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- Bitilis, Pavlos, et al.
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Digitalizing the Football Experience : A study on Electronic Performance and Tracking Systems (EPTS) from the perspective of football athletes and training staff
- 2022
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In: Proceedings of the New Trends in HCI and Sports Workshop (NTSPORT 2022), Vancouver, Canada, October 1, 2022.. - : CEUR-WS.
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Personal Informatics (PI) are information systems that allow people to process activities with the usage of information technology, aiming to produce informational products (data) either for themselves or for others. Technologies that enable PI are becoming increasingly popular, assisting people in collecting personally relevant information about their body and their behaviour. In sports industry nowadays, a great variety of PI wearable tools offer support to athletes and training staff to improve their performance. An example of such tool is the Electronic Performance and Tracking Systems (EPTS), which is a combination of hardware and software that facilitates the collection, storage, analysis and management of professional athletes’ fitness and health data. Although significant and broadly used, EPTS have not yet received much attention from researchers and, thus, understudied. Therefore, the purpose of this research paper is to explore and understand how professional football athletes and training staff make sense of the use of electronic performance and tracking systems (EPTS) in their everyday training and work. The paper explores perceptions, benefits and challenges that professional football athletes and training staff experience when using EPTS. For this, an interpretive qualitative focused ethnographic study was conducted. The data were collected through direct observations in the field and semi-structured interviews from purposively selected Greek professional football athletes and Greek training staff that use wearable EPTS in their everyday training and work. The collected data were analysed thematically to conclude to five themes, which represent the research findings. A theoretical framework, which is built upon relevant literature from the informatics field along with the theory of sensemaking was used to understand, interpret and discuss the research findings. The research findings show that EPTS have radically changed the football daily routines for both professional football athletes and training staff members enabling them, and their football clubs, to improve individual and team performance. The use of EPTS has reshaped football athletes and training staff members’ identities, making them more data driven and more accurate. EPTS build trust between professional football athletes and training staff offering them the evidence they need to justify decisions, instructions, and actions taken respectively. Visualization tools for presenting insights need to be further improved with the addition of infield monitors and 3D presentations. Furthermore, it is important for training staff members to have ethical and consistent strategy on how EPTS data are derived, used and communicated. Through daily evaluation of their work, football players and training staff members are constantly improving their work identifying exemplary patterns of training and avoiding mistakes to be repeated, and in this way improve individual and team performance. The football athletes and the training staff members through communication among them, facilitated by visualization tools, are concerned with making situations, which have been collected in the form of data by the EPTS, meaningful to them. Making sense is a collaborative cognitive and ongoing process where individual football players and training staff members try to give meaning to collective experiences retrospectively. The data that are extracted from the EPTS help them in this process as they have the chance to examine them together, reflect on them, discuss them, make sense of them, share these meanings, and finally decide how to act based on them. To do this they raise past, tacit and private knowledge to make it explicit, public, ordered and simpler. In this way, the football athletes and the training staff members turn circumstances into well understood situations, which empower them to use their understanding to build more impactful experiences to improve their future performance. Thus, the research contributes to the existing knowledge on personal informatics and adjusts them to elite team sport context. It also adds to the theory of sensemaking regarding how users make sense of PI tools that are related with their everyday routines at work. In addition, it contributes to football athletes, sport training staff members, and other interested stakeholders by suggesting a model for efficient use of EPTS technology into the everyday football practices and a model of sustainable use aiming to the overall improvement of team performance. © 2022 Copyright for this paper by its authors.
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- Chatzipanagiotou, Niki
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Academic library managers’ use of artefacts in their everyday cooperative work practices
- 2019
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In: Proceedings of 17th European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work. - : European Society for Socially Embedded Technologies (EUSSET). ; , s. 1-8
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This interpretive focused-ethnographic study was conducted to illuminate and gain deeper understanding on managers’ everyday cooperative work practices using artefacts. In the dissertation, artefacts refer to digital technologies and information. The doctoral research specifically examines how artefacts in the workplace of an academic library are used in academic library managers’ everyday cooperative work practices; and provide suggestions of how artefacts can be used to better fit those practices. The empirical data was collected through participant observations, face-to-face interviews and documents from two technologically advanced academic libraries, one in Sweden and another one in Australia. The study uses soft systems thinking theory and concepts from computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW) such as awareness, articulation and appropriation to analyze and discuss how cooperative work is conducted in the everyday work practices of academic library managers with the use of artefacts. Thus, this research contributes insights from the field of computer-supported cooperative work to the information systems and library domain by considering social aspects of cooperative everyday work practices.
