Spreadsheet-Based Design and Analysis of Mechanisms

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kabileshkumar G. Cheetancheri ◽  
Harry H. Cheng
Keyword(s):  
Dynamic Analysis ◽  
Source Code ◽  
End Users ◽  
Ease Of Use ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Mechanism Analysis ◽  
Planar Mechanism ◽  
Front End ◽  
Work Cells ◽  
Animation System

A spreadsheet based mechanism analysis and animation system is presented in this article. The system is developed in Excel using Ch, an embeddable C/C++ interpreter, and Ch Mechanism Toolkit. It allows users to develop and solve complicated planar mechanism problems conveniently using an easy to use Excel spreadsheets as the front end. Users can input the required data to define a mechanism in an Excel spreadsheet and execute script files associated with the work cells. The spreadsheet based system can be used for kinematic and dynamic analysis, graphical plotting, and animation for four-bar, crank-slider, fivebar, and sixbar linkages. Examples are provided to illustrate its ease of use. The source code and demos are available for downloading from the internet.

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/

USABILITY INTERNET-PHARMACIES SITES

2020 ◽  
pp. 10-14
Author(s):  
Chudnov A.A. ◽  
Umarov S.Z.
Keyword(s):  
Prescription Drugs ◽  
Storage Conditions ◽  
Ease Of Use ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Electronic Prescription ◽  
Anal Ysis ◽  
Modern Development ◽  
Provision Of Services ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Internet Pharmacies

The modern development of information technology provides the opportunity to use them in many areas of life, which also include medicine and pharmacy. The introduction of technologies such as an electronic prescription system, drug labeling, creates the prereq-uisites for the remote provision of services. Recently, legislative changes have legalized the distance trad-ing of OTC drugs. In this regard, soon the supply chain of the drug to the end user may include a mini-mum number of professionals. Thus, in these condi-tions, the role of information that users can receive via the Internet is significantly increasing. Such a term as the "usability" of the site, or its ease of use, appeared back in 1998 and every year is of increasing importance. In relation to online pharmacies, the usa-bility assessment is especially relevant in terms of both general functionality, which is typical for all services selling products via the Internet, and features specific to Internet pharmacies only. On May 8, 2020, an anal-ysis of the "usability" of 20 sites of pharmacy organi-zations was conducted. Some advantages were high-lighted (putting information on the quality of goods (declarations, certificates), warnings, contraindica-tions and storage conditions in a separate block), as well as disadvantages (some clutter of the site with elements, the presence of blank pages and a fuzzy warning about prescription drugs).

Financial Innovations and Performance of Commercial Banks in Kenya

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 21-33
Author(s):  
Naomi Wanja Ireri ◽  
Gladys Kimutai
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Commercial Banks ◽  
Internet Banking ◽  
Ease Of Use ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Mobile Banking ◽  
Good Opportunity ◽  
Financial Innovations ◽  
Automated Teller Machine

Commercial banks in Kenya have embraced alternative banking channels which represent a shift in delivery of banking and financial services since the alternative banking have become synonymous with commercial banks in Kenya. While banks have succeeded in leveraging available technology and provide alternative avenues to customers for banking services, the challenge it faces today is optimizing the usage of these channels so as to improve on their performance. The general objective of this study was to investigate the effects of financial innovations on the performance of commercial banks in Kenya. The specific objectives of the study were to examine the influence of internet banking, mobile banking, agency banking and ATM banking on the performance of commercial banks in Kenya. The study was guided by agency theory, balanced score card and diffusion of innovation theory. This study employed a descriptive research design. The study targeted44 commercial banks in Kenya as at 2017. The 16 banks which embrace all the four financial innovations from 2013 to 2017were selected using purposive sampling method. The sample size was 80 respondents who comprised of 5 senior management employees in each of the selected banks.This study used questionnaire to collect primary data from the respondents. Content analysis technique was used to analyze qualitative data collected from open ended questions in and reported in narrative form. Descriptive statistics such as mean and standard deviation were used to analyse the quantitative data. Multiple regression analysis was used to show the relationship between independent variables against dependent variable. The study revealed that internet banking, mobile banking, agency banking and ATM banking had a positive and significant effect on the performance of commercial banks. Thisstudy concludes that the banking industry has benefited tremendously from the development of the Internet. The Internet fundamentally changed the way in which banking networks are designed to meet the client demands and expectations. Mobile banking provides a good opportunity to commercial banks in Kenya to reach many mobile phone subscribers in Kenya who had remained unbanked and unreached due to limited access to bank branch networks in the country. The access to the large masses through mobile banking of the population gives banks the opportunity to grow by reaching the unbanked population. Agency banking has led to accessibility of financial service to many customer in remote areas and hence an increase in effectiveness and efficiency in service delivery. Customers are satisfied with the automated teller machine services because of ease of use, transaction cost and service security but not satisfy with automated teller machine dispense of cash. The study recommends that the public and businesses must be encouraged to use Internet banking in their daily activities, including deposits, payments and money transfers. Commercial banks in Kenya should ensure convenience and security of mobile banking through written guidelines on convenience and security of mobile banking. Commercial banks in Kenya should increase the number of agents in estates and in the rural areas. This can be done by reducing the requirements of becoming a bank agent. The banks should employ customized software that records relevant information on automated teller machine cards so that banks can establish whether unauthorized transaction has taken place or not.

