Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology (2018) (Volume 15)
Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology is the highly
cited peer-reviewed journal that publishes select high quality papers
reviewed and accepted for presentation by the international
transdiscplinary conference Informing Science and Information
Technology. Except as noted, papers have undergone double-blind peer
review and been revised to address reviewers' critique and suggestions.
Aim/Purpose: The purpose of this study is to
investigate the factors that may lead to adopting mobile commerce in a
developing country in South Asia.
Background: Access to information is key for communication and for controlling our environment to improve our lives. The growth of mobile phones and the internet technologies have greatly improved the access to information and encompassed the social ...
Background: Access to information is key for communication and for controlling our environment to improve our lives. The growth of mobile phones and the internet technologies have greatly improved the access to information and encompassed the social ...
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Aim/Purpose: This study focuses on the role
of personality in online shopping through analyzing its relationship
with customer reported shopping outcomes and their satisfaction.
Background: Customer satisfaction and outcomes in online shopping have been well-documented. From different perspectives, past research has analysed factors related to customer satisfaction, and to outcomes to a lesser e ...
Background: Customer satisfaction and outcomes in online shopping have been well-documented. From different perspectives, past research has analysed factors related to customer satisfaction, and to outcomes to a lesser e ...
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Aim/Purpose: This study intends to find out
how the ‘Big Five’ personality factors (openness, agreeableness,
conscientiousness, extraversion, and neuroticism) impact on college
students’ Facebook use (hedonic, sociability, and compulsive use) and
whether GPA has a moderating effect on such use.
Background: For college students, their favorite way of Facebook use may turn out to be predetermined ...
Background: For college students, their favorite way of Facebook use may turn out to be predetermined ...
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Aim/Purpose: This presentation will discuss
how mobile devices are used to keep children busy and entertained during
child care activities. Mobile devices are considered the 21st “Century
Nanny” since parents and caregivers use those tools to engage children’s
attention for indefinite periods of time. Research background on touch
screen devices and children’s age groups are presented to map age to ...
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Aim/Purpose: Contemporary organizations and
business models challenge traditional performance measures. Some of
these measures may not be relevant, and all of them may not be
appropriate for measuring some of the critical factors that
organizations should focus on in the current business environment.
Background: This research-in-progress examines the relevance of traditional performance mea ...
Background: This research-in-progress examines the relevance of traditional performance mea ...
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Aim/Purpose: In many OECD countries,
emergency response relies on volunteers, and while emergency incidents
are increasing, volunteer numbers are declining. Volunteer turnover
occurs at various stages of the volunteering life cycle (i.e.,
recruitment, training, socialisation, performance, and retirement), the
socialisation stage has the greatest impact on organisations, as it
occurs after the allo ...
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Aim/Purpose: This paper addressed the topics
of sustainable agronomy, aquaculture, hydroponics and soil monitoring
methods that show how to move towards a repairing mode and
bioremediation in many locations across the globe.
Background: Sixty percent of the world’s major terrestrial ecosystems are being degraded; the human ecological footprint is spreading across the globe. The major human impact ...
Background: Sixty percent of the world’s major terrestrial ecosystems are being degraded; the human ecological footprint is spreading across the globe. The major human impact ...
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Aim/Purpose: This paper, explored features
of popular social media in promoting research activities for successful
integration of information services on social media platforms.
Background: Leisure, in the early days, was more aligned with reading and research activities and enjoyed a long term monopoly until the advent of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). The society milieu is n ...
Background: Leisure, in the early days, was more aligned with reading and research activities and enjoyed a long term monopoly until the advent of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). The society milieu is n ...
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Aim/Purpose: To investigate anxiety in
online courses and its relationship with overall online courses
satisfaction as it may vary with online courses experience.
Background: Delivering online courses in higher education institutions continue to increase. Anxieties seem to be persistent. Although there are many technology and internet related anxieties studies, online courses anxieties are relati ...
Background: Delivering online courses in higher education institutions continue to increase. Anxieties seem to be persistent. Although there are many technology and internet related anxieties studies, online courses anxieties are relati ...
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Aim/Purpose: In our previous paper, we have
proposed a methodology to deliver an applied business course to the
multicultural audience having in mind embedding into the course cultural
sensitivity and create a safe place for multicultural students to use
own cultural metaphors in a learning place. We have proposed a fusion of
ancient storytelling tradition creating an overall context for the
teach ...
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Aim/Purpose: Explore the benefits of
participating in competitive endurance sports. Beyond the obvious
health and social benefits, endurance competitions offer significant
psycho/social growth that translates into more a more effective
professional life.
Background: Utilizes triadic agentic theory to explain the transference of learning from di-vergent experiences.
Methodology: Mixed method usi ...
Background: Utilizes triadic agentic theory to explain the transference of learning from di-vergent experiences.
Methodology: Mixed method usi ...
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Aim/Purpose: This paper describes an
empirical investigation on how consumer behavior is influenced by the
volume of content on a commercial landing page -- a stand-alone web page
designed to collect user data (in this case the user’s e-mail address),
a behavior called “conversion.”
Background: Content is a term commonly used to describe the information made available by a website or other elect ...
Background: Content is a term commonly used to describe the information made available by a website or other elect ...
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Aim/Purpose: This paper attempts an inquiry
into some Business intelligence (BI) implementation challenges related
to human factors, and uses empirical survey data to test how the
required BI coverage relates to perceived level of BI culture through
such important human factors in BI as information sharing.
Background: Business intelligence adoption already has a formidable body of experience, ye ...
Background: Business intelligence adoption already has a formidable body of experience, ye ...
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Aim/Purpose: This paper introduces DigLit
Score, an indicator of the extent to which educational institutions
identify, assess, and amplify student digital literacy.
Background: Digital literacy has garnered considerable attention of late among scholars, leaders, and journalists. Nonetheless, institutions of higher education have been slow to define, assess, and amplify digital literacy on par wi ...
Background: Digital literacy has garnered considerable attention of late among scholars, leaders, and journalists. Nonetheless, institutions of higher education have been slow to define, assess, and amplify digital literacy on par wi ...
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Aim/Purpose: This study aims to provide a
description of how flipped classroom was designed in the Business
Computing (BC) course in order to adapt with the changes in the
Vietnamese students’ learning needs, as well as social and technological
developments that disrupt student’ behaviours and living styles.
Background: The flipped classroom (FC) model is widely implemented, especially in the Eng ...
Background: The flipped classroom (FC) model is widely implemented, especially in the Eng ...
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Table of Contents: Proceedings of the 2017 InSITE Conference
.i - iii
Book Review of “Technology vs. Ecology” by Robert A. Schultz [Abstract]
Robert Allen Schultz
Aim/Purpose: To provide a summary of
Technology vs. Ecology, especially outlining how a "wild animal" (aka
hunter-gatherer) became the putative "master of the world"
Background:
Schultz is Professor Emeritus of Information Technology and has
published numerous books and articles on: ethics and IT; ecology and IT;
and database design
Methodology: Standard research techniques utilizing material ...
modern technology, human development, human space, reverse temporalization, origin scenario
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2018 Vol. 15 Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology
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