Despite the rich literature on networks, publications on the evaluation of networks are scarce. The aim of the article is to present the core concepts of network evaluation in the context of local and regional development, and a case study in Finnish North-Karelia. It is argued that network evaluation from the everyday life perspective (NEELP) is a special case. It requires an integrative desig...

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This paper explores the design and implementation of a societal arrangement of reflexive and motivational agents which will act as the building blocks for a more abstract agent within which the current agents act as distributed dynamic processing nodes. We contest that reactive, deliberative and other behaviours are required in complete (intelligent) agents. We provide some architectural consid...

In early October of 2010, R (lead author) arrived in a parking lot at 6:30 am for a hike in the Rocky Mountains of southwestern Canada to meet the group of middle-aged and older adult hiking enthusiasts he had been hiking with once a week since August. On this outing, R was introduced to a new hiking group member, Chloé1. Her story touched on common themes identified in this ethnographic study ...

This paper explores playfulness between grandparents and grandchildren, especially when they are separated by distance, and investigates ideas to bridge this separation. We present the result of a three stage investigation; the first an observational study of co-located intergenerational play groups, the second a cultural probes study of distributed intergenerational playfulness, and finally a ...

Virtual organisations within and across enterprise structures are becoming mature as a potentially effective means for goal oriented business teamwork. Among the plentyful of support functions enabling the efficient cooperation in teams, team decision making is a very crucial one, but does not find adequate support in contemporary team software solutions. Even the most knowledgable results from...

The article aims to clarify the meaning of the concepts ‘reputation’ and ‘brand’ where reputation represents the collective perception and second hand information of an actor, for example a firm, whereas the most important part of a brand, the brand image, resides in the minds of the individual. Based on these conceptual differences, the collective nature of reputations versus the individual na...