Investigating the interplay between social presence, motivation, and knowledge sharing behaviour in virtual learning environment

This study investigates the interplay between social presence, motivation, and knowledge sharing behaviour in the virtual learning environment. Sample for this research were 150 university students participated in online class sessions. A quantitative analysis was conducted by Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) with Partial Least Square (PLS) methods. The result showed that (1) there are positive effects between social presence on intrinsic motivation and knowledge sharing behaviour, (2) there is a positive effect between intrinsic motivation and knowledge sharing behaviour, (3) intrinsic motivation partially mediated the relationship between social presence and knowledge sharing behaviour, and (4) extrinsic motivation acts as predictor moderator on the relationship between social presence, intrinsic motivation, and knowledge sharing behaviour. These results implied the importance of students’ motivation and social presence perception to foster knowledge sharing in the mediated learning environment

An Overview of Smartrooms and Collaborative Work Environments. From Research Issues to User Acceptance in the Oil and Gas Industry

Les environnements de travail collaboratif sont des environ-nement de travail technologiquement enrichis, conçus pour faciliter une activité collaborative (que cette collaboration soit colocalisée ou distante). Ces "smartrooms" sont le produit d'expertises pluri-disciplinaires, puisant dans les domaines du facteur humain, de l'interaction homme machine, et de l'informatique ubiquitaire. Dans cet article, nous présentons une vue d'ensemble de la littérature sur les smartrooms et leur mise en place dans l'industrie pétrolière. Si la littérature académique met avant tout l'accent sur les aspects techniques et humains de conception, la littérature industrielle nous présente quant à elle les enjeux organisationnels et économiques de ces environnements, et dévoile un retour d'expérience sur leur acceptation par les utilisateurs.Collaborative Work Environments (CWE) are technologically in-strumented environments especially designed to support a collab-orative (co-located or remote) activity. Colloquially referred to as "smartrooms" from their research debut, such environments are the joint product of multidisciplinary expertises, as they draw from the fields of human factors, human computer interaction (HCI), pervasive computing, and various other fields. In this paper, we provide an overview of the literature on smartrooms in research and their application as collaborative work environments in the oil and gas industry. While the research literature provides with a broad view of the various topics and issues of smartroom design, the industrial literature focuses more on the organisational and human issues of setting up CWEs, providing valuable feedback on user acceptance and return on investment