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Kari Ronkko - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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an empirical study demonstrating how different design constraints project organization and contexts limited the utility of personas
Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2005Co-Authors: Kari RonkkoAbstract:There are few independent studies reporting on the relation between interaction designers existing practices contra their efficient use of personas. Practitioners have reported that the technique have a potential for software mass-market products, and as a user-information-needs-model. Based on three different software development project characteristics this paper presents an independent study on the usefulness of personas. In the first project, it is demonstrated that personas played a surprisingly little role compared to other design influences. In the second project personas was useful as a Political Instrument. In the third project the balance between invested personas efforts and its usefulness was questioned. All projects demonstrate that personas functioned as an internal concept in the discussions between interaction designers and to justify design rationales 'after the fact' to other project members, as if they actually were based on the persona.
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HICSS - An Empirical Study Demonstrating How Different Design Constraints, Project Organization and Contexts Limited the Utility of Personas
Proceedings of the 38th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 1Co-Authors: Kari RonkkoAbstract:There are few independent studies reporting on the relation between interaction designers existing practices contra their efficient use of personas. Practitioners have reported that the technique have a potential for software mass-market products, and as a user-information-needs-model. Based on three different software development project characteristics this paper presents an independent study on the usefulness of personas. In the first project, it is demonstrated that personas played a surprisingly little role compared to other design influences. In the second project personas was useful as a Political Instrument. In the third project the balance between invested personas efforts and its usefulness was questioned. All projects demonstrate that personas functioned as an internal concept in the discussions between interaction designers and to justify design rationales 'after the fact' to other project members, as if they actually were based on the persona.
Jochen Hack - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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payment schemes for hydrological ecosystem services as a Political Instrument for the sustainable management of natural resources and poverty reduction a case study from belen nicaragua
Advances in Geosciences, 2010Co-Authors: Jochen HackAbstract:Abstract. The importance of intact ecosystems for human-wellbeing as well as the dependence on functions and services they provide is undoubted. But still neither the costs of ecosystem degradation nor the benefits from ecosystem functions and services appear on socio-economic balance sheets when development takes place. Consequently overuse of natural resources is socio-economically promoted by conventional resource management policies and external effects (externalities), equally positives and negatives, remain unregarded. In this context the potential of payments for hydrological ecosystem services as a Political Instrument to foster sustainable natural resource use, and rural development shall be investigated. This paper introduces the principle concept of such payments, presents a case study from Nicaragua and highlights preliminary effects of the application of this Instrument on natural resource use and development.
Joana S. Marques - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Designing science laboratories: learning environments, school architecture and teaching and learning models
Learning Environments Research, 2017Co-Authors: Luísa Veloso, Joana S. MarquesAbstract:This article on secondary schools science laboratories in Portugal focuses on how school space functions as a pedagogical and Political Instrument by contributing to shape the conditions for teaching and learning dynamics. The article places the impact of changes to school layouts within the larger context of a public school renovation programme, discussing how school space functions as a pedagogical and Political Instrument. The focus is on science laboratories as a particular learning environment for science education. The study, conducted between 2010 and 2011 in 13 renovated schools within the framework of the Portuguese Secondary School Modernisation Programme, drew on document analysis, interviews, pupil and teacher surveys and site-specific focus groups. One of the main findings is that teachers found that science laboratories were the most controversial and debated of all the renovated learning spaces. Considering that the science laboratory layout was intended to be universal across all schools, there was little intervention by the architects responsible for the renovation of the schools. Focusing on the analysis of the decision to change the science laboratory design within the aims of the education policy, this article discusses how teachers’ criticisms were a response to some of the educational policy goals underlying the renovation of school buildings and the potential impact on science education, namely, the relationship between flexibility of space organisation and pedagogical approaches.
Wai-mei Lui - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Is Liberal Studies a Political Instrument in the secondary school curriculum? Lessons from the Umbrella Movement in post-colonial Hong Kong
The Curriculum Journal, 2017Co-Authors: Dennis Fung, Wai-mei LuiAbstract:ABSTRACTThis paper examines whether Hong Kong teachers and students perceived Liberal Studies and its ongoing curriculum review as Politically driven during and after the Umbrella Movement, a large-scale civil disobedience campaign that took place in September 2014. The findings presented herein show that both groups disagreed with the claim that Liberal Studies was used as a Political Instrument to instigate students’ participation in the protest movement. Moreover, they also reveal that teachers have maintained their neutrality towards controversial issues related to politics during Liberal Studies lessons. Whilst the participating teachers and students considered the government's proposed reform of Liberal Studies to be Politically motivated, they held differing attitudes towards the addition of more China-related elements to the subject. On the basis of these results, this paper analyses the potential role of Liberal Studies in the democratisation of local society. It also provides an indication of th...
Luísa Veloso - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Designing science laboratories: learning environments, school architecture and teaching and learning models
Learning Environments Research, 2017Co-Authors: Luísa Veloso, Joana S. MarquesAbstract:This article on secondary schools science laboratories in Portugal focuses on how school space functions as a pedagogical and Political Instrument by contributing to shape the conditions for teaching and learning dynamics. The article places the impact of changes to school layouts within the larger context of a public school renovation programme, discussing how school space functions as a pedagogical and Political Instrument. The focus is on science laboratories as a particular learning environment for science education. The study, conducted between 2010 and 2011 in 13 renovated schools within the framework of the Portuguese Secondary School Modernisation Programme, drew on document analysis, interviews, pupil and teacher surveys and site-specific focus groups. One of the main findings is that teachers found that science laboratories were the most controversial and debated of all the renovated learning spaces. Considering that the science laboratory layout was intended to be universal across all schools, there was little intervention by the architects responsible for the renovation of the schools. Focusing on the analysis of the decision to change the science laboratory design within the aims of the education policy, this article discusses how teachers’ criticisms were a response to some of the educational policy goals underlying the renovation of school buildings and the potential impact on science education, namely, the relationship between flexibility of space organisation and pedagogical approaches.