Balch internet research and analysis tool development case study

The Internet has become increasing popular as a vehicle to deliver surveys. An essential objective of research is to collect accurate data and there has been little work to insure that Internet survey systems are employing best practices as defined by academic and professional research to collect data. My dissertation reviews the current literature relating to best practices in Internet survey design and best practices in software design and development. I then document the development and deployment of an Open Source and publicly licensed Internet survey system that allows researchers to easily create, deploy, and analyze the results of Internet surveys. The resultant Internet survey design product, the Balch Internet Research and Analysis Tool (http://birat.net) is a full-featured Internet survey system which addresses best Internet research practices as defined by academic and professional research. The system was designed and coded by the author and is considered by him to be both innovative and unique to the field. The dissertation then reviews the system features, describes how the system was deployed, and discusses the strategies used to increase use and adoption of the system

Opening new dimensions for e-Tourism

In this paper we describe an e-Tourism environment that takes a community-driven approach to foster a lively society of travelers who exchange travel experiences, recommend tourism destinations or just listen to catch some interesting gossip. Moreover, business transactions such as booking a trip or getting assistance from travel advisors or community members are constituent parts of this environment. All these happen in an integrated, game-like e-Business application where each e-Tourist is impersonated as an avatar. More precisely, we apply 3D Electronic Institutions, a framework developed and employed in the area of multi-agent systems, to the tourism domain. The system interface is realized by means of a 3D game engine that provides sophisticated 3D visualization and enables humans to interact with the environment. We present "itchy feet", a prototype implementing this 3D e-Tourism environment to showcase first visual impressions. This new environment is a perfect research playground for examining heterogeneous societies comprising humans and software agents, and their relationship in e-Tourism. © Springer-Verlag London Limited 2006

Motions 2003 volume 38 number 6

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Low Effort and Privacy – How Textual Priming Affects Privacy Concerns of Email Service Users

The integration of digital applications and systems into the everyday routines of users is inevitably progressing. Ubiquitous and invisible computing requires the perspective of a new user and the inclusion of insights from related disciplines such as behavioral economics or social psychology. This paper takes up the call for research by Dinev et al. (2015) and examines the influence of textual priming elements on the privacy concerns of users of email accounts. The paper provides an operationalization of a privacy concern as a dependent variable, incorporated in an online experiment with 276 participants. The results show highly significant differences between the groups investigated by the experiment. Specifically, the users of different email providers show interesting results. While users of Gmail show no significant reaction in the experiment, users of other email providers show significant differences in the experimental setting

Spartan Daily, September 29, 1981

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Digital health and cardiovascular healthcare professionals in Portugal: current status, expectations and barriers to implementation

