A telepresence environment for concurrent life-cycle design and construction

Construction projects normally involve transient 'virtual organisations', where a multidisciplinary project team works together on the design and construction of a facility. Many of these participants often work independently while taking decisions that inevitably affect others. The research described in the thesis involved examining the adoption of concurrent engineering (CE) principles by the construction industry as a way to reduce the problems posed by the fragmentation of the industry, and to enhance its competitiveness. An important aspect of concurrent engineering in construction is the need for effective communication of design information between all members of the project team and across all stages of the constructed facility's life-cycle. The thesis describes the development of a communications infrastructure for Concurrent Life-Cycle Design and Construction. [Continues.

noteEd - A web-based lecture capture system

Electronic capture and playback of lectures has long been the aim of many academic projects. Synote is an application developed under MACFoB (Multimedia Annotation and Community Folksonomy Building) project to synchronise the playback of lecture materials. However, Synote provides no functionality to capture such multimedia. This project involves the creation of a system called noteEd, which will capture a range of multimedia from lectures and make them available to Synote. This report describes the evolution of the noteEd project throughout the design and implementation of the proposed system. The performance of the system was checked in a user acceptance test with the customer, which is discussed after screenshots of our solution. Finally, the project management is presented containing a final project evaluation

Driving Value in Medicaid Primary Care: The Role of Shared Support Networks for Physician Practices

Examines the challenges of transforming small primary care practices under healthcare reform and options for Medicaid to drive changes through practice supports to help implement and sustain new models of care or catalyze investments in new systems

Call preparation documents: Guide for Applicants, Model Contract, Proposal Template, Call text, and publication plan for the call

Project HORSE, co-funded from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under agreement No 680734, foresees as an eligible activity the provision of financial support to third parties, as means to achieve its own objectives. The HORSE framework is driven by and validated with end-users - manufacturing companies- in two steps: in the first, the framework was jointly developed together with the selected end-users (Pilot Experiments); in the second, its suitability and transferability to further applications will be validated with new end-users recruited via this Open Call

A Meta-Study on E-Collaboration

Collaborative activities across organizations are common when conducting business online. There have been numerous research results on different aspects of inter-organization collaborations through electronic means or in an electronic environment. However, the term ‘collaboration’ in Information Systems research literature often has different meanings. Also, a wide spectrum of technologies has been labeled as collaborative technology. In order to make the knowledge of the new research field cohesive and accumulative, the paradigm of electronic collaboration (e-Collaboration) has yet to be established. Thus this paper aims to provide a framework for e-Collaboration from the perspective different levels of involvements of inter-organization interactions. The framework differentiates the types of the ‘collaboration’ in a cohesive manner, and underlines the core characteristics of e-Collaboration - joint intellectual efforts. Moreover, a content analysis on the existing related literatures is conducted, using the framework proposed. Future research directions in the field are also discussed

Making sense out of polemics

We intend to draw attention to a topic in practical argumentation that is complex, unavoidable and of substantial consequence in social, political and economical terms: polemics. Our target is a rather frequent —and far from trivial— type of polemics, those that are generated around action proposals that affect public well-being. Our aim is to develop a framework to identify the argumentative components of an actual controversy and eventually provide means to intervene in the ongoing disputation. With that focus, in this paper we outline the basic elements of a conceptual framework that will allow us to map the topic and articulate some salient opportunities.The authors wish to acknowledge the support of SINTELNET (FET Open Coordinated Action FP7-ICT-2009-C Project No. 286370) in the writing of this paperPeer reviewe