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Form and function - designing successful mobile data services - Survey Data
No full textMobile devices, along with mobile data services (MDS), have become powerful attendants in our daily life. Starting with simple communication services, MDS now offer a solution for almost every demand in private and business life. The market for MDS has become very competitive and is creating pressure on MDS providers with continuously increasing consumer demands. Recently, design has received much attention, since it provides vast opportunities for differentiating offerings and gaining competitive advantage. However, there is often semantic confusion when it comes to the concrete application of design. Based on the theoretical integration of user satisfaction and technology acceptance of Wixom and Todd (2005) and by conceptualizing form and function as the two major components of design, we propose a theoretical model that specifically investigates which MDS design characteristics influence consumers’ perception and behavioral intention. We empirically tested our model with partial least square (PLS) analysis, based on a sample of 2,295 responses from MDS users in the mobile banking context. The findings reveal that both components of design – form and function – were positively associated with satisfaction. The relationship between form and satisfaction was moderated by MDS consumer age and MDS usage frequency
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
The role of design for software success : an examination of design outcome and process
No full textDesign, in terms of beauty, has always influenced mankind. With the beginning of the postmodern aestheticization movement in the last decades of the 20th century, design came into the center of attention in society and business. While being restricted to traditional industries like manufacturing in early days, design has nowadays also entered fields of intangible products, like the software in-dustry. Numerous software companies have discovered design as a new instrument for gaining competitive advantage and for increasing the perceived customer value of their offerings. With di-verse activities, they try to strengthen the focus on design within the organization and the offerings.
Thereby, software companies have to tackle additional challenges in contrast to manufacturing companies since software, as intangible good, has some specific characteristics which makes it unique compared to physical goods. The intangible nature of software changes consumers’ percep-tion of design and triggers substantial challenges concerning the design outcome. In addition, its intangible nature makes reproduction and transportation virtually free and fast, changes can be im-plemented easily and at any time. This leads to an intensive competition among software companies and the need for efficiency of their development processes, in order to stay competitive. Due to the specific characteristics, existing research results from traditional product development cannot be directly transferred to the context of software.
These challenges are addressed in the present work by means of two empirical studies. In a first step a clear conceptualization of design in the context of software is developed and corresponding design outcome is investigated in a large scale quantitative study in the context of mobile banking services. In a second step a hybrid qualitative and quantitative research approach systematically investigates the conditions of software development success concerning the interaction between the functional areas of business and design, i.e. product managers and product designers.
The results of the first study provide key insights into the effects of form and function on user satis-faction and ultimately behavioral intention of mobile banking service consumers. In addition, a set of important moderators is revealed, such as usage frequency. The second study identifies success factors for the interaction of product managers and product designers and provides empirical evi-dence for a positive relationship between the identified factors and the success of software devel-opment. The results of the work provide key insights for both the design outcome and the design process from which finally implications for a successful application of design in the context of software are derived
Cross-Functional Integration of Product Management and Product Design in Application Software Development: Exploration of Success Factors - Survey Data
No full textThe industrialization of application software development is a key trend in the software industry. One important element of industrialized development processes is the introduction of a division of work with specialized competencies. Cross-functional integration is a fundamental and well established concept in product development. Its potential has also been recognized in application software development. Many enterprise application software vendors have established product management to complement software development from a business perspective, while R&D primarily focuses on technology aspects. Due to the growing significance of usability and user experience, the product design function has become increasingly important for application software development. However, there is little empirical work concerning cross-functional integration of product management and product design in application software development. The work presented in this paper explores success factors of this cross-functional integration
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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