entirely created and experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic, which gathered thinkers, practitioners, researchers and community groups to collectively discuss, scrutinise and rehearse the role of design in a post-anthropocentric, more-than-human paradigm. For …

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Exploring Multimodal Technologies To Engage Elderly People In Remote Communication With Their Family, Baihui Chen, Xueliang Li Oct 2023

Exploring Multimodal Technologies To Engage Elderly People In Remote Communication With Their Family, Baihui Chen, Xueliang Li

IASDR Conference Series

The increasing mobility in the ageing society has caused more and more elderly people living separately with their family. The quality of remote communication with their family located in different places affects the mental wellbeing and quality of life for the elderly. However, the traditional communication technologies focus on screen-based interaction and synchronous communication are limited in engaging elderly users in fulfilling and engaging experiences compared to the younger generations in communication. In this paper, we look at three novel types of technologies, i.e., immersive technologies, social robots and IoTs, while considering their potential to promote social presence of one …

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Exploring The Design Applications Of Key Emerging Materials From Natural Sciences Through A Design Ideation Workshop, Muhammad Tufail, Xinyi Wang, Aichu Tian, Xinye Li, Sai Yin Leung, Sahr Uzma, Hyunyim Park, Kwanmyung Kim Oct 2023

Exploring The Design Applications Of Key Emerging Materials From Natural Sciences Through A Design Ideation Workshop, Muhammad Tufail, Xinyi Wang, Aichu Tian, Xinye Li, Sai Yin Leung, Sahr Uzma, Hyunyim Park, Kwanmyung Kim

IASDR Conference Series

The design direction is shifting towards new design landscapes with alive and adaptive aesthetic features and functions and confronting natural alternative designs. Designers, architects, and artists have proposed the exploration of emerging materials by exploiting synthetic biology, bionics, chemical technology, and material science to create new design alternatives with natural aesthetic features and functions. In practice, however, designers are not properly familiar with the potential applications of these emerging materials and their alive and adaptive aesthetic and functional features in product design. Thus, particularly in traditional product design development, the applications of these materials are untouched resulting from three hindering …

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Changing Heritage, Rodolfo Maffeis, Trocchianesi Raffaella, Franzato Carlo, Mason Marco Oct 2023

Changing Heritage, Rodolfo Maffeis, Trocchianesi Raffaella, Franzato Carlo, Mason Marco

IASDR Conference Series

The paper deals with changing processes of the cultural heritage through different perspectives: how the power of the change can be recognized both in the historic art masters approach and in their representations? How these historic art masters have triggered iconographic and conceptual agents of innovation? How Design for Cultural Heritage can envision new sustainable scenarios taking into account sociopolitical, cultural and climatic changes? In this complex context and age, what are new models of cultural experiences? What is the role of digital in museums transformation? Herein we will explore new definitions of contemporary museology and museography, like the digitally …

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Co-Creating Narratives Of Usefulness, Elisa Cardamone Oct 2023

Co-Creating Narratives Of Usefulness, Elisa Cardamone

IASDR Conference Series

Health and social care are moving increasingly towards digital platforms and greater knowledge of people’s lifestyles and habits through numbers (Sharon 2016, 2017; Sharon & Zandbergen 2017; Rooksby et al. 2014; Swan 2013). However, among ageing populations, digital devices often enter households just to be forgotten in cupboards due to their lack of “usefulness” (Kim et al. 2022; Spann and Stewart 2018). Research shows that people aged 65 and older tend to use fewer technologies and to do so less frequently than younger individuals (Smith 2014). How can we empathise with the lived experience of ageing populations, designing devices that …

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Exploring And Facilitating Daoism's Contributions To Design Prototype, A Case Study From A "More-Than-Human" Social Innovation Project: Hokkhi, Jixiang Jiang, Shu Zhang, Yizao Wu Oct 2023

Exploring And Facilitating Daoism's Contributions To Design Prototype, A Case Study From A "More-Than-Human" Social Innovation Project: Hokkhi, Jixiang Jiang, Shu Zhang, Yizao Wu

IASDR Conference Series

In the face of the current environmental crises and the emergent debate over how we as a species should respond to it, local-context discussions, research, and practice are rapidly growing in a number of regions. Within the confines of the design community, there is an ever-growing view of these discussions as representing a culturally diverse perspective on design, as opposed to the current Western-centric design shaped by modernism and capitalist market economies, and as representing the emergence of an emerging design scene of pluriverse. This study extends the concept of the oyster reef conservation project referred to as "Hokkhi," produced …

