User testing is not a luxury (2008)
Journal Article
Wheeler, P., & Kreps, D. (2008). User testing is not a luxury. Electronic Markets, 18(4), 324-332. https://doi.org/10.1080/10196780802420703

Companies need to address Web Accessibility with more than just professional standards of code writing, and adherence to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. With funding from the European Social Fund a team at Salford University, led by the au... Read More about User testing is not a luxury.

Making sense of the semantic richness of maps: the case of ordnance survey maps (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Fathulla, K., & Basden, A. (2008, January). Making sense of the semantic richness of maps: the case of ordnance survey maps. Presented at 2nd International Conference on Cartography and GIS, Borovets, Bulgaria

System dynamics advances strategic economic transition planning in a developing nation (2008)
Book Chapter
Dangerfield, B. (2008). System dynamics advances strategic economic transition planning in a developing nation. In H. Quadrat-Ullah, J. Spector, & P. Davidsen (Eds.), Complex decision-making: theory and practice. Berlin / Heidelberg: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73665-3

Gendered futures? Women, the ICT workplace and stories of the future (2008)
Journal Article
Moore, K., Griffiths, M., Richardson, H., & Adam, A. (2008). Gendered futures? Women, the ICT workplace and stories of the future. Gender, Work and Organization, 15(5), 523. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0432.2008.00416.x

This article investigates stories of the future in relation to women in the information and communications technology (ICT) sector through the development of a theoretical and methodological stance towards the future. Given concerns about the future... Read More about Gendered futures? Women, the ICT workplace and stories of the future.

From smart and corporate to urban and edgy: revitalising organisations in turbulent environments (2008)
Journal Article
Burke, M. (2008). From smart and corporate to urban and edgy: revitalising organisations in turbulent environments. https://doi.org/10.1108/19348830810915497

Purpose: This paper aims to address issues surrounding the revitalising of organisations in turbulent environments. Design/methodology/approach: The paper contains a discussion of relevant issues and presentation of research which considers how lea... Read More about From smart and corporate to urban and edgy: revitalising organisations in turbulent environments.

Concept of sustainable development in regions (2008)
Book Chapter
Rembielak-Vitchev, G., & Rutkowska, M. (2008). Concept of sustainable development in regions. In Hradecké Ekonomické Dny 2009 (Hradec Economic Day 2008) (127-131). Hradec Králové, Czech Republic: Univerzita Hradec Králové

Using plenary focus groups in information systems research: More than a collection of interviews (2008)
Journal Article
Sobreperez, P. (2008). Using plenary focus groups in information systems research: More than a collection of interviews. Electronic Journal of Business Research Methods, 6(2), 181-188

Standard data collection techniques in qualitative research have included surveys, interviews and observations. The Focus group technique is a more recent addition to the empirical researcher's repertoire and is highly appropriate to Information Syst... Read More about Using plenary focus groups in information systems research: More than a collection of interviews.

A case comparison of a proportional hazards model and a stochastic filter for condition-based maintenance applications using oil-based condition monitoring information (2008)
Journal Article
condition monitoring information. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part O: Journal of Risk and Reliability, 222, 47-55. https://doi.org/10.1243/1748006XJRR76

The ability to predict the expected time remaining before a component fails is crucial when scheduling maintenance activities and component replacements. The current paper presents a comparison of the proportional hazards model and a probabilistic... Read More about A case comparison of a proportional hazards model and a stochastic filter for condition-based maintenance applications using oil-based condition monitoring information.

An asset residual life prediction model based on expert judgments (2008)
Journal Article
on expert judgments. European Journal of Operational Research, 188, 496-505. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2007.03.044

An appropriate and accurate residual life prediction for an asset is essential for cost effective and timely maintenance planning and scheduling. The paper reports the use of expert judgments as the additional information to predict a regularly monit... Read More about An asset residual life prediction model based on expert judgments.

