Special Issue on International Group Work and Psychotherapy

Special Issue on Human Work Interaction Design

IFIP 13.6 Human Work Interaction Design (HWID) is a working group, which aims to establish relationships between empirical work-domain studies and Human Computer Interaction (HCI) design. Our concern is to extend the long tradition of HCI to study the connections between interaction design and the work context, in the light of the fact that the world that we work in has become much more digital...

Special Issue for 13th International Industrial Engineering Conference (IIEC 2017)

     This special issue is a collection of refereed articles selected from the 13th International Industrial Engineering Conference (IIEC 2017). The initial selection was made by Dr. Hamed Fazlollahtabar who also wrote the following description. The accepted articles were reviewed going through the usual reviewing process of IJOR. Nezam Mahdavi-Amiri Editor-in-Chief &nbs...

Introduction to special issue on concurrency and coordination: Selected work from the International Workshop ConCoord

Special Issue on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work: Techniques and applications

According to Schmidt and Bannon [3], the term Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) was first used by Greif and Cashman in 1984 to describe the topic of an interdisciplinary workshop that they were organizing on how human collaborative activities and their coordination can be supported by means of computer systems [1,2]. The definition of CSCW and the history of this research field are bey...

Special Issue on Robots and the Work Environment

The future development of industries is currently on the agenda of public and scientific debates. Due to new technical options such as artificial intelligence and robots, sensor networks, big data, etc., which are “captured in terms such as the Internet of Things and the Internet of Robotic Things” according to van Est and Kools [1], visions like Industry 4.0 in Germany, the Future d’Industrie ...