Introdução e objetivos A saúde digital é um conceito amplo, que junta a tecnologia aos cuidados de saúde, desempenhando um papel cada vez mais importante na prática clínica diária dos profissionais de saúde e promissor na prevenção e tratamento de doenças cardiovasculares. Não existem dados consistentes que avaliem a posição dos profissionais de saúde portugueses em relação à implementação da saúde digital na medicina cardiovascular. Por conseguinte, este estudo nacional transversal visa compreender o panorama geral da implementação da saúde digital na rotina diária dos profissionais de saúde cardiovascular em Portugal e identificar tanto as expectativas como os obstáculos à sua adoção. Métodos Um inquérito de 18 perguntas foi construído para as necessidades específicas deste estudo e distribuído a 1174 potenciais respondedores da mailing list da Sociedade Portuguesa de Cardiologia. Resultados Foram obtidas 117 respostas válidas (taxa de resposta ao inquérito de 10%). Quase todos os respondedores tinham um smartphone e um computador portátil e dois terços tinham um tablet. Os sistemas eletrónicos de informação médica foram a ferramenta mais utilizada (84% dos inquiridos) e considerada a mais relevante para melhorar os cuidados de saúde cardiovasculares. Mais de 2 em 3 dos inquiridos relataram utilizar tecnologias implantáveis (sensores ou dispositivos), telemedicina e as redes sociais e todas estas ferramentas foram consideradas "muito relevantes" ou "totalmente relevantes" pela maioria. A maior parte dos respondedores demonstrou expectativas positivas relativamente ao impacto da saúde digital na medicina cardiovascular: 78% concordaram que esta pode melhorar os outcomes em saúde, 64% que promove a literacia em saúde e 63% que pode diminuir os custos dos cuidados de saúde. A incapacidade dos pacientes em utilizar smartphones, o acesso limitado a dispositivos eletrónicos e a falta de regulamentação legal da saúde digital foram as barreiras mais cotadas. Conclusão Globalmente, a maioria dos profissionais de saúde cardiovascular em Portugal tinham pelo menos três dispositivos eletrónicos (principalmente smartphones, computadores portáteis e tablet) e mostraram expectativas positivas relativamente ao impacto atual e futuro da saúde digital na medicina cardiovascular. A literacia e a adoção de tecnologia relacionada com a saúde digital pelos pacientes, bem como a falta regulamentação jurídica, foram identificados como os obstáculos mais importantes para aumentar a adoção de ferramentas de saúde digital na medicina cardiovascular.Introduction and objectives: Digital health (DH) is a broad concept, bringing together technology and healthcare, that is playing an increasingly important role in the daily routine of healthcare professionals and promising to contribute to the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular diseases. There is no solid data evaluating the position of Portuguese healthcare professionals (HCP) towards the implementation of DH in cardiovascular medicine. Therefore, this national cross-sectional study aims to provide a snapshot of DH's implementation in the Portuguese cardiovascular HCP routine and identify both expectations and barriers to its adoption. Methods: An 18-question survey was created for the specific needs of this study and distributed to 1174 potential receivers of the Portuguese Society of Cardiology mailing list. Results: We collected 117 valid responses (survey response rate of 10%). Almost all participants had smartphones and laptops, and two-thirds had tablets. Electronic medical information systems were the most used DH tool (84% of respondents) and were considered the most relevant in improving cardiovascular care. Implantable technologies (sensors or devices), telemedicine and social media were also used by more than 2 out of 3 respondents and considered "very relevant" or "totally relevant" by most of them. Most participants showed positive expectations regarding the impact of DH in cardiovascular medicine: 78% agreed that DH might improve health outcomes, 64% that it promotes health literacy and 63% that it may decrease healthcare costs. The top-rated barriers were patients' inability to use smartphones, limited access to electronic devices, and lack of legal regulation of DH. Conclusion: Most Portuguese cardiovascular HCP had at least three electronic devices (primarily smartphones, laptops and tablets) and showed positive expectations regarding DH's current and future impact on cardiovascular medicine. Patient DH literacy, technology adoption, and DH regulation were identified as the most important blockers to increasing the adoption of DH tools in cardiovascular medicine

SALT Equalizer, Vol. 2003, Issue 2

Contents of this issue: In the Court, In the Media, In Their Schools, and On the Streets of Washington, D.C., SALT Members Support Affirmative Action in Higher Education, at 1. Paula C. Johnson & Michael Rooke-Ley, Co-Presidents\u27 Column, at 1. Molly Kalb & Steve Mallory, Second Annual Norman Amaker Public Interest Law Retreat: Law Students Learn to Go Out and Catch Some Hell, at 2. Nik Hua & Jim Nguyen, Fifth Annual Trina Grillo Public Interest and Social Justice Law Retreat: Poverty, Wealth, Status & Inequality: Social Justice Lawyering in Theory and In Practice, at 4. Angela R. Riley, Reflections from a First-Time Grillo Retreat Participant, at 5. SALT Board of Governors\u27 Statement on Iraq, at 6. Special 12-Page Insert: SALT Supports Affirmative Action, at 7. Sarah Alvarez, Sixteenth Annual Robert M. Cover Retreat: Cold Outside, Warm Inside, at 19. Beto Juarez, Cover Workshop: Law Teachers Working for Peace, at 20. Fran Ansley, Membership Committee News: Membership Up; Let\u27s Keep Growing, at 21. Nancy Cook, Faculty Mentoring Committee News: Off to a Good Start, at 21. Bob Dinerstein, Judicial Nominations Committee News: Judicial Nominations Continue to Be a Major Battleground, at 22. Marc Poirier, Solomon Amendments Committee News: Help Wanted, at 23. Eileen Kaufman, Bar Exams Committee News: SALT Works to Defeat Proposed Increase in a Passing Score on New York Bar Exam, at 24. Bob Dinerstein, SALT Annual Dinner a Rousing Success, at 26

Semantic discovery and reuse of business process patterns

Patterns currently play an important role in modern information systems (IS) development and their use has mainly been restricted to the design and implementation phases of the development lifecycle. Given the increasing significance of business modelling in IS development, patterns have the potential of providing a viable solution for promoting reusability of recurrent generalized models in the very early stages of development. As a statement of research-in-progress this paper focuses on business process patterns and proposes an initial methodological framework for the discovery and reuse of business process patterns within the IS development lifecycle. The framework borrows ideas from the domain engineering literature and proposes the use of semantics to drive both the discovery of patterns as well as their reuse