Papadopouli and Sabharwal argued for the need to raise standards within the community, which might require more visible workshops and conferences and a willingness to reject papers that make no attempt to justify their underlying assumptions. The panelists also emphasized the need for multi-disciplinary and interdisciplinary research to support different layers of the systems (from the physical...

We surveyed the worldwide e-Gov researcher community and collected data on disciplinary backgrounds, topical orientations, and publication preferences from over 200 scholars including more than 80 percent of the most prolific scholars in the domain. The results demonstrate the richness and diversity of electronic government research worldwide. Some topics are more prevalent in some regions than...

This work examines the belief system underlying computer-based systems development, by reference to an analogy with a model of scientific research due to Kuhn. Kuhn's model describes 'scientific communities', each united by an underlying many-faceted belief system, the 'disciplinary matrix', which forms a constellation of commitments shared by the members of these communities. A scientific comm...

This paper studies the relation between activities, media and communication channels, and rerepresentation of AEC concepts in support of common ground building in cross-disciplinary, geographically distributed teams. AEC project team members determine the role of discipline-specific knowledge in a cross-disciplinary project-based environment. It is through cross-disciplinary interaction that th...

Recent studies have clearly demonstrated a shift towards collaborative research and team science approaches across a spectrum of disciplines. Such collaborative efforts have also been acknowledged and nurtured by popular extramurally funded programs including the Clinical Translational Science Award (CTSA) conferred by the National Institutes of Health. Since its inception, the number of CTSA a...

Academic research is increasingly cross-disciplinary and collaborative, between and within institutions. In this context, what is the role and relevance of an individual's spatial position on a campus? We examine the collaboration patterns of faculty at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, through their academic output (papers and patents), and their organizational structures (institution...

As part of a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency/National Science Foundation study on human–robot inter­ action (HRI), over sixty representatives from academia, govern­ ment, and industry participated in an interdisciplinary workshop, which allowed roboticists to interact with psychologists, sociolo­ gists, cognitive scientists, communication experts and human–com­ puter interaction speci...

Academic research is increasingly cross-disciplinary and collaborative around the globe and within institutions. In this context, what is the role and relevance of the campus? I examine the scholarly output and collaboration patterns of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as they pertain to its interrelated organizational structures, including institutional affiliation and spatial configu...