Through rare, independent access to the Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh we conducted an in-depth survey examine how marginalized actors create and maintain their business activities a highly restrictive environment. In so doing, extend conventional notions of bricolage specificities what define as noncooperative spaces. Moreover, offer new theoretical lens micro-bricolage more suitable app...

This paper focuses on the ways in which food blogs influence the evolution of food cultures in computermediated environments. Food blogs provide a unique setting in which to study individual creativity and improvisation, as they make everyday food practices visible, pubic and transmittable. This paper proposes a cultural framework of human–computer interaction (HCI) and applies it to the contex...

A multi-case study approach was used in this study to investigate how parents and children collaborated with each other when they learned to program in MSWLogo together. Three parent-child pairs were observed directly in a five-day computer camp. Each pair was assigned a total of 33 programming tasks to work on. The observation focused on how parents interacted with their children while they tr...

Purpose: This paper focuses on how entrepreneurs anticipate and change their company's business process management after developing a radical innovation. The paper is based on a critical approach to business process modelling (BPM) that posits that—in spite of all the claims, guides, and tools that companies employ to help them modelise their processes—business processes are developed and impro...

The Duality of Expertise considers the “Expert” to be a social role dependent on an individual’s expertise claims and the opinion of their community towards those claims. These are the internal and external aspects of a person’s expertise. My Expertise Model incorporates this duality in a process designed for expertise finding software in an online community forum. In this model, a posting’s te...

Fashion as a phenomenon cannot be understood independently of the visual images and designed presentations that convey the content and forms of fashion. With the breakthrough of the digital media in the 2000s we were introduced to new ways of communicating and staging fashion where the blog in particular has established a new media culture for the distribution and exchange of potential fashion-...

Models are the test jets of modern economics. As mathematical representations of economic theory, they allow economists to see if their ideas can take flight in the face of reality. Like the Wright brothers, whose models contended with gravity, wind and a host of other real-world variables, economists test their theoretical models against the concrete realities of taxes, interest rates, hours w...

In this paper we describe our current work on the BRICOLES project . We show how our project is influenced by the participatory design movement. We analyze specificity of teacher creativity and we try to propose suited tools. Two problems are addressed by our search, first concerns object to be manipulated by teacher, the other one concerns the way of treating them: it is necessary to get close...

It is estimated that losses due to computer break-ins by malicious 'crackers' (who might be external intruders or disgruntled employees intent on personal gain or revenge) are costing companies billions of dollars each year. But former hackers are now assisting the computer security industry to track down such intruders, and to develop sound security practices in order to ward off future attack...