Understanding of the effectiveness of work-teams is a major issue in the business world, where they are expected to facilitate developing individual skills and increasing organizations’ efficiency. Eighty-three engineers working in teams have responded to a questionnaire devised to measure perceptual power distances, the sense of relatedness, cohesion measured by integration around the task, an...

Due to the lack of structured knowledge applied in learning distributed representation of categories, existing work cannot incorporate category hierarchies into entity information. We propose a framework that embeds entities and categories into a semantic space by integrating structured knowledge and taxonomy hierarchy from large knowledge bases. The framework allows to compute meaningful seman...

PURPOSE Self-report is an efficient and accepted means of assessing population characteristics, risk factors, and diseases. Little is known on the validity of self-reported work-related illness as an indicator of the presence of a work-related disease. This study reviews the evidence on (1) the validity of workers' self-reported illness and (2) on the validity of workers' self-assessed work rel...

Research based on Self Determination Theory (SDT) posits that autonomy, competence, and relatedness are important psychological needs for fostering intrinsic motivation. Although competence and autonomy are clearly defined in the literature, relatedness and its role in motivation are less clearly defined, as relatedness is often discussed in terms of project work, collaborative learning, and gr...

As compared to simple actions, activities are much more complex, but semantically consistent with a human’s real life. Techniques for action recognition from sensor generated data are mature. However, there has been relatively little work on bridging the gap between actions and activities. To this end, this paper presents a novel approach for complex activity recognition comprising of two compo...

Following earlier work in multimodal distributional semantics, we present the first results of our efforts to build a perceptually grounded semantic model. Rather than using images, our models are built on sound data collected from freesound.org. We compare three models: one bag-of-words model based on user-provided tags, a model based on audio features, using a ‘bag-of-audio-words’ approach an...

Recovery refers to the process of replenishing resources that occurs when employees distance themselves from their work, leading improvements in work-related well-being indicators (WRWB), such as burnout and vigor. Research has shown weekend activities are related changes WRWB recovery experiences could mediate these relationships. This study aimed examine indirect relationships on vigor, throu...

The computation of relatedness between two fragments of text in an automated manner requires taking into account a wide range of factors pertaining to the meaning the two fragments convey, and the pairwise relations between their words. Without doubt, a measure of relatedness between text segments must take into account both the lexical and the semantic relatedness between words. Such a measure...