Adopting Digital-Oriented Work Practices That Facilitate Work Satisfaction

Interpreting digital gaming practices: singstar as a technology of work

Embedded within discourses of the enactment of information and communications technologies (ICTs) at work is often a tightly constrained range of legitimate application areas of study, a rather thin concept of user-developer relations and a context of use that precludes simultaneity, multiplicity and informality. This situation persists despite the increasing relocation of work to informal sett...

Participatory practices at work

Gender & AIDS modules : Best Practices / Programmes that Work

Ge nd er & A ID S AI DS AI DS AI DS AI DS Summary: Using the health promotion concept as a framework, this module focuses on best practice elements that contribute to making programmes successful in integrating a gender-based perspective. UNAIDS defines “best practices” as accumulated knowledge concerning strategies and activities that work or do not work, why they work or do not work and how t...

So you want to write? Practices that work.

M any of us envy and even view with awe the ease with which others write. Program directors and faculty educators often find writing to be uncomfortable, slow, and readily postponed. Yet with a dearth of useful information regarding successful, feasible, and affordable strategies to teach the next generation of physicians, educators must contribute to the national and international discussion. ...

Design by Contract: Making Object-Oriented Programs that Work

To deliver on its promises, object-oriented technology must be able to produce systems that are reliable (correct and robust). Only under these conditions will the other quality factors advertised for the method, in particular the increase in reusability and extendibility, yield the expected benefits for software practitioners. It is indeed possible to use object-oriented technology to produce,...