Proceedings of the Symposium on Computer Human Interaction for the Management of Information Technology - CHiMiT '09

2009 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Human Interaction

The Human Factors Issues in Information Security: What are They and Do They Matter?

1998 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 439-443
Author(s):  
Pamela R. McCauley-Bell ◽  
Lesia L. Crumpton
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
Information Security ◽  
Human Factors ◽  
Human Error ◽  
System Security ◽  
Security Protocol ◽  
Human Interaction ◽  
Security Issues

The information technology field has been increasingly plagued by threats to the security of information systems, networks, and communication media. The solutions to these problems have primarily focused on the techniques to more closely safeguard networks (i.e. firewalls) with similar efforts being put into assessing the vulnerabilities of the hardware and software aspects of the systems. With the exception of discussions into more creative password selection, discussion pertaining to the role of the user, can play in reducing the risk of human error and thus promoting system security has been extremely limited. This lecture will present an overview of information security issues impacted by human interaction that may or may not play a role in promoting system security. Understanding that information systems are in fact composed of hardware and software components which must be addressed using traditional information security protocol, this lecture will provide an understanding of the possible risk that the human/user poses to an information system. Once the risks or factors associated with the human in the security of the system are identified, the next question is do the factors matter? The objective of this lecture is to present an intellectual discussion of human factors issues and their impact on information security. This is an important discussion topic that the information technology field can not afford to ignore.

Promoting Cooperative Learning for Preservice Teachers Through Information Technology

2011 ◽  
pp. 728-737
Author(s):  
Eugenia M.W. NG
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Preservice Teachers ◽  
Cooperative Learning ◽  
Collaborative Work ◽  
Human Interaction ◽  
Learning Goals ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Working Together ◽  
Traditional Setting

Cooperative learning means students working together to accomplish shared learning goals and to maximize their own and their group members’ achievements (Johnson & Johnson, 1999), and stresses the importance of shared dialogue and inquiry (Littleton & Hakkinen, 1999). The concept of cooperative learning has been around for a long time. Sometimes cooperative and collaborative learning are used interchangeably, but Lehtinen, Hakkarainen, Lipponen, Rahikainen, and Muukkonen (2007) have suggested that cooperative work involves dividing work among the team members, whilst collaborative work means all the team members tackle the problems together in a coordinated effort. In a traditional setting, cooperative learning occurs when there is human interaction, but cooperative learning can transcend cooperation from someone that you know to virtually everyone in the world if they have a Web-connected computer. Does information technology foster or stifle cooperative learning?

Delivering professional projects

2010 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shauneen Furlong ◽  
Wafi Al‐Karaghouli
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Project Management ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Management Practice ◽  
Transformation Process ◽  
Human Interaction ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Initiation Phase ◽  
The World

PurposeOwing to inadequate implementations of project management (PM) procedures and processes, many large information technology systems (ITS) projects failed to deliver its promises. Also, many of the failures in the implementation of large ITS projects around the world have been attributed to inadequate PM action. This criticism encompasses e‐government project initiatives which have attempted ambitious program change, major innovations, large transformations, enterprise wide solutions, collaboration across organisations, governments and private sectors, and the implementation of unprecedented (or ambitious) solutions. The purpose of this paper is to examine these issues.Design/methodology/approachThis paper forms part of an ongoing research of a PhD degree to describe, critically evaluate and examine the underlying barriers and challenges in large e‐government initiatives. Also, this paper examines change in organisations due to the change in the global economy and global information society as new technology is changing the nature of work. It identifies and examines the current and foreseeing problems with large e‐government projects and describes how a sociotechnical approach which takes into account, technical, business, citizen, economic needs in the creation of a sociotechnical ITS for future citizens. In addition, the paper offers a technology‐enabled enhancement to the project‐initiation phase, the area identified as being particularly weak and inadequate in addressing initial requirements of e‐government initiatives.FindingsThe paper proposes that technology can be incorporated into the professional practice of PM. It can also be a part of a passable solution as opposed to being distinct and separate from it. The PM supporting tools, as opposed to merely reporting actual versus plans have to increase the novelty (art and science) of PM through human interaction, empower the project manager and in aiding his capacity in delivering the expected outcomes.Social implicationsThe paper demonstrates the value of effective project managers within the wider context of PM in transformational e‐government initiatives. It believes that this research will have an impact on three important areas, namely project management practice (PMC), e‐government projects and the transformation process of large projects in the public sector. This paper is about changing culture and practice of PMC in handling and managing large projects when different parties involve including outsourcing. This paper investigates and addresses, not only the transformation process of e‐government projects, but also, the transformation of PM professional culture (i.e. PMC) that delivers and works.Originality/valueThis research paper contributes to the existing literature of PM of large e‐government transformational processes. The paper addresses a number of e‐government challenges, by critically analysing and summarising a list of e‐government challenges and barriers arising from an e‐government survey administered on behalf of the World Information Technology and Services Alliance which represents the national technology associations in 70 countries. It compares these challenges to the project management body of knowledge (PMBOK), which is the North American standard in PM methodology. Also, it highlights the weaknesses in PMBOK to address these challenges and offers a technology‐enabled enhancement to the project‐initiation phase. This is the strength of this paper.

