Christine: [...] I think everything has feelings. Even a piece of stone that was carved all those years ago. I feel that it's, well they made it a living thing didn't they? Siân: Mmmm Christine: When they did that. Siân: Yes, when they created it? Christine: Yes. They made a living thing. So I feel, yes, I think when it goes back into the ground it will be home. Siân: Yes, that's really interes...

We describe an approach for integrating non-automotive applications into in-car-entertainment systems while taking account of manifold personalization capabilities within a mobile environment. Adaptive user interfaces are generated for external applications using well-known interaction and personalization concepts. The interaction concepts are defined via state-based interaction models and util...

To Boalt Hall Readers: This draft is clearly –in-progress, not yet fully footnoted and awaiting further development of some key sections. In that regard, it is not a ceremonial formality to say that I look forward to guidance and criticism.

Feel lonely? What about reading books? Book is one of the greatest friends to accompany while in your lonely time. When you have no friends and activities somewhere and sometimes, reading book can be a great choice. This is not only for spending the time, it will increase the knowledge. Of course the b=benefits to take will relate to what kind of book that you are reading. And now, we will conc...

In this paper, I look at what might be gained and what might be lost as we move from representation primarily through writing to representation primarily though image. In so doing, I also consider issues related to learning, knowledge, and human agency. © 2004 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

This paper reports on a longitudinal case study of the interplay between two partners collaborating in an international joint venture. The paper develops a diagnostic tool for investigating, conceptualizing and discussing the collaboration process in a parternship and alliance. It draws on the Industrial Network Approach (Håkansson 1987) and I Ching (Wilhelm and Baynes 1967) in developing an an...