AUTHOR J. Barrie Thompson School of Computing Engineering and Technology University of Sunderland, St Peter’s Way, Sunderland, United Kingdom. ABSTRACT The call for papers highlights that the convergence of computing, media and technologies means that people have become more and more dependant on technology at work, at home, in travel, in learning and in communicating […]
AUTHOR Joe Thomas and Andy Bissett, School of Computing & Management Sciences, Sheffield Hallam University, England ABSTRACT This paper describes a piece of action research concerning the provision of an IT solution for services supporting drug misusers in a large city in England.. The researcher was tasked with advising a coordinating team whose members were […]
AUTHOR Harold Thimbleby and Penny Duquenoy Middlesex University Bounds Green Road, London, ABSTRACT Justice is about doing good for other people. It is clear that computers could be better – this paper therefore makes a start by looking at the questions of what “just programming” means, and how aiming for justice might impact how we […]
AUTHOR TATSUMI, Takeo (Kobe University) MAENO, Joji (Waseda University) KUSUMOTO, Noriaki (Waseda University) HARADA, Yasunari (Waseda University) ABSTRACT Recently, highly developed information technologies have been introduced to the methodology of managing classes. Especially, Web Based Traning(WBT), the idea of Computer Assisted Instruction(CAI) using web browser as an interface, will be actively researched as a learning […]
AUTHOR Serena Syme and L. Jean Camp Kennedy School of Governmental Harvard University Cambridge, MA 02138 ABSTRACT The issues of governance of a network society are tightly bound by the creation of intellectual property rights in that society. Currently the widest range of intellectual property rights can be seen not in the law but in […]
AUTHOR Paul Sturges and Ursula Iliffe Loughborough University, UK ABSTRACT Library record keeping has always produced significant files of personal data, most of which relate to the library’s users. The files have included records of membership and research interests; details of books borrowed and returned have cumulated in some library management systems; records of information […]