Effects of Information Architecture on the Effectiveness and User Experience of Web-Based Patient Education in Middle-Aged and Older Adults: Online Randomized Experiment

Background: Web-based patient education is increasingly offered to improve patients’ ability to learn, remember, and apply health information. Efficient organization, display, and structural design, that is, information architecture (IA), can support patients’ ability to independently use web-based patient education. However, the role of IA in...

Serverless is More: From PaaS to Present Cloud Computing

In the late-1950s, leasing time on an IBM 704 cost hundreds of dollars per minute. Today, cloud computing, that is, using IT as a service, on-demand and pay-per-use, is a widely used computing paradigm that offers large economies of scale. Born from a need to make platform as a service (PaaS) more accessible, fine-grained, and affordable,...

Large-scale copyright enforcement and human rights safeguards in online markets: A comparative study of 22 sanctioning mechanisms from eight enforcement strategies in six countries between 2004 and 2014

The Internet has facilitated large-scale copyright infringement. Fighting this one case at a time via the standard civil law procedures is costly in terms of time and money. In response, copyright holders have adopted new strategies that they hoped would be more effective at large-scale enforcement. The question is how these large-scale...

Using Aristotle’s theory of friendship to classify online friendships: A critical counterview

In a special issue of “Ethics and Information Technology” (September 2012), various philosophers have discussed the notion of online friendship. The preferred framework of analysis was Aristotle’s theory of friendship: it was argued that online friendships face many obstacles that hinder them from ever reaching the highest form of Aristotelian...

Emotions and Ethical Considerations of Women Undergoing IVF-Treatments

Women who suffer from fertility issues often use in vitro fertilization (IVF) to realize their wish to have children. However, IVF has its own set of strict administration rules that leave the women physically and emotionally exhausted. Feeling alienated and frustrated, many IVF users turn to internet IVF-centered forums to share their stories...

Co-Production In Planning And Design: Finding A Balance Between Collective And Individual Responsibility

Worldwide, the trend in policies and legislation is towards wider citizen participation. This development coincides with a move towards more government deregulation and market liberalization as well as an exponential growth of the Internet and an increasingly better educated and equipped citizenry. These developments together result in a...

The value (driven) web

This paper presents a vision on the importance of values and ethical aspects in web science. We create(d) the Internet, but now the Internet (technology) is shaping our world increasingly: the way we experience, interact, transact, conduct business et cetera. The Internet is ubiquitous and vital to many aspects of our society; it is substituting...

A Qualitative Comparison of Power Law Generators

Measuring the internet

The Internet is a collection of networks that use the TCP/IP suite of protocols. It has a huge impact on human activity. There are currently hundreds of millions of computers connected to the Internet, generating several petabytes traffic a day. Internet is still growing rapidly. However, the Internet today is not yet precisely characterized....

The Internet bubble and the impact on the development path of the telecommunication sector

In this dissertation the impact of the Internet bubble on the development path of the telecommunication sector is being explored and explained. The insights obtained are used to provide recommendations for the formation of government policy and firm strategy in the aftermath. Periods of euphoria are a recurring feature of economic development...

Customization Choices: Consumer Product Decisions in Mass Customization Environments

Software voor de ontwikkeling van een digitale leeromgeving

Het World Wide Web wordt in toenemende mate gebruikt door onderwijsinstellingen als medium voor het aanbieden van onderwijsmaterialen. In eerste instantie kwam dit vooral neer op het aanbieden van roosters en korte vakbeschrijvingen. Inmiddels is nu de omslag te zien naar websites waar complete cursussen worden aangeboden. Er wordt, met andere...

Internet traffic over broadband networks: Transferring TCP/IP traffic over ATM