The Social and Smart project proposes a new framework for the interaction between users and their household appliances, where social interaction becomes an intelligent social network of users and appliances which is able to provide intelligent responses to the needs of the users. In this paper we focus on one incrasingly common appliance in the european homes: the bread-maker. There are a numbe...

Received: 11 November 2005 Revised: 1 February 2006 Accepted: 20 February 2006 Abstract Mobile information technologies (IT) are transforming individual work practices and organizations. These devices are extending not only the boundaries of the ‘office’ in space and time, but also the social context within which use occurs. In this paper, we investigate how extra-organizational influences can ...

Social workers are susceptible to mental health problems that could lead to develop burnout symptoms and traumatic stress. This study examined the prevalence of secondary traumatic stress and burnout and its relationship to the job satisfaction in 180 social workers who work in schools, hospitals, welfare centers, and NGOs, in Abu Dhabi (39%) and Alain(61%) cities, (mean age=36.4). The percenta...

Personalized recommendations are generated by considering the preferences of a target user and similar users. Although explanations of recommendations affect the evaluations of personalized recommender systems (PRS), PRS evaluations have focused primarily on the perceived accuracy and novelty of the recommending algorithms. The goal of this study is to examine the effectiveness of using social ...

The negative effects of long working hours and shift work on the physical mental health blue-collar groups should not be underestimated. Under intense stress, they have limited time to access recreational green space, their own is thus affected. In this study, a conceptual model satisfaction among workers was established based American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI). explores factors affect...