A literature review on cross-cultural personas reveals both, a trend in projects lacking accomplishment and personas reinforcing previous biases. We first suggest why failures or incompleteness may have ensued, while then we entice a thoughtful alteration of the design process by creating and validating personas together with those that they embody. Personas created in people’s own terms suppor...

PURPOSE This study explored the meaning of quality of life (QOL) for Sardinian caregivers of people affected with Alzheimer's disease and factors improving and worsening their QOL. DESIGN The phenomenological method was used to study 41 Alzheimer's disease caregivers living on the western coast of Sardinia, Italy. Interviews were conducted and analyzed using Cohen, Kahn, and Steeves's approac...

The role of the manager within the company is not a long quiet river, purpose rather a turbulent river in which the manager must have the capacity for adaptation to live in harmony the permanent change or the only certainty that we can have is that the company will continue to change, especially with the digital transformation and artificial intelligence. The main purpose of our article consist...

The structure of virtue was investigated through the development and construct validation of the Virtues Scale (VS), a 140-item self-report measure of virtues. A factor analysis of responses from 390 participants revealed four factors: Empathy, Order, Resourcefulness, and Serenity. Four virtue subscales constructed from the highest loading items on each factor were correlated with the Revised N...

This work aims to identify the main aspects of Web design responsible for eliciting specific emotions. For this purpose, we performed a user study with 40 participants testing a Web application designed by applying a set of criteria for stimulating various emotions. In particular, we considered six emotions (hate, anxiety, boredom, fun, serenity, love), and for each of them a specific set of de...

Older adults sometimes demonstrate a mnemonic "positivity effect," remembering more positive than negative information. The present study examined whether this effect would occur for arousing words (elation vs slaughter) or for nonarousing ones (serenity vs sorrow). The results revealed no positivity effect for arousing words: Young and older adults remembered negative and positive arousing wor...

Like later Dvořák, Bruckner or Mahler…, Beethoven did not finish his Tenth Symphony and, two hundred and fifty years after its birth, there are many questions that this unfinished work contains, of which fragments preserved in various institutes. From the composer's conversation notebooks, written testimonies demonstrate Beethoven’s willingness to on last months life (1826-1827), whose initial ...