What do people need?

What people say # what people do

suggesting that the higher status of the experimenter elicits physiological adaptations that reduce sensitivity to pain. Second, researchers may easily forget that the relationship between attitudes and behaviour is weak [2]. When we ask people what they think about separating waste (separate disposal of paper, glass, plastic etc.), many of them will say they are in favour of it. And when we as...

What Do Markets Need?

D uring my time in graduate school, I became very aware that those views which were informed by my faith were not represented in the academy. The Association of Christian Economists (ACE) provided me a community to explore how my faith and intellect could be integrated with one another. Perhaps it sounds almost quaint to say that somebody of good intellect cannot be a serious Christian, but we ...

Keeping and Re-Finding Information on the Web: What Do People Do And What Do They Need?

This study (Keeping Found Things Found KFTF) investigated the methods that people use in their workplace to re-access web information. People were observed using many different methods to keep web information for later use including the use of Bookmarks (or Favorites), self-addressed email, hand-written notes, and paper print-outs. Each keeping method provided a range of functions but none of t...

What do we know? What do we need to know?

Network Quality of Service: What Do Users Need? Network Quality of Service: What Do Users Need?

The number of heterogeneous networked applications is constantly increasing. It is likely that network resources will have to be partitioned according to the different Quality of Service (QoS) demands made by the users of these applications. One way of implementing a partitioned network – favored in technical literature − is in terms of quality-based pricing (e.g.[1],[2],[3]). Most published pr...