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Call for Contributors - First Person Scholar
by Gerald Voorhees 28 Oct '13

28 Oct '13

On behalf of the editors; please email them, not me! First Person Scholar (firstpersonscholar.com) is seeking submissions for our weekly games studies periodical. As a publication, it is our aim to occupy the niche between academic blogs and scholarly journals in establishing an informed, sustained conversation. Our articles, read by thousands a month, are relatively short, thought-provoking pieces that are intended to stimulate debate on games and games scholarship. In that respect, our contributors are encouraged to take calculated risks with their submissions; we want to hear scholars think out loud about gaming in a way that challenges accepted definitions and practices. If journals document where games studies has gone, we are interested in where games studies is going. First Person Scholar publishes in three broad categories: COMMENTARIES Editor: Kent Aardse (kent.aardse(a)firstpersonscholar.com) The commentary section exists as a venue for writers to tackle ideas still being worked through in their minds. Commentaries begin with the discussion of a game, and from there work outwards to include theory and criticism that may be particularly relevant in such discussion. We encourage authors to be daring and experimental in their discussion. Commentaries should attempt to tackle issues in game scholarship which are not all too common. ESSAYS Editor: Jason Hawreliak (jason.hawreliak(a)firstpersonscholar.com) Essay submissions for FPS are meant to address critical, theoretical, and methodological considerations as they pertain to game studies. Although essays should be theoretically grounded, theory should be discussed in the context of particular games or play experiences. If “Commentaries” are inductive, moving from the particular to the general, then “Essays” are deductive, moving from the general to the particular. BOOK REVIEWS Editor: Michael Hancock (michael.hancock(a)firstpersonscholar.com) The purpose of the book reviews is two-fold: to act as a resource for game scholars and to critique and comment on the book’s arguments. As such, the book reviews are divisible into summary and commentary sections. We are also interested in publishing Second Takes, wherein a writer presents an alternate take on an existing review, and Comparative Studies, wherein a writer compares two or more game-related books. GENERAL ARTICLE GUIDELINES We invite submissions from graduate students, as well as established and emerging scholars, on games and new media. All documents are reviewed by the editorial staff prior to publication. We may request revisions prior to accepting your article. All submissions must meet the following criteria: • 500-2000 words. Include your name, as well as a fifty-word bio. • Scholarly but informal in tone. • Articles must be submitted by Sunday in advance of a Wednesday publication. • Essays and Commentaries require at least three (3) academic sources (including texts, journal articles, researched blog posts, etc.) Please direct general inquiries to Editor-in-Chief, Steve Wilcox ( steve.wilcox(a)firstpersonscholar.com)

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Fan Studies Network 2013 Symposium Programme
by Bertha Chin 28 Oct '13

28 Oct '13

Dear all, We are delighted to announce the programme for the very first Fan Studies Network symposium, hosted by the School of Political, Social and International Studies at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, on Saturday 30th November 2013. You can find the programme here: http://fanstudies.wordpress.com/fan-studies-network-symposium-2013/ The event will begin with a keynote from Professor Matt Hills (Aberystwyth University). Featuring an international cohort of over 30 speakers, there will be themed panels on spaces and performance, transculture, gender, “classic” fandoms, textualities, and celebrity. There will also be a participatory “speed geeking” session, featuring a number of scholars sharing research in its early stages. Registration is open until Monday November 18th 2013. Cost: £16.75/£37.75 Unwaged/Waged. You can register on the symposium website: http://www.uea.ac.uk/politics-international-media/events/fan-studies-networ… and talk about the event on Twitter using #FSN2013. All are welcome! *Conference Organisers:* Lucy Bennett and Tom Phillips (FSN chairs) Bertha Chin, Bethan Jones, Richard McCulloch, Rebecca Williams (FSN board) http://fanstudies.wordpress.com/ Dr. Bertha Chin Independent Scholar <http://cardiff.academia.edu/BerthaChin> Board Member, Fan Studies Network (http://fanstudies.wordpress.com/)

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CFP: Computer Culture (SWPACA Conference, February 19-22, 2014) (Second Notice)
by Andrew Shi-hwa Chen 26 Oct '13

26 Oct '13

Computer Culture area 35th Annual Southwest Popular / American Culture Association Conference February 19-22, 2014 Hyatt Regency, Albuquerque, NM www.southwestpca.org <http://www.swtxpca.org> We are accepting papers and forming panels for the area of Computer Culture, as one of the many areas within the 35th annual conference of the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association (SWPACA). The conference was formerly named the Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association (SW/TX PCA/ACA). Computer is broadly defined as any computational device, whether smartphone or abacus, and any form of information technology, including the origins of concepts of interactive text which may predate computational devices as traditionally conceived. Culture is rooted in the concept of cultural meaning. We ask not just operational questions such as, "How do people communicate using computers?" but questions of meaning such as, "What does it mean when people communicate using computers instead of using pre-computer approaches to communication?" "Computer Culture" can be understood in a variety of ways: - the culture of the computer, that is, as computers interact with each other, what culture do they have of their own? - the culture around the computer, that is, (sub)cultures associated with the production, maintenance, use, and destruction of computers - the culture through the computer, that is, explicit treatment of how computer mediation influences cultural phenomena that exist or has existed in forms that did not involve computer mediation, and what these influences mean - the culture by the computer, that is, the ways in which new (sub)cultures or (sub)cultural phenomena have arisen because of computers and understandings of these given awareness of the nature and/or workings of computers Example questions associated with Computer Culture would include, but not be limited to: - What implications are there because of the powerfulness of (computer/information) technology ___ and are these implications beneficial, detrimental, inevitable, or avoidable? - What are the cultural origins of computers, computer/information technologies, and practices (such as ____) associated with them? What is the descriptive and prescriptive outlook for the conditions of those cultural forces associated with those cultural origins? - How do cultural forces (such as changes from one generation to the next, trends in education or society, or other cultural phenomena) impact (and are impacted by) computer/information technologies/market-forces, and what do these impacts (in either direction or both) mean? Paper topics might include (but are not limited to) those that address: - issues of (re)presentation through computers (Web site analysis and design), - methods of discourse involving computers (blogging, Twitter, social networks, viral video, live feeds), - theories focused on the relationship between computers and culture, - uses of computers in particular contexts and the impacts thereof (computers and pedagogy, online literary journals), - the relationship between computers and cultural forces (such as news, politics, and terrorism), - security/privacy/fraud and computers (online security issues, spam, scams, and hoaxes), - and others. While we will consider any relevant paper, we have a preference for those that involve transferable methodological approaches. This is an interdisciplinary conference, and other conference attendees would benefit from being able to adapt your research methods to their future research. Scholars, teachers, professionals, artists, and others interested in computer culture are encouraged to participate. Graduate students are also particularly welcome with award opportunities for the best graduate papers. More information about awards can be found at http://southwestpca.org/conference/graduate-student-awards/ Specifically, we would like to highlight the following award opportunities: - The "Computer Culture and Game Studies Award" - The "Heldrich-Dvorak Travel Fellowships" Given how papers may often fall into multiple categories, there may be other award opportunities listed at http://southwestpca.org/conference/graduate-student-awards/ which would be appropriate for your paper. (However, each presenter may only apply for one – not including the Travel Fellowships, which can be in addition.) If you wish to form your own panel, we would be glad to facilitate your needs. This conference is a presentation opportunity. For a publication opportunity, we encourage you to consider submitting your paper to the Southwest PCA/ACA’s new journal, Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy, at http://journaldialogue.org/call-for-papers/ Please pass along this call to friends and colleagues. For consideration, submit 100-200 word abstracts and proposals for panels before Friday, November 1, 2013 to the conference’s electronic submission system which can be found at: http://conference2014.southwestpca.org/ If you have any questions, contact the Computer Culture area co-chairs, Andrew Chen (andrewsw(a)gmail.com) and Joseph Chaney (jchaney(a)iusb.edu)

