The eHealth Arena and Online Virtual Worlds

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 27-42
Author(s):  
Jacquelyn Ford Morie ◽  
Eric Chance
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Virtual Worlds ◽  
Future Research ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Social Spaces ◽  
The Future ◽  
Recent Addition ◽  
The Way

Virtual Worlds, a recent addition to Internet offerings, are connected social spaces that have geographies and are populated by people using avatar representations. These spaces hold a great deal of promise as part of a future portfolio of eHealth offerings. Utilizing virtual worlds, health care can be widely distributed and accessible via the Internet. They have particular affordances that lend themselves to achieving and supporting many types of health care. This paper describes some of the current applications that use virtual worlds as part of eHealth care, as well as future research that will factor into the way these activities develop. These examples are paving the way for virtual worlds to be part of the way people access health care in the future.

scholarly journals Content Level Gateway for Virtual Worlds

2009 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marc Van den Broeck ◽  
Sigurd Van Broeck ◽  
David Zhe Lou
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Environments ◽  
Virtual Worlds ◽  
Parental Control ◽  
Future Internet ◽  
Negative Influence ◽  
Target Group ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Way

One of the technologies from which we can say that it definitely and completely changed the way we work today is the Internet. Along with these many advantages, people are however also burdened with inefficient parental control, spam , pop-ups, viruses, adware and spyware to name a few. Virtual Environments (VE) are posing themselves as the future of Internet. Today, several 100s of VEs already exist, each addressing a certain target group. These VEs will have to deal with the same negative influence as the Internet of today only now presenting itself in a different package. This paper proposes a solution to guard our future Internet already from the very start from such counterproductive content.

Biometric Authentication Techniques and Its Future

2019 ◽  
pp. 122-149
Author(s):  
Shanthi Sivakumar
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Individual Data ◽  
Biometric Authentication ◽  
Research Challenges ◽  
Private Data ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Way

The number of users using the internet has drastically increased. Due to the large number of online users, demand has increased in various fields like social networks, knowledge sharing, commerce, etc. to protect the user's private data as well as control access. Unfortunately, the need for security and authentication for individual data also increased. In an attempt to confront the new risks unveiled by the networking revolution over the recent years, we need an efficient means for automatically recognizing the identity of individuals. Biometric authentication provides an improved level of security and paves the way to the future. Further, biometric authentication systems are classified as physiological biometric and behavioral biometric technologies. Further, the author provides ideas on research challenges and the future of authentication systems.

Property Protection and User Authentication in IP Networks Through Challenge-Response Mechanisms

2011 ◽  
pp. 186-205
Author(s):  
Giaime Ginesu ◽  
Mirko Luca Lobina ◽  
Daniele D. Giusto
Keyword(s):  
Copyright Protection ◽  
User Authentication ◽  
Ip Networks ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Future Trends ◽  
Digital Contents ◽  
The Future ◽  
Basic Concepts ◽  
The Way

Authentication is the way of identifying an individual. The techniques used to accomplish such practice strongly depend on the involved parties, their interconnection, and the required level of security. In all cases, authentication is used to enforce property protection, and may be specifically intended for the copyright protection of digital contents published on the Internet. This chapter introduces the basic concepts of authentication, explaining their relationship with property protection. The basic functionalities of challenge-response frameworks are presented, together with several applications and the future trends.

A mapping analytic approach to trace development of multidisciplinary research field

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 98-113 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xi Zhang ◽  
Xiangda Yan ◽  
Patricia Ordóñez de Pablos ◽  
jinghuai She ◽  
Yang Gao ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Literacy ◽  
Health Information ◽  
Domain Knowledge ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Future Research ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Future ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose – This paper aims to provide clear domain knowledge and recent progresses on electronic healthcare (e-healthcare). Design/methodology/approach – In this paper, the authors use citation analysis to describe the trends of study on e-health with the help of CiteSpace II, a software for visualizing citation-based analysis. By analyzing the 2,752 publications and their citation data in ISI database, the authors proposed renewable figures and tables on ranking critical people, institutes, keywords and journals. Through the most influential articles given by CiteSpace, the authors can grasp the main direction in e-health researches. Furthermore, the authors analyzed the literature at e-health literacy as a case, to better understand the development of research viewpoints. Findings – Through the analysis, the authors found that e-health is a multi-disciplinary research field and the major research about it has changed. During the early stage, health information quality on the Internet dominates. Gradually, the role of information technology (IT) becomes more important. The authors also found that some researchers, recently, have proposed the effects of IT on e-health literacy which can then improve the ability to use health information on the Internet. Research limitations/implications – This paper has some research limitations, such as using an ISI database with most English publications. The future research may be conducted for collecting local publications data in China. It also has some implications. Based on the results, the authors claimed that IT may significantly improve people’s healthcare variance, e.g. e-health literacy. It is necessary to build new IT-based healthcare theories. Practical implications – This paper also has some practical implications. Practitioners and institute may easily come to know which are the hot topics, top institutes and tendencies in the e-healthcare field. Social implications – This paper may help practitioners to find common interests with other institutions and societies. Originality/value – This paper reported the status and trend of research in this field visually, and the result will help researchers to do more in-depth research in the future.

scholarly journals “Dragon and Bear”: A SF-MDA Approach to Intersemiotic Relations

