Christina De Vreeze-Cabrera

CD

MA Museum Studies and BA Honours History of Art (University of Leicester).
International Museum and Art Consultant.

Location Barcelona, Spain.

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  • The Ph.D. will firstly deepen my own knowledge that, secondly, I will apply to my professional career, in and outside academia.

  • Hello, I am in the course of writing my proposal and need further coaching. The topic is in the Humanities area.

  • Stating that technology can have a mind or even only emulate it is highly underestimating the mind, i.e. the human body, or man. There is a tendency to allow to behave technology to act as the 'new religion' and the answer to all. I am very skeptic and while I do research on it, the human mind is unique, it is maleable, it has a will of its own unexplainable...

  • As I am on a PhD Humanities course that focuses on philosophy too, the mind is a topic that fascinates me but also that I need to know more about. this course seems tailor made for me.

  • Great additional big data tool to be employed at the outset of research.

  • The digital footprint we leave is nearly too complex and large to be able to relate to.
    Even for people who do not like to be online, if you buy an airplane ticket or source hotels, you’re in the game. When you hand in personal data for retail, you’re in, when you travel public transport, you’re in, when you go the bank or pay by card anywhere, you’re in....

  • Also curious on the type of metrics employed.

  • Indeed as DQ mentions, the nuances are available through the big data refinement online obtainable. That is the fundamental part.

  • I would higlight the difference between sciences and the social sciences, namely, because these fields are characterised by obtaining data either through quantitative or qualitative methodology. Nonetheless, today, both fields merge and morph into one another due to DT and its pervasive use but also because people relate more to story telling than to data.

  • I’d like to know what software has been applied to implement big data refining.

  • The survey shows how raw data can be obtained from f.ex. Google to conform the initial base of research. Though it is a quantitative study, qualitative information can be linked into the field to make the sudy in-depth worthwhile.

  • I have used R and SPSS.
    R was complex but I was assisted and gave great results, SPSS more obvious.

  • I must focus better and practice the final lessons on r-value, etc. Nonetheless, I have understood how basic it is to reach the roght conclusions in ones research or at least see how figures make up the studies data.

  • Some possible variables in the relationship between a school’s mean test results and its demographics could be:
    1. socio-economic income,
    2. distance school-homes,
    3. city/town employment potential.

    Two/three potential variables and write out a statement explaining their relationship.
    1. High income usually stimulates studying while low income households...

  • School’s Socio-Educational Advantage data together with test results outcomes can serve to see that in poorer areas schools pupils results might be less good in beta sibjects as the Jorgensen and Larkin research showed, while in richer areas schools results might be higher.
    The use of these results could be applied to perform extra and more intense teaching...

  • Conventional office: there’s a 5.7% probability of climate being adeqaute.
    Bioclimatic office: there’s a 76% probability of climate being adeqaute.

    Thus, the latter is the most desirable option.

  • @SharatChandraBasu
    I can’t see the connection.

  • @MarianM
    It certainly does ! Thanks a lot.

  • I have not quite fully understood quartiles, so, for now, I focus on mean and median.

    Both would need extended over-time data input, i.e., over two years divided into work-school-holiday periods.

    Two years because in 1 year no comparison can be made to another year.

    Work-school-holiday divide would give clear data on the changes of the busstops since...

  • I’d apply continuous data as this would allow me for more ground to categorise these into ordinal data and so perhaps finding out something new I had not considered.

    I would employ this for learning about travel needs within one household, like time leave house, arrival point and return journey.

  • Identify and define the target population, sampling frame and sample for your evaluation.
    Identify and define: drivers license eligible people in one household.
    Sampling frame: car owners.
    Evaluation sample: all people that go to work outside their homes.

  • I advanced that in my previous response:

    - promote some type of benefit, like
    1. a parking payment reduction or
    2. a car-PT combination reduction card for those who apply for co-riding or car pools
    (PT= public transport).