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NMS & MMC open during AoIR
by Steve Jones 25 Oct '13

25 Oct '13

New Media & Society openly available during AoIR conference, sign up at http://nms.sagepub.com, and Mobile Media & Communication open right now too, http://mmc.sagepub.com - and looking for submissions. Steve

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CfP - Summer School ICT4Democracy - New Delhi, India
by RUßMANN Uta | FHWien der WKW 25 Oct '13

25 Oct '13

Dear AoIRists, - Please cross-post and distribute as appropriate - Please find attached the CfP for the "International Summer School on Information and Communication Technology for Democracy". March 9th - 15th, 2014 New Delhi, India Organized jointly by: Society for Education and Research Development, India & HumanIT, Karlstad University, Sweden In co-operation with: Department of Communication, Marketing & Sales, FHWien University of Applied Sciences of WKW, Austria & Institute for Informatics and Media, Uppsala University, Sweden & IPMZ - Institute for Mass Communication and Media Research, University of Zurich, Switzerland & Zentrum für E-governance, Donau Universität Krems, Austria Extended abstracts deadline is November 10th, 2013. Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have emerged as powerful tools for reaching to the ever-increasing information demands of the society. The increasing diversity of ICTs and their equally diverse applications in different domains of human life are posing a lot of questions every moment. Researchers around the globe are working to take-up these questions and challenges. This summer school is focused upon political aspects of ICTs and in particular their role in political and democratic development. The development of E-government and E-services have been remarkable the last five years and when it comes to ICTs for social and political change, the recent popular uprisings in North Africa and the Middle East have provided us with examples of how information circulation using online platforms can induce processes of democratization and political developments. We are especially inviting participation from students who are at the stage of preparing their doctoral or masters' theses qualifications as well as activists, government officials, practitioners, NGO and aid agency workers to participate in the summer school to share experiences and learn from each other. The school is interactive in character, and is composed of keynote lectures and seminars, tutorials and workshops with student presentations. The idea is to encourage participants to build up collegial relationships. The topics and angles of this summer school will be relevant for students from as various academic disciplines as Political Science, Informatics, Computer Science, Media & Communication Studies, Sociology, Psychology, Philosophy, and Law and Anthropology. Our aim is to create a good mix of research and practice, theory and empiric material, we cordially invite projects, government organizations, as well as other senior researchers to present papers or to organize workshops as part of the summer school. We are aiming at between 25 to 40 participants and 15 invited faculty (around 7 international and 8 Indian keynote speakers, workshop organizers, seminar leaders and paper supervisors). Research papers from all disciplines as well as practitioner papers are welcome to the summer school; contributions on application scenarios, use cases, and good practices; research with an empirical focus; and inter-disciplinary work. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * E-governance * E-government and E-administration * E-participation * E-campaigning * E-voting * ICTs role in social and political change * ICTs for corruption fighting, transparency and accountability * ICTs for civic empowerment and gender equality * ICTs for grass roots media and freedom of expression * ICTs for poverty reduction * ICTs for Peace More information about the summer school can also be found at: http://serd.org.in/ss2014/ Best regards Uta Russmann Endowed Professorship for Strategic Communication Management & New Media Department of Communication, Marketing & Sales FHWien University of Applied Sciences of WKW Währinger Gürtel 97, 1180 Vienna, Austria Phone: +43 (1) 476 77-5848, Fax: +43 (1) 476 77-5704 uta.russmann(a)fh-wien.ac.at<mailto:uta.russmann@fh-wien.ac.at> www.fh-wien.ac.at/kommas<http://www.fh-wien.ac.at/kommas> **************************NEWS********************************** Besuchen Sie den Stand der FHWien der WKW auf der Master Messe Wien<http://www.fh-wien.ac.at/nc/events/anmeldung/fhwien-der-wkw-auf-der-master-…> im Austria Center Vienna am 14. November 2013 von 9-17 Uhr und informieren Sie sich über unsere Master-Studiengänge und den International MBA in Management & Communications! Sie finden uns auch unter facebook.com/FHWien<http://www.facebook.com/FHWien>, twitter.com/FHWienAT<http://www.twitter.com/FHWienAT> und auf Google+<https://plus.google.com/u/0/112183961531581231679> ******************FHWien der WKW: Die führende Fachhochschule für Management & Kommunikation******************

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IR14 book launch: Twitter and Society
by Axel Bruns 25 Oct '13

