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Workshop on Interactivity in Healthcare Systems (IHS).

Conference Proceeding
Hanson, V. L., Webster, G., & Dennis, M. (2015)
Workshop on Interactivity in Healthcare Systems (IHS). In Human-Computer Interaction–INTERACT 2015, 677-678. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22723-8_98
We are all living longer with average life expectancy increasing across the globe [1]. However, chronic conditions such as heart disease, strokes and cancer, coupled with an i...

Rethinking e-Government Research: The ‘ideology-artefact complex’

Conference Proceeding
Davenport, E., & Horton, K. (2006)
Rethinking e-Government Research: The ‘ideology-artefact complex’. In R. Suomi, R. Cabral, J. F. Hampe, & A. Heikkila (Eds.), Project E-Society: Building Bricks. IFIP International Federation for Information Processing,, 380-391. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-39229-5_31
The authors present a framework for e-government research that draws heavily on Iacono and Kling’s work on computerization movements. They build on this work by appropriating ...

Maximum Entropy in Nilsson's Probabilistic Logic

Conference Proceeding
Kane, T. B. (2017)
Maximum Entropy in Nilsson's Probabilistic Logic. In Proceedings of the 11th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (452-457
Nilsson's Probabilistic Logic is a set theoretic mechanism for reasoning with uncertainty. We propose a new way of looking at the probability constraints enforced by the frame...

Teaching and learning in the VLCC: actions, reactions and emerging practice in a very large computing centre.

Conference Proceeding
Buckner, K., & Davenport, E. (2001)
Teaching and learning in the VLCC: actions, reactions and emerging practice in a very large computing centre. In S. Bagnara, S. Pozzi, A. Rizzo, & P. Wright (Eds.), 11th European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics, 355-360
What happens to human computer interaction when the walls of a physical teaching laboratory are removed? We present the case of a very large (and new) computing centre (VLCC) ...

Auto-ethnography: problems, pitfalls and promise

Presentation / Conference
Sobolewska, E., Smith, C. F., & Turner, P. (2009, April)
Auto-ethnography: problems, pitfalls and promise. Paper presented at HCI Educators 2009, University of Abertay, Dundee
The teaching and perhaps more importantly the practice of ethnographic techniques has become increasing important within Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). But ethnography is a...

Exploring knowledge sharing in distributed organisations: report on research in progress

Conference Proceeding
Hall, H. (2002)
Exploring knowledge sharing in distributed organisations: report on research in progress. In KMSS 2002: the new scope of knowledge management in theory and in practice
Published academic research and reported practice in the professional press indicate that social capital is a driver of knowledge management. This paper reports on progress to...

Using eye-tracking to evaluate label alignment in online forms

Conference Proceeding
Das, S., McEwan, T., & Douglas, D. (2008)
Using eye-tracking to evaluate label alignment in online forms. In A. Gulz, C. Magnusson, & L. Malmborg (Eds.), Proceedings of the 5th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer interaction: Building Bridges (451-454). https://doi.org/10.1145/1463160.1463217
We analyse the usability of different label positions in online forms, using an eye-tracking system, with a small sample of UK university-educated users. The results unexpecte...

Tracing innovation: an activity theoretical approach.

Conference Proceeding
Wiegel, V. (2011)
Tracing innovation: an activity theoretical approach. In ECIS 2011 Proceedings
This paper argues that tracing the diffusion of innovation is a challenging endeavour. The difficulty is that an innovation comes into existence as a cognitive and inter-perso...

Social intelligence in the age of networks

Journal Article
Davenport, E. (2000)
Social intelligence in the age of networks. Journal of Information Science, 26(3), (145-152). doi:10.1177/016555150002600304. ISSN 0165-5515
The author explores the concept of ‘social intelligence’. She suggests that, in the world of digital commerce, it may be defined as ‘insight which is based on collective under...

A lightweight treatment of Inexact dates

Conference Proceeding
Nguyen, H. H., Taylor, S., Webster, G., Jekjantuk, N., Mellish, C., Pan, J. Z., …Byrne, K. (2015)
A lightweight treatment of Inexact dates. In V. Wuwongse, M. Buranarach, T. Supnithi, T. Yamaguchi, & J. Z. Pan (Eds.), Semantic Technology : 4th Joint International Conference, JIST 2014 Chiang Mai, Thailand, November 9–11, 2014 Revised Selected Papers. , (187-193). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15615-6_14
This paper presents a lightweight approach to representing inexact dates on the semantic web, in that it imposes minimal ontological commitments on the ontology author and pro...