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Space, place and memory prosthetics.

Book Chapter
Turner, P. (2008)
Space, place and memory prosthetics. In P. Turner, S. Turner, & E. Davenport (Eds.), Exploration of Space, Technology and Spatiality: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, 183-195. Idea Press. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-020-2.ch014
Recent years have witnessed a number of initiatives to develop technology (“memory prosthetics”) to enhance and extend human memory. Typical of these is “Memories for Life,” w...

Rethinking e-Government Research: The ‘ideology-artefact complex’

Conference Proceeding
Davenport, E., & Horton, K. (2006)
Rethinking e-Government Research: The ‘ideology-artefact complex’. In R. Suomi, R. Cabral, J. F. Hampe, & A. Heikkila (Eds.), Project E-Society: Building Bricks. IFIP International Federation for Information Processing,, 380-391. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-39229-5_31
The authors present a framework for e-government research that draws heavily on Iacono and Kling’s work on computerization movements. They build on this work by appropriating ...

The production of service in the digital city: a social informatics inquiry.

Conference Proceeding
Davenport, E., & Horton, K. (2006)
The production of service in the digital city: a social informatics inquiry. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-37876-3_19
The authors discuss eGovernment as a computerization movement, and present a case study of a small project that was part of a modernising government initiative in a UK municip...

Inclusion or alienation? computer literacy in a group of older people.

Presentation / Conference
Davenport, E., Turner, P., & Van de Walle, G. (2006, July)
Inclusion or alienation? computer literacy in a group of older people. Paper presented at IFIP 8.2 Working Conference on Social Exclusion--Societal and Organisational Implications for Information Systems, Limerick

Teaching and learning in the VLCC: actions, reactions and emerging practice in a very large computing centre.

Conference Proceeding
Buckner, K., & Davenport, E. (2001)
Teaching and learning in the VLCC: actions, reactions and emerging practice in a very large computing centre. In S. Bagnara, S. Pozzi, A. Rizzo, & P. Wright (Eds.), 11th European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics, 355-360
What happens to human computer interaction when the walls of a physical teaching laboratory are removed? We present the case of a very large (and new) computing centre (VLCC) ...

Internet simulations for teaching, learning and research: an investigation of e-commerce interactions and practice in the Virtual Economy.

Journal Article
Horton, K., Davenport, E., Hall, H., & Rosenbaum, H. (2002)
Internet simulations for teaching, learning and research: an investigation of e-commerce interactions and practice in the Virtual Economy. Education for Information, 20(3/4), 237-252
In this paper we report upon the Virtual Economy (VE), an Internet simulation which operated for the first time in Spring 2000 involving students at Indiana University, USA an...

Social intelligence in the age of networks

Journal Article
Davenport, E. (2000)
Social intelligence in the age of networks. Journal of Information Science, 26(3), (145-152). doi:10.1177/016555150002600304. ISSN 0165-5515
The author explores the concept of ‘social intelligence’. She suggests that, in the world of digital commerce, it may be defined as ‘insight which is based on collective under...

Making interactions visible: tools for social browsing.

Conference Proceeding
Davenport, E., Connolly, R., Spence, R., Buckner, K., Whyte, A., & Barr, K. (1999)
Making interactions visible: tools for social browsing. In M. Altom, & M. Williams (Eds.), CHI EA '99 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 35-36. https://doi.org/10.1145/632716.632742
The authors describe the problem of 'community myopia': a lack of awareness of people and resources that might assist members of a community to carry out tasks. They present a...

L'Intelligence sociale at l'intelligence concurrentielle. Est-ce qu'elles convergent dans l'organisation virtuelle?

Presentation / Conference
Davenport, E. (1999, January)
L'Intelligence sociale at l'intelligence concurrentielle. Est-ce qu'elles convergent dans l'organisation virtuelle?. Paper presented at 67 Congrès de L'Acfas

Partner Lens, a tool for social browsing.

Presentation / Conference
Davenport, E. (1999, January)
Partner Lens, a tool for social browsing. Paper presented at National Research Council of Canada