The Growing Up in Scotland Study (GUS) is an important longitudinal research project aimed at tracking the lives of a cohort of Scottish children from the early years, through childhood and beyond. The study is funded by the Scottish Government and carried out by the Scottish Centre for Social Research (ScotCen). Its principal aim is to provide information to support policy-making, but it is al...

At the tip of the iceberg of the global financial crisis organizations are looking for economies of scale to survive in these challenging times. The Unified Communications and Collaboration (UC&C) platform is the perfect answer to support an organization’s new strategies, aiming to increase employee productivity while decreasing costs. Our study combines recent collaboration research theories w...

[email protected] o n e o f t h e b i g g e s t c h a l l e n g e s i n designing storage systems is providing the reliability and availability that users expect. A serious threat to reliability is silent data corruption (i.e., corruption not detected by the disk drive). In order to develop suitable protection mechanisms against corruption, it is essential to understand its characteristics. In ...

We are exploring how information and communication technology (ICT) use affects the work lives of real estate agents, the process of selling/buying houses, and the overall structure of the residential real estate industry. Earlier stages of our work involved intensive field research on how real estate agents use ICT. In this paper, we report on the design and analysis of a pilot survey of 868 a...

If Group Support Systems (GSS) are so good, why isn’t everybody using them? A vast wealth of lab and field research shows that when the right GSS tool is applied to the right task, team productivity can be significantly enhanced (See Fjermestad & Hiltz, 1998; forthcoming for an exhaustive compendium of GSS lab and field research). Field studies of teams with tasks ranging from strategic plannin...

While reading documents, people commonly make annotations: they underline or highlight text and write comments in the margin. Making annotations during reading activities has been shown to be an efficient method for aiding understanding and interpretation. In this paper we present a comparison of paper-based and online annotations in the workplace. Online annotations were collected in a laborat...

We are working on a knowledge base to store 3D Andean textile patterns together with rich cultural and historic context information. This will allow ontological studies in museum collections as well as on ethnographic and archaeological fieldwork. We build on an existing ontology, extending it to incorporate more content and make it more accessible. This goes well beyond storing and retrieving ...

China has changed from the surviving stage to the developing stage. In developing stage, the demand for life quality has increased, more and more people are participating in sports, thus new challenges has presented themselves in the development of sports nutrition industry. This paper uses research methods such as literature research, field research, case study, comparative study and others, i...

and two anonymous auditors for their helpful comments. ABSTRACT Previous field research suggests that there is an increasing need for auditors to rely more extensively on enquiry based evidence. This study investigates how using various theory-and practice-based based interventions can lead to a more rigorous enquiry process. Based on psycholo gy theory on planning and on goal setting, as well ...

This paper seeks to inform the ongoing redesign of air traffic management by examining current practices and the adoption of a new system aiming to relieve traffic control from work and reduce radio communication. We report from ethnographic fieldwork among mobile, distributed airport ground personnel. By examining the ways in which they use the ‘old’ technology, i.e. VHF radio, we identify a s...