Frontlines: Message Hits Home

How Europe hits home: Evidence from the Swiss case

At home with the on _ message @ home system

We report on the development of a multimodal communications system in the home, involving a networked arrangement of heterogeneous communications technologies centred on shared 'hub' displays. The prototype has integrated SMS and MMS messaging, remote and local voice messaging, video messaging, 'scribble' notes, camera image downloading, as well as a number of other electronic file formats. We ...

Teaching Global Health at the Frontlines

June 2007 | Volume 4 | Issue 6 | e130 Global health is a challenge to defi ne, and even more of a challenge to improve. A broad defi nition of global health is given by the United States Institute of Medicine as “health problems, issues, and concerns that transcend national boundaries, may be infl uenced by circumstances or experiences in other countries, and are best addressed by cooperative a...

The Emergent Field of Organizational Frontlines

Advances in frontline interface technologies and devices are profoundly disrupting how organizations and customers interact to create and exchange value. Where once customer interactions were limited in variety, multiplicity, and complexity, today’s broadband Internet and wireless connection technologies defy limitations to enable organization-customer interactions of everincreasing diversity a...

Conservation and Community Action: Bringing the Message Home