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Narratives of new media in Scottish households: the evolution of a framework of enquiry. (2000)
Journal Article
Davenport, E., Higgins, M., & Somerville, I. (2000). Narratives of new media in Scottish households: the evolution of a framework of enquiry. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 51, 900-912. https://doi.org/10.1002/1097-4571%282000%2951%3A103.0.CO%3B2-U

The authors describe a study of the social dynamics of new media in Scottish households. The evolving project drew on dialogues with multiple household members elicited in group conversations. This approach to interviews captured different and confli... Read More about Narratives of new media in Scottish households: the evolution of a framework of enquiry..

Non-contractual trust, design, and human and computer interactions (2000)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Marsh, S., Davenport, E., Dibben, M., Friedman, B., March, S., Rosenbaum, H., & Thimbleby, H. (2000). Non-contractual trust, design, and human and computer interactions. In CHI 2000 Proceedings (239-240). https://doi.org/10.1145/633292.633432

How might trust be a component of human-computer based interaction? There are a number of dimensions involving different combinations of humans, systems and computer agents. Recent studies of trust in the workplace indicate that trust has many attrib... Read More about Non-contractual trust, design, and human and computer interactions.

Knowledge management in higher education. (2000)
Book Chapter
Cronin, B., & Davenport, E. (2000). Knowledge management in higher education. In G. Bernbom (Ed.), Information Alchemy: The Art and Science of Knowledge Management (25-42). Jossey-Bass

Clinical guidelines and the translation of texts into care: overcoming professional conflicts concerning evidence‐based practice (2000)
Journal Article
Davenport, E. (2000). Clinical guidelines and the translation of texts into care: overcoming professional conflicts concerning evidence‐based practice. Journal of Documentation, 56(5), 505-519. https://doi.org/10.1108/eum0000000007125

The difficulties of basing healthcare on literary warrant have been explained in different ways: busy practitioners have no time to read extensively, physical access is difficult, and adequate surrogates for texts like indexes, abstracts, systematic... Read More about Clinical guidelines and the translation of texts into care: overcoming professional conflicts concerning evidence‐based practice.

Social intelligence in the age of networks (2000)
Journal Article
Davenport, E. (2000). Social intelligence in the age of networks. Journal of Information Science, 26(3), 145-152. https://doi.org/10.1177/016555150002600304

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 understanding of work practices’. She offers three scenarios to support the... Read More about Social intelligence in the age of networks.

Costs and prices in the digital age (2000)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Davenport, E. (2000, February). Costs and prices in the digital age. Paper presented at the Electronic Library

No abstract available.

Matching partners: tools for social browsing that take people as texts. (1999)
Journal Article
Davenport, E. (1999). Matching partners: tools for social browsing that take people as texts. Canadian Journal of Information and Library Research, 24, 1-16

The paper describes an emerging research agenda, and some of the preliminary conceptualisations for social browsers than can assist group members who may wish to accomplish tasks together, but are unaware of each other. It is likely that the problem... Read More about Matching partners: tools for social browsing that take people as texts..

Finding working partners in the virtual world. (1999)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Davenport, E. (1999). Finding working partners in the virtual world. In National Research Council of Denmark, Risoe, Wednesday 19 May, 1999

Groups, adaptation, coordination, translation (GACT): digital genres and the organisational genome (1999)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Davenport, E. (1999). Groups, adaptation, coordination, translation (GACT): digital genres and the organisational genome. In System Sciences, 1999. HICSS-32. Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Hawaii International Conference (1-12). https://doi.org/10.1109/H

Research agendas in different disciplines have addressed ways in which groups adapt to their environments, coordinate interactions and translate such activities into practices which can be shared by other groups. This paper incorporates research on d... Read More about Groups, adaptation, coordination, translation (GACT): digital genres and the organisational genome.

The construction of knowledge in business. (1999)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Davenport, E. (1999, December). The construction of knowledge in business. Paper presented at Knowledge Management

No abstract available.

Partner Lens (PaL): work in progress on social browsers. (1999)
Book Chapter
Davenport, E., Buckner, K., Whyte, A., & Gillham, M. (1999). Partner Lens (PaL): work in progress on social browsers. In B. Fields, & P. Wright (Eds.), Design for collaboration: communities constructing technology (1-7). Department of Computer Science, Un

Making interactions visible: tools for social browsing. (1999)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
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). htt

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 prototype social browser in two stages: a basic computer based social netw... Read More about Making interactions visible: tools for social browsing..

'Artificial morality': representations of trust in interactive systems. (1999)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Davenport, E., Dibben, M., Friedman, B., Marsh, S., Rosenbaum, H., & Thimbleby, H. (1999). 'Artificial morality': representations of trust in interactive systems. In S. A. Brewster, A. Cawsey, & G. Cockton (Eds.), INTERACT '99 (211-212)

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

Texts at work: some thoughts on "Just for You" service in the context of domain expertise. (1998)
Journal Article
Davenport, E., & Cronin, B. (1998). Texts at work: some thoughts on "Just for You" service in the context of domain expertise. Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 39, 1-12

The authors review a number of approaches to "just for you" service. They suggest that this concept offers opportunities for library and information science (LIS) programs to extend their reach by engaging domain experts who will develop services and... Read More about Texts at work: some thoughts on "Just for You" service in the context of domain expertise..

Work-in-progress on a simple conversational prop for navigating social space for workshop on Personalised and Social Navigation in Information Space. (1998)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Davenport, E., Buckner, K., & Barr, K. (1998). Work-in-progress on a simple conversational prop for navigating social space for workshop on Personalised and Social Navigation in Information Space. In K. Hook, A. J. Munro, & D. Benyon (Eds.), Workshop on P

The authors of this paper are members of Work Package 2 of the Living Memory project, funded by the ESPRIT program under the I3 rubric. Living Memory will explore new intelligent interface interaction and interaction paradigms in the context of a rea... Read More about Work-in-progress on a simple conversational prop for navigating social space for workshop on Personalised and Social Navigation in Information Space..

So-grams: a tool for browsing intranets. (1998)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Davenport, E., & Buckner, K. (1998). So-grams: a tool for browsing intranets. In 6th International Symposium on Information Science ISI '98

No abstract available.