In this Commentary, I bring together the findings of articles in special issue, and advocate for an expanded temporal spatial application concept ‘post-socialism’. My focus is also on ongoing political ideological value as a useful emic analytical means critiquing capitalism.

Researchers often use participatory design – involving endusers in technology ideation – as this is found to lead to more useful and relevant products. Researchers have sought to involve older adults in the design of emerging technologies like smartphones, with which older adults often have little experience. Therefore, their effectiveness as co-designers could be questioned. We examine whether...

Regarding a breakdown as an opportunity for learning, systems for lifelong learning need to support a learner in: (1) experiencing a breakdown, and (2) asking for information relevant to the breakdown situation. Knowledge-based critiquing systems have been studied to support the processes. Such a system monitors human performance within its computational environment, identifies a potentially pr...

Personalization actions that tailor the Web experience to a particular user are an integral component of recommender systems. Here, product knowledge either hand-coded or “mined” is used to guide users through the often overwhelming task of locating products they will like. Providing such intelligent user assistance and performing tasks on the user’s behalf requires an understanding of their go...

Processing syntactically ill-formed language is an important mission of the EPISTLE system, lll-formed input is treated by this system in various ways. Misspellings are highlighted by a standard spelling checker; syntactic errors are detected and corrections are suggested; and stylistic infelicities are called to the user's attention. Central to the EPISTLE processing strategy is its technique ...

After reading this chapter, you should be able to do the following: • Describe how the research question and hypothesis relate to the other components of the research process. • Describe the process of identifying and refining a research question or hypothesis. • Identify the criteria for determining the significance of a research question or hypothesis. • Discuss the purpose of developing a cl...

The higher a military person goes in the ranks, the sooner the transfer, meaning the commanders who make the highest level decisions have been in a particular assignment the shortest amount of time. To acquire and maintain the maximum level of efficiency and productivity as quickly as possible, the expertise of commanders must be understood so that appropriate decision support can be developed....

As qualitative research, this article aims to critically engage on the level of scholarship by modern scholars for pursuing knowledge development in South African public administration. The also concludes that purpose peer review is evaluate and improve text if perceive their as criticise not critique scientific work areas improvement, they expose weaknesses biases, which does contribute improv...

The journal article incubator approach to teaching writing skills to researchers and academics involves a series of engaging and inclusive workshops in which best practice writing, reviewing and rewriting skills are modelled by the presenters and practiced by the participants. This paper describes the design and operation of two incubator workshops conducted recently in Australia and South Afri...