Usability evaluation of a community-led innovation mobile app

Digital media can facilitate collaborative processes among local agents, value endogenous resources, and promote assets associated with territory. This article presents the results of a study concerning the development and validation of a mobile app for promoting the relationship among agents of the Portuguese Centro region’s communities/entities. This paper focuses on the results of a heuristic evaluation of the mobile app carried out with two groups of experts in Digital Technologies, Tourism, Health, and Well-Being, besides providing an overview of the mobile app that was developed and a theoretical background regarding community-led innovation, usability, and heuristics. For the CeNTER app prototype evaluation itself, the use of Nielsen's heuristics, a MATCH-MED scale, together with a Think-Aloud Protocol allowed us to improve its usability. This article contributes to a reflection about the evaluation of mobile apps in the scope of territorial-based innovation initiatives, engaging its stakeholders in the process.publishe

Oracle warehouse management system-security enhancements

Estágio realizado na Wipro Retail e orientado pelo Doutora Ana Paula Barroso OliveiraTese de mestrado integrado. Engenharia Informática e Computação. Faculdade de Engenharia. Universidade do Porto. 200

The Role of Social Software in Shaping the Cultural Identity of Saudi Citizens from Their Point of View: Al-Jouf Region as A Model

The current research aimed to determine the impact of the social software in shaping the cultural identity of Saudi citizens at Al-Jouf region. The information explosion and technological development have led to an increase in the use of social software in Saudi society, which directs it to the importance of conducting research that works to reveal the reasons for this growing use and its impact in shaping the cultural identity of the community. Therefore, the researchers formulated the questionnaire to determine the role of social software in shaping the cultural identity, so that the questionnaire has been applied to a sample consisted of (572) of citizens of Al-Jouf region, (221) male and (351) female, (193) less than 20 years old, (252) from 20 to 40 years old, and (127) more than 40 years old. The results showed the research recommended the need to raise awareness of the importance of social software and its impact in shaping the cultural identity. With the importance of directing research towards the mechanisms of consolidating Arab and Islamic culture, with the design of specialized programs to consolidate the cultural identity among the youth in Saudi society

Team Igniter: an adaptive toolkit to guide and leverage collaboration in teams seeking to problem-solve and innovate

Even though interdisciplinarity has been constantly debated and supported during faculty meetings at RIT, still, academic programs confine themselves into silos, hampering student integration. The struggle to effectively collaborate becomes evident in the existent on campus initiatives that challenge students from different disciplines to work together. The consequence is the under-utilization of the students\u27 potential which leads to mediocre outcomes. This thesis investigated main collaboration problems typical of groups seeking to problem-solve such as groupthink, production blocking, social loafing and social anxiety. These issues were studied in the academic context through a user-centered methodology that involved observations and interviews with college students. The proposed solution integrated user experience (UX) methods with social psychology’s research findings and game design dynamics into a toolkit constituted of both digital and tangible components that complemented each other to offer an interactive and immersive experience. The purpose of the toolkit was to provide a fluid framework to guide teams seeking innovation in order to leverage student collaborations and thus promote a truly academic synergy that is likely to lead to more innovative ideas and solutions

Prioritising IT Applications’ Readiness using Balanced Scorecards in Saudi Arabia

Defining a realistic strategy, that directs employees to achieve the organisation's strategic goals, is an important step towards achieving an organisation's objectives. Balanced Scorecards are one of the most useful tools and management systems to measure an organisation's performance against defined targets. In many instances the use of Information Technology within the organisation is essential to achieve a satisfying degree of the strategic objectives due to the IT readiness within the organisation. IT readiness of an organisation can be defined as the degree of the software applications can provide the desired functionality and operations required by departments and sections within the organisation in order to achieve the strategic goals. This research shows how Balanced Scorecards can be used to identify and priorities process requirements for IT readiness to align within organisation business strategy. Four main research questions were formulated here: how to determine projects priorities in adopting targets and weight and importance for each application, how algorithms and metrics used to measure the importance of needed applications can be developed and then how to assess their readiness. Finally, what are the methodologies used to develop a framework to priorities applications in terms of their readiness to achieve the strategic objectives. The framework used to priorities applications have been developed and tested in this research. This implementation was based on a mathematical model used to calculate the importance and the readiness of each application in public organisation in Saudi Arabia. Moreover, a comparison between the percentages of the expected achieved targets with prioritizing application readiness and the current achievements was provided

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

Telemedicine application at the University of Rochester Medical Center Strong Memorial Hospital in conjunction with the New York State Department of Corrections

Telemedicine has been around for several years and it is inevitable that this technology will shape the current healthcare environment. Doctors are often faced with the challenges of the laws of time and distance. With the presence of telemedicine, the idea of having access to a physician at any given time becomes a reality. This paper will present an exciting concept of telemedicine for today and tomorrow with an emphasis on the advancement of health care delivery systems. This thesis will also attempt to present the cost saving factors that telemedicine can provide not only to patient care but also to the financial and administrative aspects of healthcare. It will provide a summation of goals, design description and the initial cost of implementing a telemedicine application. This paper will be a combination of discussions on general telemedicine applications and a practical implementation. It culminated with a presentation of an actual telemedicine project that the University of Rochester Medical Center implemented in conjunction with the New York State Department of Corrections telemedicine project. I was a member of the team that designed and implemented the first true telemedicine application for Strong Memorial Hospital. Jeannie L. Christensen - Page 4 of 81 Capstone Thesis It consists of an outlined discussion as presented on the Table of Contents and the networking design proposal to implement a telemedicine project. The paper also investigated some other telemedicine applications at the University of Rochester Medical Center that can be implemented in the future. We tried to follow a rigid timeline, but due to some delay on procuring the leased line we fell a little behind on the implementation. The committee for Telemedicine in Strong Memorial Hospital met on a regular basis and assessed the technological needs of each department. Below was the tentative timeline for the project itself. The dates changed based on how promptly the vendors were able to meet the project requirements: March 30, 1998 - T1 Installation March 15-20, 1998 - Support Staff Training April 15, 1998 - Test Phase April 30, 1998 - Final implementation My primary role in this implementation is to design the wide and local area network for the University of Rochester Medical Center. I also participated in several of the committee meetings which outlines other administrative issues involved, such as the emergency room renovations, feasibility of extending video conference services, discussions on cost and billing issues, and a visit of an actual correctional facility to observe its telemedicine application