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Temporal Perspective (temporal + perspective)
Selected AbstractsA temporal perspective of the computer game development processINFORMATION SYSTEMS JOURNAL, Issue 5 2009Patrick Stacey Abstract., This paper offers an insight into the games software development process from a time perspective by drawing on an in-depth study in a games development organization. The wider market for computer games now exceeds the annual global revenues of cinema. We have, however, only a limited scholarly understanding of how games studios produce games. Games projects require particular attention because their context is unique. Drawing on a case study, the paper offers a theoretical conceptualization of the development process of creative software, such as games software. We found that the process, as constituted by the interactions of developers, oscillates between two modes of practice: routinized and improvised, which sediment and flux the working rhythms in the context. This paper argues that while we may predeterminately lay down the broad stages of creative software development, the activities that constitute each stage, and the transition criteria from one to the next, may be left to the actors in the moment, to the temporality of the situation as it emerges. If all development activities are predefined, as advocated in various process models, this may leave little room for opportunity and the creative fruits that flow from opportunity, such as enhanced features, aesthetics and learning. [source] What we want to do versus what we think we should do: an empirical investigation of intrapersonal conflictJOURNAL OF BEHAVIORAL DECISION MAKING, Issue 5 2002Kathleen M. O'Connor Abstract People often feel torn between what they want to do and what they believe they should do. As a result, they experience intrapersonal conflict. For example, people know that they should avoid credit card debt, but they want to splurge on just one more purchase. Following Loewenstein's (1996) temporal perspective to understanding internal conflict and inconsistency, we offer three studies that empirically demonstrate (1) a distinction between the want self and the should self, (2) that behavior is more closely linked to the want self, (3) that the want self is the self that is temporally inconsistent, and (4) that adopting a want versus should perspective can have a significant impact on actual behavior. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source] Brahms's Motivic Harmonies and Contemporary Tonal Theory: Three Case Studies from the Chamber MusicMUSIC ANALYSIS, Issue 1 2009Peter H. Smith ABSTRACT In his classic essay ,Issues in Composition', Carl Dahlhaus posits a dialectical relationship in Brahms between the function of harmony as a source for motivic ,individualisation' and as a basis for large-scale formal organisation. This dialectic may be profitably engaged in light of the current debate between Schenkerian and neo-Riemannian views of harmony, with Brahms's Sextet in G major, String Quartet in C minor and String Quintet in G major serving as analytical case studies. These case studies demonstrate the insights that both Schenkerian and neo-Riemannian perspectives might afford while drawing attention to the need to engage the two approaches critically to achieve a deeper analytical understanding. The analyses also underscore the importance of formal context and temporal perspective in evaluating harmonic relationships. The presence of tonally centred prolongational structures in no way denies the potential for neo-Riemannian perspectives to shed light on aspects of the development of Brahms's motivic harmonies. Parsimonious transformations in the motivic dimension likewise do not invalidate Schenkerian insights into each movement's rock-solid articulation of its tonality. Brahms's range of compositional strategies requires a flexible analytical response, sufficiently consistent to be by implication theoretically coherent, yet subtly differentiated in the specific Schenkerian and neo-Riemannian explorations. [source] Prophecy and the near future: Thoughts on macroeconomic, evangelical, and punctuated timeAMERICAN ETHNOLOGIST, Issue 3 2007JANE I. GUYER A view from 1950s and 1960s Britain suggests that the public culture of temporality in the United States has shifted from a consequential focus on reasoning toward the near future to a combination of response to immediate situations and orientation to a very long-term horizon. This temporal perspective is most marked in the public rhetoric of macroeconomics, but it also corresponds in remarkable ways to evangelicals' views of time. In this article, I trace the optionality and consonance of this shift toward the relative evacuation of the near future in religion and economics by examining different theoretical positions within each domain. In conclusion, I suggest that the near future is being reinhabited by forms of punctuated time, such as the dated schedules of debt and other specific event-driven temporal frames. [source] Project management and high-value superyacht projects: An improvisational and temporal perspectivePROJECT MANAGEMENT JOURNAL, Issue 1 2010Steve Leybourne Abstract This article considers specific elements of the project management of high-value deliverables in an under-researched sector. Specifically, it looks at ways in which change is accommodated in complex projects where scope, delivery, and cost are relatively inflexible. An emerging literature considers improvisational working within project-based work, which dilutes the "plan, then execute" paradigm that has shaped project work for some time. This research contributes to the temporal and rhythmic aspects of work in this area, linking with extant theory on, among other areas, punctuated equilibrium and organizational "rhythm," and identifies parallels between improvised project work and established academic theory. [source] | |||||||||||||