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Millions of geo-tagged photos are becoming available due to the widespread of photo-sharing websites. These social medias capture attractive points-of-interest and contain interesting photo-taking patterns. Massive amount of these user-oriented data produces new challenges and understanding people's photo-taking behavior is of great importance for local tourism-related businesses. This paper analyzes...
Faced by a confluence of onerous challenges including escalating healthcare costs, ageing populations and the advance of technology as well as the need to provide effective and efficient healthcare services, OECD countries today are turning to e-health as the silver bullet or panacea. However, despite the initial euphoria and notwithstanding the significant investments made, to date, many of these...
Quality and reliability of online health related information are some of the challenges faced by online health information seekers. This study proposes the consideration of criteria in meeting clients' needs when evaluating health websites. An investigation of website content of cerebral palsy agencies in Australia was conducted to determine whether the content presented meets the needs of parents'...
The dominance of case study methods in ICT for Development (ICT4D) research presents challenges in comparing findings across studies for the purpose of theory building. This paper addresses this issue by outlining a method in theory triangulation as a way to systemize case study research across multiple cases in ICT4D. Three approaches to social development outlined by Hall and Midgley are used to...
The purpose of this study is to identify the impact of individual differences on service channel selection for e-government services. In a comparative survey of citizens in Germany and Australia (n=1205), we investigate the impact of age, gender, and mobility issues on the selection of personal or mobile communication as channels for service consumption. The results suggest that Australians are more...
There has been a rapid uptake of the use of online social networking services, and more recently their usage for health-related communication is also being researched and trialed. Twitter, a widely used micro-blogging service, has significant potential for the communication and sharing of up-to-date health information particularly with health consumers. In this paper a sample of 114 Australian health-related...
The advent of photo-sharing services results in massive user-generated geo-tagged photos. These photos implicitly and explicitly indicate points-of-interest and their associations. This study aims to combine two data mining techniques: clustering and association rules mining to mine areas of attraction, and their associative patterns. We analyze photos from Flickr in the area of Queensland, Australia,...
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