In this paper, an overview of different kinds of approaches in phenomenology, philosophy and many more concerning Human Computer Interaction (HCI) are shortly introduced. The outreach as well as complexity of computer technology has grown during the last decades, so that many people working with computers are not necessarily in this same profession. Therefore it has gotten more important to con...

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Compared to centuries of physics and millennia of mathematics, the 50-year-history of computer science and information management research makes us the toddlers of the scientific community. Yet during our brief existence, we’ve revolutionized the world and, not content with that, gone on to build and study virtual worlds. We have justly taken pride in our accomplishments, and developed our own ...

This paper articulates some fundamental requirements of science and engineering widely observed in traditional engineering disciplines and argues that we need to adopt in SE research a similar methodological rigor. SE community needs to define rigorously technical concepts, formulate research hypotheses, test theories, and reexamine conflicting theories closely to maintain our theory consistent...

Ntambwe Malangu The implementation of the comprehensive plan for the care, management, and treatment of HIV and AIDS in South Africa [1] needs to be supported by all. It is encouraging to note that Wilson and Blower [2] used South Africa to develop a novel method to determine the optimal strategy for allocating antiretroviral treatment (ART) sites among healthcare facilities (HCFs) in KwaZulu–N...

Special Issue Jeffrey Parsons Memorial University of Newfoundland [email protected] Yair Wand University of British Columbia [email protected] Classifying phenomena is a central aspect of cognition. Similarly, specifying classes of interest is a central aspect of information systems analysis and design. We extend principles originally developed to guide classification in information systems...

Abstract Multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary collaboration can be an appropriate response to tackling the increasingly complex problems faced by today’s society. Scientific disciplines are not rigidly defined entities their profiles change over time. No previous study has investigated multiple disciplinarity (i.e. interaction between disciplines, whether of a multidisciplinary or interdis...

Access to previous research facilitates scientific progress by preventing replication and allowing other researchers build on reported developments. Quality articles need provide the information required facilitate reproduction of experiments others. This is a challenge for in single discipline like analytical chemistry that rapidly grows when reporting cross disciplinary outcomes, as minimum l...

How does the collaboration network of researchers coalesce around a scientific topic? What sort of social restructuring occurs as a new field develops? Previous empirical explorations of these questions have examined the evolution of co-authorship networks associated with several fields of science, each noting a characteristic shift in network structure as fields develop. Historically, however,...