Introducing personas and scenarios to highlight older adults' perspectives on robot-mediated communication. - In: HRI '24 companion, (2024), S. 209-213
Little is known about the expectations of older adults (60+ years old) in robot-mediated communication when leaving aside care-related activities. To bridge this gap, we carried out 30 semi-structured interviews with older adults to explore their experiences and expectations related to technology-mediated communication. We present the results of the collected data through personas that portray three archetype users, Conny Connected, Stephan Skeptical, and Thomas TechFan. These personas are presented in a specific communication scenario with individual goals that go beyond mere communication, such as the desire for closeness (Conny Connected), a problem-free experience (Stephan Skeptical), and exploring affordances of telepresence robots (Thomas Tech-Fan). Also, we provide two considerations when aiming at positive experiences for older adults with robots: balance generalizable aspects and individual needs and identify and challenge preconceptions of telepresence robots.
https://doi.org/10.1145/3610978.3640659
Dynamic competition, exclusionary and exploitative abuses, and article 102 TFEU: towards a concept of systemic market power?. - Ilmenau : Ilmenau University of Technology, Institute of Economics, 2024. - 1 Online-Ressource (10 Seiten). - (Ilmenau economics discussion papers ; vol. 29, no. 186)
In this paper, we comment on the debate about guidelines for Art. 102 TFEU in the face of the challenges brought by digital ecosystems and abuse of dominance in related markets. We take the perspective of dynamic competition economics and derive four recommendations for the future enforcement of abuse control and related merger control: (i) we advocate to abandon the as-efficient-competitor standard embraced in the late 2000s, (ii) we emphasize the relevance on focusing on exploitative abuses as well as on exclusionary ones, (iii) we suggest to implement a concept of systemic market power as a guideline to enforcement, and (iv) we argue that the same enhanced market power standard should also be applied in the corresponding merger control. While going beyond pure guideline recommendations and focusing on a dynamic-economic view, we are convinced that these steps are necessary to move towards a more effective competition policy towards abuse of digital dominance.
https://www.db-thueringen.de/receive/dbt_mods_00059790
Financial regulation in sport championships as an anticompetitive institution. - Ilmenau : Ilmenau University of Technology, Institute of Economics, 2024. - 1 Online-Ressource (20 Seiten). - (Ilmenau economics discussion papers ; vol. 29, no. 187)
Financial regulation in sports is usually discussed in the context of representing an instrument against “financial doping”. Notwithstanding the merits of this discussion, this paper takes the opposite perspective and analyses how market-internal financial regulation itself may anticompetitively influence sporting results. Virtually every regulative financial intervention distorts sporting competition to some extent and creates beneficiaries and losers. Sometimes, the actual winners and losers of financial regulation stand in line with the (legitimate) goals of the regulation like limiting financial imbalances or preventing distortive midseason insolvencies of teams. However, financial regulation may also display unintended side-effects like protecting hitherto successful teams from new challengers, cementing the competitive order, creating foreclosure and entry barriers, or serving vested interests of powerful parties. All of these effects may also be hidden agendas by those who are implementing and enforcing market-internal financial regulation or influencing it. This paper analyses various types of budget caps (including salary caps) with respect to potentially anticompetitive effects. UEFA’s so-called Financial Fair Play Regulations and Formula One’s recent budget cap are highlighted as examples. Furthermore, the paper discusses allocation schemes of common revenues (like from the collective sale of broadcasting rights) as another area of financial regulation with potentially anticompetitive effects. Eventually, the effects of standards for accounting, financial management, and auditing are discussed.
