Pressured by the speed of technological advances, the need for change and improvisation has hit the healthcare industry. Now society demands that healthcare providers offer better patient care through the creative use of information technologies. In turn, healthcare management asserts pressure on IS/IT practitioners to expand the boundaries for innovative IS design strategies. Research on healt...

Several recent approaches to EUD increasingly recognize an active role of the users in the construction of the tools supporting their daily practices. However, there is still a lack of a general framework that could play a role in the comparison of existing proposals and in the development of new EUD solutions. The paper proposes a conceptual framework and a related architecture, called Logic o...

Continuing arguments presented [1] or announced [2, 3] here, zerodivisor (ZD) foundations for scale-free networks (evinced, in particular, in the “fractality” of the Internet) are decentralized. Spandrels, quartets of ZD-free or “hidden” box-kite-like structures (HBKs) in the 2N+1ions, are “exploded” from (and uniquely linked to) each standard boxkite in the 2N-ions, N ¥ 4. Any HBK houses, in a...

This essay examines the images of the bride constructed by China’s burgeoning bridal media that sell lavish wedding products and services. Through the lens of semiotics, the author focuses on analyzing bridal magazines widely circulated in China’s consumer culture. The analysis shows that China’s evolving wedding industry adapts the trite, oppressive trope of “romantic” Western wedding rituals ...

> upshot • Creativity, collaboration and learning are fascinatingly messy and interconnected processes. Does knowledge develop by engaging in a collaborative creative process, or does existing knowledge allow us to create more creative artefacts? Does one build upon the other in a bricolage process, familiar to constructionist learning experiences? If so, how can we best facilitate this type of...

Developments in ubiquitous computing mean that domestic appliances are increasingly programmable, providing new opportunities for end-user control and configuration. Unfortunately home programming, just as with end-user programming in professional contexts, is associated with stereotypically masculine learning styles. This is likely to result in future inequalities surrounding domestic technolo...