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In this paper, we report an exploratory study that consists of two experiments investigating animation interference effect in the Web environment. Animation is “a dynamic visual statement, form and structure evolving through movement over time” (Baecker and Small, 1990). In this study, we...

Economic games involving allocation of resources have been a useful tool for the study of decision making for both psychologists and economists. In two experiments involving a repeated-trials game over twenty opportunities, undergraduates made choices to distribute resources between themselves...

In recent years, internet based commerce has developed as a new paradigm. Many factors such as "at home delivery", easy ordering, and usually lower prices contributed to the success of the e-commerce. However, more recently, companies realized that one of the major factors in having a successful...

The investigation of semantic relationship between the functional entities in a hospital information system, and their formal representation is of high value for automation purposes. The information flow in a health service setup revolves around some key entities such as various functional...