Informal Education - Animation, or Social Work?

The Social Nature of Work Fragmentation: Revisiting Informal Workplace Communication

Informal workplace communication is a central component of work and fundamental to understand its fragmentation. Previous studies point to external interruptions and multi-tasking preferences as the source of work fragmentation. Yet, although some empirical evidence exists on the role played by social informal interactions on interrupting work, we lack a more precise understanding of the degree...

Conflict Theories and Social Work Education

A Challenge to Social Work Education

Lecturer in Mental Health, School of Economics; Chairman, Association of Psychiatric Social Workers, 1958-60 Of all the groups of untrained social workers in the statutory services, the mental welfare officers have been the most persistent their demand for training. The reasons why their cry went Unheard by the Ministry of Health and the local authorities is now Part of history?too recent to un...

Informal Animation Sketching: Requirements and Design

We present an interface design for creating informal animations from sketches. Current tools for creating animation are extremely complex. This makes it difficult for designers to prototype animations and nearly impossible for novices to create them at all. Simple animation systems exist but severely restrict the types of motion that can be represented. To guide our design of an animation sketc...

Formal or Informal, Practical or Impractical: Towards Integrating Formal Methods with Informal Practices in Software Engineering Education

Tw o conflicting schools of thought have been dominating software engineering education. One school stresses on the popular software development methodologies, but horror stories on poorly designed systems are not uncommon. The other school advocates formal methods, but most practitioners regard them as impractical. We recommend that we should bridge the gap between the formal and informal by b...