This study explores the issue of effectiveness within virtual teams — groups of people who work together although they are often dispersed across space, time, and/or organizational boundaries. Due to the recent trend towards corporate restructuring, which can, in part, be attributed to an increase in corporate layoffs, mergers and acquisitions, competition, and globalization, virtual teams have...

Although there’re studies that investigate the factors affecting the intention to purchase virtual items in virtual worlds, most of these studies focus on the technological factors that enhance user experience (e.g., social presence) while pay less attention to the social factors that facilitate user participation and involvement (e.g., user engagement). To fill this gap, taking MMORPGs as a ki...

objectives: this study aimed to find the factors that affect dental esthetics and smile attractiveness in orthodontically treated patients according to laypeople’s judgment, and to determine whether there is any relationship between dental and smile esthetics. materials and methods: using the q-sort technique, 60 laypersons (30 males, 30 females) rated dental and smile photographs of 48 orthodo...

The paper presents a Virtual Organization (VO) framework which incorporates wireless technologies support at the point of care in the clinical healthcare environment. It reflects the move to patient-centric healthcare given by multi-disciplinary care team collaborating in the patient’s treatment. The work sheds light into how VOs incorporating wireless technologies can meet the needs of the car...

digital and information technologies are fundamental factors for all organizations which carry out organizational and social activities levels and it causes to change the nature of business. create what is a type of entrepreneurship that is extracted from the concept of entrepreneurship. digital and information technology is one of electronic style of this creation. therefore, it can be said th...

Virtual team represents an organizational form which can revolutionize the workplace and provide organizations with unprecedented levels of flexibility and responsiveness. Growing inclination of organizations to indulge in virtual teamwork and significant utilization of virtual teams by organizations on a local as well as global basis necessitates investigating how such teams achieve success. A...

The main component of any Virtual Reality (VR) system is the human user. ways in which a VR shapes experience can affect design outcomes. This research explores differences spatial perception between an immersive Interactive Environment (IVRIE) and traditional (also known as desktop-based system, abbreviated herein DT system). Spatial cognition factors virtual spaces were studied based on diffe...

INTRODUCTION The software industry has had significant progress in recent years. The entire life of software includes two phases: production and maintenance. Software maintenance cost is increasingly growing and estimates showed that about 90% of software life cost is related to its maintenance phase. Extraction and considering the factors affecting the software maintenance cost help to estimat...