In this plenary talk I give an account on the blossoming role that Brownian motion Theory and Experiment played and still keeps doing so in germinating and advancing several, partially diverse physical disciplines. Although the use of Brownian motion concepts generally most favorably impacted those scientific areas there are also some abuses where the application of such concepts may not descri...

How do designers explore a design space to generate diverse solutions? This work focuses on the identification of design heuristics used in the ideation process in the domains of industrial design and engineering design. Design heuristics are cognitive strategies applied to a design problem to help designers create novel solutions. In a think-aloud protocol, engineers and industrial designers w...

of the talk Consumers increasingly inform their purchase decisions with opinions and other information found on the Web. Unfortunately, the ease of posting content online, potentially anonymously, combined with the public's trust and growing reliance on this content, creates opportunities and incentives for abuse. This is especially worrisome in the case of online reviews of products and servic...

This paper explores the model development process in discrete-event simulation (DES) by reporting on an empirical study that follows six expert modellers while building simulation models. DES is a widely used modelling approach, however little is known about the modelling processes and methodology adopted by modellers in practice. Verbal Protocol Analysis is used to collect data, where the part...

Innovation is a key driver in today’s high technology businesses. But what is innovation? And what does it take to turn a good idea into a business success story? In this talk I’ll take a look at a number of innovative products and show what’s made them into winners. And by using ARM as an example, I’ll describe how a business can be built around innovation and how ARM developed a unique busine...

This study chronicles 10 undergraduate university students and their understanding and application of metacognition and executive control in reading. Students from two undergraduate reading classes from two different states received intensive instruction in metacognitive strategies which highlighted metacognition and executive control in the reading process. To document their understanding and ...

Co-workers are an important source of information in organizations. Consequently, information managers seek to facilitate the use of such human information sources. Although various studies about what influences the use of human information sources in organizations exist, it is difficult for information managers to utilize insights from this research body. The studies have provided contradictor...

This paper investigates soundscape classification by using two different forms of data gathering and two different populations. The first method involves a questionnaire completed by 75 audio professionals. The second uses a speak-aloud experiment, during which 40 end users were asked to describe their audio environment. While both approaches are different and target a different audience, they ...

One approach that has been used to study processes that give rise to comprehension is to have readers verbally report their understanding during reading. The thoughts that readers produce usually contain multiple clauses that convey different kinds of processing strategies, such as paraphrasing, bridging, or elaborations. The goal of this study was to examine the structure of verbal protocols a...

This study investigates how young people navigate through a number of hyperlinked online news on a specific topic and how this effects, and is affected by, their opinions. Navigating though non-linear hypertext forces readers to integrate information from different sources and make more decisions about what to read, which is more difficult than reading information presented in a linear format, ...