Andreas Holzinger, Martin Höller, Marcus D. Bloice, B. Urlesberger
{"title":"Typical Problems with Developing Mobile Applications for Health Care - Some Lessons Learned from Developing User-centered Mobile Applications in a Hospital Environment","authors":"Andreas Holzinger, Martin Höller, Marcus D. Bloice, B. Urlesberger","doi":"10.5220/0001909102350240","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5220/0001909102350240","url":null,"abstract":"This paper provides an overview of the experiences gained during the design, development and implementation of mobile applications for use within the clinical domain. Current problems and issues that arose during the development of the software are documented and discussed. Medical professionals' opinions, both medical doctors and nurses, and their input were coupled with front end development (user interface design) and back end development (software engineering) to decide on the most optimum development path and to select the most appropriate environments. Most of all, this project can be seen as a further example that User-Centered Development (UCD) is necessary, however it is not sufficient when developing mobile, cross-platform, and future-proof applications for medicine and health care.","PeriodicalId":190970,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on e-Business","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132065793","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Comparison of Web Site Adoption in Small and Large Portuguese Firms","authors":"T. Oliveira, Maria F. O. Martins","doi":"10.5220/0001907603700377","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5220/0001907603700377","url":null,"abstract":"This study compares the impact of different Technology-Organization-Environment (TOE) factors on the web site adoption decision in small and large firms. A survey that was undertaken by the National Institute of Statistics on the use of Information Technologies (IT) by firms in Portugal was used as the empirical basis for this study. We found significantly differences in the factors that determined web site adoption decision in small and large firms. While large firms are mainly influenced by organizational and environmental factors, small firms are also concerned about the technological context. Moreover, the results of our study suggested that, for Portuguese firms, the only factor that is equally important as web site facilitator is competitive pressure.","PeriodicalId":190970,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on e-Business","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128775735","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Individual Tariffs for Mobile Service Bundles - A Negotiation Calculation Tool","authors":"L. Pau, Hong Chen","doi":"10.5220/0001424400310037","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5220/0001424400310037","url":null,"abstract":"This paper aims to develop a bargaining model for calculation of individual tariffs for mobile service. In almost all publmic communication services today , tariffs are set unilateraly by the suppliers for some generic services ; the present and future emphasis on both unique content needs,and on service personalization, restrict the old tariffing principle to those users who only need basic universal services . Realizing this evolution , the ultimate goal is to provide a tool for computing individual tariffs. The paper first looks at the intrinsic drivers of individual tariffs both from sociological and economic perspectives. The paper proceeds further with a bargaining model for individual tariffs which is centered on user and supplier behaviours. The user, instead of being fully rational, has “bounded rationality” and his behaviours are not only subject to economic constraints but also influenced by social needs. The supplier can be either a firm (typically a communications service operator) or community ; each supplier has his own goals which lead to different behaviors. In the proposed solution, individual tariffs are decided through interactions between the user and the supplier. Game theory is employed to provide structured analyses of the interactions and tariff design. We developed a computational model based on the bargaining model. It can be used to determine the individual tariff between a firm and an individual user. Preliminary results, which are based on a music training service treated as a bundle of communications, content, and assistance , show that individual tariffs can be beneficial to both the user and the supplier.","PeriodicalId":190970,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on e-Business","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121574627","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
E. Sánchez-Nielsen, Sandra Martín-Ruiz, Jorge Rodríguez-Pedrianes
{"title":"Service-Oriented Architecture to Mobile Phones","authors":"E. Sánchez-Nielsen, Sandra Martín-Ruiz, Jorge Rodríguez-Pedrianes","doi":"10.5220/0001425000570062","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5220/0001425000570062","url":null,"abstract":"Disclosed is an improved surface discharge element comprising a dielectric substrate having a discharge electrode on one surface and an inductive electrode on the other surface of the substrate, at least said discharge electrode being of a thick film conductor including conductive powder and lead-free glass as main constituents. The lead-free discharge electrode is physically resistive to erosion by electric discharge, and accordingly it can have an elongated life in use.","PeriodicalId":190970,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on e-Business","volume":"516 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123087925","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"e-Learning for New Graduate Employees - Another Function of e-Learning for New Graduate Employees of Japanese and Korean Companies","authors":"Jiro Usugami","doi":"10.5220/0001906203570361","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5220/0001906203570361","url":null,"abstract":"Japanese companies tend to consider that e-learning is important for a reason other than human capital development in new graduate employee training and development programs, namely for improving employee retention. Two remarkable features of the Japanese employment system are the seasonally scheduled hiring of new graduates and company commitment to the T&D programs for new graduate employees before and after their official hiring. Today, largeand medium-sized Japanese companies make their offers to candidates nearly one year prior to their graduation from university or college. Many of these companies also provide various T&D programs, including e-learning, for the potential new graduate employees until their graduation. We call these “pre-entry training” programs. They are distinguished from internship programs in that pre-entry training programs are provided only for those students who are due to be officially hired the next fiscal year. Besides Japanese companies, a number of foreign companies in Japan and some Korean companies provide pre-entry training programs that