AbstractUnder framings of grand challenges, robotics has been proposed as a solution to a wide range of societal issues such as road safety, ageing society, economic productivity and climate change. However, what exactly is robotics research? From its inception, robotic...

Abstract Food production is a major driver of global warming, water scarcity and biodiversity loss. Denmark has set ambitious targets to lower its territorial carbon emissions in the next decades. In 2019, the Danish Agriculture and Food Council announced a strategy to ...

Abstract Routine-biased technical change (RBTC) argues that digitisation decreases job opportunities for workers with routine task competencies, but increases job opportunities for workers with nonroutine task competencies. While there is considerable evidence for RBTC ...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to determine digitization selection strategies to optimize usage by examining digital collections at Stockton University, comparing the library-driven projects to the community-driven ones. Design/methodology/approach Case study of d...

PurposeThis study aims to explore under which institutional and organizational conditions the national e-government reform efforts of EU member states lead to very high availability of e-services.Design/methodology/approachFollowing e-government literature of informatio...

What is remix today? No longer a controversy, no longer a buzzword, remix is both everywhere and nowhere in contemporary media. This article examines this situation, looking at what remix now means when it is, for the most part, just an accepted part of the media lands...

Abstract The rice-based cultivation system in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River of China is changing gradually during recent years which arouses more attentions and concerns on environmental performance and sustainability. In this study, the integrated a...

AbstractThe central interest of this paper is the anthropomorphic social robot Ai-Da (Aidan Meller Gallery/Oxford University), perceived as an actor in the interplay of cultural and representational gestures. These gestures determine how this robot is presented—that is,...

The significance of digitalization of visual sources in rare science books for potential research and studies is emphasized. The consistent information growth in the modern world evokes the problem of selecting sources. Often, the significant fraction of these sources i...

Industrial revolutions have changed and transformed humanity and society over time and continue to advance development with evidence across disciplines and professions. The purpose was to explore where the information profession and discipline fit in the broad spectrum ...