Evolution of modern workforces Sample Clauses

Evolution of modern workforces. Another important element regarding the role of humans in the information systems is related to the evolution of the workforces, which nowadays affect the way people live. Among the aspects arising from the wide adoption of the mobile technologies, but more in general, from the diffusion of digital technologies there is the evolution of the workforces. Figure 13 reports a simplified user-centric model of the modern way of working. The schema has four directions surrounding a worker that impact their working habits: Dataspace, Enabling Technologies, Use Cases and Context. A worker can be defined as a person that owns a Dataspace where all their data are stored. What the worker does is to extend, elaborate and create new elements in this dataspace, even with the collaboration of other workers (shared dataspaces) or objects (internet of things). A simple definition of a working dataspace is a virtual place where to store and access the data, that could either be strictly personal, shared or both. To access the dataspace, a worker can use several Enabling Technologies with different usability characteristics. Choosing any of these technologies is in general just a matter of usability and easiness for the worker. Nowadays, the market is constantly offering new “methods” to access user’s dataspace: Google Glasses are just the newest one, but others are just behind, like for example the expected revolution of the wearable electronic [89][90][91]. A Use Case is the “invariant” portion of this scenario where technologies and social trends do not affect. For example, in a span of several years a user could have written a commercial letter in different ways: using a typewriting machine, a video terminal with a word processor, more recently a tablet or in the future wearable smart glasses that understand speech or thinking [92], but what remains always the same is the way of writing a commercial letter.