Purpose – The purpose of this study is to develop a framework for evaluating business-IT alignment. Specifically, the authors emphasize internal business-IT alignment between business and IS groups, which is a typical setting in recent boundary-less, networked business environments. Design/methodology/approach – Based on the previous studies, a socio-technical approach was developed to explain ...

In this paper, we address the issue of how to identify appropriate mechanisms for cognitive control in a system that incorporates complex, spatial information processing to represent human-level competence. Our solution to this difficult issue is to use a cognitive architecture, which contains well-validated mechanisms for many aspects of human cognition, including cognitive control. This appro...

Robots are used in different applications to enhance human performance and in the future, these interactions will become more frequent. In order to achieve this human augmentation, the cooperation must be very intuitive to the human operator. This paper proposes a computed-torque control scheme for pHRI using admittance control. The admittance model is first introduced. Then, the robot identifi...

Every day, people widely use information retrieval (IR) systems to answer their questions. We utilized the TREC 2007 complex, interactive question answering (ciQA) track to measure the performance of humans using an interactive IR system to answer questions. Using our IR system, assessors searched for relevant documents and recorded answers to their questions. We submitted the assessors’ answer...

A bottom-up or saliency driven attention allows the brain to detect nonspecific conspicuous targets in cluttered scenes before fully processing and recognizing the targets. Here, a novel biologically plausible auditory saliency map is presented to model such saliency based auditory attention. Multi-scale auditory features are extracted based on the processing stages in the central auditory syst...

Mixed-initiative case replay introduces an active human into the case-based planning process. The goals of this novel technique are to utilize the strengths of machine-based case replay to improve human performance and to allow a human to override a machine’s abstract representation of an actual domain. The synthesis of these two approaches in a planning domain enables flexible solutions to pla...

RESEARCH ARTICLE Position Specific Changes in Body Composition, Hydration Status and Metabolism During Preseason Training Camp and Nutritional Habits of Division III Football Players Andrew R. Jagim, Glenn A. Wright, Jacob Kisiolek, Margaret T. Jones and Jonathan M. Oliver Department of Exercise & Sport Science, University of Wisconsin, La Crosse, WI, USA Division of Health and Human Performanc...

This brief article has as its major purpose to introduce Performance Technology as a relevant field of application for training professionals. It is divided into four major sections. The first section presents Performance Technology as a term and explains what it means for the professional instructional developer or trainer. The second section takes an epistemological approach in an attempt to ...

Danica Mauz, Randall L. Jensen, Falk Naundorf , Chris Richter, Manfred Vieten Division of Sport Science, University of Konstanz, Germany Dept. Health Physical Education Recreation, Northern Michigan University, Marquette, MI, USA Institute for Applied Training Science, Leipzig, Germany School of Health and Human Performance, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland CLARITY: Centre for Sensor Web...

A lightweight, human-in-the-loop evaluation scheme for machine translation (MT) systems is proposed. It extrinsically evaluates MT systems using human subjects’ scores on second language ability test problems that are machine-translated to the subjects’ native language. A largescale experiment involving 320 subjects revealed that the context-unawareness of the current MT systems severely damage...