What Makes a Representative User Representative ?

What Makes a Representative User Representative? Considering Synecdochic and Metonymic Fallacies

We compare six definitions of the concept of “representative user,” including interpretations based in statistics, grounded theory, political theory and design practice. Each approach has strengths; none is perfect. We hope to engage our colleagues in thinking about when and how we (all) might choose each approach.

To What Extent Is Long-term Care Representative of Elderly Care? A Case Study of Elderly Care Financing in Lombardy, Italy

The ageing of European population has been rapidly increasing during the last decades, and the problem of elderly care financing has become an issue for policy-makers. Long-term care (LTC) financing is considered a suitable proxy of the resources committed to elderly care by each government, but the preciseness of this approximation depends on the extent to which LTC is representative of elderl...

Criteria of Artistic Expression in the First and Second Half of Qajar Era with an Emphasis on the Murals of Royal Reception in Negarestan Palace and Nezamiyeh Mansion

Wall painting stands among the prominent art media for displaying royal themes in Qajar era. There were many murals in the palaces and buildings of that period now mostly destroyed, however descriptions or pictures of which are available in historical texts to study and observe. The royal (New Year) reception wall painting of Fath Ali Shah in Negarestan palace and that of Naser ad-Din Shah in N...

Effect of Carbon Nanotube Geometries on Mechanical Properties of Nanocomposite Via Nanoscale Representative Volume Element

Predicting the effective elastic properties of carbon nanotube-reinforced nanocomposites is of great interest to many structural designers and engineers for improving material and configuration design in recent years. In this paper, a finite element model of a CNT composite has been developed using the Representative volume element (RVE) to evaluate the effective material properties of nanocomp...

Soil properties and topographic relationships of some representative entisols and inceptisols in western iran