25 Oct '13

Dear AoIRists, My co-editors and I are delighted to launch our edited collection Twitter and Society, featuring the work of many of AoIR's leading lights. We'll be launching the book in a Roundtable session on Saturday 26 Oct., 1.30 p.m., in room Confluence B, with many of the authors and editors in attendance and outlining their contributions to the book. Please join us to find out more! There's also a @twitsocbook Twitter account which will live-tweet the launch for those of you who can't be there in person. Below are the full details for the book - add it to your wishlists, gift it to someone for Christmas, or otherwise pass on the news to your friends and colleagues: Twitter and Society Edited by Katrin Weller, Axel Bruns, Jean Burgess, Merja Mahrt & Cornelius Puschmann PB | US$ 42.95 £ 26.00 € 33.00 SFR 40.00 | 978-1-4331-2169-2 HC | US$ 149.95 £ 92.00 € 115.35 SFR 139.00 | 978-1-4331-2170-8 Digital Formations; vol.89 Since its launch in 2006, Twitter has evolved from a niche service to a mass phenomenon; it has become instrumental for everyday communication as well as for political debates, crisis communication, marketing, and cultural participation. But the basic idea behind it has stayed the same: users may post short messages (tweets) of up to 140 characters and follow the updates posted by other users. Drawing on the experience of leading international Twitter researchers from a variety of disciplines and contexts, this is the first book to document the various notions and concepts of Twitter communication, and provides a detailed and comprehensive overview of current research into the uses of Twitter across a wide range of disciplines. It also presents methods for analyzing Twitter data and outlines their practical application in different research contexts. Contents: Foreword: Debanalising Twitter: The Transformation of an Object of Study Richard Rogers Twitter and Society: An Introduction Katrin Weller, Axel Bruns, Jean Burgess, Merja Mahrt, & Cornelius Puschmann 1 Twitter and the Rise of Personal Publics Jan-Hinrik Schmidt 2 Structural Layers of Communication on Twitter Axel Bruns & Hallvard Moe 3 Structure of Twitter: Social and Technical Alexander Halavais 4 The Politics of Twitter Data Cornelius Puschmann & Jean Burgess 5 Data Collection on Twitter Devin Gaffney & Cornelius Puschmann 6 Metrics for Understanding Communication on Twitter Axel Bruns & Stefan Stieglitz 7 Sentiment Analysis and Time Series with Twitter Mike Thelwall 8 Computer-Assisted Content Analysis of Twitter Data Jessica Einspänner, Mark Dang-Anh, & Caja Thimm 9 Ethnographic and Qualitative Research on Twitter Alice E. Marwick 10 Legal Questions of Twitter Research Michael Beurskens 11 From #FollowFriday to YOLO: Exploring the Cultural Salience of Twitter Memes Alex Leavitt 12 Twitter and Geographical Location Rowan Wilken 13 Privacy on Twitter, Twitter on Privacy Michael Zimmer & Nicholas Proferes 14 Automated Twitter Accounts Miranda Mowbray 15 Information Retrieval for Twitter Data Ke Tao, Claudia Hauff, Fabian Abel, & Geert-Jan Houben 16 Documenting Contemporary Society by Preserving Relevant Information from Twitter Thomas Risse, Wim Peters, Pierre Senellart, & Diana Maynard 17 The Perils and Pleasures of Tweeting with Fans Nancy Baym 18 Tweeting about the Telly: Live TV, Audiences, and Social Media Stephen Harrington 19 Following the Yellow Jersey: Tweeting the Tour de France Tim Highfield 20 Twitter and Sports: Football Fandom in Emerging and Established Markets Axel Bruns, Katrin Weller, & Stephen Harrington 21 Public Enterprise-Related Communication and Its Impact on Social Media Issue Management Stefan Stieglitz & Nina Krüger 22 Twitter, Brands, and User Engagement Tanya Nitins & Jean Burgess 23 Political Discourses on Twitter: Networking Topics, Objects, and People Axel Maireder & Julian Ausserhofer 24 Twitter in Politics and Elections: Insights from Scandinavia Anders Olof Larsson & Hallvard Moe 25 The Gift of the Gab: Retweet Cartels and Gift Economies on Twitter Johannes Paßmann, Thomas Boeschoten, & Mirko Tobias Schäfer 26 The Use of Twitter by Professional Journalists: Results of a Newsroom Survey in Germany Christoph Neuberger, Hanna Jo vom Hofe, & Christian Nuernbergk 27 Twitter as an Ambient News Network Alfred Hermida 28 Crisis Communication in Natural Disasters: The Queensland Floods and Christchurch Earthquakes Axel Bruns & Jean Burgess 29 Twitpic-ing the Riots: Analysing Images Shared on Twitter during the 2011 U.K. Riots Farida Vis, Simon Faulkner, Katy Parry, Yana Manyukhina, & Lisa Evans Twitter in Academia 30 Twitter in Scholarly Communication Merja Mahrt, Katrin Weller, & Isabella Peters 31 How Useful Is Twitter for Learning in Massive Communities? An Analysis of Two MOOCs Timo van Treeck & Martin Ebner Epilogue: Why Study Twitter? Cornelius Puschmann, Axel Bruns, Merja Mahrt, Katrin Weller, and Jean Burgess -- Dr Axel Bruns http://snurb.info/ - http://mappingonlinepublics.net/ http://produsage.org/ - http://www.amazon.com/author/axel.bruns/ ARC Centre for Creative Industries and Innovation http://cci.edu.au/ Associate Professor, Media & Communication a.bruns(a)qut.edu.au Creative Industries Faculty, Z1-515, CIP Twitter: @snurb_dot_info Queensland University of Technology +61 7 31385548 Musk Ave, Kelvin Grove, Qld. 4059, Australia CRICOS No.: 00213J

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Re: [Air-L] Feminist STS and Communication Technologies: Air-L Digest, Vol 111, Issue 23
by Irish, Sharon Lee 25 Oct '13

