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Focused on the welfare of the poor and disadvantaged, philanthropic organizations involved in the distribution of food, clothing and other goods rarely have adequate devices for identifying the needs that might exist and what already exists in nearby ...

The field of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) Design has traditionally been very inclusive, as it emerged from the confluence of seemingly disparate disciplines, such as Computer Science, Information Design and even Rhetoric. However, this ...

The article proposes a conceptual framework supporting researchers in technical communication when using participant observation to collect data on users' information-seeking behaviors, such as what type of information users need in a work task context. ...

In this paper, statutory auditors' profiles will be defined on Computer Assisted Audit Tools and Techniques' intention to use and use concerning the influence of statutory auditors firms' dimension (number of collaborators, number of financial auditors ...

The development of the new software game gave emphasis and importance to the role played by the user discussion group during the development phase; they were sometimes called upon to participate in testing and they contributed to changes that improved ...

The gamification is growing in e-business and the banks are looking for new ways to get more customers on their websites. Therefore, it is important to study what are the most appreciated features of the website that could influence the behaviour of the ...

Massive open online courses (MOOCs) are black swans. A black swan is an unexpected event that emerges from reality and alters the reality itself. MOOCs have affected supply and demand in higher education. MOOCs distribute knowledge, classes on many ...

Cloud Computing has been developed to deliver information technologies services on demand to organizations such as well as individual users. In this paper, we will describe an approach which proposes a security model based on Organization Role Based ...

Training and user documentation aim at people being able to use IT when returning from training. Such transfer is in general difficult to achieve. Based on a model of IT use learning, two types of diagrams in documentation were compared in a field study;...

Recently, geocast routing has been intensively investigated for reliable and efficient dissemination of information. This can be attributed to the fact that in Vehicular Adhoc Networks (VANETs), group of vehicles moving on road always shares ...

Adapting technological environments to users is a concern since Mark Weiser launched the concept of ubiquitous computing and, in order to do that, is necessary to understand users' characteristics. In this context, the purpose of this paper is to ...

This research proposes an evaluation model to measure a computer programming learning system success, for helping students to overcome learning difficulties. Teachers use programming learning environments, as computer-assisted instruction systems. The ...

The development of applications and solutions to support collaborative environments targeted to real businesses means that often there is a choice to be performed: Either the business is forced to comply with the specifications and technologies defined ...

Business Intelligence (BI) platforms are applications to analyze critical business data so as to gain new insights about business and markets. The new insights can be used for improving products and services, achieving better operational efficiency, ...

Web-based communities and internal social networks have become common part of the work environment in many organizations. These Enterprise Social Networks (ESN) link employees, capture organizational knowledge and support collaboration in virtual teams. ...

An accountable set of dynamic changes are happening on day to day basis in the software industry. So the change is the inevitable and heart of the software industry. Although many software processes and models, tools, standards exist and practices are ...

Based on the previous and ongoing work of the development of GSG, an extensible expert system shell tool to support creative work involving shape computing with Shape Grammars, this paper shows an evolution and refinement of the system. A refined class ...

This paper presents an examination and performance analysis of Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks ver. 5 (RAID-5) and its comparison to the single disk drive performances. The focus is on the influence of the number of disks in RAID-5 to the globally ...

This paper presents the results of performance comparison for three different virtualization software, Oracle VM VirtualBox, VMware Player and Microsoft Virtual PC 2007, in Windows 7 operation system environment. All the testing procedures are performed ...

The purpose of this paper is to verify the factors that influence acceptance it in the context of cloud computing systems adoption. This study presents the theoretical factors, which influence the acceptance of new information systems. The first part ...

As 3D displays become increasingly affordable, meanwhile production techniques and computational resources to create stereoscopic content being ever more accessible, a new dimension is literally introduced along with new expressive and immersive ...

Computer Assisted Audit Tools and Techniques, CAATTs, represent nowadays a regular presence on Chartered Accountants', CAs, daily tasks: several previous researches state that Generalized Audit Software is present in CAs' routines and some specific ...

Information systems in the form of Decision Support Systems (DSS) and Expert Systems (ES) have been used for considerable years in finance, marketing, portfolio management and other fields. Most of these systems use artificial intelligence techniques. ...

This paper describes a desk study in which a user manual dating from 1925, describing how to operate a table loom, was verified for conformance to an ISO standard that lists requirements for software user documentation and was last revised in 2008. A ...

The decision on the pair degree/institution, upon application to higher education will be the most important in the life of a young person. Despite recent developments, applicants to higher education still don't know many of the available indicators ...

Understanding the states of learners at a lecture is expected to be useful for improving the quality of the lecture. This paper investigates the possibility of use of a simple electroencephalograph MindTune for activity recognition of a learner. The ...