We develop two related themes, learning procedures and knowledge transfer. This paper introduces two methods for learning procedures and one for transferring previously-learned knowledge to a slightly different task. We demonstrate by experiment that transfer accelerates learning.

People have always used tools and technologies creatively. Technology appropriation concerns on how users adopt technologies for personal purposes. In this paper, we review the appropriation literature and explicate four varieties of this concept. Then we explore these varieties in the empirical setting of a citywide network of multipurpose interactive public displays. This network was designed...

25 This chapter starts with a brief discussion of the paucity of data and information on human development in the region and the challenges these gaps pose. It then summarizes the status of core human-development measures for the region compared to those for other regions of the world and over time, based primarily on the HDI. The chapter introduces three deficits that are considered to be defi...

Even as firms continue to invest substantially to develop and maintain their information technology assets, the means of judging the impact of those investments remain highly fragmented. The focus of scholars and their assessment methods varies substantially. To gain better insight into the business value returned from the spending of companies for information technology, an investigation invol...

The discriminant of a number field K tells us which primes p in Z ramify in OK : the prime factors of the discriminant. However, the way we have seen how to compute the discriminant doesn’t address the following themes: (1) determine which prime ideals in OK ramify (that is, which p in OK have e(p|p) > 1 rather than which p have e(p|p) > 1 for some p), (2) determine the multiplicity of a prime ...