Browsing by Author "Antunes, Pedro"

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    • Developing a Mobile Collaborative Tool for Business Continuity Management 
      Sapateiro, Claudio; Baloian Tataryan, Nelson; Antunes, Pedro; Zurita Alarcón, Gustavo (GRAZ UNIV TECHNOLGOY, 2011)
      We describe the design of a mobile collaborative tool that helps teams managing critical computing infrastructures in organizations, a task that is usually designated Business Continuity Management. The design process ...
    • Eliciting Process Knowledge Through Process Stories 
      Antunes, Pedro; Pino Urtubia, José; Tate, Mary; Barros, Alistair (Springer, 2020)
      There are often gaps between the lived experiences of end users and the official version of processes as espoused by the organization. To understand and address these gaps, we propose and evaluate process stories, a method ...
    • A Framework like a tool for specify motivating Collaborative Learning Participatory Simulations 
      Zurita Alarcón, Gustavo; Baloian Tataryan, Nelson; Baytelman Pilowsky, Felipe Bruno; Farías Landabur, Antonio; Antunes, Pedro (2007)
      Several research efforts suggest that collaborative participatory simulations improve teaching and learning, increasing motivation inside the classroom. Currently, it has been mainly applied with students of primary ...
    • Mobile Sensemaking: Exploring Proximity and Mobile Applications in the Classroom 
      Zurita Alarcón, Gustavo; Antunes, Pedro; Baloian Tataryan, Nelson; Baytelman Pilowsky, Felipe Bruno (2007)
      We propose mobile sensemaking as a collaborative mechanism to explore and understand information in highly mobile and fluid situations, where people engage in multiple parallel, rapid and ad-hoc interactions, rather than ...
    • A Platform Supporting the Implementation of Collaborative Learning through Participatory Simulations 
      Zurita Alarcón, Gustavo; Baloian Tataryan, Nelson; Baytelman Pilowsky, Felipe Bruno; Farías Landabur, Antonio; Antunes, Pedro (Springer-Verlag, 2008)
      Student motivation is a key aspect in achieving successful collaborative learning. In the past, some techniques which help to engage the students in a motivating learning activity have been proposed. Among them, ...
    • Reviewing the quality of awareness support in collaborative applications 
      Antunes, Pedro; Herskovic Maida, Valeria; Ochoa Delorenzi, Sergio; Pino Urtubia, José (Elsevier, 2014)
      Awareness to users is a valuable feature of a collaborative system. Therefore, the designers of a system of this type may find it useful to receive hints on the awareness support provided by the system when it is under ...
    • Risk Assessment in Healthcare Collaborative Settings: A Case Study Using SHELL 
      Antunes, Pedro; Bandeira, Rogerio; Carriço, Luis; Zurita Alarcón, Gustavo; Baloian Tataryan, Nelson; Vogt, Rodrigo (2008)
      This paper describes a case study addressing risk assessment in a hospital unit. The objective was to analyse the impact on collaborative work after the unit changed their installations. The study adopted the SHELL ...
    • Structuring Dimensions for Collaborative Systems Evaluation 
      Antunes, Pedro; Herskovic Maida, Valeria; Ochoa Delorenzi, Sergio; Pino Urtubia, José (ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY, 2012-02)
      Collaborative systems evaluation is always necessary to determine the impact a solution will have on the individuals, groups, and the organization. Several methods of evaluation have been proposed. These methods comprise ...
    • Supporting Crisis Management Processes by Wirelessly Interconnected Tablet-PCs 
      Sapateiro, Claudio; Antunes, Pedro; Zurita Alarcón, Gustavo; Baloian Tataryan, Nelson; Vogt, Rodrigo (2008)
      When organizations face unforeseen emergency situations its members often resort to unstructured crisis management activities in order to overcome the problems. Researchers have noted that a common activity in these ...
    • The use of genre analysis in the design of electronic meeting systems 
      Antunes, Pedro; Costa, Carlos J.; Pino Urtubia, José (UNIV SHEFFIELD DEPT INFORMATION STUDIES, 2006-04)
      Introduction. Genre analysis is an approach to study communication patterns and thus it can be applied to the specific context of meetings. This research investigates the use of genre analysis in the design of electronic ...
    • Visually-Driven Decision Making Using Handheld Devices 
      Zurita Alarcón, Gustavo; Antunes, Pedro; Baloian Tataryan, Nelson; Baytelman Pilowsky, Felipe Bruno; Farías Landabur, Antonio (2008)
      This paper discusses group decision making from a visual-interactive perspective. The novelty of our approach is that its major focus is on developing a collection of visualinteractive elements for group decision-making. ...