This paper describes in overview the complexity of the impact of information technology and telecommunications on rural, regional and remote communities. It defines an extensive and broad-ranging programme of research, which ultimately focuses on maintaining, ideally enhancing, the sustainablity of the Victorian city of Warrnambool through a strategic approach to the so called “Internet Revolut...

One way that firms have adapted to competitive pressures in today’s global marketplace is to use asynchronous communication technologies to support virtual project teams. To better understand the effectiveness of these dispersed teams, we compare the asynchronous communication transcripts of high and low performing virtual teams working on the early stages of software design. We also compare th...

To better understand the potential for horizontal surfaces in day-to-day work, we conducted a field study. We collected and analyzed over a month of use data from eight participants who used horizontal displays in conjunction with their existing office computer setups. Our analysis of the system logs, observations, and interview data from the study reveals clear differences in preference and us...

This paper proposes a reference framework for strategic IT/IS management (SITISM) that structures the fields of action and decision-making of senior IT managers. Since there have been approaches to do so in the past, we integrate models described in literature. We then use extensive field work to construct and evaluate our framework. We argue that structuring SITISM leads to comparability. Ther...

Online banking is the newest and least understood delivery channel for retail banking services. Yet, few, if any, studies were reported quantifying the issues relevant to this cutting-edge technology. This paper reports the results of a quantitative study of the perceptions of banks’ executive and IT managers and potential customers with regard to the drivers, development challenges, and expect...

My paper is research-oriented. In other words, I will concentrate on an object of research and introduce you to a certain methodological process. This object of research is an unconventional family. The unconventional factor in the following case embodies the special variant of a homosexual family. The method I have applied to study this particular form of family is known as “family research ba...

The Growing Up in Scotland study (GUS) is an important longitudinal research project aimed at tracking the lives of a cohort of Scottish children from the early years, through childhood and beyond. The study is funded by the Scottish Government and carried out by the Scottish Centre for Social Research (ScotCen). Its principal aim is to provide information to support policy-making, but it is al...

The Disney method is a collaborative creativity technique that uses three roles dreamer, realist and critic to facilitate the consideration of different perspectives on a topic. Especially for novices it is important to obtain guidance in applying this method. One way is providing groups with a trained moderator. However, feedback about the group’s behavior might interrupt the flow of the idea ...

In this study, we redesign and develop a new digital sugoroku game based on the phenomenon of vegetation succession. A practical evaluation in an elementary school that consisted of game play and fieldwork activity was conducted. The results of the evaluation showed that the game was effective in stimulating the interest of the students who participated in the game, and was able to support thei...

Building on prior research, a field study of IT professionals is performed to determine if and how IT professionals’ technical skills requirement change as they gain experience in the workplace. Based on the results of this study, it appears that IT professionals: (1) are required to have different technical skills as their careers progress, and (2) do possess different technical skills at diff...