Context-Coded Memories: "Who, What, Where, When, Why?"

The Why, Who, What, How, and When of Patient Engagement in Healthcare Organizations: A Response to Recent Commentaries

Wh-Questions\' Expression in Persian-speaking Children: A Comparison Between Spontaneous and Elicited Probes

Objectives: Studies have shown that most children before the age of 5 are capable to comprehend and express wh-questions in daily conversations. This study aimed at comparing the ability of wh-questions’ production in 4- to 6-year-old children in spontaneous and elicited conditions. Methods: In this descriptive-analytic study, 4- to 6-year-old Persian-speaking children (N = 72) were selected r...

Unified User-Centric Context: Who, Where, When, What, How and Why

To deploy context-aware applications, there has been a steadily increasing interest in context model to efficiently represent various contexts in daily life. However, most ways of modeling context are specific to purpose of each service or give undue value to particular information, e.g. location. To loosen the coupling between contexts and services, we propose unified context that represent us...

A Multiple Perspectives Questioning Tool for Information Systems Definition

In Information systems developments a non-holistic view has lead analysts and designers to omit important factors that later proved to be significant, thus leading to systems failures (Mitroff and Linstone 1993). This research in progress draws on the IS project management, soft systems and multiple perspectives literature to show how shortcomings in the systems analysis process might be overco...

A Conceptual Model for IT Service Systems

Although services are developed, used, applied and intensively discussed in nowadays IT practice, the concept of an IT service has not yet been introduced. Services are IT artifacts that can be used by many users in different context at different points of time in different locations and serve a certain purpose. They provide the data and functionality at the best point of time, in the agreed fo...