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- Chatzipanagiotou, Niki
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Exploring Information Management Practices : Academic Library Professionals’ Experiences
- 2017
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In: Selected Papers of the IRIS (Information Systems Research Seminar in Scandinavia). - : Association for Information Systems (AIS). ; , s. 89-110
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Recognizing that information has long been an important asset for any organization, I explore in depth the management and use of information in contemporary information-intensive organizations such as academic libraries. Information processes, when integrated in the academic library’s daily working life can lead to workplace learning, with long term benefits. However, the literature demonstrates that while academic library managers manage and use information as a commodity, they are less likely to manage and use it as an asset for potential workplace learning. So, the interpretive research study I report on here explores the experiences of academic library managers regarding the management and use of information oriented to the better operation and development of their organization. Data were collected through documents, observations, and interviews and were analysed by applying thematic analysis. Findings revealed that information is used for organizing library routines, for awareness, communication, and collaboration, for creating a legacy and for decision-making. Further, information management facilitated by technology enhances the organization’ s learning environment. However, maximum effectiveness requires appropriate solutions to be used along with proper training and a policy concerning their use. This research serves as a starting point for an exploratory research study on information management that can contribute to workplace learning in academic library organizations.
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- Chatzipanagiotou, Niki
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Information Management as a Tool for Organizational Learning in Academic Libraries : Summarized Research Proposal
- 2017
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In: Dilemmas 2015 Papers from the 18th annual International Conference Dilemmas for Human Services: Organizing, Designing and Managing. - Växjö : Linnaeus University Press.
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In this paper, I briefly present my doctoral thesis research proposal. Recognizing that information has long been an important asset for any organization, I wish to explore in depth the management and use of information in contemporary information-intensive organizations such as academic libraries. Additionally, this research proposal emerges out of recognition that the academic library is a dynamic, living information and knowledge creation organization. Fulfillment of this potential requires that information processes are integrated in the academic library’s daily work life in order to contribute to organizational learning. However, the literature confirms that while academic library managers manage and use information as a commodity, they do not manage and use it as an asset for their organization which could lead to organizational learning. Through a systems thinking approach and drawing on the theories of information management, organizational knowledge creation and organizational learning, this interpretive ethnographic research study wishes to explore the perceptions of academic library managers regarding the management and use of information for the better operation and development of their organization. This research proposal serves as a starting point for an exploratory research study on Information Management that can contribute to organizational learning in academic library organizations.
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- Chatzipanagiotou, Niki, et al.
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Library Managers’ Use of Digital Technologies in Everyday Work Practices : An Application of Human Activity Systems Modeling
- 2018
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In: OR60 Annual Conference, 11-13 Sept. 2018, Lancaster University, Birmingham. ; , s. 153-153
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- As has been argued by systems thinking scholars, science and scientific thinking can be seen as socially constructed systems of institutionalized sets of activities through which systems thinking emerged. In this paper, the development of systems approaches is discussed to argue for the research approach adopted. Further, main concepts of systems thinking such as complexity, worldview, and human activity systems are discussed and applied to empirical data on academic library managers’ use of digital technologies in their everyday work practices. Recognizing that the use of digital technologies has changed the way we live, work and communicate, we explore in depth library managers’ everyday work practices with a focus on the way they use information for managing their organization. Practices refer to what library managers do when they do their job using digital technologies. Their work practices are presented as a complex reality where different managers have different, although interconnected, perspectives and see different priorities. The use of digital technologies is part of library managers’ everyday work practices. However not all managers have the same perspectives on the use of digital technologies. The various interacting perceptions of reality can be explored as different managers have different worldviews that affect their respective approach of managing and of using the technology for that purpose. The Library organization is conceptualized as an information-intensive ecosystem consisting of complex interplays among academic library managers, everyday work practices, digital technologies and content. Within the library system, several human activity systems constructed by managers exist. By the use of Soft Systems Methodology modelling we illustrate some of these existing human activity systems and relate these to purpose and function within the overall organization. Our focus is on information created and mediated within these human activity systems and discuss the means of technology to facilitate managers’ everyday work practices.
