Virtual communities for elderly healthcare have a potential to improve the community building process and to facilitate care services through support for activities, participation and information needs. This paper expounds on this idea by proposing a mobile virtual community (MVC) platform for elderly healthcare based on a services concept. The requirements for this platform are elicited using ...

Switching between electronic and traditional markets, consumers nowadays impact profoundly on market makers. To successful conduct business, firms have to carefully making channel decisions to meet the needs of customers. The purpose of this article is to offer normative models for analyzing consumer channel selection behaviors between traditional and electronic markets. Referred to transaction...

According to the requirements of Ministry Education's transformation, development and classified management, pharmacy major Jilin Agricultural Science Technology University is based on social demand investigations, with main goal vocational ability training, take knowledge system technical training as core, competence runs through whole process. And university closely integrates market demands,...

The question we present here is about two different design approaches: task-oriented and function-oriented. Briefly, task-oriented design needs task-related information analysis and function-oriented design needs the analysis of functional structure of work domain. It is thus desirable to consider the usefulness of analysis methods in terms of design approaches. For this, we present three analy...

Provision 1: The nurse, in all professional relationships, practices with compassion and respect for the inherent dignity, worth and uniqueness of every individual, unrestricted by considerations of social or economic status, personal attributes, or the nature of health problems. 1.1 Respect for human dignity. Nurses take into account the needs and values of all persons in all professional rela...

The virtual tax village in line with the transformation of the tax process from self-declaration based method to electronic data based method and with the aim of compiling and developing the tax information bank and using technology, taxpayers in a virtual tax space. It collects the ID card holders and their financial data with the help of modern technologies and by benefiting from systematic m...

We study how to recommend discussion threads in the tourism domain to meet visitors’ travel information needs. This research-in-progress paper reports the first stage of our research, namely classifying discussion threads into travel goals. We propose an information goal-oriented model, which consists of four goals: Initiation, Attraction, Accommodation, and Route planning, that can be characte...