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Towards An Agriculture Information Ecosystem
(ACIS, 2014)Stakeholders of a domain in their day today activities generate information which is a valuable resource. To obtain full value of this information it should reach right people at the right time. To investigate how this can ... -
Towards Conceptualizing Information Transparency and its Role in Internet Consumers' Concerns: A Literature Review
(ACIS, 2014)In recent years, calls for a safer online shopping environment are growing louder. Empirical studies on consumers’ expectations of ethical e-commerce practices have found that the top concerns among e-shoppers revolved ... -
Transformation: the conjunction of crafted process and the brain as memory repository
(Textile and Design Lab and Colab at Auckland University of Technology, 2014)Acknowledging Otto Von Busch’s work, “Shapeshifting can be considered a capacity or potential of sentient beings, a capability of organisms to auto-transformations, as responsive agency to their settings.” Fusing textiles ... -
Transformational strategies: the Margiela Rabbit and the Gecko Girl
(Textile and Design Lab and Colab at Auckland University of Technology, 2014)Elizabeth Costello, the elderly fiction writer in J.M Coetzee’s novel of the same name, discusses the possibility of how a human being can feel what it is like to be a bat. She believes that to feel thus, one does not need ... -
The transformative cuts: new foundations in pattern cutting and approximations of the body
(Textile and Design Lab and Colab at Auckland University of Technology, 2014)Fashion designers are presented with a range of different principles for pattern cutting, and interest in this area has grown rapidly over the past few years, due to both the publication of a number of works dealing with ... -
Transformative textiles: integrating material and information in the design of sonified textiles
(Textile and Design Lab and Colab at Auckland University of Technology, 2014)Digital technologies are now deeply embedded in our everyday lives, becoming seamlessly integrated with objects and materials that we engage with routinely. Digital information is no longer confined to screens as “painted ... -
Triangles in silk: piecing together a practice of upcycling
(Textile and Design Lab and Colab at Auckland University of Technology, 2014)Sustainable fashion design is typically approached through the deployment of a combination of design strategies. One such strategy that enjoys popular use in the sustainable fashion lexicon is ‘‘upcycling”. Upcycling, an ... -
Trust formation in information systems implementation in developing countries: The role of emancipatory expectations
(ACIS, 2014)This paper explores trust formation issues in information and communications technology projects in developing countries. My purpose in this study is to understand the stakeholder expectations in the implementation of ... -
Trust, Risk and Perceived Usefulness in Consumer Acceptance of Online Health Services
(ACIS, 2014)The Web is developing into an important health information dissemination channel. Benefits cannot however materialize without consumer acceptance. This study developed a research model of the effects of trust, perceived ... -
Understanding post-adoptive adaptation process in organisational CRM implementations
(ACIS, 2014)Past research on CRM largely focuses on organisational initial adoption decisions. However, there has been little research concerning the continued use of CRM and the associated change process in the post-adoption stage. ... -
Understanding Resource Sharing in C2C Platforms: The Role of Picture Humanization
(ACIS, 2014)Sharing spare resources on C2C web platforms yields economic advantages for users on both supply and demand sides. It also increases resource efficiency by enabling better utilization patterns, which in turn provides ... -
Understanding the Determinants of the Reputation of Information Systems Departments
(ACIS, 2014)How well information systems are governed in an organization depends critically on the relationship between the IS department and other business units. Infrequent communication and a lack of shared knowledge between these ... -
Understanding the Effect of Social Media Tools on Organisational Virtual Team Dynamics
(ACIS, 2014)Corporate organisations are actively engaging with social media tools such as Facebook, Enterprise Social Networks, Blogs and Discussion Forums for team communication, collaboration and other project related activities. ... -
User Experience of Mobile Devices: A Three Layer Method of Evaluation
(ACIS, 2014)Mobile devices are an integrated aspect of contemporary society in both business and social contexts. To facilitate the continued development of more effective and efficient user interface designs and devices, it is necessary ... -
Using social media as a toolkit for co-creation when designing fashion with communities
(Textile and Design Lab and Colab at Auckland University of Technology, 2014)This research introduces a transformational strategy for using social media as an access point to engage a wider community in the co-creation of fashion design. Past research in co-creative fashion has examined participatory ... -
Utilising Capability Approach for Adoption of Assistive Technologies among Seniors: Conceptual Model
(ACIS, 2014)In this paper we argue that the existing adoption theories lack a sufficient level of attention to the context of the everyday lives of seniors and as such have been incapable of successful explaining adoption concepts ... -
Volumetric shape making and pattern cutting
(Textile and Design Lab and Colab at Auckland University of Technology, 2014)This paper, in light of pedagogical observations, seeks to explore and examine an alternative approach to pattern cutting through volumetric shape making and a practical, process led investigation using Alien body shapes ... -
The Wardrobe Hack and Uncatwalk digital platforms of action and services for positive engagement with clothing
(Textile and Design Lab and Colab at Auckland University of Technology, 2014)"The choices we make about what we wear are influenced by life present, lives past and our ideas about our future selves. Expressions of values ... build a rationale for dress that transcend narrow commercial views about ... -
The Waves in Business Transformation Management: A Conceptualization of how IT-Enabled Business Transformations Unfold
(ACIS, 2014)We examine IT-enabled Business Transformations (ITBT) based on three case studies of successful, multi-year ERP implementation programs. Given the inconsistencies in segmenting the different key periods in ITBTs in both ... -
Wear, repair and remake: the evolution of fashion practice by design
(Textile and Design Lab and Colab at Auckland University of Technology, 2014)Through my postgraduate, fashion practice-based research project, The Living Wardrobe, I have become increasingly interested in garment design that specifically facilitates future alteration and modification. There is ...