The enactment of the Cooperative credit societies Act, 1904 gave a definite structure for cooperatives in India. Although era started long ago, till date they are considered inept with commercial banks providing quality services to their customers. Lack professionalism, Limited area operations, technical knowledge, Poor customer can be as hindrances cooperative institutions also criticized poli...

Abstract North Korean immigrant youth are underrepresented in career development research fields. We explored contextual factors that work as resources or hindrances to obtaining adequate education and exploring paths addition the unfilled psychological needs they want fill through securing decent work. By analyzing interview with 12 participants, we found three domains 17 categories. The main ...

Interactive mu ltimedia services, such as video-on-demand offered to the public at home need to be tested carefully for usability. The environment as well as users is heterogeneous and they use different input and output devices than with a personal computer. User Interface designers need to learn more about the users, their environment and the hindrances they encounter. Two service trials were...

Purpose – Education delivery via electronic media is becoming relevant in Nigeria educational systems, especially the universities. In spite of this, there are hindrances affecting the total acceptability of this technology. Design/methodology/approach – In this paper, we investigated these critical factors by analyzing the questionnaires collected from three sampled universities in Nigeria: pr...

Software development is a dynamic, complicated, and laborintensive undertaking. Numerous software engineering process models have been created and applied to address its complexity, schedule pressure, and product quality. These process models are rather abstract and not directly operationally relevant for the software engineers executing these processes, since they mostly provide relatively coa...

Internet based B2C e-Commerce is flourishing, but not so much in the area of business to business. For over 20 years, EDI has established VAN based solution of exchanging business information in electronic form. However EDI solutions are only accessible to large organizations due to the cost factor. Moreover lack of well accepted B2B business process standards is hindering the success in promot...

This paper explores the notion of ‘provocation through concrete experience’ towards a provotyping approach. It addresses the question: How do we on the one hand, devise qualitatively new systems, and on the other hand, ensure their usability in a given practice? The notion of provocation through concrete experience is developed through an investigation of prototyping and activity theory. Explor...