Digital Process Research Articles

PSYCHOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF INTELLIGENCE AND LEGAL EDUCATION IN THE DIGITAL REALITY: RISKS AND VALUES

Background. The work examines the phenomenon of intelligence from the point of view of its functioning within the framework of university legal education and in conditions of imbalance of social structures, as well as the formation and functioning of modern risks. Materials and methods. The leading hypothesis of the work is that intelligence as a syncretic subjective-personal quality allows one to transmit the values of the legal profession in the educational process of educational organizations of higher education, which allows one to carry out legal activities in practice in a high-quality and morally oriented manner. The study is based on a risk-oriented approach, systemic, axiological and functional analyses. Discussions. Information, digital and global network processes occurring in modern society objectify unprecedented challenges and threats to humanity, lead to the erosion of traditional values, their replacement by utilitarian interests and the multiculturalization of public consciousness. Legal education as a phenomenon, process and result is designed to provide the public, private and public sectors with specialists in the field of law who are the pillar of law and order, create a comfortable and equal operating environment, talentedly implement law-making functions and protect the rights and legitimate interests of citizens. Digitalization and informatization, as well as trends in imposing the needs and interests of the global «consumer society», have not bypassed the legal profession, which also affects the content of legal education. Results. In such conditions, intelligence as an active phenomenon acts as an intellectual-emotional and value-semantic quality that can unite the educational process, consolidate disparate social subjects, support the transmission of good social aspirations, and also orient legal education towards creative, humanistic, intellectual and active ones. and social-constructive functions. The formation and development of intelligence within the framework of legal education allows us to form a domestic legal tradition and resist global ideological and legal expansion on the part of globalists and supporters of the «consumer society». The intelligentsia, as a purely domestic cultural phenomenon, acts as a social group and authority that is capable and ready to take responsibility for the value-semantic development of society and the preservation of traditional Russian values.

Applying Experienced-Based Co-Design principles to improve digital health demand management processes in a large metropolitan multi-hospital health system

ObjectiveThis study describes the application of Experienced-Based Co-Design (EBCD) principles with an embedded implementation technology framework for improving digital health and informatics demand management processes in a multi-hospital healthcare system. The study identified barriers and enablers within the existing demand management system, proposed interventions to address these challenges and engaged in collaborative co-design with stakeholders. MethodsA multi-method qualitative approach aligning with EBCD principles was used. Framework mapping (Non-adoption, Abandonment, Scale-up, Spread, Sustainability) was applied to barriers and enablers associated with baseline practices. Reflexive thematic mapping and process charts were used to inform stakeholder priorities and co-design. Prototyping was iterative using feedback for continuous improvement with ongoing monitoring. ResultsFragmentation of information was a technological barrier, decentralized processes and service duplication were organizational barriers, and opportunities to improve clarity of governance policies were identified. Solutions were co-generated and prioritised by stakeholders. The co-design and prototyping phase followed an iterative approach which generated two interventions. For centralizing intake and management, a new workflow process was devised. For improving project portfolio visibility and developing a weighted scoring criterion, a single tool to track projects across the lifecycle and a scoring model based on prioritization techniques were created. ConclusionA novel application of an EBCD approach was used to improve demand management processes in a digital health and informatics service context in a large health system. It highlights the value and agility of EBCD to generate flexible and modular solutions for this digital health context and compares favorably to analogous approaches. Public interest summaryIn today's fast-paced digital age, it is vital for hospitals to manage health information innovation efficiently. This study used an Experienced-Based Co-Design design (EBCD) approach to improve how a multi-hospital health system handles and prioritizes digital health projects. We listened to stakeholders, identified challenges, including fragmented information and unclear processes, then co-created solutions. The EBCD produced an implementable streamlined method for managing digital health project requests, including prioritizing and tracking projects from start to finish. This outcome of the exemplar EBCD process is likely to ensure that the most critical health projects are prioritized. For the public, this means better, faster, and more efficient digital health services in the future.

