Good afternoon. First of all, I’d like to thank the two opponents, Professor Sharrock and Professor Engeström for their positive assessment of my dissertation as well as for the both critical and helpful comments they have offered. I guess that anybody who has the major part of his or her work for more than a decade evaluated by highly esteemed colleagues will look forward to reading their asse...

Feel lonely? What about reading books? Book is one of the greatest friends to accompany while in your lonely time. When you have no friends and activities somewhere and sometimes, reading book can be a great choice. This is not only for spending the time, it will increase the knowledge. Of course the b=benefits to take will relate to what kind of book that you are reading. And now, we will conc...

Integrated knowledge translation (IKT) requires active collaboration between researchers and the ultimate users of knowledge throughout a research process, and is being aggressively positioned as an essential strategy to address the problem of underutilization of research-derived knowledge. The purpose of this commentary is to assist potential "knowledge users", particularly those working in po...

The institutional review board (IRB) is one part of the research enterprise designated to protect human subjects. At times the IRB can feel like an oppressive oversight body bound by regulations and designed to inhibit research. However, in reality the IRB was an attempt by the federal government to streamline a variety of processes to ensure the protection of human subjects. Growing out of a h...

This study investigated lying behavior and the behavior of people who are deceived by using a deception game (Gneezy, 2005) in both anonymity and face-to-face treatments. Subjects consist of students and non-students (citizens) to investigate whether lying behavior is depended on socioeconomic backgrounds. To explore how liars feel about lying, we give senders a chance to confess their behavior...

I am pleased to report that at the end of my first, three-years term as Editor-in-Chief of JHSN the journal has experienced significant improvements, by consolidating its position as a leading and prestigious publication. The number of manuscript submissions in the aforementioned time window was 330 papers (at the time of writing), 58 of them have been published in volumes 18 to 20. The page bu...

In this article we report our experience on building a contextual application with two different middlewares: the Context Toolkit from Georgia Tech and the Coordination Language Facility (CLF) from XRCE. In our email notifier sample application people receive audible or visual notifications about selected incoming emails at their current locations, e.g. in a colleague’s room. Although rather st...

It used to be that there was one particular look and feel to a SAS® environment. Then platforms changed, editors changed, but for a long time the infrastructure remained the same. With the introduction of a comprehensive Business Intelligence Platform, the expansion of SAS across the enterprise, and its integration with IT departments, new usage patterns have emerged. More infrastructure choice...

In this paper, control Lyapunov functions are used to define static and dynamic safe regions for a system. Based on a control Lyapunov function, a “satisficing input set” is defined as all satisficing controls for this CLF according to attractive behaviors and repulsive behaviors. If the system is within a specified safe region, the human input will be used as the control input to the system. I...