OO7 has been widely used by developers to benchmark commercial Object Oriented Data Bases (OODB) and by researchers as a realistic workload for experimenting with persistent object systems (POS). These uses of OO7 levy very different requirements; the former needs an application benchmark while the latter needs a system benchmark. This paper describes our experiences with using OO7 both as an a...

Purpose – This paper aims to investigate the gap between the interests in supply chain collaboration (SCC) and the relatively few recorded cases of successful applications – this is the reality of SCC. Design/methodology/approach – The research represents the viewpoints of the authors based on their collective field experiences and literature reviews. Findings – Three realities of SCC are ident...

In this paper, we performed a longitudinal field study with 41 participants, who installed our monitoring framework on their Android smartphones and ran it for at least 20 days. We examined how unlocking mechanisms perform in the wild in terms of time it takes to authenticate and error-rate, and how the users’ choices of the unlocking mechanisms are linked to the different patterns of smartphon...

The increasing presence of multiple Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in the classroom does not guarantee an improvement of the learning experiences of students, unless it is also accompanied by pedagogically effective orchestration of those technologies. In order to help teachers in this endeavour, it can be useful to understand how this orchestration takes place in real-world c...

Newcomer participation is fundamental to most organizations yet we have limited understanding of how this process unfolds in real world organizations. In this paper I present preliminary findings from a field study of five newcomers in a research and development laboratory. The findings show that to move from peripheral to full participation newcomers make use of both interpersonal and technolo...

Both common wisdom and findings from multiple areas of research suggest that it is helpful to understand and make meaning out of negative experiences. However, people’s attempts to do so often backfire, leading them to ruminate and feel worse. Here we attempt to shed light on these seemingly contradictory sets of findings by examining the role that self-distancing plays in facilitating adaptive...

In this paper we describe our experiences of evaluating healthcare information technologies deployed in two contrasting hospital settings. We discuss the methodologies that we used for the evaluations, the challenges encountered and how existing HCI research methods may be used for evaluating technologies deployed in the healthcare domain.

The relative merits of adopting a generic versus theoretical approach to undertaking qualitative research have polarised qualitative researchers and overshadowed the need to focus on research that address clinical questions. Drawing on the challenges of designing a study that explored parents’ experiences of living with a child with hydrocephalus, we will argue that over adherence to, and delib...

The theme of the 1999 Workshop on Empirical Studies of Software Maintenance is phrased as: ‘How to wade through the mire of evidence?’. In this paper, an overview is given of some of the evidence, as it was presented at the 1998 International Conference on Software Maintenance [8]. Being the main international conference on software maintenance, we believe we can assume that the proceedings of ...

This article reflects on fieldwork experiences with coethnic migrants in London to challenge understandings of insiderness centred in shared ethnicity, as well as the usefulness of the insider-outsider divide in migration research more generally. Drawing on examples from a study of migrants' social relations, it shows how gender, migrant status, and occupational position sometimes shape researc...