Aims: To design energy-saving control system of electrical system in office buildings; Methods: discusses the structure and function of electric control system of construction equipment, and points out the energy saving mode of the electrical automation control system of construction equipment. Finally, applies the above theory to the design of energy saving control system in X company’s office...

ABOUT LADDER LADDER is a research project funded by the Policy Research Programme of the UK Department for International Development (DFID) that seeks to identify alternative routes by which the rural poor can climb out of poverty. LADDER is working with nearly 40 villages and 1,200 households in Uganda, Tanzania, Malawi and Kenya to discover the blocking and enabling agencies in the institutio...

that assists in the process of time management. We are working within the infrastructure of a general-purpose, computerized office assistant named CALO (Myers et al. 2007). We work with a component of CALO called PTIME (figure 1), an intelligent, adaptive scheduling assistant that manages a CALO user’s calendar and scheduling requests in a mixed-initiative manner (Berry et al. 2006, 2009). Our ...

IT project governance is plagued by an inability to stop projects that ultimately fail, resulting in the loss of scarce resources and IT departments unable to generate full value for money invested. This study investigates the impact of the measurement information framework on information sufficiency, a key factor in reaching effective decisions. Specifically, this research addresses the questi...

In this paper we describe, analyse and reflect on experiences and knowledge generated from designing for physical movement integration during office work. Work in traditional modern office settings provides few physically demanding tasks. Evidence from research indicates that sedentary life styles are increasing our risk for developing a host of diseases and other medical complications. Togethe...

It has long been recognised that the lit environment in open-plan office space is influenced by the density and properties of the installed furniture. Indeed, the Lumen Method includes a procedure involving look-up tables to account for the effects of workstation size, partition height, and partition reflectance on the mean working-plane illuminance. As part of a larger project on openplan offi...

The issue of aesthetics is complex, and the discussion on how to apply it to interaction design has hardly begun. Hence, there is not much written on how to teach this subject; this paper consists of a suggestion. Here, I will describe my work with the course Aesthetics of Interaction, and my initial intentions behind it. The course consisted of lectures, literature discussions, excursions, exe...

Background In the area of Electronic Contracting and Virtual Company Formation within Supply-Chains there has been little research or development work. During this paper we will outline the European Union sponsored project SUPPLYPOINT (ESPRIT 27007) which addresses the issues of panEuropean electronic trade links for business-to-business and business-to-public body electronic commerce. This wil...

Using measurements of Mg  609.78 and 624.94 Å lines from the Coronal Diagnostic Spectrometer (CDS) on board SOHO, we seek to examine the variation of line width and line ratio in regions far off-limb at the Northern pole of the Sun. It is found that above ≈1150′′ the ratio of the two coronal Mg  resonance lines reduces to values that might be expected for a more radiatively dominant excitatio...