utilize e-learning. This study examines, based on case studies, the hypothesis that e-learning in the pre-entry training programs for new graduate employees has the function of retention as well as human capital development.","PeriodicalId":190970,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on e-Business","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123134303","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Specification-Driven Design of Embedded Systems - Design Support for Networked Embedded Software Applications","authors":"M. Svéda, R. Vrba","doi":"10.5220/0002107100230030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5220/0002107100230030","url":null,"abstract":"An absorbent article for collecting non-aqueous liquids such as oil-based products, comprising a low density, structurally integral board of peat moss material manifesting an affinity for non-aqueous liquids while being hydrophobic in order to block undesirable water penetration in the absorbent medium. The invention also extends to a method for manufacturing the absorbent article.","PeriodicalId":190970,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on e-Business","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126064552","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Chaâbane, E. Andonoff, L. Bouzguenda, R. Bouaziz
{"title":"Dealing with Business Process Evolution using Versions","authors":"M. Chaâbane, E. Andonoff, L. Bouzguenda, R. Bouaziz","doi":"10.5220/0001903702670278","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5220/0001903702670278","url":null,"abstract":"Competition in which enterprises and organizations are involved nowadays imposes them to often make evolve their business processes in order to meet, as quickly as possible, new business or production requirements. This paper proposes to adopt a version-based approach to support these dynamic changes of business processes. This approach permits to keep chronological business process changes: it is then possible to allow several instances of a same business process to own different schemas, each one representing a possible schema for the considered business process. Consequently, this approach is very suitable to deal with long-term business process evolution: it does not necessarily impose the adaptation and migration of running instances of business processes to a new business process schema. The paper contribution is threefold. First, it defines a meta-model for designing versions of business processes considering the three dimensions of business processes: the informational, organizational and process dimensions. Then, it introduces a taxonomy of operations for business process version management. Finally, it proposes to formalize and visualize modeled versions of business processes using a Petri net-based formalism, namely Petri net with Objects.","PeriodicalId":190970,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on e-Business","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116066880","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
António Pacheco, C. Serrão, Carlos J. Costa, Ferreira Dias
{"title":"Small Screen Rendering Web-Browser Comparison - When Web Content is Too Large to Fit the Screen","authors":"António Pacheco, C. Serrão, Carlos J. Costa, Ferreira Dias","doi":"10.5220/0001427401450150","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5220/0001427401450150","url":null,"abstract":"During the past few years the web has changed and something which has been developed primarily for desktop computers can now be accessed from everywhere using portable and mobile devices. However, these new devices have some serious limitations in terms of screen size and computational power, just to mention a few. In order to display web pages designed for desktop-sizes monitors, some small screen web browsers provide different approaches for this problem – however, these approaches have limitations. In this paper, we have performed tests to five different small screen rendering web-browsers (Pocket Internet Explorer, Minimo, NetFront, Opera, Opera Mini) while rendering some relevant web sites.","PeriodicalId":190970,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on e-Business","volume":"423 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115256244","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kelly Juliana Alvarenga, Claudio Luis Cruz de Oliveira, F. Laurindo
{"title":"Creating Value using Mobile Technology in Brazil - A Case Study in a Brazilian Airline Company","authors":"Kelly Juliana Alvarenga, Claudio Luis Cruz de Oliveira, F. Laurindo","doi":"10.5220/0002190200970102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5220/0002190200970102","url":null,"abstract":"The growth of mobile telephony in Brazil have been enabled the development of mobile business applications. These solutions create some strategic opportunities for Brazilian companies to mitigate structural gaps using a new platform to connect a wide number of customers. The aim of this research is to verify: (a) the possibility of achieve a competitive advantage developing an innovative mobile application (b) the opportunity to create sustainable strategic value with this solution. If the issues “a” and “b” are truth, the mobile is contributing to a unique strategic positioning for the airline company analysed on case study.","PeriodicalId":190970,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on e-Business","volume":" 119","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"113952622","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Adoption of Mobile Services in Finland - Conceptual Model and Application-based Case Study","authors":"M. Ervasti, H. Helaakoski","doi":"10.5220/0001910301310139","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5220/0001910301310139","url":null,"abstract":"This paper offers both theoretical and empirical contributions relating to the consumers’ motives for and barriers to adopting mobile services. A case study of a mobile service is introduced to validate the factors that facilitate and trigger, and respectively hinder the acceptance of mobile services in Finland. The factors affecting the service adoption were researched based on a conceptual model that was a modified version of the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) and of the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB). Based on the findings from a survey conducted with a sample of 52 Finnish campus students, the factors that affect consumers’ attitudes towards mobile services were discovered. Usefulness was revealed to have the strongest impact on attitude towards a mobile service, with context information and attitude acting as significant determinants of the intention to use the service. This study attempts to help mobile service providers choose right development and marketing strategies for mobile services and enhance the adoption and diffusion of mobile services.","PeriodicalId":190970,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on e-Business","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123756825","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}