This paper will look at the human predisposition to oral tradition and its effectiveness as a learning tool to convey mission-critical information. After exploring the effectivenes...
This article presents an investigation of empathy within an online community for older people (SeniorNet). Qualitative content analysis of 400 messages from a discussion board abo...
Communities of practice (COPs) have been around since the founding of the first social networks many millennia ago. Organizations around the world over the last two decades have l...
Abstract. Social assistance constitutes an increasing problem in developed countries, which can be considered from two dimensions: the home and the hospital frameworks. Anyway, mos...
Gabriel Fiol-Roig, Diana Arellano, Francisco J. Pe...
In recent years much attention has been paid to networkbased, distributed environments like text-based MUDs and MOOs for supporting collaborative work. Such environments offer a s...