This paper describes information sharing in a community using associative representation. The associative representation links heterogeneous information without de ning the semantics strictly. We leave the interpretation of the semantics to human tacit knowledge. We have developed a system called CoMeMoCommunity which gathers community members' information automatically and helps the members wi...

Informal awareness and casual interaction tools are intended to help overcome some of the disadvantages that face distance separated knowledge workers by providing some of the subtle awareness cues and opportunities for casual interaction that are present in co-located settings. The design for such tools is usually bottom up, based on required feature lists. This paper takes a topdown approach....

The Community Bar is a groupware tool supporting informal awareness and casual interaction for small communities of intimate collaborators. Its conceptual design is primarily based on a comprehensive sociological theory called the Locales Framework, with extra details supplied by other theoretical model of awareness. It is also influenced by the Microsoft SideShow system: it displays basic awar...

BACKGROUND The aims of this study were to evaluate the current awareness of and implementation by pharmacists in Japan of adjustment of drug dosage according to renal function (ADDR) in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) and to clarify the factors influencing implementation of ADDR by community pharmacists. METHODS We conducted a web-based questionnaire of Japanese community and hospi...

The Kuala Selangor mangrove forest are facing massive reclamation for economic development but the conservation aspect and fisheries values of mangroves have been ignored in the decision-making process. The local community support and awareness of the mangrove forest conservation are still doubtful. The aim of the study is to analyse the local community perception on the mangrove forest conserv...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE The only way to provide palliative care to a huge number of people in need in India is through community participation, which can be achieved by improving the awareness of the people about palliative care. We conducted a study to assess the impact of health awareness campaign in improving the awareness of people about palliative care. MATERIALS AND METHODS This was a ...

We describe the use of an ambient display called Twitterspace for promoting awareness of events and member activities within our community centers. Content for the display pulls from the social networking platform Twitter. Tweets, which are the recent posts from community members, move across large screens placed in public rooms. Through the concept of community-at-aglance, we use these tweets ...