Studies have shown that videoconferences are an effective medium for facilitating communication between parties who are separated by distance. Furthermore, studies reveal that videoconferences are effective when used for distance learning, particularly when learners are engaged in complex collaborative learning tasks. However, as in face-to-face communication, learners benefit most when they re...

We chronicle the use of acknowledgements in twentieth century scholarship by analyzing and classifying more than 4,500 specimens covering a 100-year period. Our results show that the intensity of acknowledgment varies by discipline, reflecting differences in prevailing socio-cognitive structures and work practices. We demonstrate that the acknowledgment has gradually established itself as a con...

A common form of embodied social engagement involves acting as an ensemble, with all participants aware of each other and mutually engaged. In this naturalistic comparative study, we term this kind of triadic socio-cognitive activity ‘fluid collaboration’. Fluid collaboration occurs when participants establish the pace of ensemble activity mutually, with their moves flexibly adjusted and respon...

Infrastructures are persistent socio-technical systems used to deliver different kinds of services. Researchers have looked into how awareness of infrastructures in the areas of sustainability [6, 10] and software appropriation [11] can be provided. However, designing infrastructure-aware systems has specific requirements, which are often ignored. In this paper we explore the challenges when de...

the present study seeks to explain and analyse some of the fundamentals of hick’s discussion of the problem of evil or theodicy. in this study, while analysing john hick’s solution to the problem of the existence of evil in the world, we will see that he begins his exposition of the discussion of theodicy by interpreting the notion of primordial fall (and sin) as a myth and opines that moral ev...

Due to the proliferation of location-based information services, there is abundant urban information which makes us difficult to catch up with the characteristics and dynamics of our living space. However, nowadays, crowd lifelogs shared over social network sites are attracting a great deal of attention as a novel source to search for local information from the massive voices and lifelogs of cr...

We describe an approach to one of the key challenges of applying HCI findings and methods to China; viz., how can we generalize across cultures and learn from others when each situation is unique? We propose that Pattern Languages are one way to capture what is invariant while leaving the flexibility to deal with the specifics of geography, culture, language, goals, and technologies.