Peningkatan Akses Pasar Bagi Pelaku Industri Kreatif Melalui Pemanfaatan Platform Digital

All aspects of human life have been influenced by digital transformation, which has become a global trend ( Bangsawan, 2023 ). In Indonesia, policies that can accelerate digital transformation can accelerate economic growth, especially in the creative economy sector. To accelerate the existing transformation, infrastructure, literacy and regulation are existing problems. faster digital transformation in the development of Indonesia's creative economy. Studies show that policies that encourage digital transformation can encourage the growth of the creative economy in Indonesia, but they need to be adapted to local conditions and followed by efforts to increase the accessibility of adequate infrastructure and technology. Efforts to address existing challenges, such as improving technological accessibility and adequate infrastructure, could be part of this. Therefore, to encourage and support creative economic growth through policy, industry players, government and society must work together. accelerate the digital transformation process.

Extending the process frontier of digital transformation: A flow‐oriented perspective

AbstractStrong interest in digital transformation to increase business value calls for new and improved theorising of the digital transformation process. Traditional perspectives fail to address the complex socio‐technological challenges and entanglement of actions at multiple levels that characterise the process. This research adopts a flow‐oriented perspective to extend the process frontier of digital transformation. This entails analysing the lines of action that intertwine to form storylines of digital transformation. Drawing on a multilevel longitudinal qualitative study, the research offers three valuable contributions: First, the paper advances the discourse on digital transformation by introducing the heretofore unrecognised phenomenon of transitional moments. Second, by introducing a novel taxonomy for lines of action, the paper demonstrates the evolving nature of the digital transformation process, surpassing conventional rational‐system model interpretations. These two contributions broaden the process frontier of digital transformation by underscoring the dynamic and continuous nature of digital transformation, emphasising its non‐linear progression, and rejecting the notion of an idealised direct path to a predefined goal. These two additions to the digital transformation discourse lay the foundations for our third contribution, which is a set of proposed research approaches for future investigations into digital transformation, regardless of research focus, phenomena, or domain.

Preparing the Electrical Signal Data of the Heart by Performing Segmentation Based on the Neural Network U-Net

Research on the automated extraction of essential data from an electrocardiography (ECG) recording has been a significant topic for a long time. The main focus of digital processing processes is to measure fiducial points that determine the beginning and end of the P, QRS, and T waves based on their waveform properties. The presence of unavoidable noise during ECG data collection and inherent physiological differences among individuals make it challenging to accurately identify these reference points, resulting in suboptimal performance. This is done through several primary stages that rely on the idea of preliminary processing of the ECG electrical signal through a set of steps (preparing raw data and converting them into files that are read and then processed by removing empty data and unifying the width of the signal at a length of 250 in order to remove noise accurately, and then performing the process of identifying the QRS in the first place and P-T implicitly, and then the task stage is determining the required peak and making a cut based on it. The U-Net pre-trained model is used for deep learning. It takes an ECG signal with a customisable sampling rate as input and generates a list of the beginning and ending points of P and T waves, as well as QRS complexes, as output. The distinguishing features of our segmentation method are its high speed, minimal parameter requirements, and strong generalization capabilities, which are used to create data that can be used in diagnosing diseases or biometric systems.

Snapshot on 3D printing with alternative binders and materials: Earth, geopolymers, gypsum and low carbon concrete

The rapid development of 3D concrete printing now offers mechanical efficiency and freedom to push the limits of construction design. The digital manufacturing process holds potential for reducing carbon footprints through design optimization. Printable concrete, which is a mix of cement (based on ordinary Portland cement), aggregates, and admixtures, is attractive due to widespread and cost-effective constituents. However, many common formulations omit gravel, requiring higher cement paste volumes and inducing significant embodied carbon. Assessing the potential of low-carbon cements like Limestone Calcined Clay Cement (LC3), calcium aluminate cement (CAC), or magnesium-based cement for 3D printing is a current challenge that can address this issue. Tailoring these construction materials to printing applications and environmental needs now drives scientific exploration. This paper comprehensively reviews alternative materials and binders such as earthen materials, geopolymers, low carbon binders or gypsum-based materials, addressing fresh and hardened properties, developed digital processes, targeted applications, and discussing advantages and drawbacks of each alternative.

