Brian S. McIntosh

TL;DR: The authors provide a set of best practice recommendations concerned with promoting design for ease of use, design for usefulness, establishing trust and credibility, promoting EDSS acceptance, and starting simple and small in functionality terms to help facilitate the achievement of desirable social and environmental outcomes.

TL;DR: The best predicting factors for IS usefulness across the life cycle were found to be user participation, user perceptions and intentions, user computer experience, top management support, support and training, external pressure, IS unit professionalism and the availability of external information sources.

TL;DR: This paper describes how EU funded research models and understanding have been integrated into an interactive decision-support system addressing physical, economic and social aspects of land degradation in the Mediterranean.

TL;DR: It is argued that the current support tool research agenda is too focussed on hard, technical concerns and that greater emphasis needs to be given to soft, contextual aspects of design and use.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors established how to classify properties in terms of their physical characteristics for the purpose of forecasting water demand and found that the most certain information available on new households during planning are the physical characteristics of the properties themselves.