How does new media and technology influence migrants and their children? Based on a sample population of young Austrians of Turkish descent, this research project links questions of identity creation and social networks of the second generation with the controversial discourse about the potential usefulness and risks of new media and technologies. i We investigate the Internet use of members of...

abstract poupuse: this study investigated the relationship between quality of work life and job involvement among librarians of shahid chamran university and jondishapoor university of medical sciences of ahvaz. methodology: this is a descriptive study. all librarians of the two universities (60 persons) were surveyed by using quality of work life and job involvement questionnaires. finding: da...

There is an ongoing debate about the components and processes of creativity. Within the subfield of creative insight, which is often considered to be the first measurable part of creativity, the role of working memory is discussed. Since creative insight appears to happen without conscious planning, the involvement of working memory appears to be limited; a hypothesis supported by several studi...

When creativity is taken as a long-term, complex, and collaborative activity, support for awareness is required for group members to monitor the development of ideas, track how these ideas became narrowed, and understand how alternatives are being implemented and integrated by colleagues. In this paper, we investigate the effects of exposing design rationale to convey awareness, specifically ac...

The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) is currently focused on 2 high-profile presidential initiatives— one dealing with community health centers and the other with the National Health Service Corps—and is awaiting word from Congress to begin work on a third initiative that will focus on preventing asthma, diabetes, and obesity. The mission of HRSA is to improve the nation’s he...

Computer tools offer enormous benefits for the early design process such as remote collaboration, advanced visualization, and the ability to run a design. However, current tools fail to support many elements of creative problem solving, inhibiting the early design process. From the literature on design theory and creativity, and extensive low-fidelity prototyping, we developed SCWID: a tool for...

We view software development as a system of evolution consisting of the three elements: (1) artifacts, (2) individual developers, and (3) a community of developers. An individual’s determining what artifacts to contribute and how, with whom to communicate by asking or answering, and which role to play within the community affects the quality of software to be developed; how the developers relat...