  • This can be predicted by:
    - counting amount of cars per household,
    - researching if more than 1 household member goes in the same direction daily,
    - research on the amount of days this happens,
    - research of return trip also coincided,
    - identify houses in the same area/streets that go to the same direction,
    - promote some type of benefit, like a parking...

  • Forgot to add: what about algorhitms ? How and under what conditions can these be applied to statistics ?

  • I know statistics are tricky when these are made as they often focus on one topic and mask others within the same research. Is there a way by reading stats we can have a global view on one topic ?
    Also, I would like to know if there is a minimum of data to be obtained for it to qualify as statistics ?

  • What I would highlight are the different disciplines-methods (controlled, uncontrolled environment, mixed method, validity) that can be used to measure one thing or the other, or a mix of several. It made me think with so much more depth about my PhD question. Now I see how deep research must go in order to proof the hypothesis.

  • Study Design:

    1. Problem: low-income citizens do not pursue education. This is important for further development and work opportunitirs to get out of their own loop.
    2. Determine shape+dimensions: Take 4 areas in the city of different income classes (2 low class neighbourhoods, 1 middle and 1 upper) to act as data obtention groups while simultaneously...

  • I would select ‘dental care’ and research:

    1. Qualitative information on how veterans would think they stood better chances in society/work environment with proper dental health care.

    1. Quantitave data on how many veterans would need,
    a) general control visit every 6 months,
    b) dental implants,
    c) surgery.

    When income is reduced and personal image and...

  • Definitely a blend of all three methods would be applied to obtain qualitative and quantitative results that would conform the outcome. Ehics would be a testground in field and qualitative research while the control group would be a stepping stone to see if the thesis actually makes sense. Therefore I would have the controlled research take place over a very...

  • Unconventionally I answer myself to add that I am not sure that (1) my secondary sample group actually functions as ethical contrast group, and that (2) I would even create a third group with mid-education and alternative ecducation forms level to contrast and illustrate better the outcomes of non and yes education. Today, our societies are not that black and...

  • An ethical control group for my theme would be to create a secondary sample group that whose data would be metricised like the primary sample group.
    Differential data would be, for example, measuring academic level for visitors in the primary sample group and asking about their motivations to visit museums while the secondary sample group’s answers to why they...

  • I fully second your view Nicholas but that doesn’t imply we have to give up on educating, making people aware and coaching them through a transition from ‘very bad to health’. It takes time, but awareness sets in, and has its fruits. Health is the issue of life and we should strive to defend that in front of benefit targeted multinationals.

  • I aim to research museum visitors and how they experience art exhibits through digital technologies.
    Thus, the exploratory research will position me in knowing about their reasons for visiting the exhibition and their experiences once at the site, and so it will form the base of my research as finding out the why will lead me to understand the socio-economic...

  • Potential threats are:
    Maturity, History, Regression and Mortality as these are all variables that are non stagnant and when during the research these vary, outcomes can completely change.

  • 1. Public health reduces medical budgets.
    2. Country could serve as an example to others and so be ranked higher.

    Recommendations:
    1. Health benefits your life holistically and your economy.
    2. Setting example to children.
    3. The fact that you particpate in research is highly underestimated and I would certainly stress that too.

  • With that method applied, after, measure sales again, times of the day and the types of red drinks in order to replace these.

  • Thanks for pointing that out Nick.

    I would focus solely on point 4 than.

  • I would quantify my strategy on #4 as follows:

    (4. Display health advantages, i.e. longer quality life, better brain functioning, fitter physiological and mental feeling, outdoor activities, happier life.).

    1. Involve all stakeholders in all of the hospital shops and eating venues by jointly designing program that would include all the issues in #4 aimed at...

  • Research area: Natural food consumption replacing enhanced (unhealthy) nutrients.

    Questions:
    1. Would the community accept the trade if it were a cheaper option ?
    2. What could we offer in return so as to convince consumers at the outset ?
    3. What stakeholders would be involved ?
    4. Display health advantages, i.e. longer quality life, better brain...

  • My focus would be on healthier food availablity, presented in a most attractive manner so that the weong alternative would be considered obsolete.
    The strategy would start with a strong marketing campaign emphasizing the fun part of health food and secondly the real health benefits.
    Implemented in a space where people would be able to buy that food at...

