Sustainable Design

Dr. Tomayess Issa is a Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Business and Law - Curtin University/Australia. Tomayess completed her doctoral research in Web development and Human Factors. As an academic, she is also interested in establishing teaching methods and styles to enhance the students’ learning experiences and resolve problems that students face.  Tomayess is a Conference and Program Co-Chair of the IADIS International Conference on Internet Technologies and Society and IADIS International Conference on International Higher Education. Furthermore, she initiated the IADIS conference for Sustainability, Green IT and Education.  Currently, she conducts research locally and globally in Human-Computer Interaction, Usability, Social Networking, Sustainability, Sustainable Design, Green IT, Cloud Computing and Teaching and Learning. Tomayess published her work in several peer-reviewed journals, books, book chapters, papers and research reports and participated in local and global conferences. Tomayess Issa was a coordinator in the international research network (IRNet-EU (Jan2014 – Dec 2017)) to study and develop new tools and methods for advanced pedagogical science in the field of ICT instruments, e-learning and intercultural competences.  Finally, Tomayess supervised PhD, Master of Phil, and Master Dissertations; and she received Curtin Guild Awards for her teaching and supervision. In 2017, she received the overall winner Student Guild Outstanding Achievement in Teaching Excellence 2017 Award for university wide. Pedro Isaias is an associate professor at the Information Systems & Technology Management School of The University of New South Wales (UNSW – Sydney), Australia. Previously he was an associate professor at The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. Before moving to Australia, he served at the Universidade Aberta (Portuguese Open University) in Lisbon, Portugal, where he was responsible for several courses and director of the Master degree program in Management / MBA. Pedro was director of the Master degree program in Electronic Commerce and Internet for 10 years. Pedro Isaias holds a PhD in Information Management (in the specialty of information and decision systems) from the NOVA University of Lisbon. Author of several books, book chapters, papers and research reports, all in the information systems area, he has headed several conferences and workshops within the mentioned area. He has also been responsible for the scientific coordination of several EU funded research projects. He is also member of the editorial board of several journals and program committee member of several conferences and workshops. Currently he conducts research activity related to MIS in general, and more specifically Learning Technologies, Data Analytics, Business Intelligence, Digital Transformation, e-Business and WWW related areas.    

Foreword- Introduction.- HCI and Usability.- User Participation in the System Development Process.- Physical, Cognitive and Affective Engineering.- Color, Prototyping and Navigation, Guidelines and Principles Design, Evaluation and Testing; Task Analysis.- Models and Methodologies and Integration of Methodologies; and the New Participative Methodology for Marketing Websites (NPMMW).- New Participative Methodology for Sustainable Design.- Innovative Technologies: Applications in the Present and Considerations for the Future

“The book does address some important concerns, but as the authors themselves admit, it is very much a first step. There is much food for thought in this book, particularly in the results of the questionnaire.” (J. P. E. Hodgson, Computing Reviews, September 14, 2022)