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FLAIRS
2006
13 years 8 months ago
Using Activity Theory to Model Context Awareness: A Qualitative Case Study
In this paper, we describe an approach to modelling contextaware systems starting on the knowledge level. We make use of ideas from Activity Theory to structure the general contex...
Jörg Cassens, Anders Kofod-Petersen
GROUP
2003
ACM
14 years 22 days ago
Communities of action: a cognitive and social approach to the design of CSCW systems
Most current theories about collective cognitive activities in limited groups apply to structurally closed co-operative situations Here we propose to work in the framework of inte...
Manuel Zacklad
SIGCSE
1996
ACM
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13 years 11 months ago
Database theory in practice: learning from cooperative group projects
lhis paper describes the use of cooperative group learning concepts in support of an undergraduate database mrtnagement course that emphasizes the theoretical and practical aspect...
Suzanne W. Dietrich, Susan Darling Urban
WWW
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Diversifying landmark image search results by learning interested views from community photos
In this paper, we demonstrate a novel landmark photo search and browsing system, Agate, which ranks landmark image search results considering their relevance, diversity and qualit...
Yuheng Ren, Mo Yu, Xin-Jing Wang, Lei Zhang, Wei-Y...
IFIP
2000
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Process as Theory in Information Systems Research
Many researchers have searched for evidence of organizational improvements from the huge sums invested in ICT. Unfortunately, evidence for such a pay back is spotty at best (e.g.,...
Kevin Crowston