Creating connections

Relation Work: Creating Socio-technical Connections in Global Engineering

In this article the notion of relation work will be put forward to describe efforts of connecting people and artefacts in a multitude of ways as part of facilitating global interaction and coordination in an engineering firm. Relation work can be seen as a parallel to the concept of articulation work. Articulation work describes efforts of coordination necessary in cooperative work, but, arguab...

Families and Schools in Partnership: Creating Connections for Student Success

Listening sessions with Latinas: documenting life contexts and creating connections.

OBJECTIVE To use listening sessions with groups of Latinas to develop a contextual understanding of the lives of immigrant women to inform program development and ultimately better serve the community's needs for domestic violence services. DESIGN AND SAMPLE This study was exploratory and descriptive, mixing qualitative listening sessions with quantitative methods. Seven listening group sessi...

Robots Reasoning with Cuts and Connections: Creating and Removing Entities (Extended Abstract)

Several tasks that autonomous service robots will be expected to do involve changing material objects by cutting or separating parts, then rearranging them to obtain assemblages satisfying certain properties. In this paper we describe a system to represent and reason about entities that disappear or are created by the robot through such actions. Entities are grounded in objects that the robot c...

Creating supportive connections: a decade of research on support for families of children with disabilities.

Raising a child with disabilities involves balancing a number of challenges, including seeking and gaining support. A synthesis of past research on support for families is needed to map directions for future research. This article reviews the past 10 years of empirical research on formal and informal support for families of children with disabilities. The review includes quantitative and qualit...