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- Chatzipanagiotou, Niki, 1975-
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Managers' Cooperative Work Practices in Computational Artefacts-Supported Library Systems
- 2021
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- The dissertation presents understandings of the complex, contextual, cooperative everyday work practices of academic library managers supported by computational artefacts, as well as challenges disrupting their practices and thereby computational artefacts usage. The doctoral research approaches and conceptualises managers’ work as ‘everyday cooperative practice’, in this way adopting the computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW) approach. A focused-ethnographic study explores middle managers’ everyday cooperative work practices in two academic libraries, in Sweden and Australia, when using computational artefacts, including challenges experienced. The empirical data was collected through participant observations and formal and informal face-to-face interviews, as well as organizational documents review. The thematically analysed empirical material was presented as vignettes to enable complementary contextual visualisation of managers’ practices. A conceptual framework incorporated CSCW main concepts, such as cooperative work, practice, computational artefacts, situated action, articulation work, awareness, and appropriation. Placed within a managerial environment and inspired by management theories such as sensemaking and soft systems thinking, this conceptualisation serves as a reference point to explicate the research findings and achieve the research aim, to advance the understanding of managers’ everyday cooperative work practices using computational artefacts. The outcome of this dissertation illustrates the complex, contextualised, multidimensional and often diverse reality of academic library managers’ everyday cooperative work practices using computational artefacts, as well as emergent challenges that have implications for the use of computational artefacts and workplace practices. The interconnectedness of articulation work, awareness and appropriation, which emerged as a research outcome, vividly illustrates the interdependent and interrelated nature of managers’ everyday work. It extends the understanding of everyday cooperative work practices of academic library managers and provides rich analysis of their practical doing of managing and using of computational artefacts. Thus, this doctoral research generates contributions for the informatics field and, particularly, the computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW) research and, modestly, for the management and library domains.
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- Chatzipanagiotou, Niki
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Soft Systems Methodology : an Inclusive Informatics Re-Design Approach for a New Economy
- 2014
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In: ISTI (Information Systems & Technology Information), 5<sup>th</sup> International Conference on Information Systems & Technology Innovations: projecting trends in a New Economy. Tirana, Albania 6-7 June 2014. - Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Applied Informatics, Faculty of Economy, University of Tirana, Albania : Academy of Sciences of Albania & University for Business and Technology, Kosovo. ; , s. 08-
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The research study focuses on the application of Soft Systems Methodology (SSM) to develop a collaborative user-centered approach within the context of organizational learning, and concludes with suggestions of further research. More specifically, it explores library users’ and academic librarians’ ideal characteristics for the library discovery and access services mediated through the Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC) of the Academic Library of the School of Philosophy at Athens University in Greece. SSM’s applied theories and design processes guide the collaborative re-design of a more user-centered library information system. Recommendations discuss the efficacy of this approach, which expresses systems thinking and guides inclusive social learning, which reflect the characteristics of New Economy informatics.
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- Chatzipanagiotou, Niki
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Toward An Integrated Approach to Information Management : A Literature Review
- 2017
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In: Strategic Innovative Marketing. - Cham : Springer. - 9783319338637 - 9783319338651 ; , s. 667-673
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In this literature review, the author examines the scholarly literature of Information Management (IM) and related fields in the recognition that information has long been an important asset for any organization. However, nowadays the work environment in organizations is more complicated due to the information overload that employees experience on a daily basis. The information deluge requires employees’ swift attention, analysis, and action within a limited time. In response, Information Management aids organizations manage information and realize its potential. This literature review reveals that scholars have given various interpretations to the term according to the perspective (organizational, library, and personal) under which Information Management is examined. Additionally, the term is often used interchangeably with other terms such as knowledge management, data management, content management, etc. Within this multidisciplinary framework, the author presents various definitions of the meaning of Information Management, including a synthesis working concept, to guide her doctoral studies. Paper conclusions recommend an integrated approach to information management which combines the organizational and the library perspective of Information Management, as advanced by Detlor. This proposal emerges out of recognition that a library is a dynamic, living information and knowledge creation organization. Fulfillment of this potential requires that information processes are integrated in librarians’ daily work life in order to contribute to organizational learning. This paper could serve as a starting point for an exploratory research study on an integrated approach for Information Management that can contribute to organizational learning in library organizations.
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