In this paper we provide a description of the LUHbots team. We describe the current state of the team as well as current plans and research goals towards the 2016 RoboCup@Work tournament in Leipzig. The software is based upon a ROS-architecture and the hardware uses a KUKA youBot as a basis. The focus of the team lies with failure tolerant approaches to mobile manipulation.

BACKGROUND Interdisciplinary team work is increasingly prevalent, supported by policies and practices that bring care closer to the patient and challenge traditional professional boundaries. To date, there has been a great deal of emphasis on the processes of team work, and in some cases, outcomes. METHOD This study draws on two sources of knowledge to identify the attributes of a good interd...

News The health secretary, Alan Mil-burn, vowed last week to press ahead with reforms in the health service and to use money promised in the consultants' contract to buy more of doctors' time for the NHS. Speaking in front of the health select committee, Mr Milburn told ministers that the £250m ($400m; 390m) promised in the proposed contract for consultants and " liberated " by the doctors' rej...

In this paper we present our approach in creating Collaborative Virtual Environments to provide distributed collaborative teams with a virtual space where they can meet as if face-to-face, coexist and collaborate while sharing and manipulating a set of virtual data in real time. Thereby our approach moves beyond mere integration of video-conferencing and scienti c visualization, to create a des...

These studies, exploring the effects of personality on team productivity, had a limited focus by considering only one or two teams, or examining one or two personality dimensions. While the previous studies are insightful, they only establish the foundation for further study [10]. Moreover, previous studies were conducted on large software teams; the results of these studies are not generalizab...

The aim of this study was to examine the relationships between group cohesion and the perceived culture and desired culture of work teams. Two separate studies were carried out with a time interval of one year. The first study had a sample of 50 work teams belonging to different organizations and the second study had a sample of 75 work teams. We used Lindell's index of agreement to estimate th...

the article discusses a trial undertaken in a lis education program to help prepare students from different cultural backgrounds to work in virtual, multicultural work places.  the focus of the trial was developing teamwork, which may now involve global, multicultural and virtual components, for which students need to be prepared, given work place changes of recent years. the trial took place i...