Email is increasingly popular for business communication, often as a means of transmitting, commenting on or collectively creating documents. Although text email is easy to author, it lacks the rich expressiveness of oral media. Multimedia chronicles are introduced as conversations that weave through a fabric of documents, URLs, photographs and other resources. They consist of audio narrations ...

Fall related injuries in nursing homes have a major impact on the quality of life in later adulthood and there is a dearth of studies on falling and fall prevention from the older person's perspective. The aim of the study was to identify how older persons perceive falling, fall prevention, and fall accidents. Six in-depth interviews were carried out and a hermeneutic phenomenological method wa...

INTRODUCTION User Experience (UX) is a topic that overcomes barriers between various research domains in its quest to define what constitutes a positive experience. The field of Human Computer Interaction is deeply multidisciplinary; the concept of UX tends to even increase this already fuzzy domain of HCI and bringing even more approaches together. This also had the consequence that people fro...

Core competences or capabilities are characterized in an almost exclusive affirmative way. Even if the perils of path dependence and core rigidity are acknowledged to some extent, the flip side of core competences is not really reflected in the well-established concepts. The paper focuses on such shortcomings accompanying the one-sided affirmative conceptualizations and tries to develop a more ...

Warning systems are technically, socially, and organizationally shaped and rest on specific assumptions concerning human behavior during disasters. The common notions about people’s behavior in disaster situations are often not based on empirical data, but rather on so-called “myths” which overemphasize rare and situation-dependent extreme behaviors such as panic, disaster shock, looting or hel...

The author's reflections on her own research into dance events on the islands of Lastovo and Korčula are presented in this paper. Her research has been focused on casting light on female roles and components: the veiled bula [Muslim woman] in the Korčula moreška sword dance and the lijepe maškare [lovely masques] in the Lastovo Carnival happenings. During the process commencing from field resea...

The cultural and religious resources of every community influence the definition of spiritual care. This paper discusses a concept analysis of spiritual care in an Islamic context. The Quran, narrations (Shie’h) and commentarial books were searched, for information data. The data was used to provide a comprehensive definition of the concept of spiritual care from Islamic literature. We identifi...

The Succinct Solver Suite offers two analysis engines for solving data and control flow problems expressed in clausal form in a large fragment of first order logic. The solvers have proved to be useful for a variety of applications including security properties of Java Card bytecode, access control features of Mobile and Discretionary Ambients, and validation of protocol narrations formalised i...

Virtual teams (VT) have been studied since two decades because of their increasing presence in today’s organizations. To better understand how VTs work, our research tries to address this issue by analysing interpretive frameworks through which students made sense of a VT experience as part of a course taught simultaneously in two distant universities. Using the concepts of sensemaking (Weick, ...