Background: The Internet has revolutionized the health world, enabling self-diagnosis and
online support to take place irrespective of time or location. Alongside the positive aspects …

Background: Only 17% of Norwegian children and adolescents with diabetes achieve
international treatment goals measured by glycated hemoglobin (HbA 1c). Classic patient …

This paper presents politeness as a key social requirement for computer human interaction
(CHI). Politeness is defined, in information terms, as offering the locus of control of a social …

A socio-technical system (STS) is a social system built upon a technical base. An STS adds
social requirements to human-computer interaction (HCI) requirements, which already add …

The recent development of the research field of Computing and Philosophy has triggered
investigations into the theoretical foundations of computing and information. This thesis …

In his article Open Problems in the Philosophy of Information [] Luciano Floridi presented a
Philosophy of Information research program in the form of eighteen open problems, covering …

Why write a book about human–computer etiquette? Is etiquette a concept that is relevant
when dealing with things that are not human—that are not even living beings? Typically, we …

Social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook thrive on energetic social
interaction, but the factors that assure this are not well understood. There is a lack of theory …

The term sociotechnical was introduced by the Tavistock Institute in the 1950's for
manufacturing cases where the needs of technology confronted those of local communities …

The runaway increase in spam cannot be stemmed by technical change alone. Spam
currently constitutes up to 30 percent of all in-box messages. In these spam wars, as filters …