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...

transactions on computational collective intelligence iii What to say and what to do when mostly your friends love reading? Are you the one that don't have such hobby? So, it's important for you to start having that hobby. You know, reading is not the force. We're sure that reading will lead you to join in better concept of life. Reading will be a positive activity to do every time. And do you ...

Many contemporary forms of oppression are not primarily the result of formally organized collective action nor are they an unintended outcome of a combination of individual actions. This raises the question of collective responsibility. I argue that we can only determine who is responsible for oppression if we understand oppression as a matter of social practices that create obstacles for socia...

EDITORIAL article Front. Hum. Dyn., 28 March 2023Sec. Social Networks Volume 5 - 2023 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fhumd.2023.1178455

This research introduces a framework for selecting efficient inter-unit structures in facilitating the transfer of knowledge with different levels of complexity. We argue that while boundary spanner structure is efficient for transferring discrete knowledge, it is inadequate for transferring collectively held complex knowledge. We propose that the transfer of such knowledge requires a more dece...

In this paper we investigate a passivity approach to collective coordination and synchronization problems in the presence of quantized measurements and show that coordination tasks can be achieved in a practical sense for a large class of passive systems.