The Effect of Color Contrast on Consumer Trust in an E-Commerce Setting

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Taylor Wells and Dr. Paul Benjamin Lowry, Information Systems As e-business is becoming an increasingly important part of the world economy, businesses are looking for methods and strategies to increase visitation to their websites and more importantly positively affect purchase intentions. One strategy for increasing purchase intention that has been found effective is to increase […]

Variable Interest Entity Disclosure A look at Financial Firms and the Disclosure of VIE’s

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Brandon Seiter and Dr. Kay Stice, School of Accountancy and Information Systems In 2002 the FASB, which sets all accounting standards for US publicly traded companies, met with its international counterpart the IASB in what is know as the Norwalk Agreement. The two organizations released a joint statement announcing their intentions to create a project […]

How Background and Text Colors Affect Consumers Perceptions of Trust in an eCommerce Environment

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Greg Moody and Dr. Paul Benjamin Lowry, Information Systems Department Abstract: As e-business grows, it becomes imperative that businesses create usable, aesthetically pleasing websites to increase user satisfaction and transactions. Several disciplines have researched the effects of color on people, but only limited research has examined the effects of color use in websites. This paper […]

Mobile Device Information Privacy: The Effects of Risk Experience and Education on Information Disclosure

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Erik Andersen and Dr. Mark Keith, Information Systems Information privacy research has demonstrated that consumers vary greatly in terms of their understanding of the real risks of disclosing personal information and location data over mobile applications. Those who truly understand the risks behave rationally and base their disclosure decisions on a risk/reward tradeoff. Those who […]

Computer-Aided Fraud Detection

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Reed Olsen and Dr. Conan C. Albrecht, Information Systems “Albert Miano, a manger at Reader’s Digest responsible for processing bills from painters and carpenters, embezzled $1 million over a 5-year period. Miano forged the signatures of a superior on an invoice for services never performed and submitted it to accounts payable. He forged the endorsement […]

FAMILY HISTORIES AND GENEALOGIES OVER THE INTERNET: WHAT IS NOW AVAILABLE

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Thomas O Meservy and Dr. Rayman D. Meservy, School of Accountancy and Information Systems The objective of my research is to determine how to effectively organize and distribute family histories and genealogies over the Internet. I am interfacing the genealogical files using the PAF standard, which was produced by the LDS church, onto the Internet. […]

AN OSA MODEL FOR THE OPTOMETRY FIELD

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Conan C. Albrecht and Dr. Stephen W. Liddle, Accountancy and Information Systems Many health fields have progressed slowly in the area of computer systems. My research focused on these systems specifically on the optometry health field. Many problems exist with the current systems available to optometrists. This fact is evident by their current use; a […]

The Market for High-Tech Skills and the Business Student

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Milen E. Marinov and Dr. J. Owen Cherrington, Accountancy and Information Systems Being granted the ORCA scholarship I started researching information technology (IT) skills that will make a business student more marketable. I began my research at the end of November 1999. Gradually, along with demanded IT skills my research activity included the gathering and […]

Software Development in Monterrey, Mexico

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J. Edgar Gómez and Dr. Robert Jackson, Accountancy and Information Systems As Mexican companies enter the global market they discover how important it is to integrate advances in technology into their everyday business transactions. Software development is one of the areas of technological advances where great effort has been made. According to the Wall Street […]

Establishing a Foundation for the Testing and Evaluation of Effective Scenario Elicitation Tools

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Benjamin Dunford and Dr. Douglas Dean, Accountancy and Information Systems Background In system development, no other phase is as fraught with difficulties as determining what exactly the system “should do” for a proposed project. These difficulties arise through a divergence in how the end user envisions the system should operate and how the analyst or […]