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Urban Landscapes and Resilience. Exploring an adaptive design perspective
2017
Il concetto di resilienza in pianificazione è emerso in tempi recenti come un mezzo potente per sostenere la ricerca e l'innovazione sua nella teoria che nella pratica. Partendo da una definizione delle città come sistemi adattivi complessi, organismi viventi in un contesto di non-equilibrio e spazi di intensa interazione e interdipendenza uomo-natura, il contributo intende esplorare il ruolo dei servizi ecosistemici nella costruzione della resilienza urbana. Il cambiamento globale e l'incertezza richiedono un approccio strategico verso la resilienza urbana, attraverso l'adaptive design. Mentre una visione basata sullo stato di equilibrio tende a guardare alla forma urbana ideale, riconosce…
Water and Energy Saving in Urban Water Systems: The ALADIN Project
2016
The ALADIN project was aimed at contributing to environmental and energy sustainability of the urban water system by means of a decision support tool able to allow an evaluation of the energy impact related to each different macro-sectors of urban water cycle highlighting the main energy flows and to assess the system energy balance and identify the possible energy-efficient solutions. Moreover the tool suggests the most efficient actions in reducing water losses. In the present paper the main features of the developed tool are presented. (C) 2016 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license.
Torino Geodesign
2008
CULOTTA E LEONE. ARCHITETTURA CIVILE A PALMA DI MONTECHIARO
2018
Il saggio descrive l'intervento di Pasquale Culotta e Bibi Leone a Palma di Montechiaro nel Quartiere Calvario Pizzillo. Si tratta di un opera poco nota degli architetti siciliani. Il saggio quindi mira a colmare una lacuna nella documentazione. Ma il saggio ha lo scopo principale di analizzare questa opera per le sue peculiarità. Per fare ciò affronta alcuni temi generali che vengono puntualmente messi in opera nel complesso intervento di Culotta e Leone: il progetto urbano, il valore civile dell'intervento architettonico, il "nuovo realismo" progettuale, i rapporti con l'edilizia illegale, le possibilità di un'architettura "low budget". La realtà di Palma di Montechiaro è infatti tragicam…
Enhancing the Usability of Telecare Devices
2006
Demographic and sociological changes in the last 50 years have forced Western societies to create services to attend to elderly people in their homes, where they can live within familiar environments. Telecare involves a device plugged into a telephonic network that provides access to teams of professionals who can attend to the needs of the elderly in their homes. These devices have been designed according to the principles of universal design, but the great number of erroneous calls to telecare centers point to the necessity of enhancing the usability of the devices. One analysis of the cognitive functioning of elderly people showed that a possible cause of these errors could be the diffi…
Tietojärjestelmän käyttöönottoprosessi loppukäyttäjä- ja kehittäjätiedon pohjalta : tapaus Foster Wheeler Energia Oy
2014
Pro Gradu tutkimus käsittelee tietojärjestelmän käyttöönottoprosessia case yrityksen Foster Wheeler Energia Oy:n Engineering osastolla. Tutkimuksen tavoitteena on löytää kahden käyttöönottoprosessin sekä kirjallisuuskatsauksen pohjalta tietojärjestelmän käyttöönottoprosessin Best Practice suositukset. Kohteena oleva tietojärjestelmä on case yrityksessä tarkoitus jalkauttaa neljään eri yksikköön maailmanlaajuisesti. Tutkimuskysymyksien avulla pyrittiin selvittämään, mitkä tekijät vaikuttavat positiivisesti käyttöönottoprosessissa tai vaikeuttavat sitä sekä selvittämään käyttäjäkeskeisen suunnittelun vaikutuksia käyttöönottoprosessissa. Tutkimus on toteutettu tapaustutkimuksena laadullisin …
Usability aspects of Network Element Management Unit
2004
User-Centered Development of Video Telephony for Servicing Mainly Older Users: Review and Evaluation of an Approach Applied for 10 Years
2006
A research and development (R&D) approach has been applied to video telephony (VT) in northern Finland since 1994 by broad consortia. The focus has been on the considerable involvement of ergonomics within the engineering and implementation of VT. This multidisciplinary participatory ergonomic R&D approach (PERDA) is described briefly, in general and through two cases. The user-centeredness should be discernible in this sociotechnical systemic entity. A consortium—comprising mainly manufacturers, individual and organizational users of technological products, and R&D organizations—serves as a natural context for product development. VT has been considered to have much potential for enhancing…
Translating User Perspective into Spatial Design
2013
A rapid adoption of ICT innovations transforms the context of human activities and collaboration, the educational settings included. The context change at the same challenges the traditional spatial design paradigm calling for tools and approaches that are applicable to ICT enhanced practices. We take here an ecological approach presenting a work in progress in which we aim to develop a tool for capturing and translating user perspective in order to design innovative learning spaces for vocational education; the case is one of practical nursing. We apply a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods. By focusing on the local practices and user perspective in cultural transition, we …