Re-examining perceived usefulness and ease of use in online booking

2015 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 185-198 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deniz Kucukusta ◽  
Rob Law ◽  
Alia Besbes ◽  
Patrick Legohérel
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Technology Acceptance ◽  
Web Sites ◽  
Web Site ◽  
Ease Of Use ◽  
Perceived Usefulness ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Tourism Product ◽  
New Perspective

Purpose – This paper aims to report the findings of an empirical research focusing on Hong Kong online users’ intention to book online tourism products with latest figures. Focusing on the technology acceptance model (TAM), this case study extends the recent research with providing insight regarding the online users’ perceptions of TAM dimensions and how these dimensions are perceived among different demographic groups and Internet usage characteristics with latest figures in Hong Kong, a major tourism destination in Asia with many world-class hotels. Design/methodology/approach – A total of 213 Hong Kong online users were surveyed in March and April 2013 in Hong Kong business districts. Findings – Findings reveal that most respondents who use the Internet for booking online travel products are young, and people above a certain age are not likely to favor booking tourism products online. They are more likely to stick to traditional personal service. Perceived usefulness of the Internet is found more influential than its ease of use in forming a usage intention, and ease of use is perceived more important by jobseekers, student and employees than the other profession groups. In addition, respondents who use the Internet every day and did purchase online tourism product perceived usefulness more important than ease of use. Research limitations/implications – The generalization of this research is limited by its sample size and number of questions. Originality/value – The study gives a new perspective by linking TAM with intention to book online in Hong Kong. The paper would be of interest to the Web site planners or online tourism practitioners to consider Web site usefulness as much as its ease of its use, as both usefulness and ease of use of tourism Web sites are strong predictors of intention to book online.

scholarly journals Building a Trust Model for Social Network

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Osama Rababah ◽  
Bassam Alqudah
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Security Policy ◽  
Major Change ◽  
Trust Model ◽  
Ease Of Use ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Affecting Factors ◽  
Network Characteristics ◽  
The Social ◽  
Student Trust

The revolution in information technology and the use of the internet changed the lifestyle of people. A major change was in the way of shopping. Companies started to offer their products online using social network s and people started to buy from the internet. Using social network has many benefits to the users starting from exploring a large variety of products to the very first way of ordering and the availability of the products 24 hours a day. One of the main problems that is found in using a social network is trusting the using social network social network s. the student concern about trusting to buy from the using social network social network s. Trust is a major concern for the merchant too; his concern is how to gain the student trust and to keep it. Many factors play a major role in acquiring the student trust in the online market. These factors rely on the social network characteristics such as design, interactivity and age and other factors vary from the social network quality, service quality, security policy of the social network, the privacy policy, the guarantee offered, the satisfaction of the user, the ease of use, the risk aversion and the culture factors. This study introduces the trusting affecting factors mentioned above and their effect on the trustworthiness factors (ability, benevolence, and integrity) a trust model has been built to show the relation between these factors and the trustworthiness factors.

scholarly journals Seniors’ use of ICT to obtain access to cars for fulfilling their transport needs – an exploratory study

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 49-60
Author(s):  
Joanna Kos-Łabędowicz
Keyword(s):  
Elderly People ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Ease Of Use ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Ageing Society ◽  
Eu Member States ◽  
Transport Services ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
The Eu

