Some Internet and E-Commerce Legal Perspectives Impacting the End User

2011 ◽  
pp. 16-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter P. Mykytyn Jr.
Keyword(s):  
Electronic Commerce ◽  
End Users ◽  
Legal Issues ◽  
Web Browser ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Brick And Mortar ◽  
On Line ◽  
Business To Consumer ◽  
The Web ◽  
The Way

Not too many years ago, hardly anyone had heard the terms “Web browser,” “Web,” or “electronic commerce.” Today, the World Wide Web, often referred to as simply the Web and as the Internet, offers almost limitless opportunities for end users to do research, obtain comparative information on different products or services, and conduct business online. Many users today, for example, have experienced the opportunity to visit competing web travel sites, e.g., Travelocity.com and Expedia.com, to price airline fares, obtain car rental information, and make a hotel reservation. More often than not, it seems, end users are also intrigued by the fact that prices for the same flight or car are not necessarily the same at the sites searched; in a way, users have become much more savvy in their selection of products and services. In general, end users can become much more efficient and effective as they conduct business online, and both consumers and businesses can participate in unrestricted buying and selling. Consequently, the Web is changing the way businesses do business, and, of course, it is changing the way many end users conduct their business as well. Electronic commerce (e-commerce) mainly consists of business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) types of transactions. According to an e-commerce survey (Survey E-Commerce, 2000) B2B transactions accounted for 80% of all e-commerce and added up to $150 billion in 1999. Further, B2C transactions in the US amounted to about $20 billion that same year. Although there continues to be a “shaking out” period involving dot.com organizations, questions and decisions about whether to develop Web-based storefronts along with the traditional brick and mortar outlets, e-commerce will most likely continue to expand. But while e-commerce grows, maintaining control over on-line transactions and business risks creates challenges that may not be apparent to unsophisticated end users. One of these challenges pertains to the various and assorted legal issues that confront end users as well as the e-commerce businesses where end users shop. Whether buying or selling on the Web or even just establishing one’s home page, legal issues, in addition to providing protection, can also present pitfalls to the unwary. This paper discusses briefly two of the legal issues that can confront today’s end users as they do business over the Web. They are matters dealing with contract law and jurisdictional questions.

scholarly journals Web-Based Interactive Analysis and Animation of Mechanisms

2005 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 84-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harry H. Cheng ◽  
Dung T. Trang
Keyword(s):  
Ease Of Use ◽  
Mechanism Analysis ◽  
Web Browser ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Interactive Analysis ◽  
Cam Follower ◽  
On Line ◽  
Web Based System ◽  
Animation System ◽  
The Web

A Web-based mechanism analysis and animation system is presented in this article. The system is developed in Ch, an embeddable C/C++ interpreter, and Ch Mechanism Toolkit. It allows users to solve complicated planar mechanism problems conveniently on-line. Users can input the required data to define a mechanism in a Web browser and then click a button for kinematic and dynamic analysis, graphical plotting, and animation for fourbar, crank-slider, geared fivebar, sixbar linkages and cam-follower systems. Examples are provided to illustrate its ease of use as well as its suitability for distance learning. The Web-based system for mechanism analysis and animation is available on the Web at http://www.softintegration/webservices/mechanism/

E-Government Portals Personalization

2011 ◽  
pp. 310-315
Author(s):  
Giorgos Laskaridis ◽  
Konstantinos Markellos
Keyword(s):  
Public Services ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Computer Technologies ◽  
The World ◽  
Modern Services ◽  
The Web ◽  
The Way

Several governments across the world enhance their attempt to provide efficient, advanced, and modern services to their users (citizens and businesses) based on information and computer technologies (ICT) and especially the Web. The remarkable acceptance of this powerful tool has changed the way of conducting various transactions and offers citizens, businesses, and public authorities’ limitless options and opportunities. Besides citizens’ awareness and expectations of Web-based, public services have also increased in recent times.

Business to Consumer (B2C) E-Commerce Decade Evolution

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Athanasios Drigas ◽  
Panagiotis Leliopoulos
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Electronic Commerce ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Developed Country ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Business To Consumer ◽  
B2c Electronic Commerce ◽  
The Way

This paper is a review on Business to Consumer (B2C) electronic commerce (e-commerce) and it studies its evolution over the last decade. The Internet characteristics that affect B2C are the Internet growth, which at first includes the number of Internet users and secondly, the infrastructure, which is basically the quality and speed of the lines. Moreover, the way the Internet growth has affected the B2C e-commerce growth over the last ten years is studied in three major countries-areas. The USA because it is an Internet developed country with vast e-commerce sales, China because it is a rapidly developing Internet country with a large number of users and fast e-commerce activity growth in the last decade and finally, the European Union, because of its diversity in Internet and e-commerce growth. This paper focuses on the aforementioned three geographic areas and extracts its conclusions from the observations of B2C behavior growth in these areas.

