This article describes a non-traditional approach to Participatory Design where distributed users have a serious impact on a software development process. The small software provider makes use of a nontraditional way of Participatory Design combined with an agile development approach. By using for among other things support service, user meetings, courses and news letter they are able to on a d...

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Computerized Provider Order Entry Systems are supposed to enhance healthcare quality through decreasing the number of prescriptions and medical errors while increasing prescription relevance. These bene ts are still theoretical because prescription computerization faces many problems, including software interoperability and usability. Using interface terminologies in terminolgy ows could help s...

Princeton–Stanford Working Papers in Classics is a web-based series of work-in-progress scripts by members of two leading departments of classics. It introduces the humanities to a new form of scholarly communication and represents a major advance in the free availability of classical-studies scholarship in cyberspace. This article both reviews the initial performance of this open-access experi...

Most organisations have recently converted their physical assets into digital forms. This underlines the needs to have different types of software products to manage such information, and raises security concerns for protecting software products from being illegally used in organisations. This paper proposes a licence management solution that protects software products from being illegally used...

This work presents the results of the 2014 Survey of the Veterinary Nursing Profession, carried out on behalf of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS) by the Institute for Employment Studies (IES) in the UK regarding demographics, work status, working outside and within the profession, working within clinical practice, internet use, opinions regarding the veterinary nursing profession...

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In huge online games where great numbers of players can be connected at the same time, social interaction is complex and conflicts become part of everyday life. There is a set of rules and norms in the game for what is allowed and what is prohibited and these are partly set up by the game publisher and partly evolve among the players themselves over time. This paper describes and exemplifies a ...

The use of Information and Communication Technologies in the education domain has been characterized by the need of providing customizable new learning solutions and evaluation procedures, which would offer great benefits to the Academic Institutions. This paper deals with the realization of e-learning courses and several related tests, efficient for the education of University students. It det...

Researchers are increasingly relying on e-journals to access literature within their fields. The design of the interfaces to these journals is determined by the individual host or publisher and there appears to be little standardization. This exploratory study samples a set of sixteen home screens of e-journals from different disciplines and identifies common features across the set. The partic...