Lack of alignment between information technology (IT) and the business is a problem facing many organizations. Most organizations, today, fundamentally depend on IT. When IT are aligned in an organization, delivers what needs able to deliver market needs. has become strategic function for most it imperative that aligned. governance one powerful ways achieve alignment. Furthermore, as use cloud ...

This paper presents a novel framework for building symbol-level control modules of animated agents and robots having a spoken dialogue interface. It features distributed modules called experts each of which is specialized to perform certain kinds of tasks. A common interface that all experts must support is specified, and any kind of expert can be incorporated if it has the interface. Several m...

Theoretical frameworks such as the Technology Acceptance Model, identify a few aspects/antecedents that influence Information technology (IT) acceptance in organizations. Applying these models, research studies were conducted that identify a host of factors impacting these key antecedents of IT acceptance. The results from this research have not been synthesized to determine factors that repeat...

Video data from three large captures of choreographic dance making was analyzed to determine if there is a difference between participant knowledge – the knowledge an agent acquires by being the cause of an action – and observer knowledge – the knowledge an observer acquires through close attention to someone else’s performance. The idea that there might be no difference has been challenged by ...

0953-5438/$ see front matter 2009 Elsevier B.V. A doi:10.1016/j.intcom.2009.09.001 Abbreviations: HCI, human–computer interaction munication technology; WDE, work-domain experts; * Corresponding author. Address: SINTEF ICT, P.O. B Norway. Tel.: +47 22067515; fax: +47 22067350. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (A. Følstad), ben [email protected] (D.I.K. Sjøberg). It is a challenge for usability ex...