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The contents of the latest issue of:

International Journal of Technology and Human Interaction (IJTHI) Official Publication of the Information Resources Management Association Volume 5, Issue 2, April-June 2009 Published: Quarterly in Print and Electronically ISSN: 1548-3908 EISSN: 1548-3916 Published by IGI Publishing, Hershey-New York, USA www.igi-global.com/ijthi

Editor-in-Chief: Bernd Carsten Stahl, DeMontfort University, UK

PAPER ONE:

Involvement, Elaboration and the Sources of Online Trust

Russell Williams, University of Aberdeen Business School, UK Philip J. Kitchen, University of Hull Business School, UK and ESC Rennes Business School, France

Establishing trust in online encounters has attracted significant recent research interest. A large part of this work focuses on those factors that can be manipulated on a Web site to influence consumers’ trusting beliefs. A notable part of this research concerns the influence of Web site infrastructure attributes] on consumers’ assessment of vendor trustworthiness in the absence of knowledge-based transactional experience. Developing this work further, the authors introduce the established marketing concepts of ‘involvement’ and ‘elaboration’. Consumer involvement describes the relevance of a situation or decision for an individual. In the marketing literature, the importance of this concept lies in the fact that it influences an individual’s information search and processing strategies. Noting this, propositions are advanced suggesting that the infrastructure attributes that individuals use as informational cues may in fact influence assessments of trusting beliefs differently according to whether individuals face high or low involvement situations.

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PAPER TWO:

Defining Trust and E-Trust: From Old Theories to New Problems

Mariarosaria Taddeo, University of Padua, Italy

This paper provides a selective analysis of the main theories of trust and e-trust (that is, trust in digital environments) provided in the last twenty years, with the goal of preparing the ground for a new philosophical approach to solve the problems facing them. It is divided into two parts. The first part is functional toward the analysis of e-trust. It focuses on trust and its definition and foundation and describes the general background on which the analysis of e-trust rests. The second part focuses on e-trust, its foundation and ethical implications. The paper ends by synthesizing the analysis of the two parts.

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PAPER THREE:

A Framework for Integrating the Social Web Environment in Pattern Engineering

Pankaj Kamthan, Concordia University, Canada

In the last decade, patterns have emerged as a notable problem-solving approach in various disciplines. This paper aims to address the communication requirements of the elements of pattern engineering (namely, actors, activities, and artifacts) in general and the pattern realization process in particular. To that regard, a theoretical framework using the social Web as the medium is proposed and its implications are explored. The prospects of using the social Web are analyzed by means of practical scenarios and concrete examples. The concerns of using the social Web related to cost to actors, decentralization and distribution of control, and semiotic quality of representations of patterns are highlighted. This article explores the directions for future research including the use of patterns for Social Web applications, and the potential of the confluence of the social Web and the Semantic Web for communicating the elements of pattern engineering.

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PAPER FOUR:

Organizational Communication: Assessment of Videoconferencing as a Medium for Meetings in the Workplace

Bolanle A. Olaniran, Texas Tech University, USA

Significant research has focused on e-mail, face-to-face (FTF), and other asynchronous mediated communication as the communication media of choice within organizations. Modern organizations, however, have other unconventional tools at their disposal. While the economy of scale has made videoconferencing an affordable medium of choice because it precludes travel and is accessible on demand, the suitability of the videoconferencing for organizational meetings is scarce in the literature. As such, this paper explores and presents an account of videoconferencing use in a governmental organization and address implications for meetings and general communication process.

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PAPER FIVE:

Humans and Emerging RFID Systems: Evaluating Data Protection Law on the User Scenario Basis

Olli Pitkänen, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology (HIIT), Finland Marketta Niemelä, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland

Radio frequency identification (RFID) technology offers a lot of promises. To redeem them, RFID applications have to respect privacy and be supported by the legal system. This article evaluates how the current EU directives on data protection support emerging applications that are based on RFID tags. The evaluation is based on user scenarios that illustrate human needs in relation to technologies and applications. The article continues earlier analyses and uses more realistic and state-of-the-art applications and scenarios. The authors conclude by pointing out further research needs in the field of RFID and data protection.

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Mission of IJTHI:

The International Journal of Technology and Human Interaction (IJTHI) provides a platform for leading research that addresses issues of human and technology interaction. The research that the journal intends to publish should therefore be interdisciplinary and include aspects from a wide variety of disciplines. These disciplines range from more technical ones such as computer science, engineering, or information systems to non-technical descriptions of technology and human interaction from the point of view of sociology or philosophy. Apart from aiming to be interdisciplinary the journal will also aspire to provide a publication outlet for research questions and approaches that are novel and may find it difficult to be published in established journals following a rigid and exclusive structure. It is open to all research paradigms, be they empirical or conceptual, but requires that they be accessible and reflected. We also encourage the submission of high quality syntheses across research in different specialties that are interesting and comprehensible to all members of the IS community and related disciplines.

Coverage of IJTHI:

Possible topics include (but are not limited to):

Anthropological consequences of technology use Ethical aspects of particular technologies (e.g. e-teaching, ERP, etc.) Experiential learning though the use of technology in organizations HCI design for trust development Influence of gender on the adoption and use of technology Interaction and conversion between technologies and their impact on society Intersection of humanities and sciences and its impact on technology use Normative questions of the development and use of technology Perceptions and conceptualizations of technology Phenomenology of e-government Philosophy of technology Questions of computer or information ethics Relationship of theory and practice with regards to technology Responsibility of artificial agents Shaping of e-commerce through law and culture Social impact of specific technologies (e.g. biometrics, SCM, PGP, etc.) Social shaping of technology and human interaction research Technological risks and their human basis Technology assessment of software / hardware development Value of intellectual capital in knowledge management

and all other related issues related to the interaction of technology and humans, either individually or socially.

Interested authors should consult the journal's manuscript submission guidelines at www.igi-global.com/ijthi.

All inquiries and submissions should be sent to: Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Bernd Carsten Stahl at editor@ijthi.net

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