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Open source projects rely on collaboration of members from all around the world using web technologies like GitHub and Gerrit. This mixture of people with a wide range of backgrounds including minorities like women, ethnic minorities, and people with disabilities may increase the risk of offensive and destroying behaviours in the community, potentially leading affected project members to leave towards...
This paper reports the development of a digital heritage inventory system using open source geospatial software. In particular, we used the Arches-HIP (Heritage Inventory Package), which is a system jointly developed by the Getty Conservation Institute (GCI) and World Monuments Fund (WMF) to inventory immovable heritage. The study sites are three rural villages located in Hualien County of Taiwan...
The technological advanced global environment has originated multi-cultural virtual teams. It is quite novel conception to practitioners. The growth of virtual teams, virtual work groups, and virtual companies has been expedited with the arrival of internet technology that provides low-cost telecommunication and emails facilities. Different companies in all over the world and in Pakistan are rapidly...
This is a follow-up to our previous study that presented the details of a program to sensitize students to cultural differences by cultural immersion. In this paper, we studied the impact on the studentpsilas participation in the program with respect to culture and their perspectives on diversity and global business practices in the cross-cultural world of software engineering.
The construction industry has been facing a paradigm shift to (i) increase; productivity, efficiency, infrastructure value, quality and sustainability, (ii) reduce; lifecycle costs, lead times and duplications, via effective collaboration and communication of stakeholders in construction projects. Digital construction is a political initiative to address low productivity in the sector. This seeks...
This paper discusses the manner in which cinema buildings of the 20th century represent both an important physical record of society, and a challenge in terms of representing a complex range of historical, cultural, economic and physical data sets.The paper provides an overview of visualisation techniques which are appropriate to the subject, and provides a case study taken from the city of Aberdeen...
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