In this work we argue in favor of an integrative design approach supporting the idea that teachers and learners in a technology enhanced learning environment should be able to adapt the affordances of the representations in order to achieve an optimum coupling of the interface to the socio-cognitive learning needs in the specific context. An adaptable interface can appear as a reactive, coactiv...

Since computers were first introduced in the late 1960’s there has been continued debate on the impact of technology, organisations and staff within those organisations. Enid Mumford was one of the key researchers who looked at the Socio-Technical implications through the decades, and as part of her research she developed the ETHICS method to help improve the integration of technology in organi...

There are both technical and social issues regarding the design of sustainable scientific software. Scientists want continuously evolving systems that capture the most recent knowledge while developers and architects want sufficiently stable requirements to ensure correctness and efficiency. A sociotechnical ecosystem provides the environment in which these issues can be traded off.

We apply recently proposed individual welfare measures in the context of preference heterogeneity, derived from structural labour supply models. Contrary to the standard practice of using reference preferences and wages, these measures preserve preference heterogeneity in the normative step of the analysis. They also make the ethical priors, implicit in any interpersonal comparison, more explic...

1Performance Analysis of Telecommunication Systems research group Universiteit Antwerpen and iMinds Interdisciplinary institute for Technology Middelheimlaan 1, 2020 Antwerp, Belgium. [email protected] 2School of Engineering, Aalto University Otakaari 4, 00076 Aalto, Helsinki, Finland. [email protected] 3Institute for High Performance Computing and Networking National Research ...

The focus of this paper is how to evaluate the pedagogical soundness of a mobile learning environment in which many users (both teachers and learners) may not have previously encountered mobile technology, so may be uncertain how best to deploy it to achieve their goals. Drawing on concepts from Activity Theory and the socio-cognitive engineering method described by Sharples (2000), it describe...

This study embarks upon uncovering the probable difference in willingness to communicate between Iranian male and female EFL learners. To undertake the present research, it was limited to socio-cognitive perspective. More precisely, it aimed to distinguish the types and frequency of socio-cognitive strategies used by Iranian students as far as their gender was concerned. In doing so, 32 advance...

Based on a gender equity perspective and within a pluralistic civil society, women should have equal rights for presence in and use of urban open spaces. Despite this, various factors decrease their presence including inappropriate design of space, as well as socio-cultural obstacles. Since women’s major place of presence and activity has traditionally been in or near home, neighborhood open s...

If socio-technical congruence can bring about benefits such as better performance to a software development project, then actions that improve the level of congruence have a potential to increase the overall project value. However, those actions may also incur a cost, and bring additional risks into the project. We propose a number of alternative actions for increasing sociotechnical congruence...