scholarly journals Date

2020 ◽  
pp. 124-136
Author(s):  
M.O. Kolbanev ◽  
I.I. Palkin ◽  
T.M. Tatarnikova
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Social Environment ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Functional Approach ◽  
Digital Economy ◽  
Human Interaction ◽  
Digital Data ◽  
Structural Description ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Russian Federation

The problem of interpreting the emerging terms of the digital economy is discussed. Examples demonstrating different understanding of the term “digital economy” by economists and information technology experts are given. We consider the basis of the digital economy - the cyberspace, as an environment of people’s activity in which any interactions are carried out due to digital data. The complexity of organizing cyberspace requires approaching the definition of the concept of the digital economy in terms of functional and structural descriptions. The functional approach has made it possible to identify three key attributes that reveal the essence of the digital economy: digital data, digital infrastructure, models of people’s activities. The activity is carried out through human interaction with natural objects through the "intermediary" - digital data. Changes in activities caused by the work with digital data, have come to be called transformation, its modern examples being medicine and transport. The examples show that the models of the digital economy involve a partial or complete rejection of human labor. The official government documents of the Russian Federation follow the functional approach to describing the concept of the digital economy: the program “Digital Economy of the Russian Federation”, decree of the President of the Russian Federation “On the Strategy for the Development of the Information Society in the Russian Federation for 2017-2030”. The structural description has made it possible to single out three echelons of managing the digital economy: the technological environment, the social environment, markets and industries. Each echelon has the right to make decisions within its competencies. The purpose of the technological echelon is the technical support of the digital economy, including information systems and information technology. At the level of the social environment of the digital economy, the following ones are formed: the legal regime for the development and use of digital technologies, the education and training system of the digital economy, the infrastructure of the digital economy, information security technologies for digital processes, and many others. At the level of markets and industries, spheres of activity of the digital economy are implemented. The structural approach has allowed us to propose an architectural model of the digital economy. The model is a stratified description, characterized by vertical decomposition, the sequence of digital data processing operations on each stratum, and the interconnection of performance indicators of all strata for a comprehensive assessment of the activity process as a whole.

scholarly journals MELAMPAUI POSTMODERNISME: KAJIAN TEORITIS TERHADAP PEMIKIRAN ROBERT SAMUELS TENTANG AUTOMODERNITY

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 82
Author(s):  
I Made Aryasuta Wirawan
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
New Media ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Human Interaction ◽  
Individual Autonomy ◽  
Communication Tool ◽  
Paradoxical Situation ◽  
Technology Products ◽  
Automated Technology

The rapid development of information technology and its futuristic lead us into a new era that changed the face of human civilization. New media has become a base structure in accelerating the development of the global community in the last two decades. Digital and virtual sides attached to the new media has brought human interaction and community level to the most complex. Social interaction is in the form of the peak of its evolution where the boundaries between the real and the virtual becomes blurred, and as if no longer relevant when distinguishing the two realms. Human habitus which was originally driven by empirical external world is now automatically changed since information technology products such as mobile phones are no longer exist merely as a communication tool but also as a means of kontrolling and diggers knowledge. This article is a kind of theoretical review of Robert Samuels theory named automodernity as a new cultural stage. He explains emancipatory ideals that originally carried the new media makes us are in a paradoxical situation for the automation of social and individual autonomy attract each effect, Automodernity is a reaction to postmodern emphasis on social and cultural conflict with individual autonomy celebrate the ability to exploit and explore irregularities (unregulated) and the social systems automatically.Keywords: postmodernity, automodernity, autonomy, automated technology, digital youth

scholarly journals DAMPAK TEKNOLOGI INFORMASI TERHADAP PERUBAHAN STRUKTUR KOTA DAN SISTEM TRANSPORTASI

2010 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nandi Nandi
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Customer Service ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Physical Development ◽  
Transportation Systems ◽  
Human Interaction ◽  
Urban Structure ◽  
Urban Economic Development ◽  
Changing Roles ◽  
The Impact

Currently, wireless communications brings a new dimension in human interaction. The process of this interaction will be more conducted by human in the future without depending on the location of comunicating. It is still difficult to predict how quickly humans can adapt to this technology. As well as the effectiveness of the use of SMS (short messages service) which is a new phenomenon, need some time to expand knowledge about how to use them. Thus, a wireless telecommunications can bring a big influence to human behavior. Advances in technology will shape and continue to shape the economic and physical development of urban areas. New telecommunications technology and urban economic development, can changing roles and patterns of physical development. Many big cities lose its function as the headquarters or manufacturing centers because of the intensive information activities such as customer service centers and research and development laboratory. Furthermore, information technology which is progress very rapidly forming a new challenge in finance, health and education. It became the basis of the needs in urban areas also play a role in trade and culture in urban areas (Moss, 1988). This paper will try to present the impact caused by developments information technology to change the urban structure and urban transportation systems.

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