In this paper, we will reflect on a particular methodological technique—namely our use of in-situ experience prototyping; what we call xProbes—that has evolved in our collaboration with a large industrial company and that we believe to be potentially useful for interaction design, as xProbing can come to complement rather than replace the use field-studies using ethnographic techniques, worksho...

a r t i c l e i n f o This paper aims to offer new theoretical and empirical insights into power dynamics in an industrial supplier workshop setting. Theoretically, it advances an institutional perspective on supplier workshops as an important venue in managing, preserving and instituting industrial market power. Based on a detailed ethnographic analysis of an industrial workshop setting, this ...

This paper describes an innovative approach to life-long learning as implemented in a large Industrial Cooperation Project between the USA and the Republic of China (ROC). This project was sponsored under the current Industrial Automation and eBusiness Development plan by the Industrial Automation and eBusiness Steering Committee for the ROC, and helps enable and accelerate Taiwan’s transition ...

Crowdsourcing (HCOMP-2013) was held November 6– 9, 2013, in Palm Springs, California. Three workshops took place on Saturday, November 9: Crowdsourcing at Scale, Disco: Human and Machine Learning in Games, and Scaling Speech, Language Understanding, and Dialogue through Crowdsourcing. The goal of the Crowdsourcing at Scale workshop was to identify the biggest challenges in very large-scale crow...

BACKGROUND Genesee County Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health Program (REACH) is a Community-Based Public Health partnership for reducing African American infant mortality rates that hosts the Undoing Racism Workshop (URW). OBJECTIVES Assess the URW's effectiveness in promoting an understanding of racism, institutional racism, and how issues related to race/ethnicity can affect m...

SEVEN miles from Aberdeen, on the lovely road to Braemar, lies the Newton Dee Estate, recognised by the Ministry of Labour as a sheltered workshop for the mentally handicapped. There is a fundamental difference between it and most other "sheltered workshops," for it is a social experiment, and all who are there not only share the working life, but live together as a really integrated village co...

This study investigated whether sheltered workshops help prepare individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) for competitive employment within the community. Two groups of individuals were compared: (a) 215 supported employees who were in sheltered workshops prior to entering supported employment and (b) 215 supported employees who were not in sheltered workshops. Individuals from both grou...

1Oxford Centre for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, Andrew Wiles Building, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6GG, UK 2CABDyN Complexity Centre, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 1HP, UK 3Department of Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA email: [email protected] 4School of Mathematic...

Abstract—We regard forecasting of energy consumption by private production areas of a large industrial facility as well as by the facility itself. As for production areas, the forecast is made based on empirical dependencies of the specific energy consumption and the production output. As for the facility itself, implementation of the task to minimize the energy consumption forecasting error is...