Towards the wireless ward: evaluating a trial of networked PDAs in the National Health Service.
Book Chapter
Turner, P., Milne, G., Turner, S., Kubitscheck, M., & Penman, I. (2004)
Towards the wireless ward: evaluating a trial of networked PDAs in the National Health Service. In Mobile and Ubiquitous Information AccessSpringer-Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24641-1_15
In this paper, we describe a pilot study of the clinical use of a wireless network of personal digital assistants (PDAs). We describe how we are dealing with the concerns of t...
The Strength of Festival Ties: Social Network Analysis and the 2014 Edinburgh International Science Festival
Book Chapter
Jarman, D. (2016)
The Strength of Festival Ties: Social Network Analysis and the 2014 Edinburgh International Science Festival. In L. PLatt, & I. R. Lamond (Eds.), Critical Event Studies, 277-308. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-52386-0_14
The development of event studies as a field of research and education has misunderstood and misrepresented the social networks that underpin the industry. Such relationships a...
The information society.
Book Chapter
Duff, A. (2015)
The information society. In International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, (83-89). Elsevier
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E-Consultation, Controversy and Youth
Book Chapter
Macintosh, A., Smith, E., & Whyte, A. (2005)
E-Consultation, Controversy and Youth. In M. Cunningham, & P. Cunningham (Eds.), Innovation and the Knowledge Economy: Issues, Applications, Case Studies, 730-737. IOS Press
This paper presents the results of a completed research study the aim of which was to identify ICT tools suitable for engaging with young people in dialogue on a complex polic...
Technology to support participatory democracy.
Book Chapter
Macintosh, A., Davenport, E., Malina, A., & Whyte, A. (2002)
Technology to support participatory democracy. In Å. Grönlund (Ed.), Electronic Government: design, applications and management, 226-248. Idea Group Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-930708-19-8.ch011
This chapter focuses on the development, application and impact of information and communication technology on civic representation and participation in the democratic process...
Activity theory: another perspective on task analysis.
Book Chapter
Turner, P., & McEwan, T. (2003)
Activity theory: another perspective on task analysis. In D. Diaper, & N. Stanton (Eds.), The Handbook of Task Analysis for Human-Computer Interaction (423-444). CRC Press
In this chapter, we introduce activity theory, describing its origins and its principal researchers and thinkers. We stress its descriptive power and its usefulness in definin...
Where and When was Knowledge Managed?
Book Chapter
Davenport, E., & Horton, K. (2006)
Where and When was Knowledge Managed?. In R. Day, & C. McInerney (Eds.), Rethinking Knowledge Management; Information Science and Knowledge Management, 171-185. Springer Verlag. doi:10.1007/3-540-71011-6_7
The chapter presents a case study of new technology in a rapid response social work unit that is part of an e-government program in a Scottish municipality.
The objective of t...
Informatisation: libraries and the exploitation of electronic information services.
Book Chapter
Duff, A. (2006)
Informatisation: libraries and the exploitation of electronic information services. In A. Black, & P. Hoare (Eds.), The Cambridge History of Libraries in Britain and Ireland: 1850-2000 (627-638). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CHOL9780521780971.051
Modern librarianship has been shaped by many factors, socio-cultural, political, economic and demographic, but there is a strong case – although not necessarily a technologica...
Articulating the Sense of Place Experienced by Visitors to the Jencks Landform
Book Chapter
Smyth, M. (2005)
Articulating the Sense of Place Experienced by Visitors to the Jencks Landform. In P. Turner, & E. Davenport (Eds.), Spaces, Spatiality and Technology (249-260). Dordrecht: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3273-0_17
Documentation and utopia: Fabian anticipations of the information society.
Book Chapter
Duff, A. (2008)
Documentation and utopia: Fabian anticipations of the information society. In W. B. Rayward (Ed.), European Modernism and the Information Society (185-199). Ashgate Publishing