In this paper we point out the current changes and future trends of organizational concepts and explain their influence on workplace awareness and communication. We then elaborate the changing requirements for awareness and informal communication in distributed teams. Finally, we present two artefacts that support informal awareness and community interaction and describe their evaluation in a l...

Creating work environments that sustain open and supportive communication positively influence teamwork, staff satisfaction, and improved patient quality and safety. The Situation, Background, Assessment, and Recommendation (SBAR)-collaborative communication evidence-based practice (EBP) study described in this article introduced collaborative communication integrating SBAR communication proces...

A delay-insensitive inter-chip communication system is proposed that optimises pinand power-efficiency. When data is being transmitted bidirectionally, a data symbol passed in one direction is acknowledged by a data symbol passing in the other direction. When communication is unidirectional, a simple acknowledge protocol is used. If no data communication is taking place the system is quiescent....

There are new requirements in industry on reduced lead times and increased flexibility to adapt to changes in market situation, and in technology. Information technology has enabled new organisational solutions to co-operation, communication, information management, etc. This paper discusses the implications from this new situation on both contents and organisation of engineering education and ...

Situation awareness depends on a reliable perception of the environment and comprehension of its semantic structures. In this respect, the cyberspace presents a unique challenge to the situation awareness of users and analysts, since it is a unique combination of human and machine elements, whose complex interactions occur in a global communication network. Accordingly, we outline the underpinn...

Achieving and maintaining wide-scale positive dietary and lifestyle change is a complex and formidable endeavor, given the current food environment. Moreover, for positive change to occur, nutrition messages should be communicated in a scientifically precise, yet practical and motivating manner. McDonald’s tries its best to adapt communication strategies to changing situation. In the paper, dis...

This chapter describes how the changing information about an individual’s location, environment, and social situation can be used to initiate and facilitate people’s interactions with one another, individually and in groups. Context-aware communication is contrasted with other forms of context-aware computing and we characterize applications in terms of design decisions along two dimensions: th...

A model for the formation of situation concepts is described. A characteristic of this form of concept formation is that it does not require instructive feedback. This renders it suitable for concept formation by autonomous agents. It is experimentally demonstrated that situation concepts constructed independently by several agents can convey useful information between agents through a learned ...