Sandholtz, Ringstaff, & Dwyer (1996) list five stages in the “evolution” of a teacher’s capacity for computerbased instruction—entry, adoption, adaptation, appropriation and invention—which hereafter will be called the teacher’s computer-based instructional evolution. In this study of approximately six hundred junior high school science and mathematics teachers in Taiwan who have integrated com...

For many years we have heard rumors of the downfall and death of GSS research. In this paper we will argue that the nay-sayers are wrong, as many have been in other disciplines in the past and that they would propose to stop seeking answers before the most important questions may have even been asked. We describe some of the many unanswered research questions left to be addressed in Group Suppo...

Bargaining with reading habit is no need. Reading is not kind of something sold that you can take or not. It is a thing that will change your life to life better. It is the thing that will give you many things around the world and this universe, in the real world and here after. As what will be given by this fee based services in sci tech libraries, how can you bargain with the thing that has m...

The management of knowledge in research consortia raises new appropriability issues, such as copying with the tension between individual protection and data sharing which is required in any process of collective invention. Based on case studies carried out in the field of biotechnology, the paper discusses these issues and develop some policy implications.

Research into computer support for colocated small group meetings has not delivered any significant benefit in spite of significant investment and decades of research. We suggest that the focus has been on the wrong problem. Each time a process is enacted in small group work it will different (even if only slightly different) due to the situational context. Therefore the process for supporting ...

Understanding how to develop users’ skills and abilities and how to best support users in their everyday use of technology remains a key managerial problem. This study uses Bandura’s social cognitive theory (1986) to focus on the everyday phenomenon of technical support as a mechanism of vicarious learning through which users learn about their technology. We argue that this conceptualization ai...

This paper presents an approach for representing, and providing computer support for, the configuration of interactive systems, particularly ubiquitous systems, that offers a flexible method for combining a wide range of configuration techniques. There are many existing techniques offering dynamic adaptation, ranging from fully automatic through context-sensitive to userdriven. We propose a mod...

Continuous improvement is a well known method for improving an organization step by step. This paper shows that with computer support even an improvement process can be improved. It presents a long-term study of GSS use in the Hohenheim Computer Aided Team (CATearn) room. Over two years the authors observed a natural group performing a continuous improvement process to improve their own work. T...

This paper calls on activity theory as tool for analyzing Asynchronous Learning Networks (ALN) to achieve a better understanding of their dynamics. This paper makes some design suggestions for ALN, they are: (1) Provide sufficient training at the beginning; (2) Provide technical support throughout the process; (3) Provide clear guidelines for interaction among students, evaluation criteria for ...