This paper presents an exploratory study of the appropriation of information systems (AIS) in anaesthesia. Using a grounded theory approach, we identify three key concepts and the basic social process of appropriation to construct a theoretical model that explains why certain systems are chosen, what technologies are considered and how they are appropriated. This study attempts to offer theoret...

There has been interest recently in how mobile devices may be motivating forces in the right contexts: for example, one of the themes for the IADIS International Conference on Mobile Learning in 2007 was ‘Affective Factors in Learning with Mobile Devices’ (http://www.mlearningconf.org). The authors have previously proposed six aspects of learning with mobile devices in informal contexts that mi...

Unicode is now a reality, but its complete uses are just coming out. To study the appropriation of a technology requires distinuishing between two levels of usage : that of computer and communication professionals, and that of a larger social spectrum (businesses, academia, cultural institutions, the general public). Technological systems, a notion borrowed from historians on technology, provid...

Understanding the appropriation of CSCW-Tools is key to their successful implementation. This paper explores the social and organizational appropriation of the Cuparla CSCW-environment in the Stuttgart city council. The city council work requires a CSCW design that is based on the notion of digital material in separated work contexts. Within these contexts, the appropriation of technology depen...

In today’s media-rich world, youths are not merely consumers, but also active creators of information. Digital tools allow authors to more easily remix and copy previous works. These new media practices have brought issues of appropriation, copyright, privacy, information behavior, and information literacy to the forefront. In this paper, we present a case study of a hybrid online and offline c...

The growth in the application of information technology to learning/training underscores the need to understand the impact of these technologies. This paper reports the results of a multi-period quasiexperiment focusing on two e-learning methods: contemporary web-based and video-based training methods. Drawing on the two foundational disciplines of Information Systems and Education, this study ...

Research in recent years has focused on examining the acceptance as well as the appropriation of technologies amongst older adults, especially in how technologies alleviate issues of functional declines, loneliness, and financial difficulties brought about by ageing. Yet such studies have often overlooked meaningful appropriation or disappropriation of technologies amongst older adults. By draw...

The growth in the application of information technology to learning/training underscores the need to understand the impact of these technologies. This paper reports the results of a multi-period quasiexperiment focusing on two e-learning methods: elementK and video-based method. Drawing on the two foundational disciplines of Information Systems and Education, this study presents a theoretical m...