25 Oct '13

Hello Rob Gehl, Those of us teaching the Distributed Open Collaborative Course (DOCC) this semester, Dialogues on Feminism and Technology, have made a collective bibliography and shared our syllabi through the link for Self-Directed Learners: http://femtechnet.newschool.edu/selfdirectedlearners/ Several amazing and hard-working scholars created this resource in the summer of 2013 and it includes recent as well as foundational texts, many of which relate to STS, communications and new media. Sharon Sharon Irish Graduate School of Library and Information Science University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 501 E. Daniel St. MC-493 Champaign, IL 61820 slirish(a)illinois.edu(mobile) 217.766-2411 http://sharonirish.org On 10/24/13 5:00 PM, "air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org" <air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org> wrote: >Send Air-L mailing list submissions to > air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > >To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org >or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org > >You can reach the person managing the list at > air-l-owner(a)listserv.aoir.org > >When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific >than "Re: Contents of Air-L digest..." > > >Today's Topics: > > 1. Latest issue and Call for Papers: International Journal of > Sociotechnology and Knowledge Development (Jose Abdelnour-Nocera) > 2. Tenure-Track Faculty Position @ UMD iSchool (Brian Butler) > 3. Feminist STS and communication technologies? (Robert W. Gehl) > 4. Historical Twitter Data Raffle (Stuart Shulman) > 5. Re: Feminist STS and communication technologies? > (michael_muller(a)us.ibm.com) > 6. Re: Feminist STS and communication technologies? > (Leurs, K.H.A. (Koen)) > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >Message: 1 >Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 12:03:41 +0100 >From: Jose Abdelnour-Nocera <Jose.Abdelnour-Nocera(a)uwl.ac.uk> >To: "Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org" <Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org> >Subject: [Air-L] Latest issue and Call for Papers: International > Journal of Sociotechnology and Knowledge Development >Message-ID: <CE8EBCB7.146F4%jose.abdelnour-nocera(a)uwl.ac.uk> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" > >Dear friends, > > >I am please to announce our latest IJSKD special issue on Human Work >Interaction Design. > > >I would like to have a special issue on the Internet of Things and >Sociotechnical Design, if you would like to be a guest editor of this >please send me a 500 word abstract/proposal and short BIO. You could >always submit an individual paper reporting on research or reflecting on >any aspect of Sociotechnology and Internet Studies. > > >5(3) will be out really soon as well. > > >Best, > > >Jos? > > > >The contents of the latest issue of: >International Journal of Sociotechnology and Knowledge Development (IJSKD) > >Official Publication of the Information Resources Management Association >Volume 5, Issue 2, April ? June 2013 > >Published: Quarterly in Print and Electronically > >ISSN: 1941-6253 EISSN: 1941-6261 > >Published by IGI Publishing, Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA > >www.igi-global.com/ijskd<http://www.igi-global.com/ijskd> > > > >Editors-in-Chief: Jos? Abdelnour-Nocera (University of West London, UK) >and Constance Kampf (Aarhus University, Denmark) > > >GUEST EDITORIAL PREFACE > >Special Issue on Human Work Interaction Design > >Arminda Guerra Lopes, Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute, >University of Madeira, Funchal, Portugal and Paola Amaldi, Department of >Psychology, School of Life and Medical Sciences, University of >Hertfordshire, Hatfield, England, UK > >To obtain a copy of the Guest Editorial Preface, click on the link below. >http://www.igi-global.com/pdf.aspx?tid%3D89783%26ptid%3D71419%26ctid%3D15% >26t%3DSpecial%20Issue%20on%20Human%20Work%20Interaction%20Design > > > > >PAPER ONE > >An Organizational Study into the Concept of ?Automation Policy? in a >Safety Critical Socio-Technical System > >Paola Amaldi (Department of Psychology, University of Hertfordshire, >Hatfield, UK) and Anthony Smoker (NATS, Southampton, UK) > >Although automation has been introduced in all areas of public life, what >seems to be missing is a reflection at the organizational or societal >level about a policy of automation. By this the authors intend >appropriate declarations made at the level of rationale, future plans and >strategies to achieve intended goals and most importantly how those >achievements will impact on various aspects of societal life, from legal >responsibilities to moral and socio economic issues. Implicit in this is >what is expected of both the human and technical system actors. In some >public spheres these issues are becoming quite controversial because >automation opens up possibilities of profound structural re-organization; >however, people lack a discussion across and within different work >domains to help us review methods or even methodological principles >needed to gather and organize knowledge towards the construction of >automation policies. This paper uses the UK Air Navigation Service >Provider i > n the Air Traffic Management Domain known as NATS, as a case study to >illustrate an example of an organization currently undertaking critical >self-reflection about automation policy or the lack of such, along with >the illustration of some unresolved deep concerns raised by the >development, introduction, and continued use of automation. > > >To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below. >http://www.igi-global.com/article/an-organizational-study-into-the-concept >-of-automation-policy-in-a-safety-critical-socio-technical-system/89786 > > >To view a PDF sample of this article, click on the link below. >http://www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=89786 > > > >PAPER TWO > >Speech Interaction Analysis on Collaborative Work at an Elderly Care >Facility > >Tetsuro Chino (Corporate Research & Development Center, Toshiba >Corporation, Kawasaki, Japan), Kentaro Torii (Corporate Research & >Development Center, Toshiba Corporation, Kawasaki, Japan), Naoshi >Uchihira (School of Knowledge Science, Japan Advanced Institute of >Science and Technology, Nomi City, Japan) and Yuji Hirabayashi (Institute >of Technology, Shimizu Corporation, Tokyo, Japan) > >Nursing and care are central aspects of healthcare services, and >improvements in the quality and efficiency of healthcare processes are >important issues. Since these tasks involve both physical actions and >information processing, they can be described as what the authors call >?action-oriented intellectual services.? There are striking mismatches >between such services and current information and communication >technology systems, which are generally designed as tools for deskwork. >In addition, almost all nursing and care services are realized by the >collaborative work of multiple staff members in distributed locations in >the field, a situation with which conventional communication media are of >limited utility. A smart voice tweet system for nursing and care is >proposed to overcome these problems. To realize this technology, one >needs to understand how staff communicates to realize collaborative work >in healthcare domains. The authors therefore observed bathing assistance, >night > shift operations, and handover tasks at a private elderly care home for >8 days. The authors collected approximately 400 h of recorded speech, >42,000 transcribed utterances, data from an indoor location-tracking >system, and handwritten notes by human observers. The authors also >analyzed speech interactions in the bathing assistance task. The authors >found that (1) staff members were almost always speaking during tasks, >(2) remote communication was rare, (3) about 75% of utterances were >spoken to the residents, (4) the intended recipient of utterances was >frequently switched, and (5) about 17% of utterances contained personal >names. The authors also attempted clustering utterances into what the >authors call ?passages?, and about 33% of passages contained only one >personal name. These results should be applicable in semi-automatic >long-term care record taking. > > >To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below. >http://www.igi-global.com/article/speech-interaction-analysis-on-collabora >tive-work-at-an-elderly-care-facility/89787 > > >To view a PDF sample of this article, click on the link below. >http://www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=89787 > > > >PAPER THREE > >Work Analysis Methods in Practice: The Context of Collaborative Review of >CAD Models > >Pedro Campos (Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute, University of >Madeira, Funchal, Portugal), Hildegardo Noronha (Madeira Interactive >Technologies Institute, University of Madeira, Funchal, Portugal) and >Arminda Lopes (Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute, University of >Madeira, Funchal, Portugal) > >Human work interaction design is an emerging discipline that aims to >encourage empirical studies and conceptualizations of the interaction >among humans, their variegated social contexts and the technology they >use both within and across these contexts. In this paper the authors >present a virtual reality system for visualization, navigation and >reviewing of 3D CAD models within the oil industry domain. This system >combines a large-screen interaction environment with remote mobile >devices, thus allowing engineers in the field and teams in a control >center to work in collaboration. To navigate through models the system >uses the mobile device?s camera and inertial sensors and takes advantage >of recent natural interaction techniques on large-screen environments. >The authors describe and elaborate around the usage of different work >analysis methods in this complex, real world work domain. The analysis is >based on (i) input from experts in the oil platform engineering field, >(ii) pr > evious and related work and (iii) application of different methods >considering the recent advances in technology. The authors conclude that >hierarchical task analysis was not effective in obtaining a clear, common >vision about the work domain. Storyboarding was the most useful technique >as it promoted the discovery of novelty factors that differentiate the >solution, while simultaneously supporting the human work at offshore >engineering design and review sessions. > > >To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below. >http://www.igi-global.com/article/work-analysis-methods-in-practice/89788 > > >To view a PDF sample of this article, click on the link below. >http://www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=89788 > > > >PAPER FOUR > >Feedback Fidelities in Three Different Types of Crisis Management >Training Environments > >Olga Druzhinina (University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland), Ebba