On this page we provide links to a number of guides and papers which
we have published ourselves in recent years.
Enabling Group Working Between
Enterprises - paper presented to GroupWare '95 Europe Conference,
London, 19-21 June (2,000 words)
Usability: How Users Can Help Us
Assess It - a step-by-step framework for determining and optimising
the usability of IT systems, based on the guidance in a Draft International
Standard (2,300 words, plus 1,700 words in annexes). 1994.
Learning Climate and the Learning Organisation
- a short outline of the concepts of organisational learning,
including how it can be recognised and encouraged (1,700 words, including
annexes)
Practising Participative Design in
a Medium-sized Organisation - paper presented to HCI '93 Conference,
Loughborough, 8-10 September (1,400 words)
Organisational Change, Analysis
and Consultancy: Issues for Computer-Supported Cooperative Work
- paper presented by invitation at Universities of Lancaster, Surrey,
and Manchester during 1993. This is a fairly long and academic paper,
and is likely to be of interest mainly to researchers. (8,800 words,
including references)
Hitting the Right Note: Interacting
with Music through Computers - article for Interfaces newsletter,
based on research for the National Centre for Popular Music. 1997.
Skills in Information Communications Technology
& the Internet: A Training Needs Survey - As part of
the Living IT Programme,
we conducted an online survey and this report summarises and discusses
the data that was gathered. The document is in Adobe PDF format (107kb)
and you will need Adobe
Acrobat Reader software to read it (free download). 1998.
Re-engineering
the Lifelong Learning Infrastructure: Learning Clusters and their
Potential Role in Regional Ufi Implementation The term "learning
clusters" refers to communities of learners who share similar
interests in learning, are able to learn from each others' experiences,
and who are influenced by each others' opinions about the positive
value of learning. DJA hosted and facilitated three email and web-based
forums for this project, for individual and business-based learners
across a range of contexts. The document is in Adobe PDF format (368kb)
and you will need Adobe
Acrobat Reader software to read it (free download). 2000.
