Internet commerce continues to grow rapidly and is expected to exceed $5 trillion in 2005. Nevertheless concern for information privacy has been identified as a major consideration constraining many from internet consumerism. Trust has also been identified as an antecedent to willingness/intent to transact, buy or purchase. This research seeks to specify and support a model that involves additi...

In the past few decades, there has been a lineal relationship between technology and developmentthe belief that availability of technology would produce development. This is evident in the advancements in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), together with their rapid application in all spheres of mankind’s life that have led many to call our society ‘the information society’. It ha...

Last week, we explored women's views of whether birthplans empower them in the birth process. This week, the second half of the study is presented. It explored the perceptions of empowerment from ten midwives, using the birthplan as a tool. Data were collected by semi-structured interviews. The findings indicated that several factors could disempower the women as well as the midwives. For women...

Our paper addresses the problem of enforcing constraints in human body tracking. A projection technique is derived to impose kinematic constraints on independent multi-body motion: we show that for small motions the multi-body articulated motion space can be approximated by a linear manifold estimated directly from the previous body pose. We propose a learning approach to model non-linear const...