The article entitled, Performance of the CONTOUR® TS Blood Glucose Monitoring System, by Frank and colleagues in this issue of Journal of Diabetes Science and Technology, demonstrates that the CONTOUR® TS glucose meter exceeds current regulatory expectations for glucose meter performance. However, the appropriateness of current regulatory expectations, such as International Organization for Sta...

As mobile devices permeate daily life, several studies investigate how users react when technology falls short of their expectations. In this paper, we deploy a data/frame model to examine sensemaking processes through which users approach their interaction with the tablet under conditions of discomfort. We show that users eventually handle such problematic episodes by adopting one of three ide...

A common problem faced by technology projects is that while every effort is made to deliver at the highest quality, and ensuring well constructed business specifications, the outcome falls short of user expectations, rendering a system difficult to use, thereby negatively impacting adoption by the user. This paper highlights the need to involve the user at an early stage in the development proc...

Most current network resources recommendation systems are used in a decision-making environment with low user participation, which can not effectively meet user expectations. The main reason is that the collection of user preferences is extremely difficult, which leads to the lack of information acquisition, and the lack of effective semantic similarity metric. Accordingly, this paper uses onto...

Generic programming depends on the decomposition of programs into components which may be developed separately and combined arbitrarily, subject only to well-defined interfaces. Among the interfaces of interest, indeed the most pervasively and unconsciously used, are the fundamental operators common to all C++ built-in types, as extended to user-defined types, e.g. copy constructors, assignment...

The fact that the patient satisfaction with primary care clinical practices and physician-patient communications has been decreased gradually has brought a new opportunity to online channel as a supplementary service to provide additional information. In this study, we adopted ExpectationConfirmation Theory (ECT) to examine the process of cognitive knowledge expectation-confirmation of e-health...

washback refers to the influence of a test on teaching and learning. this study was an attempt to compare the influence of ielts and toefl ibt on the expectations the students brought to their courses and to investigate how these expectations were fulfilled. to this end, 100 ielts and 120 toefl ibt students attending preparation courses took a questionnaire survey, and a sample of their ten cla...

Efficient service discovery is a crucial process for Web service utilization. Most existing service discovery approaches, based on either functional or non-functional attributes, do not address the issues associated with the impact of subjective expectations and preferences on service discovery. For example, duplicated and similar functionalities existing among services require service consumer...

The Next Generation Mobile Networks Alliance (NGMN) was founded by leading international mobile network operators in 2006 with the objective to ensure that functionality and performance of next generation infrastructure, service platforms devices will meet requirements and, ultimately, satisfy end user demand expectations.

In a century of high technology and in a cyber world, the website is recognized as a super fast medium of information transfer, sharing and data harmonization. Users around the world look for information in various kinds of websites and online sources. These multicultural users have different experiences and expectations regarding the structure of a website and how to use it. However, there are...