Applications for e-Government should be developed based on user-centered design. In the late 1990s, one-stop-service by governments became popular. In Japan, the e-Government service was promoted by priority policy programs since 2001. However, there have not been sufficient achievements. Many ministries in the central government developed Web applications with a lack of usability. On the other...

Introduction: The most important change in medical education is a shift from didactic teacher-centered and subject-based teaching to the use of interactive, problem-based, student-centered learning. Student-centered approach is a teaching approach t that encompasses replacing lectures with active learning, integrating self-paced learning programs and cooperative group situations, ultimately hol...

in 2000, an evaluation of iranian elementary education revealed that it did not successfully prepare students for the future. the failure was attributed to the teacher centered, content-oriented education system. in 2001, the iranian ministry of education began a pilot project that introduced an alternative curriculum, known as “global education,” with unicef’s participation. global education, ...

- Missing observations occur in experimental designs as a result of insufficient sampling, machine breakdown, high cost, and errors in the measurements. In nanomanufacturing, missing observations often appear in designs because the combination of factors or molecular structures selected by a designer cannot be experimented successfully. In the current paper, Box-Behnken and face-centered compos...

Intelligent advisory services have gradually penetrated into every aspect of people's lives. Ranging from e-commerce to e-government platforms, intelligent advisory systems, with anthropomorphic and user-centered design, can potentially help to remove the technical barriers that commonly exist on traditional websites. In the research background of an intelligent advisory system in the health do...

Governments need to devise services centered on citizens and their needs. The SMART project focuses on the development and validation of new service science methodologies in e-Government domain to achieve value added services able to satisfy explicit and implicit citizen needs. To reach its goals, SMART benefits from the experience of industrial and academic worlds that sharing multidisciplinar...