Thora >Hvannberg (University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland) and Gyda >Halldorsdottir (University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland) > >Designing feedback that trainees receive in a training simulator while >practicing non-technical skills in complex cognitive domains is demanding >but, though potentially productive, has received inadequate attention. >This paper describes research which aims to understand the impact of >fidelity on feedback provided during training for crisis management. More >specifically, the goal was to learn whether there were differences >between learning feedback types in three different environments, a >real-life training exercise, a table-top exercise and a design of an >experiential training simulator. The basis for the comparison was a >framework of essential feedback types that emerged from the literature >and three types of fidelities, physical, functional and psychological. >The study showed that there were few occurrences of psychological >fidelities of feedback. It also showed that high fidelity can be achieved >in the absence of feedback forms categorized as psychological, and that >loose > organization of an exercise may lead to significant variation in >learning outcomes in different learning environments. In addition, the >research demonstrated how the fidelity analysis of feedback types can be >useful for designing feedback for learners in a training simulator. > > >To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below. >http://www.igi-global.com/article/feedback-fidelities-in-three-different-t >ypes-of-crisis-management-training-environments/89789 > > >To view a PDF sample of this article, click on the link below. >http://www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=89789 > > >PAPER FIVE > >A Gestural Recognition Interface for Intelligent Wheelchair Users > >Ricardo Proen?a (Instituto Polit?cnico de Castelo Branco, Escola Superior >de Tecnologia, Castelo Branco, Portugal), Arminda Guerra (Instituto >Polit?cnico de Castelo Branco, Escola Superior de Tecnologia, Castelo >Branco, Portugal) and Pedro Campos (Madeira Interactive Technologies >Institute, University of Madeira, Funchal, Portugal) > >The authors present a new system that exploits novel human-machine >interfaces based on the recognition of static gestures of human hands. >The aim is to aid the occupant of a wheelchair to have access to certain >objects in order to facilitate his or her daily life. The authors? >approach is based on simple computational processes and low-cost >hardware. Its development involves a comprehensive approach to computer >vision problems based on video image capture, image segmentation, feature >extraction, pattern recognition and classification. The importance of >this work will be reflected in the way that differently-able users, with >the use of new models of interaction, and in a natural and intuitive way, >will have their life significantly facilitated. > > >To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below. >http://www.igi-global.com/article/a-gestural-recognition-interface-for-int >elligent-wheelchair-users/89790 > > >To view a PDF sample of this article, click on the link below. >http://www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=89790 > > > >PAPER SIX > >A Web-Based Interactive Questionnaire for PV Application > >Zheng Dai (Realtime Targeting, Copenhagen, Denmark) and Kasper Paasch >(Mads Clausen Institute, University of Southern Denmark, S?nderborg, >Denmark) > >Questionnaire is a fundamental method for investigation and research, but >participants get tired about it, because of the impression of being long >and boring, which causes low quality of research. The authors developed >an interactive questionnaire as an effective method to involve responder >actively. The development of this tool is dynamic process, which goes >with a research project called Sunrise-PV. The project is led by the >University of Southern Denmark and is collaboration between local >organizations to popularize PV system in both residential and the >industrial buildings. For such an innovative research, the authors adopt >participatory design as research method to develop the research tool in >several iterations. Moreover, the authors get a balanced perspective >between user needs, market viability, and technical feasibility, which >guide their research focus on the artistic and usability aspects, and >also raise product concepts and the concern of technical issues. > > >To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below. >http://www.igi-global.com/article/a-web-based-interactive-questionnaire-fo >r-pv-application/89791 > > >To view a PDF sample of this article, click on the link below. >http://www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=89791 > > >**************************************************** >For full copies of the above articles, check for this issue of the >International Journal of Sociotechnology and Knowledge Development >(IJSKD) in your institution's library. This journal is also included in >the IGI Global aggregated "InfoSci-Journals" database: >http://www.igi-global.com/eresources/infosci-journals.aspx. >***************************************************** > >CALL FOR PAPERS > >Mission of IJSKD: > >The overall mission of the International Journal of Sociotechnology and >Knowledge Development (IJSKD) is to provide a practical and comprehensive >forum for exchanging research ideas and down-to-earth practices which >bridge the social and technical gap within organizations and society at >large. At the same time it will provide a forum for considering the >ethical issues linked to organizational change and development. It will >encourage interdisciplinary texts that discuss current practices as well >as demonstrating how the advances of - and changes within - technology >affect the growth of society (and vice versa). The aim of the journal is >to bring together the expertise of people who have worked practically in >a changing society across the world for people in the field of >organizational development and technology studies including information >systems development and implementation. > > > >Coverage of IJSKD: > >This journal will look for practical sociotechnical approaches that can >assist practitioners, academics, researchers, and students. A particular >focus will be on new ideas and approaches including studies of their >practical implementation. Appropriate themes might thus include (but are >not restricted to) a sociotechnical perspective on: > > > * Applied Ergonomic Critical success factors (and key performance >indicators) for organizations and technological implementation > * Culture and trust within organizations and their relevance to >technological artifacts > * Design and technology development issues including requirements and >stakeholder participation > * E-government and democracy as affected by technological change > * Empowerment and team development > * HRM issues for innovation and knowledge sharing > * Humanistic redesign and technological politics in organizations > * Implementation issues of change and technology > * Influence of human factors on operational efficiency > * Information systems development > * Innovation > * Knowledge management systems > * Knowledge sharing > * Learning organizations > * Managing organizational knowledge as a strategic asset > * Organizational change > * Performance and quality of working life > * Quality assessment of computer information systems > * Relevance of the worker?s perspective > * Social aspects of automation > * Sociotechnical systems > * Systems failures > * Technological forecasting and social change > * Technology and its role in society and organizations > * Technology in society > * Using knowledge management principles to solve organizational >performance problems > >IGI Global is pleased to offer a special Multi-Year Subscription Loyalty >Program. In this program, customers who subscribe to one or more journals >for a minimum of two years will qualify for secure subscription pricing. >IGI Global pledges to cap their annual price increase at 5%, which >guarantees that the subscription rates for these customers will not >increase by more than 5% annually. > >Submission: > >Prospective authors should note that only original and previously >unpublished articles will be considered. INTERESTED AUTHORS MUST CONSULT >THE JOURNAL?S GUIDELINES FOR MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSIONS at >http://www.igi-global.com/journals/guidelines-for-submission.aspx PRIOR >TO SUBMISSION. All article submissions will be forwarded to at least 3 >members of the Editorial Review Board of the journal for double-blind, >peer review. Final decision regarding acceptance/revision/rejection will >be based on the reviews received from the reviewers. All submissions must >be forwarded electronically. > >All inquiries regarding IJSKD should be directed to the attention of: > >Jos? Abdelnour-Nocera and Constance Kampf >Editors-in-Chief >International Journal of Sociotechnology and Knowledge Development >E-mails: >jose.abdelnour-nocera(a)uwl.ac.uk<mailto:jose.abdelnour-nocera@uwl.ac.uk> >and cka(a)asb.dk<mailto:cka@asb.dk> > >All manuscript submissions to IJSKD should be sent through the online >submission system: > >http://www.igi-global.com/authorseditors/titlesubmission/newproject.aspx >Dr. Jos? Abdelnour Nocera >Reader in Sociotechnical Design >Institute for Practice and Interdisciplinary Research (INSPIRE) >Head of Sociotechnical Centre for Internationalisation and User >Experience >University of West London >St Mary?s Road, Ealing ? London W5 5RF >https://soc.uwl.ac.uk/~jabdelno<http://soc.uwl.ac.uk/~jabdelno> > > >------------------------------ > >Message: 2 >Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 17:04:39 +0000 >From: Brian Butler <bsbutler(a)umd.edu> >To: "air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org" <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> >Subject: [Air-L] Tenure-Track Faculty Position @ UMD iSchool >Message-ID: <F8D0F4CE-6D97-48DF-844C-7EB62919C0A7(a)umd.edu> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > >University of Maryland, College Park >College of Information Studies: Maryland's iSchool >Assistant Professor > >The iSchool at the University of Maryland seeks creative and >forward-thinking individuals for a tenure-track faculty position in a >multicultural and interdisciplinary environment where research and >teaching share the highest priority and colleagues collaborate in all >aspects of their academic work. We seek a colleague whose research and >teaching interests focus on how information can be employed to meet the >needs of entrepreneurial startups, non-profits, government and >non-governmental organizations, and communities. This may include (but is >not limited to): >- Social media and social network analysis in teams and organizations >- Design and evaluation of data management policies, procedures, and >infrastructures >- Sociotechnical, cultural, and