Communication among companies and between clients and companies has been revolutionized by the Internet, e.g., b2b market places, as well as new ways of collaboration like virtual companies. Many systems with holistic and individualized service, sales and marketing concepts are available today. In this paper we give an overview of the basic concepts of office communication, groupware, workflow ...

The globalization of competition has entailed that organizations of developed countries have to face new kind of competitors with low labour cost, and often-advantageous exchange rates (resulting in favourable export selling prices). In such a scenario, innovation and organizational flexibility are becoming fundamental levers to enable enterprises to increase their competitiveness. For this rea...

Occupants’ behaviour and strategies to encourage behavioural changes need be addressed in workplaces reduce energy consumption. In this study, the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) was integrated for first time with an office virtual environment (VE) investigate adequacy VE comfort domain, while understanding its effect predicting individuals’ energy-related intention interaction building syste...

The Legislature required the Controller to contract with actuaries for California's first valuation of unfunded state retiree health liabilities. reported that the state's estimated unfunded liabilities total $48 billion. This report answers key questions concerning the valuation and identifies actions the Legislature could take to address the state's liabilities. Analyst's Office (LAO) is a no...

A new computer input device, the Command Chair, has been developed to provide bimanual (or, two-handed) input while also addressing several additional ergonomic issues. In particular, the Command Chair integrates an office chair, keyboard input, bimanual pointer input, and forearm support into a single system. This allows a designer to consider the input system as a whole, rather than as a coll...

The present study aims at introducing a new efficient approach to store data in a cloud server. The approach is applicable to a group of annotated text files, which are supported by Microsoft Word (docx, doc, pdf, etc.). Instead of the original document, an intermediate file is produced and saved as a Microsoft Excel document for each user. The file contains edited information including highlig...

Knowledge workers need short breaks during their office hours to relieve stress. We examined the benefits of virtually produced nature environments afternoon breaks. (n = 39) visited Virtual Nature Room a total nine times. During 15-min break, volunteers 1) watched video (of forest or water environment) on TV monitor with related sounds, 2) listened sounds (without video), 3) as control conditi...

Large heterogeneous online repositories of scientific information have the potential to change the way science is done today. In order for this potential to be realized, numerous challenges must be addressed concerning access to and interoperability of the online scientific data. In our work, we are using semantic web technologies to improve access and interoperability by providing a framework ...

The purpose of this thesis is to find out how much consumer interest in choosing rent an office with a virtual system prices and advertisements can influence decisions PT. Multi Energi Selaras. analytical method used multiple linear regression analysis. results showed that the price had negative insignificant effect on rental decision, while advertising positive significant decision. Price part...