Several studies stressed that the introduction of CPOE applications deteriorates the doctor-nurse communication. But there are many factors that might influence communication behaviors, as for example the way these communications are organized. The present study aims at showing that the impact of a CPOE system on the cooperative activities can be controlled given that a good understanding of th...

We examinewhether student personality type helps explain differences in students’ course perceptions across sections that varied only in the usage of cooperative learning. We use theMyers Briggs Type Indicator to classify students based on their preferredways to take in information.We then compare the perceptions of students engaged in cooperative learning with perceptions of students engaged i...

Cooperative learning is based on modern social psychology, cognitive psychology and modern educational technology and so on as the theoretical basis, making full use of the dynamic factors in class and group activities for the basic teaching form. Team members will communicate with each other to finish the tasks assigned by the teacher. The teacher will take assessments, which are a series of t...

Although cooperative work is widely used in a daily basis, nonetheless cooperative work tools are not being used as their potential would suggest. Even though the reasons behind this fact are not completely clear, the truth is that users see current cooperative work tools as a burden to their working activities. To work around this problem, the notion of localityawareness can be extremely helpf...

In this article we present the use the knowledge for a Mediation System, developed to give support to mechanical system designer activities. The use of cooperative systems must contain a sufficient level of assistance to facilitate and coordinate the actor’s activities. To accomplish this goal we introduce an artificial actor: the Mediator. To illustrate our approach we will present the specifi...

Workflows emphasize the partial order of activities, and the flow of data between activities. In contrast, cooperative processes emphasize the sharing of artefact, and its gradual evolution toward the final product, under the cooperative and concurrent activities of all the involved actors. This paper contrasts workflow and cooperative processes and shows that they are more complementary than c...