At Work

Fixed-term work and violence at work.

OBJECTIVES This study investigated the effect of a fixed-term job contract on encounters of violence at work. We assumed that fixed-term employees encountered more violence or threats of violence at their work than permanent employees. METHODS This study is based on 3 large statistical data sets: (a) the Work and Health surveys carried out by the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health in 19...

Coparticipation at work: Knowing and work practicer

Multimedia at Work

Recent advances in 3D depth cameras such as Microsoft Kinect sensors (www.xbox. com/en-US/kinect) have created many opportunities for multimedia computing. Kinect was built to revolutionize the way people play games and how they experience entertainment. With Kinect, people are able to interact with the games with their body in a natural way. The key enabling technology is human bodylanguage un...

The Atom at Work

Multimedia at Work

(CA), and in general parallel generative devices such as Lindenmayer systems, to produce images, fractals, growth patterns in two dimensions, and sound. They usually implement these models on special-purpose architectures that often depend on the type of presentation being generated. (See the “Related Work” sidebar for more details about previous research.) We have developed our own prototype f...