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Choice And Context In Studying Change, Creativity And Innovation At Work: Call Off The Search For Excellence, Question Combinational Perspectives, And Loosen The Straightjacket Of Polarised Views, Patrick M. Dawson
Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)
This article draws attention to debates on studying change, creativity and innovation at work. Attention is given to 'stable' and 'process' views of organizations and how these positions influence research objectives, methodological approach and findings. The paper is critical of those who seek to hold to a superior position - a one best approach for all; as well as those who seek the best from all worlds - a combinational approach that services both quantitative and qualitative research. In drawing on over 25 years of field research on change management, the paper also seeks to explore the broken links between …
Vection Change Exacerbates Simulator Sickness In Virtual Environments, Frederick Bonato, Andrea Bubka, Stephen A. Palmisano, Danielle Phillip, Giselle Moreno
Vection Change Exacerbates Simulator Sickness In Virtual Environments, Frederick Bonato, Andrea Bubka, Stephen A. Palmisano, Danielle Phillip, Giselle Moreno
Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences - Papers (Archive)
The optic flow patterns generated by virtual reality (VR) systems typically produce visually induced experiences of self-motion (vection). While this vection can enhance presence in VR, it is often accompanied by a variant of motion sickness called simulator sickness (SS). However, not all vection experiences are the same. In terms of perceived heading and/or speed, visually simulated self-motion can be either steady or changing. It was hypothesized that changing vection would lead to more SS. Participants viewed an optic flow pattern that either steadily expanded or alternately expanded and contracted. In one experiment, SS was measured pretreatment and after 5 …
Social Innovation, Sustainable Futures And Commercial Concerns: People, Profits And Social Well-Being, Patrick M. Dawson, L. Daniel
Social Innovation, Sustainable Futures And Commercial Concerns: People, Profits And Social Well-Being, Patrick M. Dawson, L. Daniel
Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)
This paper draws attention to the growing interest in social innovations as they seek to improve the well being of people, communities and society. Social innovations are recognised as the development of new concepts, strategies and tools that support individuals and groups to achieve improved well-being. We examine here the growing interest in social innovation before turning our attention to more theoretical and conceptual concerns. We examine the link between the social and technical dimensions of innovation and identify how the scope of our definition is important in delineating our phenomena of interest. Some of the earlier academic work on …
People And Process: Making Sense Of Change Management, Patrick M. Dawson
People And Process: Making Sense Of Change Management, Patrick M. Dawson
Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)
This paper is about the ways that we seek to manage, steer, resist and make sense of change. It views change as a fluid process that may take unexpected turns. In clarifying what we mean by change and challenging linear stage models, a more dynamic perspective is advocated. A short case study is used to highlight the political aspects of change and to raise critical awareness of some of the key issues that can arise. The paper concludes with some practical guidelines arguing that it is the processual nature of change that makes it both a difficult yet fascinating area …
Before And After Climate Change: The Snow Country In Australian Imaginaries, Andrew W. Gorman-Murray
Before And After Climate Change: The Snow Country In Australian Imaginaries, Andrew W. Gorman-Murray
Faculty of Science - Papers (Archive)
No abstract provided.
Environmental Effects Of Ozone Depletion And Its Interactions With Climate Change: Progress Report, 2008, S. R. Wilson, C Ballare, L Bjorn, M Caldwell, A Andrady, P Aucamp, A Bais, Keith R. Solomon, Xiaoyan Tang, G Kulandaivelu, J Longstreth, D P. Hader, R C. Worrest, D J. Erickson, J C. Van Der Leun, A H. Teramura, H Redhwi, Richard L. Mckenzie, H D. Kumar, Y Takizawa, F R. Gruijl, R C. Smith, A Torikai, R G. Zepp, A P. Cullen, M Norval, B Sulzberger, Nigel Paul, J R. Bornman, Mohammad Ilyas
Environmental Effects Of Ozone Depletion And Its Interactions With Climate Change: Progress Report, 2008, S. R. Wilson, C Ballare, L Bjorn, M Caldwell, A Andrady, P Aucamp, A Bais, Keith R. Solomon, Xiaoyan Tang, G Kulandaivelu, J Longstreth, D P. Hader, R C. Worrest, D J. Erickson, J C. Van Der Leun, A H. Teramura, H Redhwi, Richard L. Mckenzie, H D. Kumar, Y Takizawa, F R. Gruijl, R C. Smith, A Torikai, R G. Zepp, A P. Cullen, M Norval, B Sulzberger, Nigel Paul, J R. Bornman, Mohammad Ilyas
Faculty of Science - Papers (Archive)
After the enthusiastic celebration of the 20th Anniversary of the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer in 2007, the work for the proctection of the ozone layer continues. The Environmental Effects Assessment Panel is one of the three expert panels within the Montreal Protocol.
