Background Collaboration between researchers and knowledge users is increasingly promoted because it could enhance more evidence-based decision-making and practice. These complex relationships differ in form, in the particular goals they are trying to achieve, and in whom they bring together. Although much is understood about why partnerships form, relatively little is known about how collabora...

Be more productive and connected with significant cost savings is the Holy Grail for firm’s looking for profit maximization. In this paper, we are looking at Unified Communications and Collaboration (UC&C) technology through Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) to understand the likelihood of the technology acceptance within organizational culture dimension. We investigate...

As the number of handicapped people increases worldwide, Intelligent Wheelchairs (IW) are becoming the solution to enable a higher degree of independence for wheelchair users. In addition, IW Projects relevance is increasing, mainly in the fields of robotics and safety-related systems due to their inherent and still unresolved problems related with environment uncertainty, safe communications a...

Building design has become a complex process involving the coordination of many specialists from numerous disciplines. Breakdowns in communication of information and coordination of design activities can have profound consequences on the cost and quality of the resulting facilities. Emerging communications technologies present potentially powerful tools to assist in the coordination of multi-di...

Abstract. Communications in distributed memory supercomputers are still limiting scalability of geophysical models. Considering the recent trends semiconductor industry, we think this problem is here to stay. We present optimizations that have been implemented 4.0 version ocean model NEMO improve its scalability. Thanks collaboration oceanographers and HPC experts, identified removed unnecessar...

As the number of handicapped people increases worldwide, Intelligent Wheelchairs (IW) are becoming the solution to enable a higher degree of independence for wheelchair users. In addition, IW Projects relevance is increasing, mainly in the fields of robotics and safety-related systems due to their inherent and still unresolved problems related with environment uncertainty, safe communications a...

Based on a collaborative approach to learning, a student cohort taking an introductory level University course in computing was provided with information and asynchronous communications technology (including learning resources, e-mail, bulletin board and FAQ), as a means of enhancing their collaborative efforts on a web authoring exercise within a flexible learning environment. The qualitative ...

The core functionality of an awareness system is to collect information about the activities of one individual or group and present it to another. These people may or may not be geographically separated, and the purpose of capturing the information can vary, from work purposes, monitoring the well being of a lone elderly, to affective communication, etc. By their nature, awareness systems tend ...

has become possible to consider designing tools that support collaboration. Whereas network communications links previously required semi-custom solutions for each user community, Internet/Web-based communications are capable of reaching a much larger group of people. Habanero was written to facilitate the use of realtime multi-user software tools in education and the sciences. Unlike earlier p...