Showing papers in "Technology in Society in 2016"

TL;DR: This paper takes a look at a few of issues to understand how drones influence society, and presents reccomendations for practitioners, policy makers, and reseachers studying this phenomenon.

TL;DR: In this paper, a systematic review of commercial drone literature from 2010 to 2015 was conducted to explore social, governance, privacy, and ethical aspects of commercial Drone use, identifying the following key areas of social and ethical concern connected with commercial drones: safety, ethics and morals, legality, privacy and air space, informational integrity, humans versus machines, and commercial concerns.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify four main diffusion patterns of frugal innovations: local diffusion, proximity diffusion, distance diffusion, and global diffusion and label these diffusion patterns as local, proximity, and distance diffusion.

TL;DR: The three mega-trends of ICT advancement, paradigm change and a shift in people's preferences are used to explain the secret of Uber’s system success.

TL;DR: In this article, a PESTEL analysis is performed which shows that the challenge posed by digitalisation is somewhat represented in the governmental programs and mid-term plans of the state agencies.

TL;DR: In this paper, the role of the innovation incubator and university business incubator in supporting the entrepreneurial development in Thailand is reviewed and analyzed based on the Triple Helix model and the government policies to support innovation commercialization in Thailand.

TL;DR: In this article, a polemic that questions individualist approaches to the good society and individualist assumptions about the social, especially in the analytic-individualist traditions and in postphenomenology, is presented.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed uses of social networks by small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) at the Algarve region in Portugal and identified two types of social-network use: product-client interaction and knowledge/(re)search, and marketing potential.

TL;DR: It is suggested that a mindful walking navigation system could reduce the errors and improve the overall exploration experience, and it was found that when users feel they are in control of their path, both performance and overall experience would improve.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that insights from feminist perspectives, particularly in the form of an ethics of care, have a number of advantages when used as a lens through which to consider questions relevant to the governance of emerging technologies.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors assessed mental health professionals' perspectives of online counseling by using an extended version of the technology acceptance model and found that perceived usefulness significantly predicted usage intentions and mediated the effect of perceived relevance.

TL;DR: In this article, two pathways through which outsourcing and technology transfer enhance corporate performance of companies in Ghana are presented, and the results indicate differences in the extent to which outsourcing influence capability and subsequently affect corporate performance.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that current ICT-driven global development depends on a trend shifting from traditional coevolution of computer-initiated ICT, captured GDP, and economic functionality to new co-evolutions of the Internet, un-captured GDP and supra-functionality beyond economic value.

TL;DR: In this article, the impact of interaction and experience on quality components such as "usability", "producibility", "reliability", "sustainability", and "aesthetics" is presented using the case of engineering design, a discipline that traditionally has an image of being a strictly calculated, rigid framework.

TL;DR: In this paper, the ten-year monthly mean wind speed data at 10, 50,100, 150 and 300m heights over a typical year were statistically analyzed to determine the potential for wind power generation at two locations (Urumqi and Xining) in China, using the two-parameters Weibull distribution function.

TL;DR: An improved industry standards framework is developed that proposes to enhance security and minimize data privacy compromises through the adoption of recommended pure industry self-regulation (improved “security standard”) and market force mechanisms (mandatory “cyber liability insurance coverage”).

TL;DR: A detailed set of recommendations is included on how HIT can be utilized to help chronically-ill patients live a better life despite their illnesses, with a particular emphasis on diabetes care and management.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors assess the local environmental conditions and end users' socio-economic characteristics as drivers of technology diffusion in rural Tanzania, and identify several existing and potential gaps that may further slowdown the process of technology adoption.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors look at how ideas derived from informatics allow us a more precise view of what differentiates us from robots and on the other hand, how information science can give us a deeper insight into the nature of human labour.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed the connection between labour productivity and variables such as radical innovation, incremental innovation, production technology embodied in new machinery and equipment, utilization of productive capacity and training.

TL;DR: The results of the study revealed that the respondents continue to retain a high level of trust with their physicians and still prefer face-to-face consultations even though they have access to massive amounts of information right at their fingertips.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors conducted an exploratory study on the perceptions of peasant producers of the effects of bio-fertilizers on their environment and their lives, and the results facilitate understanding the challenges and opportunities that rural areas face and the connections between the involvement of business, academia and government in planning and administration with respect to management of these innovations.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the tension between the use of Facebook and the quality of interpersonal communication and concluded that Facebook is not a sufficient substitute to interpersonal communication, as it tends to degrade the quality in interpersonal relationships.

TL;DR: This article examined the strengths and weaknesses of China's push for indigenous innovation in R&D intensive fields such as nanotechnology and found that despite the presence of one of the world's largest talent pools of potential scientists, engineers, entrepreneurs, and venture capitalists, China continues to underperform with regards to generating innovative, high-tech companies and products.

TL;DR: In this paper, the use of non-recallable control technology (either for craft control or to command weaponized software) as a deterrent or threat mechanism by state and non-state actors is considered.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the spillover effects of public investment in innovation, as well as the spillovers of R&D and management investment performed by the capital goods industry through the rest of the industrial sector, and also the time lapse between the occurrence of innovative investment and output growth due to such expenditures.

TL;DR: A study was conducted to investigate to what extent an integrative science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education program had an impact to high school students in a South East region of the United States of America (US) as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: The authors examined media stories regarding UAVs over a four-year period (2011-2014) and demonstrated that despite the backlash against expansion, media frames emphasizing benefit rather than risk dominated in the U.S. media.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the performance of Indonesian R&D institutions based on the productivity of their research programs and found that the effects of collective determinants such as quality of researcher, budget, locations, and ages of the researchers on productivity were considered.

TL;DR: The evolution of technology trends towards the use of collaborative platforms to support knowledge capturing and sharing in a less standardized way allows the smallest SMEs to have at their disposal a flexible tool for knowledge sharing.