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Likelihood of Purchase On-Line: Reliability, Security, and Design
Several factors can influence a consumer\u27s likelihood of purchasing on the Web including trust, ease-of-use, and price discounts. This study examines over a dozen different variables that affect the decision to conduct business online. A survey of experienced Web users validated that poor design, security, and reliability tend to decrease a person\u27s willingness to purchase through the Web
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Comment Distribution in Electronic Poolwriting and Gallery Writing Meetings
Two types of electronic brainwriting are used typically in Group Support Systems research: poolwriting and gallery writing. While a large number of academic studies have used the former technique, the latter is more efficient and effective, but has been used less frequently. This paper describes these two group idea generation techniques and discusses prior comparison studies. An experiment using the two brainwriting techniques shows that subjects were more satisfied with and preferred gallery writing. In addition, subjects using poolwriting were able to see only about 50% of the comments generated in the electronic meeting, while gallery writing subjects were able to view all comments
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Status of e-Government in Texas Metropolitan Areas
The internet and e-commerce technologies have already altered the way businesses operate. In the recent past, E-govemment has attempted to emulate the success of e-commerce organizations. This paper explores the status of e-govemment in metropolitan areas in Texas. The paper focuses on metropolitan areas since, based on reports on online usage in the US, rural areas still lag behind the metro areas. Consequently, rural counties, in general, have not developed their official e-govemment web sites as much as have counties in metropolitan areas
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An Analysis of Electronic Meeting Comment Translation
Multilingual groups often find communication difficult. Even with human interpreters, these groups still suffer from the inherent limitations of oral meetings: only one person at a time can talk, comments are not anonymous, and ideas must be recorded manually. Group Support Systems (GSS) have been used to increase the productivity of traditional, oral meetings by allowing participants to exchange automatically recorded, typed comments simultaneously and anonymously. Integration of language translation software with these systems could enable multilingual groups to achieve the same benefits obtained by monolingual groups. This paper investigates the feasibility of using automatic language translation in GSS meetings by converting sample comments from two archived transcripts typed in English to Spanish. Three human experts then evaluated these transcriptions for accuracy. Results showed that the translations contained numerous errors, but most of the comments could still be understood
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Status of e-Government in Georgia
As e-commerce facilitated the movement of businesses from bricks and mortar interfaces, Internet and communication technology are moving e-govemment to a point where all citizens will be able to access government services in their homes. This paper reports the status of e-government in Georgia (USA), with particular attention to stages of e-government development in the state. Currently, only 51 percent of counties in Georgia have official e-government web sites. Generally, rural counties have not developed their official e-government web sites as much as have counties in metropolitan areas