This article advocates the viewpoint that a close cooperation between the artificial intelligence community and researchers studying context-aware mobile and ubiquitous applications will be indispensable for the future success of context-aware applications. The notions of context and context-awareness are introduced. It is shown that typical issues arising in context-awareness can be supported ...

AIMS To examine awareness of memory abilities by groups (healthy control, suspected dementia/mild cognitive impairment, MCI, and diagnosed dementia/MCI), and to describe group differences in the relationship between awareness and cognitive performance in a community sample. METHODS In a cross-sectional design, 183 subjects were evaluated in a community setting and categorized into 3 groups ba...

In this paper we point out the current changes and future trends of organizational concepts and explain their influence on workplace awareness and communication. We then elaborate the changing requirements for awareness and informal communication in distributed teams. Finally, we present two artefacts that support informal awareness and community interaction and describe their evaluation in a l...

Contemporary life can seem rushed and overloaded. We argue this may be due not to merely having too much to do, but rather with experiencing fragmentation and inadequate meaning in one’s own activity. We suggest that a design approach to this challenge is to enhance awareness of significant and persistent activity, and the themes, values, places, and motivations that unifies it and gives it gre...

We describe two cases of open user experience (UX) design using the Firefox web browser and OpenOffice.org office suite as case studies. We analyze the social complexity of integrating UX practices into the two open source projects using activity awareness, a framework for understanding team performance in collective endeavors of significant scope, duration, and complexity. The facets of activi...

The article addresses the elements that make up a successful information security awareness program. It addresses the role that organization personnel play in the information security program and how to use this information to one’s benefit. It also discusses how to establish awareness program scope, how to segment the audience, and how to ensure that the content is effective in getting the mes...