This research investigates patterns of sensemaking across a broad sample of SMEs. We hypothesise that managers make sense of, as well as shape, their world through a variety of mediating mechanisms. To identify patterns of organizational 'knowing' we utilise the term 'industry recipe' Within activity systems, knowledge and practices of 'knowing' are contested because identities, conceptions of ...

Sentient artefacts are everyday objects augmented with digital services. Being the building blocks of our surroundings, these artefacts can incrementally integrate computing into environment and can convert it into an intelligent one economically. In this paper, we report our experiences with sentient artefacts to rationalize intelligent environment. We discuss the design principles of sentient...

Through the lens of Heidegger’s analysis of equipment, this study observes ‘software reuse’ – a popular phenomenon in the world. It presents an alternative conceptual view of the software artefact as ‘equipment’. This view provides a theoretical underpinning to this prominent practice to recognize software artefacts, as equipment. Employing the case study method, this study reports preliminary ...

There appear to be multifunctional artefacts of a type such that none their functions can attributed only some proper part the artefact. I use two examples allegedly this kind in what follows, one due Lynne Rudder Baker (aspirin) and another my own (a spork). The are meant make same point. discuss her aspirin example, since its discussion has entered literature, but without being dealt with sat...

Apart from anatomical and physiological imaging, MRI can also be used to produce temperature maps. Our objective is to obtain such maps in real-time to monitor mini-invasive thermal therapies. The acquisition procedure of temperature MRI produces specific artefacts : noise generated by MRI, motion artefacts and geometric distortions. Here, numerical methods are described for attenuation of such...

Artefacts are noises introduced to the electroencephalogram’s (EEG) signal by not central nervous system (CNS) sources of electric fields inside and outside subject’s body. The artefacts impede the analysis of the signal and should be handled properly. The most common and characteristic kind of artefacts is the electrooculographic (EOG) ones, especially subject’s eye-blinking artefacts. In this...