organizational aspects of information and >knowledge management >- Innovation and research networks >- Management and evaluation of information systems, services and >innovation > >We are a faculty that engages in a broad range of research with the >shared theme of information, technology and people. This is a 9-month >tenure-track appointment, with opportunities for grant-funded summer >research. Salary and benefits are competitive based upon qualifications >and experience. The ideal candidate will: >- Conduct cutting edge, high impact research that shapes the information >field; >- Craft exceptional educational experiences for students; >- Aspire to leadership roles in relevant professional service; and >- Thrive in an diverse, interdisciplinary environment. > >The iSchool enrolls nearly 500 students in four degree programs: Ph.D. in >Information Studies, Master of Information Management, Master of Library >Science, and Master of Science in Human Computer Interaction; faculty >teach across programs. We are known internationally for our vibrant >program of interdisciplinary research in group and organizational >dynamics, cloud computing, computational linguistics, digital humanities, >health information, knowledge management, information policy, information >retrieval, interface design, online communities, learning environments, >and social media. Several members of our faculty hold joint appointments >in Business, Education, English, and the Institute for Advanced Computer >Studies. More information is available at >http://ischool.umd.edu<http://ischool.umd.edu/>. > >Qualifications. Ph.D. or equivalent in a related area at time of >appointment; demonstrated research excellence; a research agenda with the >potential to attract external support; interest in developing effective >and innovative teaching. > >Application Submission. For best consideration, apply by November 30, >2013. Provide a CV, letter of interest that clearly describes your >primary area(s) of expertise and the specific contributions that you >would make to the iSchool, and separate statements outlining research and >teaching interests. Applications for the position of Assistant Professor, >Information Management (Position #119623) must be submitted through the >University of Maryland's online system at >https://ejobs.umd.edu/postings/22393. > >The University of Maryland is an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity >Employer. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply. > > >------------------------------ > >Message: 3 >Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 11:34:41 -0600 >From: "Robert W. Gehl" <lists(a)robertwgehl.org> >To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org >Subject: [Air-L] Feminist STS and communication technologies? >Message-ID: <52695A31.5090105(a)robertwgehl.org> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > >Hello, all - > >I'd like to get some suggestions for a course I'm teaching. I'm doing an >STS-type course on communication technologies, and I want to include a >unit focusing on gender. Can anyone suggest contemporary feminist- or >gender studies-inflected STS scholarship on communication technologies? >I have a few things in mind, but I'd love to broaden my library in this >area. > >Regards, > >Rob Gehl > >-- >Robert W. Gehl >Assistant Professor, Department of Communication >The University of Utah >www.robertwgehl.org | @robertwgehl >Sent from our OS on our Internet > > > > >------------------------------ > >Message: 4 >Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 14:43:52 -0400 >From: Stuart Shulman <stuart.shulman(a)gmail.com> >To: "air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org" <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> >Subject: [Air-L] Historical Twitter Data Raffle >Message-ID: > <CAJd4Sndp_pvsSfFsR1cs4KT-Xod3VVamE0x8F919zfQsi7+gAw(a)mail.gmail.com> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > >We are into the last 24 hours to enter the raffle to win a valuable set of >historical Twitter data via Gnip. To be entered, visit the raffle page via >Facebook at: > >http://bit.ly/1424aYm > >This is a very good opportunity for a student to acquire a unique Twitter >dataset from any point in the full history of Twitter for a thesis or >dissertation, as well as the tools to build a rigorous study around the >data. > > >------------------------------ > >Message: 5 >Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 14:56:23 -0400 >From: michael_muller(a)us.ibm.com >To: "Robert W. Gehl" <lists(a)robertwgehl.org> >Cc: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org, air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org >Subject: Re: [Air-L] Feminist STS and communication technologies? >Message-ID: > <OF8A98C916.721D648F-ON85257C0E.0067B32E-85257C0E.00683BC7(a)lotus.com> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > >Dear Rob Gehl, > >Within the HCI discipline, Shaowen Bardzel has done some excellent work >on >feminism. You can find much of her work in the ACM digital library. >There >was also a recent issue of Interacting with Computers that focused on >feminism, co-edited by Shaowen and Elizabeth Churchill. (Full >disclosure: >They accepted a brief article by me for that issue of IwC, and I provided >minor help with reviewing.) > >thanks, >--michael >----- >Michael Muller, IBM Research, Cambridge MA USA, michael_muller(a)us.ibm.com > > > > >From: >"Robert W. Gehl" <lists(a)robertwgehl.org> >To: >air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org, >Date: >10/24/2013 01:33 PM >Subject: >[Air-L] Feminist STS and communication technologies? >Sent by: >air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org > > > >Hello, all - > >I'd like to get some suggestions for a course I'm teaching. I'm doing an >STS-type course on communication technologies, and I want to include a >unit focusing on gender. Can anyone suggest contemporary feminist- or >gender studies-inflected STS scholarship on communication technologies? >I have a few things in mind, but I'd love to broaden my library in this >area. > >Regards, > >Rob Gehl > >-- >Robert W. Gehl >Assistant Professor, Department of Communication >The University of Utah >www.robertwgehl.org | @robertwgehl >Sent from our OS on our Internet > > >_______________________________________________ >The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list >is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org >Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: >http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > >Join the Association of Internet Researchers: >http://www.aoir.org/ > > > > > >------------------------------ > >Message: 6 >Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 19:34:56 +0000 >From: "Leurs, K.H.A. (Koen)" <K.H.A.Leurs(a)uu.nl> >To: "Robert W. Gehl" <lists(a)robertwgehl.org> >Cc: "air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org" <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> >Subject: Re: [Air-L] Feminist STS and communication technologies? >Message-ID: > <00655BF384232847B11F8A9380EDC2272789295C(a)ICTSC-W-S204.soliscom.uu.nl> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > >Dear Rob - and all, > >Have you come across feminist technoscience work, for example by Cecilia >Asberg? >This is an introduction: Asberg, C. & Lykke, N. Feminist technoscience >studies.European Journal of Women's Studies 17(4) 299-305. > >Then there is Alison Harvey - Constituting the Player: Feminist >Technoscience, Gender, and Digital Play >International Journal of Gender, Science and Technology, Vol 3, No 1 >(2011) >http://genderandset.open.ac.uk/index.php/genderandset/article/viewArticle/ >126 > >Hope these are useful, > >Best wishes, > >Koen. > >Koen Leurs, PhD >| Marie Curie Postdoctoral Researcher, LSE | >| Affiliated researcher Graduate Gender Studies / Institute for Cultural >Enquiry (ICON) Utrecht University | www.uu.nl/wiredup | >http://www.mignetproject.eu/ | www.koenleurs.net > >________________________________________ >From: air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org [air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org] >on behalf of michael_muller(a)us.ibm.com [michael_muller(a)us.ibm.com] >Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2013 8:56 PM >To: Robert W. Gehl >Cc: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org; air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org >Subject: Re: [Air-L] Feminist STS and communication technologies? > >Dear Rob Gehl, > >Within the HCI discipline, Shaowen Bardzel has done some excellent work on >feminism. You can find much of her work in the ACM digital library. There >was also a recent issue of Interacting with Computers that focused on >feminism, co-edited by Shaowen and Elizabeth Churchill. (Full disclosure: >They accepted a brief article by me for that issue of IwC, and I provided >minor help with reviewing.) > >thanks, >--michael >----- >Michael Muller, IBM Research, Cambridge MA USA, michael_muller(a)us.ibm.com > > > > >From: >"Robert W. Gehl" <lists(a)robertwgehl.org> >To: >air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org, >Date: >10/24/2013 01:33 PM >Subject: >[Air-L] Feminist STS and communication technologies? >Sent by: >air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org > > > >Hello, all - > >I'd like to get some suggestions for a course I'm teaching. I'm doing an >STS-type course on communication technologies, and I want to include a >unit focusing on gender. Can anyone suggest contemporary feminist- or >gender studies-inflected STS scholarship on communication technologies? >I have a few things in mind, but I'd love to broaden my library in this >area. > >Regards, > >Rob Gehl > >-- >Robert W. Gehl >Assistant Professor, Department of Communication >The University of Utah >www.robertwgehl.org | @robertwgehl >Sent from our OS on our Internet > > >_______________________________________________ >The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list >is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org >Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: >http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > >Join the Association of Internet Researchers: >http://www.aoir.org/ > > > >_______________________________________________ >The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list >is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org >Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: >http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > >Join the Association of Internet Researchers: >http://www.aoir.org/ > > >------------------------------ > >_______________________________________________ >The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list >is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org >Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: >http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > >Join the Association of Internet Researchers: >http://www.aoir.org/ > >End of Air-L Digest, Vol 111, Issue 23 >**************************************

