Everyday, people use more and more digital resources (data, application systems, Internet, etc.) for all aspects of their life, like financial management, private exchanges, collaborative work, etc. This leads to non-negligible dependences on the digital distributed resources that reveal strong reliance at the social level. Users are often not aware of their real autonomy regarding the manageme...

Rapid technological evolution defines the first two decades of millennium. This phenomenon has increased digital gap, disparities, and inequalities in global local contexts. paper reports a systematic literature mapping 180 articles published from 2000 to 2021 discussing gap. The documents were retrieved using boolean operations databases, adding terms related gender, age, ethnicity, disabiliti...

Over the past decade the demise of privacy has been repeatedly pronounced by renowned technology executives such as Mark Zuckerberg declaring privacy as passé and anachronistic“so 20th century” the concern of old people. However, there has been relatively little research into privacy perception and behaviour among different generations that may relate to how people navigate their private lives ...

In the past decades, information and communications technologies (ICTs) have fundamentally changed higher education and research, with the emergence of the World Wide Web—the greatest human-information construct in history—and the introduction of ICTs in teaching and learning, which spurred new interactive dynamiclearning methodologies and enabled cross-cultural and flexible collaborative inter...

Many methods exist for removing defects such as gaps, cracks, and disconnections from digital shapes. However, most such methods have several limitations, such as removing both erroneous and important shape details, or requiring non-trivial effort from the end user in the form of manual delineation or parameter setting. In this paper, we propose a technique for removing defects such as internal...

The Digital Divide is a matter of fact in most countries. For instance, senior citizens, citizens without employment, or citizens with low education utilise online services in a distinct way, often to a lesser extent. Within this paper, we examine how such digital divide groups make use of different online services. Here, four types on services are taken into account and contrasted with each ot...

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