Reconstruction of large-scale anisotropic 3D digital rocks from 2D shale images using generative adversarial network

Digital rock technology has played a significant role in unconventional oil and gas exploration and development. Current techniques face challenges such as high cost or low efficiency when reconstructing 3D pore structures at the nanoscale, which limit the study of rock physical properties in reservoirs. To address these issues, this work proposes an efficient generative adversarial network workflow for generating large-scale anisotropic 3D digital rocks from 2D images. Instead of relying on 3D data, the model is trained using only 2D images. During training, rock images taken from various angles can be utilized to construct anisotropic 3D digital rocks. Moreover, a novel method for generating large-scale 3D data is devised, where the input random noise is divided with overlap to generate small-scale digital rocks and concatenated into a larger-scale 3D digital rock. The similarity between the 3D reconstructed data and the training images was assessed separately, as well as the pore structure of the 3D reconstructed data, and the feasibility of the proposed method was verified using the simulation of absolute permeability. The digital rock modeling process presented in this study enables rapid and accurate 2D-to-3D large-scale digital rock modeling, providing an effective representation of the anisotropy present in shale oil reservoirs.

Utilization of Digital Marketing Content Creator for Promotion of Entrepreneurship

Technological developments, the use of smartphones and internet access provide innovation in marketing activities. Entrepreneurs have new strategies in marketing the goods they produce which were originally marketed offline and can then be marketed online. Online marketing is one of the digital marketing strategies. Digital marketing activities are an important point in entrepreneurship promotion activities, considering that all forms of activity, especially in the business sector, have gone through the digitalization stage, so understanding in the digital marketing process must be improved so that they are not left behind and goals can continue to be achieved. The use of digital marketing is needed to improve the entrepreneurial marketing skills of students at SMA 7 Padang, SMK 4 Padang, and SMA 3 Tebo, so that students can implement digital marketing and be able to increase their business potential. Digital marketing involves starting from content creation, placing online advertisements, website optimization, email marketing, relations with online media, to becoming a social media admin. One application of digital marketing in business is content creation. This activity provides guidance regarding digital marketing strategies using content creation methods via social media platforms.

The Blockchain Effect on Courier Supply Chains Digitalization and Its Contribution to Industry 4.0 within the Circular Economy

The goal of this research is to investigate blockchain technology’s influence on digitizing courier supply chains and advancing Industry 4.0, which leads the digitization revolution by integrating blockchain to digitize processes that would serve the circular economy. It evaluates how blockchain enhances transparency, traceability, and digital processes in logistics, promoting sustainability through waste reduction and improved reuse. The study aims to identify the benefits and challenges of blockchain integration, develop a conceptual framework, and provide actionable insights to improve supply chain management, operational efficiency, and sustainability. This research uses a qualitative research method including a literature review as well as interviews for case studies to explore both the benefits and challenges when applying blockchain technology in courier organizations in Industry 4.0 within the circular economy. The results show that blockchain technology can enhance the security, traceability, and efficiency of courier supply chains, reduce theft, error risk, and fraud, as well as facilitate specific process automation via smart contracts. Blockchain technology can support the digital transformation of logistics organizations and enhance circular economy networks in Industry 4.0 by enabling automation, transparency, traceability, and maintaining responsibility for the environment. This research is an exploration of the effect of blockchain technology on the courier supply chain in the logistics firms in Industry 4.0 within the circular economy and the development of a conceptual framework for usage. In addition, it capitalizes on both coordination and collaboration among players through decentralization to obtain maximum fruitful benefits.

Navigating Mediated Spaces: Screens and Connectivity in Ikebukuro Chinatown’s Chinese Diaspora

This research explores the profound impact of digital media on the lives of Chinese immigrants in Ikebukuro Chinatown. It illustrates how the Internet and digital platforms have transformed their economic, social, and identity landscapes. Employing qualitative methods such as surveys and interviews, this study underscores the pivotal role of social media in creating expansive networks. These networks facilitate ethnic entrepreneurship and enhance cultural visibility, contributing to the deterritorialization of traditional community confines. This empowerment enables the Chinese diaspora in Ikebukuro to cultivate a rich, interconnected social tapestry that extends beyond geographic limitations. The findings underscore the central role of digital media mediatization processes in redefining immigrant experiences. Additionally, they promote deeper, more dynamic integration within the host society’s multicultural environment. This transformative shift emphasizes the emergence of a more fluid, networked form of community and identity among immigrants. It challenges conventional enclave models and offers new perspectives on diaspora engagement in the digital age.

Expanding the boundaries of digital orientation research: Scale development and validation

Firms keep struggling to realize the benefits of digital transformation processes. Research, therefore, proposes implementing a firm-wide organizational configuration with a digital orientation (DO) fostering digital innovation and transformation initiatives. However, exploration of DO remains somewhat constrained as existing measurement approaches are limited to secondary data. In this study, we develop a new scale to measure DO, specifically in survey-based research. Leveraging survey data from 1,488 top executives of German companies and drawing on the resource-based view, we empirically validate that our scale captures the performance-enhancing effects of DO.

