Browsing Dun Laoghaire Institute Of Art Design + Technology by Issue Date
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Profiling female entrepreneurs: A study of female entrepreneurs in the Dublin region
(2005)The objectives of this research are twofold. Firstly, it provides a profile of the female entrepreneur in the Dublin region. Secondly, it critically examines the awareness and take-up of business development support services ... -
Campus incubation - A study of how incubators assist firms
(2005)Incubators are considered a cost-effective way to stimulate and support knowledge-intensive entrepreneurial activity. Incubators seek to support the entrepreneur during the new venture creation process. They do this, ... -
The image after tomorrow - Digital culture & the family archive
(2008)Analogue photography has a rich history of putting into order the chaos of familial histories. Traditionally, the family album was dependent on object materiality for its existence. In its manifestation as book, memory-time ... -
The design of a prospective memory aid for older adults - Multiminder
(2008)Prospective memory (PM) refers to an individual's ability to remember to carry out tasks of delayed intention, such as remembering to attend a doctor's appointment. It was believed that the implementation of qualitative ... -
Blogs: A study into current uses and perceptions in Irish society
(2009)The aim of this research was to investigate attitudes, perceptions and behaviour of Irish internet users towards blogs. A survey was conducted online and participants (n = 422) placed into two groups - Bloggers (n = 244), ... -
An investigation of primary school teachers' and principals' attitudes towards online teacher training
(2009)This study examined the attitudes of primary school teachers and principals towards online learning. 82 primary school principals and teachers completed an online questionnaire examining attitudes towards online learning. ... -
The impact of gender, language and writing style on perceptions of participants in online political discussion forums
(2009)The aim of this research was to study the differences between male and female use of language in an online discussion forum. A discussion forum on the topic of politics was created and participants invited to use it over ... -
How loot-horny are you? Personality, self-esteem and rewards in World of Warcraft
(2009)In order to study some of the effects of intrinsic rewards within MMORPGs, a correlation design study was performed to determine the relationship between introversion/ extroversion and loot-horniness, self-esteem and ... -
Arts programming on Irish public service television: Ideas, conflicts, and contradictions
(2009)This study explores the historical relationship between public service television and the arts in Ireland and considers how this relationship has influenced the current range and quality of arts programmes on Irish public ... -
Establishing an online counselling service for substance use issues in the Republic of Ireland: An exploratory study
(Institute of Art, Design and Technology, 2009)This research sought to determine if the establishment of an online counselling service for substance use issues in Ireland is currently feasible. A mixed design approach was used. Potential clients' and counsellors' ... -
Online identity theft - An investigation of the differences between victims and non victims with regard to anxiety, precautions and uses of the internet
(2009)Online identity theft is a relatively new phenomenon and as a result the research is scarce and additional research is needed (Anderson, 2006). The main problem with online identity theft today is that people do not ... -
Cyberbullying: A new dimension to an old problem
(2009)Shariff and Gouin (2005) describe cyberbullying as psychological bullying, enacted using electronic communication tools such as; mobile phones, blogs, websites, and chat rooms. The aim of this research was to examine the ... -
Employers' implicit theories of intelligence in the recruitment of individuals with Asperger's syndrome
(2009)Implicit theories are the informal theories used in the organisation and interpretation of information. Implicit theories role in recruitment has yet to be determined. Such research could be valuable to individuals with ... -
Technostress & personality: factors in the digital divide?
(2009)The term 'digital divide' is generally explained as a division between people who do, and those who do not, access internet technologies because of economic, social, educational and age inequalities. This quantitative study ... -
Online infidelity: Aspects of self-disclosure, narcissism, self-esteem and Internet addiction
(2009)This study explored the possibility that people who spend longer amounts of time online are more likely to engage in online infidelity. It was also expected that participants who engaged in online infidelity would record ... -
Cultural differences in construction and utilisation of electronic mail from an African and Irish perspective
(2009)This study sets out to explore whether different cultural backgrounds and specifically learned rules of behaviour affect the usage of computer mediated communication. The study appears to support the general argument that ... -
"Giving" in online recommendation systems: The roles played by narcissism and altruism
(2009)This study explores Altruism and Narcissism as motivation for online informational giving. There is a dilemma about whether helping generally is motivated by altruism or egoism. Evidence is also gathering which demonstrates ... -
A study of gender and personality on the effectiveness of online personalised recommendations
(2009)The internet provides an alternative shopping experience for consumers to shop around and avail of increased worldwide competition. This newly competitive medium has resulted in online business's using techniques that ... -
Gender-bending in virtual worlds - Investigating need for achievement between goal-orientated and non goal-orientated environments
(2009)The aim of this study was to examine a potential relationship between gender-bending online and Need for Achievement (nAch) in goal-orientated (World of Warcraft) and non goal-orientated environments (Second Life). ... -
Perception of music marketing on social networking sites
(2009)Social Networking Sites (SNSs) like MySpace, Bebo, and Facebook are getting more and more popular. In recent years, music promoters have discovered those sites as an effective marketing tool and a significant amount of ...