In spite of the existence of several usability inspection methods, they are still insufficiently used because of various constraints, such as the absence of software environments to facilitate their use and the inexistence of guides to choose the best method to be used. This article describes the design of CWE (Cognitive Walkthrough Environment) which is an evaluation assistance environment exp...

This paper presents the E _-C_ommerce through W_ ireless dE _vices (E-CWE) project that uses software agents in the design and development of an m-commerce environment. Users of the E-CWE environment are able to use their wireless devices, such as mobile phones, to undertake e-commerce transactions. Conducting these transactions raises new issues that vary from the limited bandwidth of networks...

The potential of geospatial big data has been drawing attention for a few years. Despite the larger and larger market penetration of portable technologies (nomadic and wearable devices like smartphones and smartwatches), their opportunities for travel behavior analysis are still relatively unexplored. The main objective of our study is to extract the human mobility patterns from GPS traces in o...

Article history: Received 12 August 2012 Received in revised form 10 June 2013 Accepted 16 August 2013 Available online 13 September 2013 An action case study demonstrates an effective integration of collaborative planning using long-range foresight in a hierarchical government research organization. The purpose of the study was to evaluate the effectiveness of collaborative, bottom-up strategi...

In collaborative working environments (CWE), human interaction patterns represent reoccurring situations describing the sequence and type of interactions between individuals. We believe that such patterns provide information that may be used to improve human collaboration. In this paper we introduce interaction patterns to an existing context sharing platform used by distributed teams. We use t...

Meetings, owning a central role in engineering projects, are the major way of performing the information exchange necessary for other engineers to make progress in their mutually depending tasks. They also play a central role in getting consensus and in achieving quality. However, when project members are not colocated this works less well. Travelling, standard remedy for this, is not an accept...

OBJECTIVES Living in substandard housing may be one factor that increases the risk of fire and burn injuries in low-income urban environments. The purposes of this study are to (1) describe the frequency and characteristics of substandard housing in urban homes with young children and (2) explore the hypothesis that better housing quality is associated with a greater likelihood of having workin...

the employee engagement has emerged as a pivotal business driver for organizational success. high level of engagement in domestic and global firms is supposed to have multiple enriching effects on an organization. studies have highlighted the importance of both organizational and individual factors in ensuring highly engaged employees. the present paper explores the individual differs across fo...