The paper introduces „AUTONOMY“, an assistive system developed by the authors. The goal of this system is to contribute to the autonomy of motorand multiple impaired persons in daily life and to empower them to live a more selfdetermined and independent life at home (and not in an institution). AUTONOMY is a multifunctional modular system designed for the home environment. It consists of a mobi...

Role theory suggests and empirical research has found that there is considerable variation in how broadly individuals define their jobs. We investigated the theoretically meaningful yet infrequently studied relationships between incumbent job autonomy, cognitive ability, job-related skill, role breadth, and job performance. Using multiple data sources and multiple measurement occasions in a fie...

We examine the relationship between firms’ human resources (HR) practices and their information technology (IT) practices, focusing on the dichotomy between autonomy and control. We define facilitating HR practices as those that exhibit the following characteristics: worker autonomy, connectedness, learning, valuing individuals, trust, and flexibility in business processes. We then characterize...

Information systems (IS) lectures often address audiences that consist of over one hundred students. In this setting, it is arguably difficult to consider the individual interests of each participant. This may result in students not being motivated, decreased learning outcomes as well as an overall low effectiveness of IS lectures. Self-determination theory suggests that perceived autonomy incr...

This paper examines the effects of maternal autonomy on child schooling outcomes in Ethiopia using a nationally representative Ethiopian Demographic and Health survey for 2011. The empirical strategy uses a Hurdle Negative Binomial Regression model to estimate years of schooling. An ordered probit model is also estimated to examine age grade distortion using a trichotomous dependent variable th...

The growing divide between the potential of fully automated teams of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and the very limited autonomy seen in operational use deserves attention. This paper proposes a limited step to realize increased autonomy use in operational settings by applying decision tree learning algorithms to UAV operator’s flight patterns. These algorithms learn and then propose UAV traj...

After many years of research focused on the individual and psychological aspects of self-directed learning, the field has taken into consideration the context and situation surrounding the education of an adult, placing the development of individual autonomy into a constructivist perspective. But it is only recently, in France at least, that researchers have begun to look more closely at the in...

Individual differences are increasingly considered important in the relationship between work-family balance and health. The present study examined the role of autonomy-connectedness in positive and negative work-family interaction and family-work interaction. We also investigated the relationship of work-family interaction and family-work interaction with positive and negative affect, coping p...

That children should be educated to be ideal citizens, capable of making rational and informed decisions, has been proposed in cultures ranging from Ancient Greece to current societies. In particular, societies that favour liberalism preach the primacy of the individual autonomous citizen and a concomitant tolerance for others. In modern multicultural societies, ways must be found to maintain s...