https://www.db-thueringen.de/receive/dbt_mods_00059843
What fails and when? : a process view of innovation failure. - In: Technovation, Bd. 133 (2024), 102995, S. 1-14
Research on innovation failure has proliferated lately but with little theoretical attention given to the diversity of the concept. Using process theorizing, we present a model and propositions to understand how a firm's anticipation and value toward failure depends on the type of failure (task versus outcome) and the phase (divergent versus convergent) and point (early versus later) ‘within’ the process that the failure occurs. Using the anticipation-value stances, we then present a typology of four modes of innovation failure that can arise ‘from’ task and outcomes failure in the innovation process. The four modes (and associated learning response) are unsolicited failures (prevent-alert-eliminate); hazardous failures (predict-modify-mitigate); fortuitous failures (probe-expose-extrapolate); and excursive failures (facilitate-analyze-harness). To help explain the ideas in our process model and typology, we use the well-known IDEO shopping cart innovation project as an illustrative example. Together, these contributions provide contingency oriented insights on how failure varies and journeys within and from the innovation process, which helps researchers and managers to better understand the related causes, effects and learning responses.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.technovation.2024.102995
Journalismus als System organisierten Handelns. - In: Handbuch Journalismustheorien, (2024), S. 1-11
Living reference work entry
Wie lassen sich Redaktionsstrukturen in Medienorganisationen beschreiben? Welchen Einfluss haben die Medienorganisation und ihre Struktur auf die journalistische Arbeit? Antworten liefern sozialintegrative Theoriemodelle, wobei die Strukturationstheorie nach Anthony Giddens (1986) dabei eine besondere Stellung einnimmt, indem journalistische Organisationen als Systeme organisierten Handelns konzipiert werden, um die rekursiven Beziehungen zwischen handelnden Journalist:innen und Organisationen im gesellschaftlichen Kontext zu erkunden und strukturelle Wandlungsprozesse im Journalismus zu beschreiben. Ziel des Beitrags ist es, nach einer Einführung in die Grundlagen der Strukturationstheorie anhand exemplarischer Anwendungsfelder ihre Integration in die Journalismusforschung zu verdeutlichen. Abschließend werden die Potenziale der Strukturationstheorie und theoretische Herausforderungen für die journalismusbezogene Forschung aufgezeigt.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-32153-6_16-1
[Rezension von: The power of BDSM]. - In: Zeitschrift für Sexualforschung. - Stuttgart : Thieme, 2001- , ISSN: 1438-9460 , ZDB-ID: 2073538-8, ISSN 1438-9460, Bd. 37 (2024), 1, S. 57-58
https://doi.org/10.1055/a-2231-4030
Interview with the Counseling Center Allerd!ngs - Support Sexwork Thüringen :
Interview mit der Fachberatungsstelle Allerd!ngs - Support Sexwork Thüringen. - In: Zeitschrift für Sexualforschung, ISSN 1438-9460, Bd. 37 (2024), 1, S. 35-39
Der vorliegende Praxisbeitrag stellt die Fachberatungsstelle Allerd!ngs - Support Sexwork Thüringen mit Sitz in der Landeshauptstadt Erfurt vor (https://allerdings-thueringen.de/). Gefördert von der Thüringer Beauftragten für die Gleichstellung von Frau und Mann setzt sich die Beratungsstelle für Chancengerechtigkeit und gesellschaftliche Teilhabe von Sexarbeitenden ein und unterstützt die selbstbestimmte, einvernehmliche Sexarbeit. Bei Fällen von Menschenhandel kooperiert Allerd!ngs mit der bekom Thüringen - Fachberatungsstelle für Betroffene von Menschenhandel. In Form eines Interviews mit den beiden Fachberaterinnen wird der Arbeitsalltag in der Beratungsstelle beschrieben. Dabei stehen die Anliegen der in der Sexarbeit tätigen Menschen in Thüringen im Zentrum.
https://doi.org/10.1055/a-2254-2054
Zwischen Online-Forum, Hotelbesuch und Pflegeheim: Bericht über den 2. Fachtag „Sexarbeit in Thüringen“ am 4. Oktober 2023 in Erfurt. - In: Zeitschrift für Sexualforschung, ISSN 1438-9460, Bd. 37 (2024), 1, S. 47-48
https://doi.org/10.1055/a-2227-1842
Building the new architecture of crisis management: global experts' insights on best and worst practices for securing external funding. - In: Journal of contingencies and crisis management, ISSN 1468-5973, Bd. 32 (2024), 1, e12539, S. 1-12
External funding is an important yet understudied area of inquiry in crisis communication research. With external funding being a keystone of assessing and broadening research impact in both academia and industry, it is important for scholarship to examine effective practices for funding proposals. This study explores the best and worst practices for funded research through an expert consultation survey of 36 global communication scholars with track records of funding success. Findings reveal motivating factors for seeking, securing and managing funding, as well as institutional factors. Findings also inform best and worst practices for securing external funding, including bridging theory and practice and establishing strong research partnerships.
https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-5973.12539
“Like a virtual family reunion”: older adults defining requirements for an augmented reality communication system. - In: Information, ISSN 2078-2489, Bd. 15 (2024), 1, 52, S. 1-19
Leading a socially engaged life is beneficial for the well-being of older adults. Immersive technologies, such as augmented reality (AR), have the potential to provide more engaging and vivid communication experiences compared to conventional digital tools. This qualitative study adopts a human-centered approach to discern the general attitudes and specific requirements of older adults regarding interpersonal communication facilitated by AR. We conducted semi-structured individual interviews with a sample of N = 30 older adults from Germany. During the interviews, participants evaluated storyboard illustrations depicting a fictional AR-enabled communication scenario centered around a grandparent and their adult grandchildren, which were represented as avatars within the AR environment. The study identified technological, emotional, social, and administrative requirements of older adults regarding the AR communication system. Based on these findings, we provide practical recommendations aimed at more inclusive technology design, emphasizing the significance of addressing the emotional needs of older adults, especially the perceived intimacy of AR-based interpersonal communication. Acknowledging and catering to these emotional needs is crucial, as it impacts the adoption of immersive technologies and the realization of their social benefits. This study contributes to the development of user-friendly AR systems that effectively promote and foster social engagement among older adults.
https://doi.org/10.3390/info15010052