We use a human–subjects experiment to test the effects of non–coercive “information” mechanisms designed to increase cooperation and efficiency in the trust game. In the equilibrium of the standard trust game, the investor does not invest, foreseeing that the allocator would have kept all of the returns from investment. Our mechanisms add a pre–play stage in which the investor receives informat...

Extensive research has shown that person-centered learning aiming at students’ development on the levels of intellect, skills, and attitudes is effective in face-to-face education. More recently, advances in web-technology let us ask: Is humanistic, person-centered learning also effective along the application of modern technology? In this contribution we reflect 10 years of research at the Uni...

Spiraling healthcare costs in the United States and elsewhere, coupled to mediocre outcomes and health status indices, the persistent latency between best practice knowledge and its application in practice, an inefficient public health and clinical research infrastructure, and many other factors demand a more sophisticated use of information technology to support improvements. The ever growing ...

Online piracy of copyrighted digital music has become rampant as internet bandwidth and digital compression technologies have advanced. The music industry has suffered significant financial losses and has responded with lawsuits, though online music piracy remains prevalent. More effective approaches to fighting music piracy can be developed with the aid of an understanding of individual attitu...

Multi-homing, a strategy where a developer is publishing products for multiple platforms, is studied in this paper using descriptive analysis. The data of over 850,000 applications and their developers were collected from Apple App Store, Google Play, and Microsoft’s Windows Phone Marketplace. The developers publishing for several software ecosystems were then identified. The findings show that...