The number of Internet users as well as the number of web sites on the Internet are rapidly rising. Users have numerous web sites to choose from while surfing the net, so the web sites are competing for the users’ attention and repeated visits. To achieve their goals whatever they may be the web sites must satisfy their visitors’ information and communication needs as much as possible within th...

One significant trend in online user authentication is using Web Single Sign-On (SSO) systems. Especially, open Web SSO standards such as OpenID and OAuth are rapidly gaining adoption on the Web, and they enable over one billion user accounts. However, the largescale threat from phishing attacks to real-worldWeb SSO systems has been significantly underestimated and insufficiently analyzed. In t...

The first papers that reported on conducting psychological research on the web were presented at the Society for Computers in Psychology conference 20 years ago, in 1996. Since that time, there has been an explosive increase in the number of studies that use the web for data collection. As such, it seems a good time, 20 years on, to examine the health and adoption of sound practices of research...

purpose: web sites are considered as an important tool on the internet and it has an important role in the utilization of students from the internet. in this study, we tried to evaluate iranian schools web sites. method: research population consists of 122 school websites. we used a check list for evaluation of school websites. findings: we found that all aspects of iranian school websites (aut...