The ageing society and the necessity to meet the needs (including transport ones) of elderly people are a challenge for an increasing number of countries, including the EU Member States and Poland. Different types of modern ICT solutions are being proposed as a way of improving the meeting of the needs of elderly people in order to prevent their social exclusion. The growing popularity of solutions and services that use information and communication technologies (mainly the Internet and mobile applications) can also be observed in transport services and is perceived as a means to better meet transport needs. The aim of the article is to examine the extent to which seniors use ICT solutions to meet their transport needs when, for example, obtaining access to a car or car ride. A literature review, statistical data analysis and results of primary survey studies carried out on a sample of U3A students were used. The results of the analysis do not allow generalization on the entire population of elderly people but point to some interesting conclusions. For instance, at least one of the considered solutions (e.g. sharing travel by car as a driver or passenger) was used by almost two-thirds of those that responded using the Internet. Also, the solutions given were rated rather positively by the respondents in terms of their usefulness and ease of use. Those findings, apart from indicating further directions of research, allow for a cautious statement that these types of solutions can actually serve to better meet the transport needs of seniors.

scholarly journals E-commerce Network Credibility Modelling Using Block-chain

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 1489-1494
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Source Code ◽  
Digital Marketing ◽  
Agent Technology ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Storage Space ◽  
Common Code ◽  
Online Transactions ◽  
Block Chain ◽  
The Common

Agent technology has developed into a sturdy instrument for e-commerce approach in recent years. The use of agent technology in e-commerce systems may address traditional e-commerce weaknesses, respond to the intelligence and individual needs of users, and significantly improve the efficiency of online transactions. There are some weaknesses in the system designed in this paper. The system will be less efficient in order to complete decentralization of the system. Every decentralized node needs to redundantly preserve a huge volume of information that not only takes up a lot of storage space however, it also makes cross-requesting and detail verification ineffective. This writing presents the evaluation of integrity of the e-commerce systems using block-chain and large amounts of data analysis. The fast growth of the Internet, in particular in the well-developed field of e-commerce, has advanced to digital marketing. In order to understand the common code generating conventional file to identify the associated event configuration, we will analyze Improved Practical Byzantine IPBF source code algorithms. The simulation shows the efficiency of the model.

COOPERATIVE INFORMATION AGENTS FOR DIGITAL CITIES

2001 ◽  
Vol 10 (01n02) ◽  
pp. 197-215 ◽  
Author(s):  
SATOSHI OYAMA ◽  
KAORU HIRAMATSU ◽  
TORU ISHIDA
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Digital City ◽  
Social Agents ◽  
Research Guidelines ◽  
Front End ◽  
Information Agents ◽  
The City

A digital city is a social information infrastructure for urban life (including shopping, business, transportation, education, welfare and so on). We started a project to develop a digital city for Kyoto based on the newest technologies including cooperative information agents. This paper presents an architecture for digital cities and shows the roles of agent interfaces in it. We propose two types of cooperative information agents as follows: (a) the front-end agents determine and refine users' uncertain goals, (b) the back-end agents extract and organize relevant information from the Internet, (c) Both types of agents opportunistically cooperate through a blackboard. We also show the research guidelines towards social agents in digital cities; the agent will foster social interaction among people who are living in/visiting the city.

A Contract Service Provider Model for Virtual Assets

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Hardjono ◽  
Alexander Lipton ◽  
Alex Pentland
Keyword(s):  
Business Model ◽  
Service Provider ◽  
Design Principles ◽  
End Users ◽  
Internet Service Provider ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Internet Service ◽  
Smart Contract ◽  
Service Models ◽  
The Cost

With the recent rise in the cost of transactions on blockchain platforms, there is a need to explore other service models that may provide a more predictable cost to customers and end-users. We discuss the Contract Service Provider (CSP) model as a counterpart of the successful Internet Service Provider (ISP) model. Similar to the ISP business model based on peered routing-networks, the CSP business model is based on multiple CSP entities forming a CSP Community or group offering a contract service for specific types of virtual assets. We discuss the contract domain construct which encapsulates well-defined smart contract primitives, policies and contract-ledger. We offer a number of design principles borrowed from the design principles of the Internet architecture.

Physiotherapy 2.0: Necessity is the mother of innovation

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tobba T Sudmann ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Web 2.0 ◽  
End Users ◽  
Participatory Culture ◽  
Ease Of Use ◽  
User Generated Content

The first part of the title paraphrases Web 2.0, which refers to websites that emphasize user-generated content, ease of use, participatory culture, and interoperability for end users. The eight physio sci-fi stories can be appreciated as fragments of Physiotherapy 2.0, where users are understood to be physiotherapists, co-workers, patients, citizens, or other stakeholders, who take initiative and responsibility for launching physiotherapy 2.0.

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