  • Numbers reflect the reality of every moment and decision in our lives, starting from a simple clock based inference to sums of money allocated to all possible projects, from home scale to world wide. With those numbers we can know exactly what happens and so help to draw attention to an issue government is not taking properly care off. Sources for those...

  • Adhering, as usual, to the ethical code of FT.

  • For my PhD research numbers is fundament and after taking the qualitative course, this was a natural continuation.

  • Already deep into my PhD reserach I prefer not to disclose my research project publicly. I have made it but want to protect it.

  • Very glad I took this course as it covers an area I needed to learn in-depth more about.

  • Besides adhering to all the components above, I think depndability should be highlighted as it conforms and reflects our fast pace changing society.

  • Certainly therefore if possible a second person analysis will be helpful.

  • From what I have studied, it is a technological data input software but the question and meaning-interpretation must be done by oneself. It requieres all data input to be previously gathered by you and than works ot out accoding to your needs.

  • For this task I imagine my project and would certainly use a computer, EXCEPT for personal identifying data, that I would keep on hand written notes in a safety box. Those data would not have the real names but a method of cryptic descriptions and numbers or alias’s that only I would understand. These would form the base for my data.
    For the two interviews I...

  • Why have you decided to visit this museum in particular ?
    What do you expect to take away after your visit ?
    During your visit, how do you see exhibits could be displayed and/or explained better ?

  • Defenitely cell phones today are a sign of not listening or staring at other people but those ocassions are few for me. Listeners engage actively by starting a conversation with questions that delve deeper into the things I say.
    I guess all fields can always be improved although I am said to be a good listener, perhaps being more mindful rather than thinking...

  • I use UPR, congruence and empathy by way of having my consultancy clients feel at ease with me in order to trust me with their projects. It works well as, when I connect, ot comes quite natural to me. But, the contrary is also true, sometimes, people/clients are placed on my path with whom I try but cannot find a common authentic ground and moving on a...

  • The interviewer was untoughtful of the interviewee and did not pay attention on too many accounts for such a short period. She also put words in the mouth of the interviewee and was overall rough and didn’t dig deep into questions which could have lead to interesting new fields.

  • To my understanding all types, except typical, simce they will allow for the broadest type of data obtention and consequent theory posing.
    The difficulty in my field lies in precisely in chosing these samples as I would have to scrutinise museum visitors in museums to know what type of samples they are and than hope for further collaboration. This part I...

  • I am by nature an observer and analyser and have been told to be accurate at this. It has helped me a great deal at work to interpret behaviours and attitudes while hearing people talk, generally and also by analysing detailed aspects.

    Certainly I would include observation in the qualitative research since it contains a high degree of unspoken messages.

  • Subjectivity in the outocme is not bad as long as you are aware of your personal subjective bias that might shed a differing light on results. As long as it is argumented and includes even ones own bias, I think that is what research is about.

    I understand unbiased outcomes to be found in group context research, where outcomes are compared to eachother and a...

  • Each and every section as it will guide me to a scholarly research method and outcome. I have done bits and pieces, for my MA a long time ago, but find the challenge with technology that I aim to apply to process data.

  • I must say it has been a most informarive learning week. For my PhD research every detail serves as this is the point where I was lost; how and by which methodology to gather my data. The theory is illustrated well by practical videos and the ‘homework’ makes one think about applying the lessons. Overall very helpful. The videos have a ‘real’ life effect...

  • I would start with GT, phenomenology, historical research and finally case study research. Like that, I could be the maker of my own theory rather than follow a line of thought of a previous scholar. To me this is very important as I see things that are not researched and could improve museums attendance significantly.
    By starting with GT, my theory would...

  • I would apply GT to inquiere on the reason people decide to go to museums. This would include lots of objective data collection but also subjective (phenomenological?) data obtention to search for patterns and mzke up my theory from there.

