Avatars are technological artifacts that provide communicators a body in virtual spaces. It is through this affordance of embodiment that people, places and things are made concrete, tangible, and present. Presence consists of two interrelated phenomena: (i) telepresence: the sense of being there, and (ii) social presence: the sense of being together with others. In the context of virtual world...

Received: 11 November 2005 Revised: 1 February 2006 Accepted: 20 February 2006 Abstract This paper examines how the use of mobile phones influences the temporal boundaries that people enact in order to regulate and coordinate their work and non-work activities. We investigate both the structural and interpretive aspects of socio-temporal order, so as to gain a fuller appreciation of the changes...

Process modeling and enacting concepts are at the center of workflow management. Support for heterogeneous processes, flexibility, reuse, and distribution are great challenges for the design of the next generation process modeling languages and their enactment mechanisms. Furthermore, flexible and collaborative processes depend also on unpredictable changes and hence require human intervention....

In recent years, researchers in software engineering field have identified the software development process as a key issue in obtaining higher quality products, improved productivity, more reliable and controllable projects, and other desirable effects. This research addresses the technical issues involved in specifying and mechanically supporting software development processes and is related t...

Full-scale simulation exercises are becoming more common as an educational feature of the undergraduate training of health professionals. This study explores how interprofessional collaboration is enacted by the participating students. Practice theory is used as the theoretical framework for a field study of two naturalistic educational settings, when medical and nursing students come together ...

E-services usually span multiple organizations and evolve in time-domain due to the changes in the environment pertaining to each organization. Enacting composite e-services over evolving inter-organizational business processes is a challenging task. In this paper, we highlight modeling of business processes for eservices and present enactment of the e-services with the help of meta models in o...

Using agile methodologies for enacting projects has been subject to intense research recently. In this paper, we present the Collaborative Agent-based Knowledge Engine approach for supporting mobile workers performing timecritical or business critical tasks. By a combination of sophisticated knowledge management and light-weight workflow model, this approach provides guidance and knowledge as r...

This article employs participant definitional analysis, sensitized with feminist poststructuralism and critical ethnography, to understand three identity construction processes that members of childfree LiveJournal communities participate in: (a) naming childfreedom, (b) negotiating childfreedom, and (c) enacting childfreedom. I argue that childfree identities are contested and sometimes activi...

Energy and transportation researchers can contribute to the realization of just transitions low-carbon mobility in cities across planet by elaborating enacting broad conceptions justice that consider distribution, procedure, recognition knowledge generation.