Designing Kinetic Interactions For Organic User Interfaces
Considering the future of kinetic design in user interfaces.
Research and Advances
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Interactions with Proactive Architectural Spaces: the Muscle Projects
Developing structures as flexible networked information processors.
Technology-Facilitated ‘Give According to Your Abilities, Receive According to Your Needs’
Software, hardware, computer networks, and online content all require mechanisms to prevent free riding, overuse of common resources, use of resources without consent, and blocking of resource access.
Reducing Internet Auction Fraud
When it comes to online auctions, "caveat emptor" is an understatement.
Coordination in Emergency Response Management
Developing a framework to analyze coordination patterns occurring in the emergency response life cycle.
How Intuitive Is Object-Oriented Design?
Intuition is a powerful tool that helps us navigate through life, but it can get in the way of more formal processes.
Web Searching in a Multilingual World
Studies of three prototype Web search portals---in Chinese, Spanish, and Arabic---reveal how to best support non-English Web searching.
Improving the Change-Management Process
It is crucial to integrate SCM and traceability, but significant challenges slow progress toward this goal.
Words from Pictures For Dual-Channel Processing
Combining graphics and text representations of complex systems, Object-Process Methodology makes it easier to understand technical ideas, whether or not one is technically oriented by nature or training.
Taming Heterogeneous Agent Architectures
Using aspect-oriented techniques to construct high-quality multi-agent systems.
Emerging Trends in M-Government
Considering the advantages and implications of increased usage of wireless connectivity for governmental information and services.
Missing Links: Building Critical Social Ties For Global Collaborative Teamwork
Face-to-face meetings may be invaluable, but they are not a panacea for the challenges facing teams spread around the globe---managers must also prioritize activities before and after these meetings to help team members stay connected.
Measuring Consumer Satisfaction in Internet Banking: A Core Framework
What service-quality attributes must Internet banks offer to induce consumers to switch to online transactions and keep using them?
‘Most Wired Hospitals’ Rate Patient Satisfaction
Considering the role of IT as a variable in health care institution quality assessment.
Information Security and Risk Management
Use the new PCR risk metric to find ways to enhance security, avoiding one-dimensional metrics like ALE that could risk an organization's survivability.
The Provenance of Electronic Data
It would include details of the processes that produced electronic data as far back as the beginning of time or at least the epoch of provenance awareness.
Demographic Changes in Is Research Productivity and Impact
Always considered an area dominated by North American institutions, there are signs afoot that the globalization of IS research productivity is making moves, particularly in Asia and Europe.
New products, new markets, and new forms of production impel the creative destruction of free enterprise. Open source software appears to be creative destruction in action.
Urban Sensing: Out of the Woods
Embedded networked sensing, having successfully shifted from the lab to the environment, is primed for a more contentious move to the city to where citizens will likely be the target of data collection. This transition will warrant careful study and touch on issues that go far beyond the scientific realm.
Tens of millions of users worldwide play games, as well as make phone calls, on their cell phones and other handheld devices.
Patterns, Symmetry, and Symmetry Breaking
Explaining software patterns by breaking the symmetry created by programming languages.
The Contribution of Critical IS Research
Solving ongoing external problems may require looking inward first.
A fictional scenario of daily life in a world networked with ambient intelligence illustrates the dark side of the technology and the need for appropriate safeguards.
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