Musa Karakaya — новинки
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Factors Influencing Software Piracy Musa Karakaya
ISBN: 9783848402212 Год издания: 2012 Издательство: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing Язык: Английский Intellectual property has a functional effect on the creation, development and innovation of the intellectual products which improve our life. The basic reason for protection of intellectual property rights is the necessity to encourage and support innovation and to promote the creation of knowledge. Software piracy is one of the important parts of the digital piracy problem and was also the first copyrighted product that was duplicated on a large scale. Definition of the reasons behind an existing problem is a crucial part of the problem solving process. With this study the factors behind the problem of pirated software usage will be empirically analyzed from the users’ perspective by applying Routine Activity Theory (RAT). According to RAT, three major factors that affect criminal activities include access to suitable targets, motivated offenders and the absence of capable guardians. According to the routine activity approach, crime or the risk of crime increases when a motivated offender identifies or encounters a suitable target in the absence of a capable guardian. -
Research Methods in Usability and Interaction Design Fatih Demir, Musa Karakaya, Hamza Tosun
ISBN: 9783847343356 Год издания: 2012 Издательство: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing Язык: Английский People are social beings, so it is important that understanding of peoples’ approach and ways of thinking is significantly important while you are designing for them. Relationships between people and technologies and environment that they participate are subject to research in order to determine how their brain functions, how language and other elements affect their understanding and cognition. Of course, there are some important points to cover while researching on human-computer-interaction. Some benefits of usability research would be listed as understanding peoples’ approaches to the context, importance of the current scores, expected improvement areas, expected computing improvements, focus areas that needs to be improvement, features that works and don’t, and user performance. In this book, readers will find research methods including usability, issues in usability, human-computer interaction, and designin for spesific user groups.