Delay time modelling (2008)
Book Chapter
Wang, W. (2008). Delay time modelling. In K. Kobbacy, & D. Murthey (Eds.), Complex system maintenance handbook (345-372). Springer

Condition-based maintenance modelling (2008)
Book Chapter
Wang, W. (2008). Condition-based maintenance modelling. In K. Kobbacy, & D. Murthy (Eds.), Complex system maintenance handbook (111-132). Springer

Blogging: self presentation and privacy (2008)
Journal Article
Mccullagh, K. (2008). Blogging: self presentation and privacy. Information and Communications Technology Law, 17(1), 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1080/13600830801886984

Blogs are permeating most niches of social life, and addressing a wide range of topics from scholarly and political issues1 to family and children’s daily lives. By their very nature, blogs raise a number of privacy issues as they are easy to produce... Read More about Blogging: self presentation and privacy.

Smoothing and adjustments of demand forecasts for inventory control (2008)
Journal Article
Syntetos, A., & Boylan, J. (2008). Smoothing and adjustments of demand forecasts for inventory control. IMA Journal of Management Mathematics, 19(2), 175-192. https://doi.org/10.3182/20060517-3-FR-2903.00104

Demand forecasting and stock control are traditionally examined as independent of each other. Even though this weakness has been highlighted in the academic literature, little empirical work has been conducted on forecasting adjustments addressing th... Read More about Smoothing and adjustments of demand forecasts for inventory control.

Strike mobilisation and union revitalisation (2008)
Journal Article
Darlington, R. (2008). Strike mobilisation and union revitalisation

British syndicalism and trade union officialdom (2008)
Journal Article
Darlington, R. (2008). British syndicalism and trade union officialdom. Historical Studies in Industrial Relations, 103-140

New research directions for data and knowledge engineering: A philosophy of language approach (2008)
Journal Article
Basden, A., & Klein, H. (2008). New research directions for data and knowledge engineering: A philosophy of language approach. Data and Knowledge Engineering, 67(2), 260-285. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.datak.2008.05.005

This article advances a strategic proposal that would enable future research in data/knowledge engineering and natural language processing to take a broader range of meanings into account than can be derived from analyzing text with current methods f... Read More about New research directions for data and knowledge engineering: A philosophy of language approach.

Engaging with and enriching humanist thought: the case of information systems (2008)
Journal Article
Basden, A. (2008). Engaging with and enriching humanist thought: the case of information systems

Those who believe that explicitly Christian thinking is possible in the scientific disciplines tend to assume that it must be antithetical to the world’s thinking. Based on some of the author’s experience, this article examines a different approach,... Read More about Engaging with and enriching humanist thought: the case of information systems.

Non-discretionary use of information system and the technology acceptance model (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Ahmad, H., & Basden, A. (2008, January). Non-discretionary use of information system and the technology acceptance model. Presented at Annual IRIS Conference, University of Salford, Salford

The purpose of this paper is to review literature used Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) as their theoretical foundation in non-discretionary use (NDU) environment. NDU means system that user who worked in the organisation must used the system withou... Read More about Non-discretionary use of information system and the technology acceptance model.

Tourism and urban regeneration: An analysis of visitor perception, behaviour and experience at the quays in Salford (2008)
Thesis
Craggs, R. Tourism and urban regeneration: An analysis of visitor perception, behaviour and experience at the quays in Salford. (Thesis). University of Salford

Following the loss of heavy, manufacturing industry in many industrial areas in the 1970s and 1980s, tourism has featured extensively in urban and wateriront regeneration policy because of its ability to generate substantial economic benefits to dest... Read More about Tourism and urban regeneration: An analysis of visitor perception, behaviour and experience at the quays in Salford.

The waste strategy for England 2007 : is it deliverable? (2008)
Journal Article
Adshead, J. (2008). The waste strategy for England 2007 : is it deliverable?. Environmental Law Review, 10(1), 46-51. https://doi.org/10.1350/enlr.2008.10.1.004

Following a Defra consultation from February to May 2006, the government published its new waste strategy in May 2007. This substantial publication runs to 123 pages, eight chapters and multiple appendices. The strategy constitutes part of the implem... Read More about The waste strategy for England 2007 : is it deliverable?.