Steve Clarke – End User Computing. Concepts Methodologies Tools

Автор: Steve Clarke
Название книги: End User Computing. Concepts Methodologies Tools
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Жанр: Компьютеры
Страницы: 2493
Качество: Изначально компьютерное, E-book

Paralleling the rapid development of widely distributed information and computing technologies has been an accelerated demand by citizens for electronic access to government services and, conversely, a drive by government administrators to harness the cost, quality, and efficiency benefits that electronic service delivery offers. And alongside these phenomena have emerged a new set of opportunities and challenges in such areas as security, privacy, ethics, and more, to which governments and citizens have only begun to come to terms.
Electronic Government: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications meets the pressing need for quality, authoritative research in this domain with an authoritative collection of more than 300 chapters, collected in six volumes. These landmark studies from the leading electronic government researchers worldwide enable libraries in academic, government, and other settings to provide a unified collection on such pressing topics as digital government, electronic justice, government-to-government, information policy, and cyber-infrastructure research and methodologies. This Premier Reference Source provides practitioners and academicians alike with the essential concepts relating to e-government and its implications within the global context.

Bridging the gap among information technology professionals, researchers, academicians and the user,
end-user computing has become a mainstream focus within present and previous years. Now more than
ever, the information technology landscape is growing with emerging research and new discoveries
to expand to all points of the globe. Profoundly traversing all facets of compound societies, end-user
computing implicates and impacts not only information science, political science, healthcare systems,
international relations, sociology and more, but branches out to the every-day user as well.
During this period of time, numerous researchers and academicians have developed a variety of
techniques, methodologies, and measurement tools that have allowed them to develop, deliver and at
the same time evaluate the effectiveness of several areas of end-user computing. The explosion of these
technologies and methodologies have created an abundance of new, state-of-the-art literature related to
all aspects of this expanding discipline, allowing researchers and practicing educators to learn about the
latest discoveries in the field of end-user computing.
Due to rapid technological changes that are continually taking place, it is a constant challenge for
researchers and experts in this discipline to stay abreast of the far-reaching effects of end-user computing
and to be able to develop and deliver more innovative methodologies and techniques, utilizing new
technological innovation. In order to provide the most comprehensive, in-depth, and recent coverage of
all issues related to this global phenomenon, as well as to offer a single reference source on all conceptual,
methodological, technical and managerial issues, as well as the opportunities, future challenges
and emerging trends related to end-user computing, Information Science Reference is pleased to offer
a four-volume reference collection on this rapidly growing discipline, in order to empower students,
researchers, academicians, and practitioners with a comprehensive understanding of the most critical
areas within this field of study.
Entitled End-User Computing: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, this collection
is organized in eight distinct sections, providing the most wide-ranging coverage of topics such as:
(1) Fundamental Concepts and Theories; (2) Development and Design Methodologies; (3) Tools and
Technologies; (4) Utilization and Application; (5) Organizational and Social Implications; (6) Managerial
Impact; (7) Critical Issues; and (8) Emerging Trends. The following provides a summary of what is
covered in each section of this multi-volume reference collection:
Section 1, Fundamental Concepts and Theories, serves as a foundation for this extensive reference
tool by addressing crucial theories essential to the understanding of end-user computing. Chapters such
as, Privacy, Risk Perception, and Expert Online Behavior: An Exploratory Study of Household End
Users by J. Drennan, G. Sullivan, and J. Previte, as well as Gender and End-User Computing by Laura
Beckwith, Margaret Burnett, and Shraddha Sorte provide an excellent framework in which to position
end-user computing within the field of information science and technology. Perceptions of End-Users on
the Requirements in Personal Firewall Software: An Exploratory Study, by Sunil Hazari, offers excellent insight into the critical incorporation of information security into end-user computing, while chapters
such as, An Open Source Primer by Brian Still address some of the basic, yet principle stumbling blocks
of issues within end-user computing. With over 20 chapters comprising this foundational section, the
reader can learn and chose from a compendium of expert research on the elemental theories underscoring
the end-user computing discipline.
Section 2, Development and Design Methodologies, provides in-depth coverage of conceptual
architecture frameworks to provide the reader with a comprehensive understanding of the emerging
technological developments within the field of end-user computing. Development Methodologies and
Users by Shawren Singh and Paula Kotzé offers research fundamentals imperative to the understanding
of research and developmental processes within end-user computing. From broad examinations to
specific discussions on end users such as, Elaine H. Ferneley’s, Covert End User Development: A Study
of Success, the research found within this section spans the discipline while offering detailed, specific
discussions. From basic designs to abstract development, chapters such as Framework for User Perception
of Effective E-Tail Web Sites by Sang M. Lee, Pairin Katerattanakul, and Soongoo Hong, and End-User
Perceptions of the Benefits and Risks of End-User Web Development, by Tanya McGill and Chris Klisc,
serve to expand the reaches of development and design methodologies within the end-user computing
community. This section includes over 35 contributions from researchers throughout the world on the
topic of end-users within the information science and technology field.
Section 3, Tools and Technologies, presents an extensive coverage of various tools and technologies
available in the field of end-user computing that practitioners and academicians alike can utilize to develop
different techniques. Chapters, such as Jason Sargent, Carole Alcock, Lois Burgess, Joan Cooper,
and Damian Ryan’s, PDAs as Mobile-Based Health Information Deployment Platforms for Ambulatory
Care: Clinician-Centric End-User Considerations, enlighten readers about clinician-centric end-user
acceptance toward the adoption of personal digital assistants as mobile-based health information deployment
platforms within ambulatory care service settings, whereas chapters like, Trusting Computers
Through Trusting Humans: Software Verification in a Safety-Critical Information System by Alison
Adam and Paul Spedding, explore trusting automatically generated program code—an increasingly
pertinent research arena. It is through these rigorously researched chapters that the reader is provided
with countless examples of the up-and-coming tools and technologies emerging from end-user information
technology. With more than 25 chapters, this section offers a broad treatment of some of the many
tools and technologies within the end-user community.
Section 4, Utilization and Application, discusses a variety of applications and opportunities available
that can be considered by practitioners in developing viable and effective end-user programs and
processes. This section includes more than 15 chapters, such as Lessons in Implementing a Learning
System in a University: The Academic User Perspective by Fiona Darroch and Mark Toleman, which
examines the implementation of two learning management systems (LMS) in a university environment.
Additional chapters, such as Ron Thompson, Deborah Compeau, and Chris Higgins’ Intentions to Use
Information Technologies: An Integrative Model, propose an integrative model explaining intentions
to use in information technology in order to obtain a clearer picture of how intentions are formed. Also
considered in this section is the potential use of biometrics across a wide variety of organizational contexts
as outlined in Determinig the Intention to Use Biometric Devices: An Application and Extension
of the Technology Acceptance Model, by Tabitha James, Taner Pirim, Katherine Boswell, Brian Reithel,
and Reza Barkhi. Contributions included in this section provide excellent coverage of today’s end-user
community and how research into information technology is impacting the social fabric of our presentday
global village.
Section 5, Organizational and Social Implications, includes a wide range of research pertaining to the
social and organizational impact of end-user computing in information technologies around the world.