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Human movements are important cues for recognizing human actions, which can be captured by explicit modeling and tracking of actor or through space-time low-level features. However, relying solely on human dynamics is not enough to discriminate between actions which have similar human dynamics, such as smoking and drinking, irrespective of the modeling method. Object perception plays an important...
As behavioral research has expanded in Information Systems and other scientific fields, researchers are recognizing that construct proliferation increases the difficulty in identifying the nomological networks of constructs pertaining to any given research question. An Inter-Nomological Network uses semantic analysis to systematically identify, categorize, and predict relationships among the constructs...
In public advisory services, the individual's satisfaction depends less on extrinsic factors (e.g., monetary rewards) than on their inner needs fulfillment. Currently used IT-systems supporting citizen advisory services neglect these intrinsic needs of their users, hence insufficiently fostering their satisfaction. In this paper, we aim to close this gap by assessing the design requirements needed...
The present research sought to identify linguistic markers of sensitive self-disclosure in Twitter for three main purposes: (1) to support the development of software tools that can identify text as sensitive disclosure or not, (2) to contribute to the literature by establishing what is considered more sensitive disclosure in a specific CMC environment, and (3) to contribute to the methodological...
Business Process (BP) Improvement remains one of the core activities of Business Process Management (BPM) today. It is often expected to result in cost reductions and process efficiency, typically achieved through automation. Research described in this paper focuses on ongoing improvement of healthcare BPs involving knowledge work. Through an exploratory case study, conducted in a real life organization...
In the service economy, as markets change from offering physical products to offering services, organizations across many industries must embrace this transformation to remain competitive. Mobile technology plays an important role in this transformation because of characteristics such as mobility. However, high levels of mobility may not always contribute to service performance. Due to customer variability...
We review the literatures on human evolution, organizational communication, and CMC, focusing on research addressing CMC support for the transmission of socio-emotional signals, Theory of Mind (ToM), and social capital. We develop a social capital theory of communication in organizations, linking the use of CMC for the transmission of socio-emotional signals with one's ability to develop social capital,...
Understanding distributed learning and knowledge creation requires multi-level analysis of local activity and of how this local activity gives rise to larger phenomena in a network. Computational support is needed for such analyses due to the size of the data and distributed nature of interaction. This paper reports on one step towards implementing an analytic framework that addresses these needs...
This study examines task performance by considering the application of information systems (ISs) in computer-mediated collaborative environments from the perspective of personal characteristics. Based on previous research, this study investigates the effects of relationship characteristics of an organization's members on their task performance. In addition, the study explores the ways in which ISs...
An important element of human-robot interaction, as with interhuman interaction, is conversation. Having previously suggested the Gricean maxims as suitable guidelines for social robotics dialogue, we discovered that a preferable alternative set of guidelines: politeness maxims. In this paper, we will introduce the politeness maxims and propose its enhanced applicability in human-robot interaction...
In this paper, I outline the scope and methodology of cultural studies and the possible applications in HRI. It is not just robots that interact with humans, but humans who interact with humans through the medium of robots. Culture is the context that informs all our actions. Cultural theory's eclectic methodology is useful for sifting through a large, multidisciplinary and cross-cultural field like...
The results from an empirical study on the impact of a robot's approach trajectories on its social acceptance are presented. An online survey presenting short videos of a robot (IURO — Interactive Urban RObot) approaching a person in a public space and asking for help was shown to the users. IURO either approached a walking or standing person. The results show that walking participants preferred to...
Intelligence is increasingly emerging in our ambients. Evidences of this emergence are the existence of smart homes, smart vehicles, intelligent manufacturing systems and most importantly, the appearance of the concept of intelligent cities. Humans are presently surrounded by technology that is intended to increase their quality of life and simplify their daily activities. Multi-Agent Systems are...
This paper intends to demonstrate how it is possible to use ICT for education purpose and in particular, to realize a change accompaniment within the framework of the professional activity of R&D. This context is strongly marked by an evolution of the individual activity and team management towards participative, collaborative and partner processes often driven or realized in a project management...
A number of recent publications point to the important role of eco-design approaches in risk mitigation for critical materials supply. The core of eco-design is life cycle thinking - usually as some form of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) approach together with a set of generic guidelines such as checklists, etc. There has however been little appraisal of the extent to which eco-design offers opportunities...
Within the paper we discuss the issue of designing well-founded contextual knowledge bases. Following the base idea that contextualization is a vital part of conceptualization, we extend the definitions of selected notions of OntoClean, the well-known method of assessment of taxonomies, towards contextual approach. This allows us to formulate a set of desirable qualities for context-semantic knowledge...
Social interaction involves a large number of patterned behaviors that people employ to achieve particular communicative goals. To achieve fluent and effective humanlike communication, robots must seamlessly integrate the necessary social behaviors for a given interaction context. However, very little is known about how robots might be equipped with a collection of such behaviors and how they might...
In the development of companion robots capable of any-depth, long-term interaction, social scenarios enable exploration of the robot's capacity to engage a human interactant. These scenarios are typically constrained to structured task-based interactions, to enable the quantification of results for the comparison of differing experimental conditions. This paper introduces a hardware setup to facilitate...
This study considers contemporary budget reforms within the context of e-government due to their broader technological applications and informational content. In recent initiatives of budget reforms, governments have coupled together information systems with budgetary and managerial components. The result is a joint innovation to support the budget reform. This study extended structuration theory...
Competence-based learning (CBL) is an appropriate approach to systematically develop dwindling human resources. The close interrelation between the knowledge and competence concepts suggests the conjoint development of knowledge management (KM) and CBL. We specifically focus on the question of how KM can support CBL processes. This article describes the potential synergies, as well as KM instruments...
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