Computer workarounds in health information systems (HIS) threaten the potential for gains in efficiency through computerization aimed at reducing process variability. Eliminating such workarounds is desirable, but information system (IS) researchers tend to treat computer workarounds as black-boxes, while HIS researchers are primarily concerned with descriptive or prescriptive remedies. We prop...

The goal of this research was to identify the suitable technologies for enacting the World Wide Argument Web (WWAW) in the context of newly arisen Pragmatic Web paradigm. The vision is to develop the WWAW based on the Argument Interchange Format (AIF) ontology. On the one hand, we propose concept maps for presenting AIF-based arguments to the human agents. On the other hand, the argumentation s...

The notion of enacting change in lieu of the forces that promote institutionalization is troublesome to Institutional Theory, which generally predicts isomorphism as a condition of survival. Here, we offer borrowed legitimacy through coalitions as an explanation for how an organization might successfully deviate from social norms to enact change, yet still gain sufficient cognitive and sociopol...

Based on the interactive features of websites, researchers have distinguished between ‘religion online’ and ‘online religion’. Approaching online religious expression as ‘vernacular religion’ can transcend the distinction by focussing on the lived experience of believers. In this study, qualitative interviews and close textual analysis are deployed to locate four traits that define the ‘vernacu...

Computer-simulated training environments are frequently used for having people perform behaviors that pose a risk of injury in the real world. The success of such training applications is likely to be impacted by the degree to which they evoke presence. In the current work, we examined whether adding auditory components to a computer-simulated environment might increase presence, thereby leadin...

Given that knowledge (intensive) work takes place immersed in truly heterogenous networks of knowledge representations (codified, narrative, embedded in routines, inscribed in artefacts), our analysis is geared towards how the transformation of these resources are enacted in the practise of everyday, knowledge work. First, we discuss the work, strategies and mechanisms implied in the rendering ...