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (5) ◽  
pp. 74
Author(s):  
Hongmiao Gao
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Visual Image ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Functional Theory ◽  
Multimodal Discourse Analysis ◽  
Multimodal Discourse ◽  
The Future ◽  
Sociocultural Background ◽  
The Way

Compared with analysing the meaning of discourse from the perspective of language only, multimodal discourse analysis embarking on modes like images, words, colour, sound and other elements can help understand the underlying meaning expressed more thoroughly. Systemic functional multimodal discourse analysis (SF-MDA) built upon systemic functional theory (SFT) is employed in this study. An illustrated article issued in The Economist is taken as an example to fully dredge the intersemiotic relations between the text and the image. By describing the text, interpreting and explaining the underlying sociocultural background of the countries involved, it functions to fully excavate the differences and problems faced by the two countries so that strategies can be defined to cope with the existent problems within. The study finds out that there is an intersemiotic complementarity between the verbal text and visual image. Hopefully, this paper can pave the way for the future research of intersemiotic relations between different modes.

The Blockchain Technology

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmed Ben Ayed ◽  
Mohamed Amine Belhajji
Keyword(s):  
The Internet ◽  
Business Practices ◽  
Blockchain Technology ◽  
Digital Services ◽  
Public Resource ◽  
The Future ◽  
Novel Concept ◽  
The Way

This article describes how Blockchain is a technology that has a great potential to change the way business is done in the future, exactly like the internet did in the early nineties. Blockchain offers new opportunities to develop new types of digital services to overcome business problems, and improve business practices by making transaction information a public resource. While research on the topic is still emerging, it has mostly focused on crypto-currencies instead of taking advantage of this novel concept to create new advanced services. This article discusses blockchain and the technology behind it, some of its possible applications, as well as threats targeting the new poorly understood technology.

E-Behaviour Trends and Patterns among Malaysian Pre-Adolescents and Adolescents

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 50-62
Author(s):  
Selvi Salome Gnasigamoney ◽  
Manjit Singh Sidhu
Keyword(s):  
Young Children ◽  
General Pattern ◽  
Routine Activity ◽  
Future Research ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Age Group ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Different Parts ◽  
New Millennium

The threat of cyber-related crimes due to excessive usage of Internet and current e-behaviour amongst the younger children is not new in this new millennium but stays as an issue for consideration. This paper provide a general pattern of online related behaviours that seem to be taking place among Malaysian pre-adolescents and adolescents and its possible impact on their behaviours leading towards cyber-related crimes. Facts and finding from various researches conducted from different parts of the world, including Malaysia were reviewed. The results from various studies reveal that a great concern and strategies have to be put into place as the age group using the Internet has reduced and the routine activity of pre-adolescence and adolescence are changing and are based on Internet. Non-awareness of their current online behaviours and its possible link to cyber-related crimes may lead these young children to a greater threat when using e-Commerce or any other Internet dependent activities in the future. This paper focuses on the facts collected from various studies to justify the importance of having future research on this phenomenon.

Validity and Reliability Evidence of a New Version of the Internet Self-Efficacy Scale

2011 ◽  
pp. 314-332 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ti Hsu ◽  
Liang Cheng Huang
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Future Research ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Validity And Reliability ◽  
Analytic Work ◽  
Video Sharing ◽  
The Future

The purpose of the research was designed to bridge the gap and to update the Internet self-efficacy scale. Based on a sample of 1123 college students with 10 different majors in the northern, central, and southern portions of Taiwan, a new Internet self-efficacy scale based on 26 items was developed and validated statistically. The new version of the Internet self- efficacy scale was composed of five domains including blogs, auction, video sharing, photo albums, and wiki. Detailed evidence of the reliability and factorial analytic work were presented and suggestions for the future research were also discussed.

Learning With Mobile Devices

2019 ◽  
pp. 793-808 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen Crompton ◽  
John Traxler
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Mobile Learning ◽  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
The Future ◽  
Future Research Directions ◽  
Portable Computers ◽  
The Way

The concept of learning with small portable computers was developed by Alan Kay in 1972. Since that early conception, scholars, such as Traxler, Sharples, and Soloway are the pioneering scholars who paved the way to a better understanding of the philosophical, pedagogical, and conceptual underpinnings of mobile learning today. In this chapter, an overview is provided to explicate the initial foundations of the emerging field of mobile learning (mlearning). Next, current scientific knowledge is delineated with explicit references to the early scholars. This chapter concludes with a preview of the future research directions in mobile learning.

The Blockchain Technology

2020 ◽  
pp. 1770-1781
Author(s):  
Ahmed Ben Ayed ◽  
Mohamed Amine Belhajji
Keyword(s):  
The Internet ◽  
Business Practices ◽  
Blockchain Technology ◽  
Digital Services ◽  
Public Resource ◽  
The Future ◽  
Novel Concept ◽  
The Way

This article describes how Blockchain is a technology that has a great potential to change the way business is done in the future, exactly like the internet did in the early nineties. Blockchain offers new opportunities to develop new types of digital services to overcome business problems, and improve business practices by making transaction information a public resource. While research on the topic is still emerging, it has mostly focused on crypto-currencies instead of taking advantage of this novel concept to create new advanced services. This article discusses blockchain and the technology behind it, some of its possible applications, as well as threats targeting the new poorly understood technology.

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