Open data platforms: Design principles for embracing outlaw innovators

Open data platforms freely provide citizens with access to public data, thus enabling improved governance transparency, enhanced public services, and increased civic engagement. However, unlocking the potential of this digital transformation strategy requires that public institutions manage the tension between public and private interests. Furthermore, even when public institutions break down traditional barriers for citizens’ access to data, the potential users often lack the knowledge to leverage it in meaningful ways. Open data platforms therefore tend to fall short of expectations. Leveraging a 10-year action design research study (ADR) in the Swedish Transport Administration (STA), this paper develops design principles for creating value-generating open data platforms in the public domain. The ADR project was initiated to assist STA in its efforts to deal with outlaw innovators who scraped train data from different websites to develop travel apps. Through three iterative design cycles that eventually led to the formation of a new open data platform, the outlaw innovators increasingly became valued partners in the digital transformation process. Theorizing this development process, this paper offers three design principles that provide guidance to public institutions aspiring to digitally transform by making public data accessible. We also reflect upon how these institutions might mitigate the risks associated with partnering with outlaw innovators in the pursuit of an open data strategy.

Digital toy design: A doll head modeling method based on model matching and texture generation

With the development of technology and the improvement of living standards, consumer demand for toy products has also changed. More people are showing strong interest and demand for digital toy products. However, in the current digital toy design process, extracting the hairstyle features of the doll’s head is still a challenge. Therefore, this study extracts the two-dimensional contour of the target hairstyle and matches it with the template hairstyle in the database. Then, combining hair texture information and hairstyle structural features, fine geometric texture details are generated on the hairstyle mesh surface. Finally, a doll head modeling method based on model matching and texture generation is proposed. The results showed that the hairstyle of the Generative model was almost the same as the real hairstyle. Compared with the modeling methods based on interactive genetic algorithm and digital image, the average F1 value of this method was 0.95, and the mean absolute error was the smallest. The accuracy of the target model modeling was 95.4%, and the area enclosed by the receiver operating characteristic curve and coordinate axis was 0.965. In summary, the doll head modeling method based on model matching and texture generation proposed in this study can generate high-precision and realistic hairstyle models corresponding to the hairstyle. The overall shape and local geometric details of the hairstyle can meet the needs of 3D printing, providing certain reference significance for hairstyle reconstruction.

Specific Features of the Development of Electrical Engineering Enterprises in the Conditions of Digitalization of the Economy

Article discusses the concept of digitalization, its role and importance in the development of the electrical engineering industry. The essence of the digital transformation process, the strategy of applying this process to the activities of enterprises and ways of implementing this strategy, including the introduction of modern information systems and software products improvement of the quality of products and services, trends in the development of electrical engineering products in the industry were discussed.

Digital Transformation Strategies and Practices for Corporates

Under the wave of global digital transformation, enterprises are facing great challenges and opportunities. Digital transformation is not only a technological innovation, but also an all-round upgrade of business model and organizational structure. This thesis studies the core value of enterprise digital transformation and redefines the connotation of digital transformation. It analyzes the reasons for enterprise digital transformation and points out the core strategy and path of enterprise digital transformation. Taking the automobile manufacturing industry as an example to analyze the practice and thinking of the digital transformation process, it is concluded that digital transformation also helps multi-factory collaboration, supply chain information opening, global transparent management, cost reduction, improving the order delivery satisfaction rate, and supporting the complex production requirements and diversified production modes. However, digital transformation also faces challenges such as data security, technology risks, and organizational changes. Enterprises need to strengthen security measures and build a digital ecosystem to adapt to the development needs of the digital economy and achieve sustainable development.

