Recent research has shown how new mobile networked environments have added new complexity to the notion of “place”, now considered as an important concept in the context of technology adoption and the usage of mobile technologies, applications and services. The aim of this paper is to propose a new framework to gain insight into the usage behaviour of mobile data services and applications. A mo...

Design is a ubiquitous, collaborative and highly material activity. Because of the embodied nature of the design profession, designers apply certain collaborative practices to enhance creativity in their everyday work. Within the domain of industrial design, we studied two educational design departments over a period of eight months. Using examples from our fieldwork, we develop our results aro...

The paper discusses some of the aspects of poststructuralist thinking in relation to the cogency of field research and ethnographic methods of enquiry. Problems of the role of the author and the reliability of empirical material in providing access to “reality” are considered. This discussion is then extended to consider its implications for the construction of research stories involving interv...

The current field study compares the time preferences of young adults of similar ages but in two very different environments, one more dangerous and uncertain than the other. Soldiers, college students and a control group of teenagers answered questionnaires about their time preferences. During mandatory service, soldiers live in a violent atmosphere where they face great uncertainty about the ...

Data from a field study of 57 technology firms were used to test relationships among physical, human, and social capital to intellectual capital; intellectual capital, in turn, was linked to firm innovation. The results indicate that a firm’s rate of innovation is a function of the level of intellectual capital, which in turn, is predicted based on the level of physical, human, and social capit...

The relativistic mean field theory is applied to study some exotic properties of neutron rich nuclei as recently observed, namely, extension of the drip-line for F nuclei from 29 F to 31 F and the appearence of a new shell closure at neutron number N = 16. We find 31 F to be bound against one-neutron dripping but unbound only marginally for two neutron separation. The calculated functional depe...

This paper reports the findings from a field study investigating transfer of skills learned from a management education and development program back to the workplace. Moreover, it represents a partnership study between an executive education center (housed in a school of business), two business faculty members, and management education/development practitioners employed in the public sector. Ho...

This study examines the time management strategies of individuals in an academic institution and gathers information on the complex temporal structures they experience and manage. Its focus is on how electronic tools can be designed to incorporate the temporal structures that govern time usage and thus, help individuals to better manage their time. This work consists of an exploratory field stu...

Special acknowledgement and thanks to Christine Evans-Klock for her field research and for providing the data on employment practices in new factories. Helpful comments were provided by

Building capture and access (C&A) applications for use in the operation theatre differs greatly from C&A applications built to support other settings e.g. meeting rooms or classrooms. Based on field studies of surgical operations, this paper explores how to design C&A applications for the operation theatre. Based on the findings from our field work, we have built the ActiveTheatre, a C&A protot...