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Trying to identify a source for a quote on apps & the internet...
by S Goodman 24 Oct '13

24 Oct '13

Hello, all. I remember reading something; I'm trying to track down the source... I seem to recall, about a year ago (or longer), reading an item online about a specific person stating that mobile apps were the future of the internet; that they will be the de facto home pages of websites. I don't know if this was a "no duh" back then (2011-2012) or if it was viewed as a person being insightful about the forward trend of apps; and therefore quotable, as in so-and-so predicted mobile apps would be the path to the internet (as opposed to the browser). I'm going to continue to try to track this source down but wondering if anyone on this listserv remembers this or something close to it. Thanks so much, Seth Goodman graduate student, Arizona State University seth.goomdman(a)asu.edu

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Historical Twitter Data Raffle
by Stuart Shulman 24 Oct '13

24 Oct '13

We are into the last 24 hours to enter the raffle to win a valuable set of historical Twitter data via Gnip. To be entered, visit the raffle page via Facebook at: http://bit.ly/1424aYm This is a very good opportunity for a student to acquire a unique Twitter dataset from any point in the full history of Twitter for a thesis or dissertation, as well as the tools to build a rigorous study around the data.

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Latest issue and Call for Papers: International Journal of Sociotechnology and Knowledge Development
by Jose Abdelnour-Nocera 24 Oct '13