Sketch, CAD, or simulate the build? Exploring novice designers’ design representation use in design for additive manufacturing

ABSTRACT The growing adoption of digital tools to support additive manufacturing (AM) calls for designers to rethink their use of design representations in the design process. For example, designers can automate concept generation through generative design, reducing reliance on conceptual sketches. Little research has explored designers’ use of design representations in design for AM (DfAM). We explored this gap through an observational study with novice designers involving an open-ended DfAM task, and their use of design representations was captured using eye-tracking. Overall, participants spent a significant amount of time CAD modeling their designs compared to using other design representations such as sketches and build simulations. Moreover, participants’ design representation usage did not relate to the creativity of their designs. However, participants who generate high-performing designs spent more time CAD modeling and less time sketching – a novel and important finding from our study. Therefore, the advancement of digital design tools and the growing adoption of digital manufacturing processes may result in designers conceptualizing their solutions in embodiment-based tools such as CAD and relying less on low-fidelity tools such as sketching. Our results provide an essential first step toward creating a generalized framework for designers to employ different design representations in DfAM.

DIGITAL COMMUNICATION CHANNELS IN THE ENTERPRISE ECOSYSTEM

Digital communication channels have become a crucial factor in the modern business ecosystem of enterprises. This scientific article provides a systematic analysis of digital channels, their role, and significance within the context of the enterprise ecosystem. Based on a developed proprietary typology, the research scrutinizes diverse digital channels employed by various stakeholders to promote products and achieve their objectives. The analysis unveils the advantages and disadvantages of each channel type, emphasizing their role in ensuring effective communication within the enterprise ecosystem. The article also highlights an element of scientific novelty that can enrich the understanding of digital communication processes. The research calls for further exploration in the field of digital communication to gain a deeper understanding of its impact on enterprises and the development of contemporary business. This article represents a significant contribution to the study of digital communication issues in the context of the enterprise ecosystem.

Constructing risk in trustworthy digital repositories

PurposeThis article investigates the construction of risk within trustworthy digital repository audits. It contends that risk is a social construct, and social factors influence how stakeholders in digital preservation processes comprehend and react to risk.Design/methodology/approachThis research employs a qualitative research design involving in-depth semi-structured interviews with stakeholders in the Trustworthy Digital Repository Audit and Certification (TRAC) process, and document analysis of the TRAC checklist and audit reports. I apply an analytic framework based on the Model for the Social Construction of Risk in Digital Preservation to this data.FindingsThe findings validate the argument that risk in digital preservation is indeed socially constructed and demonstrate that the eight factors in the Model for the Social Construction of Risk in Digital Preservation do indeed influence how stakeholders constructed their understanding of risk. Of the eight factors in the model, communication, expertise, uncertainty and vulnerability were found to be the most influential in the construction of risk during the TRAC audit process. The influence of complexity, organizations political culture, were more limited.Originality/valueThis article brings new insights to digital preservation by demonstrating the importance of understanding risk as a social construct. I argue that risk identification and/or assessment is only the first step in the long-term preservation of digital information and show that perceptions of risk in digital preservation are shaped by social factors by applying theories of social construction and risk perception to an analysis of the TRAC process.

Beyond the backyard: Unraveling the geographies of citizens’ engagement in digital participatory planning

Despite the emergence of virtual spaces as arenas for public participation, the geographies of digital participation have gained relatively little attention. Besides considering who participates and why, there is an evident gap in research considering the spatial relationships between the participants of digital urban planning processes and the spaces that are the subject of their participation. This paper proposes a working concept of the spatiality of participation that distinguishes between the spaces in which participation occurs, the spatial realities of the participants, and the spaces as objects of participatory planning. Relationships between these dimensions are investigated empirically with a Public Participation GIS study set in Espoo, Finland, involving 1,731 citizens and over 6,800 future planning and development ideas mapped across the city. The results of the study support prior research observing that e-participation has the potential to spatially expand participation processes both in terms of the involved public and the spatial knowledge they produce. However, our results also show that online participation may capture spatial ties between people and places that differ from those of traditional participation modes, ranging from place-protective behaviors close to the residential location to more casual spatial attachments.

Recent Evidence on the Digitalization Process in Indonesia's Micro and Small Enterprises

The digital transformation process in micro and small enterprises (MSEs) in Indonesia is still a black box, and existing findings regarding digitalization in this business group are still very limited and fragmented. Considering the above background and the important contribution that MSEs can make to the economy and employment opportunities, as well as poverty alleviation in Indonesia, this paper aims to examine the current progress in the transition process from analog/conventional technology to digital technology (DT) in Indonesian MSEs based on the latest secondary data from the Central Statistics Agency (BPS), and primary data collected from online surveys. The finding suggests that although there has been progress in recent years, as demonstrated by the increasing number of MSEs using the internet, Indonesian MSEs still lag in the adoption of digital technology.