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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"boundary objects"”.
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The Impact and Role of Boundary Spanners and Boundary Objects in Global Project Networks
… individually and organizationally, can lead to boundary formation. Though past research has explored the boundary spanning capabilities within organizations, little is known about the roles and impacts of boundary spanning, both as individuals and as objects, in global project networks. I …
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Management of Boundary Objects in a Shared Information Space for a Public Works Organization
… CITY INFO-PLUS, which represents information via boundary objects in a dynamic contextual manner. This application demonstrates a way for operationalizing the theoretical concept of boundary objects that is taken from the social sciences. An evaluation study of CITY INFO-PLUS was also conducted …
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Pioneering genomics innovation : using dynamic work design to implement a system of organizational boundary objects
… effectiveness through an integrated system of boundary objects architected through multiple functional levels of the Broad Genomics organization. Additionally, the research evaluates the harmonization of Dynamic Work Design with principles and frameworks of knowledge boundaries and boundary …
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From data to knowledge: Tableau dashboards as boundary objects in the knowledge ecology of a university
Information dashboards are increasingly important tools for organisations, helping them exploit data as an asset and make informed decisions. Existing visualisation design research stemming from the cognitive and perception sciences has tended to focus on the cognitive augmenting benefits of …
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The Impact of Teachers’ Roles as Boundary Crossers and Boundary Objects in Post- COVID Composition Instruction
… and hybrid spaces. Grounded in theories of boundary crossing and the Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning, the study conceptualized teachers as both boundary crossers, navigating instructional spaces, and boundary objects, serving as the support tools for their students’ transitions into …
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Using boundary objects to generate better value in the construction industry : interpreting cases from an activity theory perspective
… activity theory suggests the opportunityto use boundary objects for breaking down socio-cognitive barriers in activitiesinvolving a group of people coming from different practices - project coalitions - andhaving different tools, language, rules and knowledge. Boundary objects are objects …
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Boundary Objects: Exploring the Benefit of Using Iconic Design Objects in Teaching Colour, Material, and Finish (CMF) in Undergraduate Industrial Design Education
… explores the benefits of using Iconic Design Objects as Boundary Objects in teaching Colour, Material, and Finish (CMF) Design in undergraduate Industrial Design Education. Teaching the methods and tools of a newly emergent discipline such as CMF design presents challenges in how to introduce …
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Developing a boundary object model to analyze communication interfaces : applications for system integrators
… of artifacts at these interfaces by means of a boundary object attribute model. Boundary objects, the metric of analysis of this thesis, are artifacts used to bridge information and knowledge gaps between different communities of practice. The US Army's Future Combat System (FCS) was chosen as a …
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Marine spatial planning and the transition to a low carbon economy: a critical evaluation of the UK approach
… a theoretical framework – distinguishing between boundary and pseudo-boundary objects - for examining the dynamic process of multi-community cooperation where there is the expectation of obstructive collaboration. The concept of ‘boundary objects’ has provided a rich framework for analysing …
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When technology and business collide : sheltering novelty as a source of innovative products
… given pressures at the interaction at the boundary between the intended audience and the representation of novelty by objects with universal comprehensibility. The examination of flows from the transition of novelty to boundary objects suggests that the interactions and organizational …
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Technology Transfer through High Technology Corridors : A Study of Multi-agency Partnership Learning.
… between activity systems. Special tools called boundary objects can link communities with no previous experience of working together. They act as bridges across the horizontal boundaries between activity systems, separating different cultural practices. They enable people operating at the same …
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Low and Slow
… just below the surface through transitional and boundary objects as catalysts for oceanic research. Through interviews with artists and scholars, the chapter develops a set of video vignettes and interviews shaped around a series of to-scale ceramic whale eyes exchanged for collaborative …
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How Do Mainstream Cultural Market Categories Emerge: A Multi-Level Analysis of the Creation of Electronic Dance Music
… Niche actors contribute to the creation of a boundary infrastructure that supports the transfer, translation, and transformation of the knowledge associated with an innovative cultural product. This, in turn, facilitates the movement of an innovative cultural product from a local network to a …
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Novelty in goal-oriented machines using a thread memory structure
… building a realistic representation of the given objects, which often do not fall neatly into tightly-structured categorizations, but instead share properties with other 'boundary' objects. The system does this by learning from examples, and using the average member, or 'stereotype' as the class …
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Stories worth telling: How one school navigates tensions between innovation and standards
… learning as distributed among people, time and objects, and to view artifacts of student work as boundary objects ---sites of negotiation among people from different, but related, social worlds. A sociocultural perspective also allowed for an expansive notion of assessment that included not just …
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Crossing Boundaries: Patients’ Experiences of using a Diabetes eHealth System
… My thesis is that the eHealth system is a boundary structure through which boundary objects, such as electronically formatted blood glucose readings, are created and shared across different social worlds. The eHealth system crosses the boundary between two spheres of an individual’s …
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Haze in the Headlines: Definitional Struggle and the Social Construction of Canada's Vape Mediascape
… of biomediatization, biocommunicability, and boundary objects (Briggs & Hallin, 2016) to contribute a better understanding of the discourse surrounding public health and risk. Several key themes emerge to illustrate how vaping is constructed as a health policy problem: The competition between …
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The use of social media on mobile devices to support the co-reading of eTextbooks
A textbook is a boundary object of interest among students within given communities, in some instance, a region or a whole country. Students in such communities have the possibility to engage collaboratively to study and gain a better understanding of similar content together. Collaborative work …
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Promoting Inclusive Higher Education in the digital age: Wrapping massive open online courses (MOOCs) for youth from marginalised communities in South Africa
… made in South Africa could serve as effective ‘boundary objects' for students to experience HE. This research aligns with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) specifically in relation to the fourth goal that targets inclusive and quality education and promotes lifelong learning …
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