  • What is it like to appear normal, successful and a balanced happy person, but struggling with mental issues or uncommon and invisible diseases or impairments ? How do you let society know that you are different but still want to fit in ?

  • I am preparing a profound and wide-scale qualitative research on museum culture.

  • Indeed we are biased and so are the outcomes we intend to produce but certainly important is the fact to place ourselves as neutral as we carry out qualitative research in order for the best answers possible.

  • To me pathos is defenitely the most powerful part after eths and logos are shortly established as logical and contextual introduction. But pathos is where one sweeps public of its feet into the story and sofltly and unconsciously persuades the listeners.
    Trump certainly worked on pathos by mentioning the issues Americans worry most about, and even...

  • How do museum visitors feel when viewing exhibitions, how do they think about them before the visit and how do they behave during the visit. I believe qualitative research will uncover a very large part of my data but quantitative research is a must to be able to give a coherent analysis.

  • By all means ot will outweigh the uneasy moments when asking people personal things and I aim to have the institutions help me on rewards. The difficulty for me resides in making the question list such that it answers my question, which is hard. Another factor is the amount of people, I project to do it larg scale and that might take time, travelling and...

  • The value of qualitative research in today’s society is very high since without it, the data based functioning of all fields in our society has no menaing, context or possible evaluation and meaning. Consequently, the data lose importance as no questions to what, why or how can be answered.

  • I am deeply immersed in my PhD on research in experiences in museums that correspond to technology under a philosophical prism. In order to start my qualitative research, I want to design the best possible visitor questionnaire. The learned skill will be employed for so many more research subtopics that will unfold itself as I move on.

  • Hi David, your comment finds me thinking -I only talk for myself here- that my positive and resilient attitude, no matter how many true hardships I have been through in life, have helped me towards good outcomes but also towards upgrading my life. In the end, it is attitude that counts.

  • Hello all, I added ‘temperance’ and ‘patience’ since I find these are main traits to deal with resilience as qualities of endurance and self-control are requiered. There are many more words that came to my mind, but thos twomwere the first ones.

  • Cavendish argues on (natural) philosophical grounds whereas Cooke does on scientific motifs.

  • Today, prefious to carrying out experiments, information from the most possible sources and group collaboration would be a near guarantee to success, not mentioning the obtention of funding. But it is the group participation and metadata that stand out for me.

  • Argumenting experiments to investigate our world was certainly a great step forward but not for those precise reasons.

  • And that is so important to development and civilization, to take in previous findings as partly true or false, by doubting on those discovered. If discoveries have overturned previous ones radically, why couldn't yours be proven to be wrong, partially or completely ?

  • Weakness: It was a scientific revolution indeed but could not have taken place without the Renaissance where perspective, for instance, was introduced in pictorial depictions. Revolutions, like this one too, are about people who change paradigms but not in a black or white façon.

    Strength: It did indeed alter mankind's way of perceiving the world and...

  • Possibly because under a microscope, the finsings were taken out of the natural form context and also did only allow to see that particular piece under scrutiny, not the connected forms that in realty had made it gow. Therefore, under the aegis of Aristotelean belief, the theory of biological preformation had space to be interpreted as such.

  • Perhaps because of knowledege of the first microscope in the Dutch Republic in 1659 ?

  • Arsitotle's matter and form theory is extremely complex and related to metaphysics and physics, even to politics, his three treatises. Interpretation therefore of later philosophers allows for a lot of freedom given (1) the different timeframe and (2) the untanganility of Aristotle's theory.

  • Q1. It doesn't explain natural actions.
    Q2. The matter itself of a antural body.
    Q3. Forms' description do not provide for meaning.

  • The Arabic Islamic culture did earlier in the 12th and 13th C, from Spain, Toledo and with Ibn al-Haytham around 100CE.

  • Strong point: the substance disappears. By observation everybody sees that.
    Weak point: it could be argued it transforms rather than disappears. Lacks to explain the 'how'.

  • 1. The wood burnt is substantial change since its form disappears completely.
    2. The apple turning brown is accidental change since the form remains.

