This paper presents an engineering process in order to build pedagogical "dispositives" on Web 2.0 applications. This engineering process relies on three tasks: modeling the "dispositive", defining its context and building it. The main feature of our process is to wrap the building functionalities of a Web Application by Web Services. To consume these services, we use the Model Driven Engineeri...

Drip irrigation is often considered a technological solution to increase water use efficiency and crop productivity. However, all too often, its social institutional entanglements are ignored. This paper treats drip as socio-material assemblage discusses the changes triggered by introduction of infrastructure in A?lasun, rural town located southwest Turkey. Through an ethnographic study, we inv...

Recently, the major U.S. music and movie companies have pursued a dramatic renovation in their approach to copyright enforcement. This shift, from the ‘code’ of law to the ‘code’ of software, looks to technologies themselves to regulate or make unavailable those uses of content traditionally handled through law. Critics worry about the ‘compliance’ rules built into such systems: design mandates...

Dialogue management and language processing appear as key points in virtual assistants for e-shops, as their main goal is to assist the user both in his navegation through the shop product pages and in his search for the most appropriate product. In this paper we present the details of the semantic and pragmatic approach and the dialogue management done in the ADVICE project (IST-1999-11305) fo...

Communities present considerable challenges for the design and application of supportive information technology (IT), especially in looselyintegrated and informal contexts, as it is often the case of Communities of Practice (CoP). An approach that actively supports user communities in the process of IT appropriation can help alleviate the impossibility of their members to rely on continuous pro...