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How The Genai Sex Education Advisor Became Feasible: Exploring The Future Design Principles For Child Sex Education In The Community, Xiaoling Lin, Shuai Sun, Xuan He, Ai Zhang Oct 2023

How The Genai Sex Education Advisor Became Feasible: Exploring The Future Design Principles For Child Sex Education In The Community, Xiaoling Lin, Shuai Sun, Xuan He, Ai Zhang

IASDR Conference Series

Children's sexual sensitivity in community settings poses challenges for caregivers who struggle to address inquiries appropriately. Establishing trust is crucial, as it affects children's willingness to seek help in case of abuse. Generative AI (GenAI) presents an opportunity to bridge the gap between expert counselling and wider populations. This study aimed to identify barriers, perceived advantages, limitations, and functional preferences of caregivers to accept GenAI-powered conversational agent that assist with child sex education. We chose ChatGPT as the design probe, providing caregivers with sex education guidance and analyzed the data using Grounded Theory. The Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use …

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Envisioning Sustainable Smartphone Alternatives: A Plurishop Approach, Ines Petra Junge, Alma Leora Culén Oct 2023

Envisioning Sustainable Smartphone Alternatives: A Plurishop Approach, Ines Petra Junge, Alma Leora Culén

IASDR Conference Series

The increasingly precarious possible futures underscore the urgent need to reassess our lifestyles, consumption patterns, and interventions for the benefit of humanity, the planet, and the coexisting species. The ability to imagine radically different, desirable, and sustainable alternatives to products, services, and systems is crucial yet challenging, calling for creativity, new approaches, and methods. This paper discusses envisioning sustainable smartphone alternatives and pathways toward a strongly sustainable smartphone industry. We employ the ‘plurishop’, a workshop-based method that addresses several distinct inquiries into a design program of interest, in our case, that of envisioning sustainable smartphone alternatives. The plurishop was set …

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Improving The Patient-Doctor Relationship To Fight Antimicrobial Resistance Through Data Literacy Promoted By A Women-Centred Participatory Practice, Ginevra Terenghi Oct 2023

Improving The Patient-Doctor Relationship To Fight Antimicrobial Resistance Through Data Literacy Promoted By A Women-Centred Participatory Practice, Ginevra Terenghi

IASDR Conference Series

Antimicrobial resistance is one of the current biggest public health concerns, especially urgent regarding antibiotic consumption caused by urinary tract infections, which affect women the most. Improving diagnosis and prescription help in reducing resistance development. For this reason, data literacy is suggested to enhance individuals' ability to recognize and describe symptoms and promote bottom-up data and information collection. A participatory approach to self-tracking practices, based on data visualization and physicalization, emerged in this direction to facilitate women in defining new methods of self-care valuation, promoting female agency, autonomy and knowledge creation. Based on the findings from the interdisciplinary literature review …

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Design Intervention To Aid Young Indians In Identifying Triggers Of Generalised Anxiety Disorder (Gad), Nilanjana Bairagi, Ajithsenb Selvadhas, Sowndarya Acharya Oct 2023

Design Intervention To Aid Young Indians In Identifying Triggers Of Generalised Anxiety Disorder (Gad), Nilanjana Bairagi, Ajithsenb Selvadhas, Sowndarya Acharya

IASDR Conference Series

Generalised anxiety disorder (GAD) is an emotional and fear-based, recurrent response to a perceived or real threat. It causes difficulty in dealing with every-day experiences. It afflicts 13.9% of the urban residents in India and requires a proactive approach to coping. GAD is not caused by stress but rather is sensitive to stress. Varying stimuli lead to automatic, unexpected and intense reactions called triggers. Awareness about triggers helps one understand their emotional thresholds and supports self-management. The existing literature provides a multi-variant perspective about nudges that cause anxiety. However, localised probing is minimal in India due to a lack of …

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Differences In The Use Of Analogies By Designers At Different Stages Of Conceptual Design, Han Lu, Hanwen Zhang, Jinfeng Lei, Yuan Zhu Oct 2023

Differences In The Use Of Analogies By Designers At Different Stages Of Conceptual Design, Han Lu, Hanwen Zhang, Jinfeng Lei, Yuan Zhu

IASDR Conference Series

In recent years, analogies have been widely used in the design process as an effective means of accelerating product innovation. This study investigates the spontaneous use of analogies in conceptual design. We used the protocol approach to analyse differences in designers' use of analogies during the three stages of the conceptual design process (exploration, development and forming). The findings show that designers' analogy tasks and design tasks differ significantly in the proportion of design processes involving analogy. Their distribution also reflects the more frequent use of analogies in the exploratory and developmental phases of the designer's design process. This will …

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