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Collaboration and Decision Making in Crisis Situations

2016

[EN] Emergencies are critical situations that demand immediate action to avoid adverse consequences to life and property. Recent events around the world highlight the importance of the theme. A key challenge in Emergency Management is decision-making under time pressure, with an overload of unconfirmed, uncertain and conflicting information, including the management of many people, with distinct and possibly fluid roles, in different places. Collaboration in these settings is an interesting element, since emergency response generally involves multiple agencies and the public, which, having different views, protocols and priorities, must act in concert to handle the situation. In addition, a…

Collaboration and collaborative information technologies

1999

Collaborative information technologies have been claimed to enhance collaboration in organizations, under certain conditions. This claim was found problematic in several respects, also in the light of the results of 18 case studies of Lotus Notes use, taken from the literature. The cases may be split into three groups: (1) exploratory, conservative, or cautious use; (2) planned and expanding use; and (3) extensive and engaged use of Notes. In the first group, no changes in work arrangements due to Notes use could be found. In the second group, the planned Notes applications supported the established work arrangements, both collaborative and hierarchical. Only in the third group were there s…

Creative Improvisations with Information and Communication Technology to Support Learning : A Conceptual and Developmental Framework

2017

This article is about facilitating collaborative, creative improvisations in learning with Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and in so doing enhancing under-utilised creative possibilities in education and development in schools, universities, workplaces and in every-day life. Improvisation is defined and earlier research on supporting creative improvisations with ICT is outlined. There follows a conceptual framing where improvisation is seen as a creative outcome of certain cultural ecological interactions in learning environments. It is proposed that these creative improvisational interactions can be facilitated by ICT, and developmental ideas are presented. The purpose of …

2021

In conjunction with the dismantling of psychiatric hospitals, social workers have been commissioned to help service users in their daily living in their homes and in the community. The consequences of these changes for experience-based knowledge and practices in their contexts remain relatively unknown. In this study, eighteen service users and the social workers they described as helpful for them were interviewed. The interviews were recorded, transcribed, and analyzed using Thematic Analysis. The following themes emerged: “Here, there and everywhere”, “Doing, being, becoming”, “Talking” and “Order, planning and improvisation” concerning the contradictions service users and professionals m…

Play together, think alike: Shared mental models in expert music improvisers

2015

International audience; When musicians improvise together, they tend to agree beforehand on a common structure (e.g. a jazz standard) which helps them coordinate. However, in the particular case of collective free improvisation (CFI), musicians deliberately avoid having such a referent. How, then, can they coordinate? We propose that CFI musicians who have experience playing together come to share higher-level knowledge, which is not piece-specific but rather task-specific: an implicit mental model of what it is to improvise freely. We tested this hypothesis on a group of 19 expert improvisers from the Parisian CFI community, who had various degrees of experience playing with one another. D…

How to learn from our mistakes : communication of health crises

2015

Reviewing public communications emitted during health crises in the last thirty years is useful for verifying that there are a number of repeated mistakes: for example, untrained spokespeople with poor communication skills, ambiguous messages, lack of communication plans for the crisis, and improvisation, which ends up with the transmission of alarming messages to the population and contributes to administrations being considered suspicious or untrustworthy by the people. The denatured rapeseed oil scandal, mad cow disease, influenza A virus, or the recent Ebola outbreak are clear examples of how not to communicate and offer us an opportunity to learn valuable lessons before future crises a…

La producción musical de Adolfo Waitzman para Televisión Española (TVE) entre 1975 y 1979: diversidad estilística para una época de transición

2022

Entre 1975 y principios de 1979, el compositor argentino Adolfo Waitzman (1932-1998) mostró su versatilidad al servicio de Televisión Española (TVE), en unos formatos de gran repercusión emitidos por la citada televisión pública. Una etapa en la que España estaba viviendo una trascendental transición de la dictadura franquista a una incipiente democracia. En este artículo se analiza su aportación en la serie 'Este señor de negro' (1975-1976), dirigida por Antonio Mercero, que consiguió un gran éxito de público y, sobre todo, de crítica. El siguiente trabajo es el que más popularidad le proporcionó: las músicas creadas para la segunda etapa (1976-1978) del concurso 'Un, dos, tres¿responda ot…

Recensión a la obra: Martínez Otero, J. Mª.: La protección jurídica de los menores en el entorno audiovisual. Respuestas desde el Derecho a los desaf…

2014

La obra analiza 'in extenso' la regulación orientada a proteger a los menores de edad en el ámbito de los medios de comunicación. El tema no carece de importancia, y conviene recordar que junto con el honor, la intimidad y la propia imagen, la protección de la juventud y la infancia es uno de los cuatro límites expresos que el Constituyente quiso mencionar en el art. 20.4ª, al abordar los límites que cabía imponer a la libertad de expresión y el derecho a la información.

Effects of gender and the representations about the importance of parenthood in the emotional adjustment in couples undergoing assisted reproductive …

2021

Infertility is defined as “the failure to achieve a clinical pregnancy after 12 months or more of regular unprotected sexual intercourse” [1]. The emotional adjustment of couples undergoing ART has been widely studied, evidencing the experience of infertility and its treatment have negative effects on the psychological well-being in many cases [2,3]. However, few studies were dedicated to study the role of the intrapersonal attributes of adjustment to infertility, such as attitudes toward parenthood, among this population. Therefore, this study aimed to explore the relationship between emotional adjustment and representations about the importance of parenthood (rejection of childfree lifest…

Privacy preserving mechanisms for enforcing security and privacy requirements in E-health solutions

2016

In the last few decades, there have been significant efforts in integrating information and communication technologies (ICT) into healthcare practices. This new paradigm commonly identified as electronic healthcare (e-health) allows provisioning of healthcare services at an affordable price to its consumers. However, there have been questions raised about the security of the sensitive information such as health records as well as the privacy of involving parties raising doubts on the minds of the general public. Thus, it is important to understand the potential security challenges in e-health systems and successfully resolve them by taking adequate measures to ensure fair utilization of suc…