Integrated Late Quaternary Chronostratigraphy For San Salvador Island, Bahamas: Patterns And Trends Of Morphological Change In The Land Snail Cerion, Paul Hearty, Stephen A. Schellenberg
Integrated Late Quaternary Chronostratigraphy For San Salvador Island, Bahamas: Patterns And Trends Of Morphological Change In The Land Snail Cerion, Paul Hearty, Stephen A. Schellenberg
Faculty of Science - Papers (Archive)
Reconstructing the phylogeny and biogeography of the Caribbean land snail Cerion requires a robust stratigraphic and chronological framework. To this end, we have determined the stratigraphic succession on San Salvador, a Bahamian island with a rich fossil and modern Cerion fauna. A primary purpose of this paper is to independently verify this succession through whole-rock and Cerion aminostratigraphies and AMS 14C-based age models. Over 150 individual Cerion shells were age-ranked from 140 ka to modern using stratigraphic position and reverse-phase HPLC (RPC) amino acid racemization, which was sufficiently sensitive to resolve stratigraphic subunits within the Holocene and late Pleistocene. …
Climate Change Impacts On Coastal Biodiversity, V R. Burkett, Robert J. Nicholls, Leandro Fernandez, Colin D. Woodroffe
Climate Change Impacts On Coastal Biodiversity, V R. Burkett, Robert J. Nicholls, Leandro Fernandez, Colin D. Woodroffe
Faculty of Science - Papers (Archive)
No abstract provided.
Have You Heard? The Role Of Rumour During Organisational Change Processes, Elizabeth Heathcote, Shane Dawson
Have You Heard? The Role Of Rumour During Organisational Change Processes, Elizabeth Heathcote, Shane Dawson
Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health - Papers: part A
This paper discusses the results of a study of communication and rumour among frontline staff during an arganisational change at a large Australian metropolitan university, and relates the findings to the literature and research surrounding rumour during organisational changes. Secondly, it describes the measures undertaken in a second organisational change, as a result of these lessons learned, to minimise the amount of rumour circulating and address their basic content.
Cost-Based Bdi Plan Selection For Change Propagation, Khanh Hoa Dam, Michael Winikoff
Cost-Based Bdi Plan Selection For Change Propagation, Khanh Hoa Dam, Michael Winikoff
Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences - Papers: Part A
Software maintenance is responsible for as much as two thirds of the cost of any software, and is consequently an important research area. In this paper we focus on the change propagation problem: given a primary change that is made in order to meet a new or changed requirement, what additional, secondary, changes are needed? We build on previous work that has proposed to use a BDI (belief-desire-intention) agent framework to propagate changes by fixing violations of consistency constraints. One question that needs to be answered as part of this framework is how to select between different applicable (repair) plan …
An Agent-Oriented Approach To Support Change Propagation In Software Evolution, Hoa K. Dam
An Agent-Oriented Approach To Support Change Propagation In Software Evolution, Hoa K. Dam
Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences - Papers: Part A
Software maintenance and evolution is arguably a lengthy and expensive phase in the life cycle of a software system. A critical issue at this phase is change propagation: given a set of primary changes that have been made to software, what additional secondary changes are needed? Although many approaches have been proposed, automated change propagation is still a significant technical challenge in software maintenance and evolution. This paper presents a Ph.D. research in the final stages of developing and evaluating a novel, agent-based, framework to support semi-automated change propagation in evolving software systems.