This paper considers the theory of social capital and volunteerism in an online gaming community, the Internet Chess Club (ICC). We discuss how increased social capital provides b...
The purpose of this paper is to give a comprehensive understanding of the role and importance of e-catalogs in today’s e-commerce strategies. The main contribution of our work i...
Nektarios P. Georgantis, Dimitrios A. Koutsomitrop...
The evaluation of current and especially emerging medical technologies has always been a difficult task. This is of interest not only to the healthcare provider but also to the pa...
We are developing a module-oriented, multiphysics, mixed-fidelity system simulation environment that will enable engineers to rapidly analyze the performance of a system and to o...
David R. Gardner, Joseph P. Castro, Paul N. Demmie...
This paper considers the current efforts to describe the effect of Internet-based technology on interactivity between citizens and public organizations to be incomplete and poorly...
To take advantage of the numerous new resources for teaching/learning provided by the Internet, teachers should understand technologies that normally are not part of their fiel...
This paper reports on one of the first efforts to apply Value-Sensitive Design (VSD) to a large-scale real-world software system. We sought to improve informed consent in Web-base...
In September of 1998, the College of Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth piloted an innovative, integrated, first-year curriculum. It dramatically changed 31 ...
Paul J. Fortier, Emily Fowler, Raymond N. Laoulach...
For many companies, the strategic as well as the organizational fit of their information systems is a pivotal factor for staying competitive. At the same time, there is an increas...