Control, for a long time, has been an essential part of organisational sociology. The concept has largely been analysed from different epistemological standpoints. These standpoints are informed by the functional and institutional character of control. Using the postulations of symbolic interactionism as espoused by Herbert Blumer via a qualitative case study, this paper considers the view that...

Two decades of attempts to model the emergence of language as a collective cognitive activity have demonstrated a number of principles that might have been part of the historical process that led to language. Several models have demonstrated the emergence of structure in a symbolic medium, but none has demonstrated the emergence of the capacity for symbolic representation. The current shift in ...

During the last few decades, we have seen tremendous improvements in the way human interact with computers. It went through electrical, symbolic, textual and graphical forms of interaction. In 1988, Mark Weiser, the father of Ubiquitous Computing, gave an idea of invisible computers, embedded in everyday objects replacing PCs. This has given a new vision of interaction with computers. New parad...

the aim of this study was initially to investigate the performance of culture and design as well as to explain the interaction of them and to establish the cultural qualities of design products. the author’s background in studying and designing in the specified field of this research (product design) was also one of the implications for culturally focusing it. meanwhile, one of the main consequ...

Mobile apps can access a wide variety of secure information, such as contacts and location. However, current mobile platforms include only coarse access control mechanisms to protect such data. In this paper, we introduce interaction-based declassification policies, in which the user’s interactions with the app constrain the release of sensitive information. Our policies are defined extensional...

Spontaneous interaction in ubiquitous computing settings requires a simple, well-understood means for users to communicate with devices in their nearby environment, some kind of equipment most people are familiar with, and a mechanism to determine whether certain entities can interact with each other. Mobile phones are a well-established means for people to communicate not only verbally, but al...