Three criteria are considered for designing patient information both printed and displayed on computer screens: readability, usability, likeability. These criteria relate to the ingredients necessary to support people using patient information, as they seek to find the answers to questions, understand the intended message, and interpret that understanding in relation to their own circumstances....

This work is framed within the context of computer graphics starting out from the intersection of three fields: rendering , information theory , and complexity . Initially, the concept of scene complexity is analysed considering three perspectives from a geometric visibility point of view: complexity at an interior point , complexity of an animation, and complexity of a region. The main focus o...

Information quality (IQ) is one of the most important aspects of information integration on the Internet. Many projects realize and address this fact by gathering and classifying IQ criteria. Hardly ever do the projects address the immense difficulty of assessing scores for the criteria. This task must precede any usage of criteria for qualifying and integrating information. After reviewing pre...

An important part of hospital information systems (HIS) evaluation is the quality assessment of its architecture, i.e. the structure of its IT infrastructure. Therefore, quantitative architectural quality criteria are needed. On the basis of relevant architectural components of a HIS defined by 3LGM2, the following quality criteria were defined: functional redundancy, functional under-saturatio...

Evaluation of research artefacts (such as models, frameworks and methodologies) is essential to determine their quality and demonstrate worth. However, in the IQ research domain there is no existing standard set of criteria available for researchers to use to evaluate their IQ artefacts. This paper therefore describes our experience of selecting and synthesizing a set of evaluation criteria use...

This article looks at quantitative measures of conformity degree of received and transmitted information messages, selected depending on message nature, and defines main approaches to assessment of information systems interference immunity. Author analyzed peculiarities of information receiving depending on signals purposes on stages of signal detection, sorting out of signals and message recov...

We investigate van Rijsbergen’s -measure, break-even point, and 11-point averaged precision, all of which can be translated into 1-dimensional scalar quantity from the precision and the recall. These investigations can be done by comparing to tetrachoric (four-fold) correlation coefficient and phi (four-fold point) coefficient, which are often used as the index of statistical association in a 2...

The evaluation of information systems development methodologies is becoming increasingly important. The lack of a commonly acceptable set of criteria for evaluation, however, hinders aggregating knowledge from field studies. Our study attempts to fill the gap. To reduce the effects of subjectivity, we surveyed the opinions of a group (28) of experienced IS researchers. Fifty-one criteria were g...

This paper deals with Bayesian models given by statistical experiments and standard loss functions. Bayes probability of error and Bayes risk are estimated by means of classical and generalized information criteria applicable to the experiment. The accuracy of the estimation is studied. Among the information criteria studied in the paper is the class of posterior power entropies which includes ...