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

What Makes a Representative User Representative ?

We compare six definitions of the concept of “representative user,” including interpretations based in statistics, grounded theory, political theory and design practice. This participatory poster invites conference participants to contribute their own interpretations.

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...

Metonymic Pole of Sufi Prose Language with Emphasis on Shams-e- Tabrizi’s Essays

Among extant books of Sufis prose, the prose of Maqalat-e Shams-e Tabrizi has high and particular qualities. Its special language and the sensitivity that Shams shows in every point of his Maqalat regarding language makes us observe the dialectic between structure and meaning of language which is the results of forming a progressive prose compared to the prose of his contemporaries. Among ...

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