Insidious pedagogy: How course management systems affect teaching

First Monday ◽  
2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa M. Lane
Keyword(s):  
Management Systems ◽  
Course Management Systems ◽  
College Instructors ◽  
Course Management ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Novice Faculty ◽  
Administrative Tasks ◽  
Basic Level ◽  
The Web ◽  
The Way

Course management systems, like any other technology, have an inherent purpose implied in their design, and therefore a built-in pedagogy. Although these pedagogies are based on instructivist principles, today's large CMSs have many features suitable for applying more constructivist pedagogies. Yet few faculty use these features, or even adapt their CMS very much, despite the several customization options. This is because most college instructors do not work or play much on the Web, and thus utilize Web-based systems primarily at their basic level. The defaults of the CMS therefore tend to determine the way Web-novice faculty teach online, encouraging methods based on posting of material and engendering usage that focuses on administrative tasks. A solution to this underutilization of the CMS is to focus on pedagogy for Web-novice faculty and allow a choice of CMS.

scholarly journals An End User Development Approach for Mobile Web Augmentation

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriela Bosetti ◽  
Sergio Firmenich ◽  
Silvia E. Gordillo ◽  
Gustavo Rossi ◽  
Marco Winckler
Keyword(s):  
Web Sites ◽  
Web Applications ◽  
End Users ◽  
Web Browser ◽  
Mobile Web ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Development Approach ◽  
The Web ◽  
Web Augmentation

The trend towards mobile devices usage has made it possible for the Web to be conceived not only as an information space but also as a ubiquitous platform where users perform all kinds of tasks. In some cases, users access the Web with native mobile applications developed for well-known sites, such as, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter. These native applications might offer further (e.g., location-based) functionalities to their users in comparison with their corresponding Web sites because they were developed with mobile features in mind. However, many Web applications have no native counterpart and users access them using a mobile Web browser. Although the access to context information is not a complex issue nowadays, not all Web applications adapt themselves according to it or diversely improve the user experience by listening to a wide range of sensors. At some point, users might want to add mobile features to these Web sites, even if those features were not originally supported. In this paper, we present a novel approach to allow end users to augment their preferred Web sites with mobile features.We support our claims by presenting a framework for mobile Web augmentation, an authoring tool, and an evaluation with 21 end users.

scholarly journals A Web-Based Toolkit to Provide Evidence-Based Resources About Crystal Methamphetamine for the Australian Community: Collaborative Development of Cracks in the Ice (Preprint)

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katrina Elizabeth Champion ◽  
Cath Chapman ◽  
Nicola Clare Newton ◽  
Mary-Ellen Brierley ◽  
Lexine Stapinski ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
End Users ◽  
Hard Copy ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Public Health Response ◽  
Crystal Methamphetamine ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Australian Community ◽  
Beta Version ◽  
The Web

BACKGROUND The use of crystal methamphetamine (ice) and the associated harms for individuals, families, and communities across Australia has been the subject of growing concern in recent years. The provision of easily accessible, evidence-based, and up-to-date information and resources about crystal methamphetamine for the community is a critical component of an effective public health response. OBJECTIVE This paper aims to describe the codevelopment process of the Web-based Cracks in the Ice Community Toolkit, which was developed to improve access to evidence-based information and resources about crystal methamphetamine for the Australian community. METHODS Development of the Cracks in the Ice Community Toolkit was conducted in collaboration with community members across Australia and with experts working in the addiction field. The iterative process involved the following: (1) consultation with end users, including community members, crystal methamphetamine users, families and friends of someone using crystal methamphetamine, health professionals, and teachers (n=451) via a cross-sectional Web-based survey to understand information needs; (2) content and Web development; and (3) user testing of a beta version of the Web-based toolkit among end users (n=41) and experts (n=10) to evaluate the toolkit’s acceptability, relevance, and appeal. RESULTS Initial end user consultation indicated that the most commonly endorsed reasons for visiting a website about crystal methamphetamine were “to get information for myself” (185/451, 41.0%) and “to find out how to help a friend or a family member” (136/451, 30.2%). Community consultation also revealed the need for simple information about crystal methamphetamine, including what it is, its effects, and when and where to seek help or support. Feedback on a beta version of the toolkit was positive in terms of content, readability, layout, look, and feel. Commonly identified areas for improvement related to increasing the level of engagement and personal connection, improving the ease of navigation, and balancing a “low prevalence of use, yet high impact” message. A total of 9138 users visited the website in the 3 months immediately post launch, and over 25,000 hard-copy Cracks in the Ice booklets and flyers were distributed across Australia. Of these resources, 60.93% (15,525/25,480) were distributed to relevant organizations and mailing list subscribers, and 39.07% (9955/25,480) were ordered directly by individuals, services, and community groups via the Cracks in the Ice website. CONCLUSIONS The codevelopment process resulted in an engaging Web-based resource for the Australian community to access up-to-date and evidence-based resources about crystal methamphetamine. The Cracks in the Ice Community Toolkit provides much-needed information and support for individuals, families, and communities.

