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- Resmini, Andrea
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Pervasive IA
- 2010
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)
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- Resmini, Andrea, et al.
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Read ahoy : A playful digital-physical viking experience to engage children in finding and reading books
- 2020
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In: Human-Computer Interaction. - Cham : Springer. - 9783030490645 - 9783030490652 ; , s. 307-325
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- A digital/physical installation part a series of pilots developed for Habo Municipality, Sweden, in the context of a public co-design effort aimed at creating a shared understanding of the possibilities offered by digital transformation and the development of a connected city framework, “Read Ahoy!” provides children with a simple game-like challenge: find books randomly distributed in a number of locations by matching conceptual, spatial, aural, and verbal clues. Built as an embodied experience for library spaces, “Read Ahoy!” is narratively centered on a Viking crew in need of help after they have lost much of their precious cargo of books in a storm, on their way back after a trade expedition. The story grounds the challenge in tropes familiar to Swedish culture and gives children a playful setup and well-defined goals as they search for books. “Read Ahoy!” explores how children entering the school system search and make sense of information in a blended space, structurally recreating the way they customarily mix action in digital and physical space. Theoretically anchored in Benyon’s conceptualization of blended spaces, in Bates’ information seeking theory and information search tactics, and in Resmini and Lacerda’s formalization of information-based experience ecosystems, “Read Ahoy!” was designed and implemented as a low-budget end-of-year project for the students in the Master’s in Information Architecture and Innovation at Jönköping International Business School, Jönköping, Sweden, under the supervision of the authors. It was framed to meet the UN SDG4’s sub-targets on “Early childhood development” and “Universal Youth Literacy” and installed in Habo Library from June through August 2019 where it was used extensively by local children under the supervision of librarians during the summer. A full description of the installation and preliminary post-mortem reflections are offered in the paper.
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- Resmini, Andrea, et al.
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Research and Practice in IA
- 2010
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In: Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. - : American Society for Information Science & Technology. - 1931-6550 .- 1550-8366 .- 0095-4403. ; 36:6
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Journal article (other academic/artistic)abstract
- What is the current relationship of research and practice in information architecture? That was the question posed in a “back of a napkin” collective-thinking exercise introduced by Keith Instone and Andrea Resmini Andrea Resmini in “Bridging IA Research and Practice,” a session they co-hosted at the 11th ASIS&T IA Summit in Phoenix, Arizona. For additional ideas from participants, please see the list and description of other “napkin sketches” at the end of the article.
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- Joyce, Peter James, et al.
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Identifying hotspots of environmental impact in the development of novel inorganic polymer paving blocks from bauxite residue
- 2018
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In: Resources, Conservation and Recycling. - : Elsevier. - 0921-3449 .- 1879-0658. ; 138, s. 87-98
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- High bauxite residue content inorganic polymer paving blocks have the potential not only to provide a solution to the ongoing waste management issues faced by the alumina sector, but to simultaneously provide low environmental impact building materials to the construction sector. In order to realise the potential of this emerging technology, it is important to understand where the hotspots of environmental impact are likely to occur, and identify routes to reduce this impact, at an early stage of development. In this study we use anticipatory Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) to identify hotspots of environmental impact in the production of paving blocks made from inorganic polymers derived from bauxite residue. This technology has only been demonstrated at laboratory scale; however, production was modelled at industrial scale. The bauxite residue is fired in a rotary kiln in the presence of a carbon and silica source, in order to create a reactive precursor. When mixed with an alkali the precursor forms a solid block. Our results identify the firing process as the major hotspot of environmental impact, primarily due to the combustion of fossil fuels in the rotary kiln. Steps to reduce the impact of the firing step or to reduce the amount of fired precursor used in the final paving block are suggested as routes for future impact reduction. Optimisation of the environmental aspects of these building materials at an early stage in their development could lead to a promising future for high-volume bauxite residue valorisation at low environmental cost.
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