24 Oct '13

Dear friends, I am please to announce our latest IJSKD special issue on Human Work Interaction Design. I would like to have a special issue on the Internet of Things and Sociotechnical Design, if you would like to be a guest editor of this please send me a 500 word abstract/proposal and short BIO. You could always submit an individual paper reporting on research or reflecting on any aspect of Sociotechnology and Internet Studies. 5(3) will be out really soon as well. Best, José The contents of the latest issue of: International Journal of Sociotechnology and Knowledge Development (IJSKD) Official Publication of the Information Resources Management Association Volume 5, Issue 2, April – June 2013 Published: Quarterly in Print and Electronically ISSN: 1941-6253 EISSN: 1941-6261 Published by IGI Publishing, Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA www.igi-global.com/ijskd<http://www.igi-global.com/ijskd> Editors-in-Chief: José Abdelnour-Nocera (University of West London, UK) and Constance Kampf (Aarhus University, Denmark) GUEST EDITORIAL PREFACE Special Issue on Human Work Interaction Design Arminda Guerra Lopes, Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute, University of Madeira, Funchal, Portugal and Paola Amaldi, Department of Psychology, School of Life and Medical Sciences, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, England, UK To obtain a copy of the Guest Editorial Preface, click on the link below. http://www.igi-global.com/pdf.aspx?tid%3D89783%26ptid%3D71419%26ctid%3D15%2… PAPER ONE An Organizational Study into the Concept of “Automation Policy” in a Safety Critical Socio-Technical System Paola Amaldi (Department of Psychology, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK) and Anthony Smoker (NATS, Southampton, UK) Although automation has been introduced in all areas of public life, what seems to be missing is a reflection at the organizational or societal level about a policy of automation. By this the authors intend appropriate declarations made at the level of rationale, future plans and strategies to achieve intended goals and most importantly how those achievements will impact on various aspects of societal life, from legal responsibilities to moral and socio economic issues. Implicit in this is what is expected of both the human and technical system actors. In some public spheres these issues are becoming quite controversial because automation opens up possibilities of profound structural re-organization; however, people lack a discussion across and within different work domains to help us review methods or even methodological principles needed to gather and organize knowledge towards the construction of automation policies. This paper uses the UK Air Navigation Service Provider in the Air Traffic Management Domain known as NATS, as a case study to illustrate an example of an organization currently undertaking critical self-reflection about automation policy or the lack of such, along with the illustration of some unresolved deep concerns raised by the development, introduction, and continued use of automation. To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below. http://www.igi-global.com/article/an-organizational-study-into-the-concept-… To view a PDF sample of this article, click on the link below. http://www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=89786 PAPER TWO Speech Interaction Analysis on Collaborative Work at an Elderly Care Facility Tetsuro Chino (Corporate Research & Development Center, Toshiba Corporation, Kawasaki, Japan), Kentaro Torii (Corporate Research & Development Center, Toshiba Corporation, Kawasaki, Japan), Naoshi Uchihira (School of Knowledge Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Nomi City, Japan) and Yuji Hirabayashi (Institute of Technology, Shimizu Corporation, Tokyo, Japan) Nursing and care are central aspects of healthcare services, and improvements in the quality and efficiency of healthcare processes are important issues. Since these tasks involve both physical actions and information processing, they can be described as what the authors call “action-oriented intellectual services.” There are striking mismatches between such services and current information and communication technology systems, which are generally designed as tools for deskwork. In addition, almost all nursing and care services are realized by the collaborative work of multiple staff members in distributed locations in the field, a situation with which conventional communication media are of limited utility. A smart voice tweet system for nursing and care is proposed to overcome these problems. To realize this technology, one needs to understand how staff communicates to realize collaborative work in healthcare domains. The authors therefore observed bathing assistance, night shift operations, and handover tasks at a private elderly care home for 8 days. The authors collected approximately 400 h of recorded speech, 42,000 transcribed utterances, data from an indoor location-tracking system, and handwritten notes by human observers. The authors also analyzed speech interactions in the bathing assistance task. The authors found that (1) staff members were almost always speaking during tasks, (2) remote communication was rare, (3) about 75% of utterances were spoken to the residents, (4) the intended recipient of utterances was frequently switched, and (5) about 17% of utterances contained personal names. The authors also attempted clustering utterances into what the authors call “passages”, and about 33% of passages contained only one personal name. These results should be applicable in semi-automatic long-term care record taking. To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below. http://www.igi-global.com/article/speech-interaction-analysis-on-collaborat… To view a PDF sample of this article, click on the link below. http://www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=89787 PAPER THREE Work Analysis Methods in Practice: The Context of Collaborative Review of CAD Models Pedro Campos (Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute, University of Madeira, Funchal, Portugal), Hildegardo Noronha (Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute, University of Madeira, Funchal, Portugal) and Arminda Lopes (Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute, University of Madeira, Funchal, Portugal) Human work interaction design is an emerging discipline that aims to encourage empirical studies and conceptualizations of the interaction among humans, their variegated social contexts and the technology they use both within and across these contexts. In this paper the authors present a virtual reality system for visualization, navigation and reviewing of 3D CAD models within the oil industry domain. This system combines a large-screen interaction environment with remote mobile devices, thus allowing engineers in the field and teams in a control center to work in collaboration. To navigate through models the system uses the mobile device’s camera and inertial sensors and takes advantage of recent natural interaction techniques on large-screen environments. The authors describe and elaborate around the usage of different work analysis methods in this complex, real world work domain. The analysis is based on (i) input from experts in the oil platform engineering field, (ii) previous and related work and (iii) application of different methods considering the recent advances in technology. The authors conclude that hierarchical task analysis was not effective in obtaining a clear, common vision about the work domain. Storyboarding was the most useful technique as it promoted the discovery of novelty factors that differentiate the solution, while simultaneously supporting the human work at offshore engineering design and review sessions. To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below. http://www.igi-global.com/article/work-analysis-methods-in-practice/89788 To view a PDF sample of this article, click on the link below. http://www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=89788 PAPER FOUR Feedback Fidelities in Three Different Types of Crisis Management Training Environments Olga Druzhinina (University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland), Ebba Thora Hvannberg (University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland) and Gyda Halldorsdottir (University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland) Designing feedback that trainees receive in a training simulator while practicing non-technical skills in complex cognitive domains is demanding but, though potentially productive, has received inadequate attention. This paper describes research which aims to understand the impact of fidelity on feedback provided during training for crisis management. More specifically, the goal was to learn whether there were differences between learning feedback types in three different environments, a real-life training exercise, a table-top exercise and a design of an experiential training simulator. The basis for the comparison was a framework of essential feedback types that emerged from the literature and three types of fidelities, physical, functional and psychological. The study showed that there were few occurrences of psychological fidelities of feedback. It also showed that high fidelity can be achieved in the absence of feedback forms categorized as psychological, and that loose organization of an exercise may lead to significant variation in learning outcomes in different learning environments. In addition, the research demonstrated how the fidelity analysis of feedback types can be useful for designing feedback for learners in a training simulator. To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below. http://www.igi-global.com/article/feedback-fidelities-in-three-different-ty… To view a PDF sample of this article, click on the link below. http://www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=89789 PAPER FIVE A Gestural Recognition Interface for Intelligent Wheelchair Users Ricardo Proença (Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco, Escola Superior de Tecnologia, Castelo Branco, Portugal), Arminda Guerra (Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco, Escola Superior de Tecnologia, Castelo Branco, Portugal) and Pedro Campos (Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute, University of Madeira, Funchal, Portugal) The authors present a new system that exploits novel human-machine interfaces based on the recognition of static gestures of human hands. The aim is to aid the occupant of a wheelchair to have access to certain objects in order to facilitate his or her daily life. The authors’ approach is based on simple computational processes and low-cost hardware. Its development involves a comprehensive approach to computer vision problems based on video image capture, image segmentation, feature extraction, pattern recognition and classification. The importance of this work will be reflected in the way that differently-able users, with the use of new models of interaction, and in a natural and intuitive way, will have their life significantly facilitated. To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below. http://www.igi-global.com/article/a-gestural-recognition-interface-for-inte… To view a PDF sample of this article, click on the link below. http://www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=89790 PAPER SIX A Web-Based Interactive Questionnaire for PV Application Zheng Dai (Realtime Targeting, Copenhagen, Denmark) and Kasper Paasch (Mads Clausen Institute, University of Southern Denmark, Sønderborg, Denmark) Questionnaire is a fundamental method for investigation and research, but participants get tired about it, because of the impression of being long and boring, which causes low quality of research. The authors developed an interactive questionnaire as an effective method to involve responder actively. The development of this tool is dynamic process, which goes with a research project called Sunrise-PV. 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