  • Science uses data gathered by trial and error, indicative arguments and pseudoscience takes it basis from suppositions, also inductive arguments but lack the data gathering process.

  • Hello, I am museum expert and art historian and work as consultant, and do research for humanities and technology.

  • Household appliances can be designed so that people coerced to use these in a responsible manner saving electricity by making them silent, having domotics connected to smartphones so that usage on low-electricity times can be made, shorter programs, blocackage of appliances functioning when not full. This is to the benefit of user's economy but on the...

  • The theory sounds 'easy' whilst practice must be mindblowing difficult to obtain the 'right' balance in designing moral technology and I guess multidisciplinare topics are participants too.

  • The same issue arose when reading this section. What overlying organism controls/directs/oversees the assessment of the technologies designs ? Shouldn't there be an opensourced independent body that monitors -worldwide- designs ? Is there one already and I do not know of it ? In any event, it seems fundamental to give some type of (ethical) standards and...

  • Hello Adam,

    On reading your remarks which are always so well constructed, it came to me that for point 1, it could be indeed that a new locus would be defined, but highly probable is that waerables are a mix of all three types. As to point 2, the coercive and decisive mediations are meant to safeguard us from certain dangers. As for point 3, the way I see...

  • In a symbiotic process -whichever field it may be- man and technology fuse and transfer values upon one another, without ever having the absolute certaintly that outcomes are as predicted. Still, isn't this the Jaspers' and Heidegger's as well, in that to Jaspers, object and subject feed eachother and for Heidegger, technology was a lot more than just a tool....

  • On the negative aspect:
    The smartphone makes me not memorise phonenumbers anymore and browse/read books a lot less.
    GPS in car when used makes me drive the route it plans when perhaps I would have taken another.
    TV and multiple channels makes me watch it a lot more, fooling myself I need to know the latest or there is something 'interesting' to see....

  • Artefacts are innate objects and consequently have no initiative or morale. Humans do and are the designers and users technologies. Having said that, we should define the myriad of combinations that constitute human-machine interaction and which changes by the day.

    So, if we state that technologies are for instance, implants, than we, as 'cyborgs' are...

  • Spencer as example of a social robot in human-technological relation carries out certain tasks classified in hermeneutical, alterity and background facets. But more important are its practices and above all the experience Spencer provides as mediator. In other words, I see Spencer as a very kind person you do not know who offers help, advice, company or a...

  • In a certain sense, the newest technologies are part of human evolution. Bit rash to state this but seen as a development of mankind, it is, since these are designed by us to better our own lives.

  • Subject and object co-exist and shape eachother. In my view, it comes back to that precept every time and which is valid for human evolution. I see no need to fear or criticse the socalled fourth revolution when it is only a logical development in the framework of man designing it to have a better life. In the end, machines cannot feel or be creative or...

  • Computers and smartphones, these have basically changed human behaviour and thus mediate the way we interact.
    New technologies change human interaction since these are improved and advanced versions of old ones that constitute our lives and so conform the post-Phenomenology philosophy.

  • In fact, I do agree with both. As to Jaspers, our authenticity will highly probable be cut out as autonmous cars must have algorythmoc calculated or even fixed routes. Our responsability towards ourselves therefore changes as to what decisions we take, i.e. where to go and by what route plus the consequences of that all added to decide driving in an...

  • IoT, VR and holographics, for instance, are technologies which will be permeasive in all that surrounds us.

  • I would like to add as to what Professor Verbeek mentioned about his nazi sympathy, that his theory would not be directed towards the horrendous goal of extermination. Would it ? Hard to view his theory now without this in mind.

  • Heidegger is hard to capture by excerpts only, but his 'no escape from tevhnology' is apparently based on his thesis that technology embodies human beings. I hope not to be wrong !

  • 1. In fact Jaspers' theory is very much up to date, it is the mass production we go against in order to gain personality enhancement as well as this being reflected in the Appartus which we do not believe in anymore, not in its functioning or intention.

    2. Determinism implies technology rules and instrumentalism implies person rules over technology.

    3....