scholarly journals Web Browser Network Based on a BA Model for a Web-Based Virtual World

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. 147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Masaki Kohana ◽  
Shinji Sakamoto ◽  
Shusuke Okamoto
Keyword(s):  
Virtual World ◽  
Web Applications ◽  
Previous Method ◽  
Experimental Results ◽  
Location Information ◽  
Web Browsers ◽  
Web Browser ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Data Coverage ◽  
The Web

Real-time web applications such as a virtual world require considerable computing resources. However, as the number of servers increases, so does the maintenance and financial cost. To share tasks among web browsers, the browsers must share data. Therefore, a network must be constructed among the web browsers. In this paper, we propose the construction of a web browser network based on the Barabasi–Albert model (BA model). We focus on a web-based multiplayer online game that requires higher frequent communication and significant computing resources. We attempt to optimize computing resource utilization for web browsers. We improve upon the method in our previous study, which constructed a network for a web-based virtual world, using only location information. When a new user logged into a world, the web browser connected to two other browsers whose users had a location close to that of the user. The experimental results of that method showed 50% data coverage, which was insufficient to display the game screen because the web browser displays the characters on the virtual world. In this study, we attempt to use the BA model to construct more efficient networks than those in the previous study to increase data coverage. Our new method uses the number of connections of the web browser and location information to calculate the probability of web browser selection. The experimental results show that the data coverage exceeds 90%, indicating significant improvement over the previous method.

Competition on the Web Market Both Against Other Web Based Market Companies and Against Their Real Market Analogues

2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 47-54
Author(s):  
Iulian Caraganciu
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Model ◽  
Business Model ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Real Market ◽  
The Web ◽  
The Way

The goal of this paper is to make known the business models by the type of seller and customer of the web market in order to better understand the field where web companies create competitive collusion. Further in this paper is going to be described the way competition between web companies and their real market analogues, as well as competition between web companies themselves, takes place. The types of business model that can be found on the web market are various. This shows us just how versatile the web market is. This paper aims to present a theoretical model on how competition between two web companies takes place, as it is not entirely a price based competition.

Factors Affecting Portal Design

2011 ◽  
pp. 402-407
Author(s):  
Xiuzhen Feng
Keyword(s):  
Single Point ◽  
Considerable Degree ◽  
End User ◽  
Multiple Sources ◽  
Web Browser ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Google Search ◽  
Client Device ◽  
The Web

The word portal has been citied in the literature as one of the most popular terms. A Google search on the Web for the word revealed 25.6 million entries in December2003. Due to a considerable degree of overuse and overlap, portals are seen everywhere and it would be difficult to make any use of the Web without encountering one (Tatnall, 2004). According to White (2000), a portal provides user-customizable access to information and applications through a Web browser. Tatnall (2004) specifies that a portal aggregates information from multiple sources and makes that information available to various users. In other words, a portal can be defined as an integrated and personalized Web-based application that provides the end user with a single point of access to a wide variety of aggregated content anytime and from anywhere using any Web-enabled client device.

Visual Environment for DOM-Based Wrapping and Client-Side Linkage of Web Applications

2011 ◽  
pp. 219-240
Author(s):  
Kimihito Ito ◽  
Yuzuru Tanaka
Keyword(s):  
Web Application ◽  
Web Applications ◽  
End Users ◽  
Web Pages ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Visual Component ◽  
Basic Infrastructure ◽  
Legacy Applications ◽  
Client Side ◽  
The Web

Web applications, which are computer programs ported to the Web, allow end-users to use various remote services and tools through their Web browsers. There are an enormous number of Web applications on the Web, and they are becoming the basic infrastructure of everyday life. In spite of the remarkable development of Web-based infrastructure, it is still difficult for end-users to compose new integrated tools of both existing Web applications and legacy local applications, such as spreadsheets, chart tools, and database. In this chapter, the authors propose a new framework where end-users can wrap remote Web applications into visual components, called pads, and functionally combine them together through drag-and-drop operations. The authors use, as the basis, a meme media architecture IntelligentPad that was proposed by the second author. In the IntelligentPad architecture, each visual component, called a pad, has slots as data I/O ports. By pasting a pad onto another pad, users can integrate their functionalities. The framework presented in this chapter allows users to visually create a wrapper pad for any Web application by defining HTML nodes within the Web application to work as slots. Examples of such a node include input-forms and text strings on Web pages. Users can directly manipulate both wrapped Web applications and wrapped local legacy tools on their desktop screen to define application linkages among them. Since no programming expertise is required to wrap Web applications or to functionally combine them together, end-users can build new integrated tools of both wrapped Web applications and local legacy applications.

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