Color Psychology

I wrote for 15 minutes today.

We know something of the way the colors affect the human body--psychologically and phisiologically. There has been a considerable amount of research in the marketing area about what colors different groups of people appreciate. There has also been some research in the interior design area on the subject. However, most of the research in IS is about 20 years old. It has been conducted long before screens got very capible of great color represenation and before the web came on strong as a channel for commerce. The research needs to be examined and looked at and some needs to be done again in the context of web design. Can we tell the gender and income levels of people based on the color scheme they choose for their customized interface?

Introduction for Reuse/Anchoring

I wrote for 15 minutes today

Today I wrote about Tulane's problems after Hurricane Katrina shut it down in August '05. The university needed to meet payroll, but its HR systems were off line. The system administrators wrote queries against the backup data to process payroll; however, an error in a query resulted in the incorrect issuance of more than one hundred thousand dollars of payroll checks being issued.

Response to WSW99, What should it look like?

I wrote for 3.5 hours today.

It was all painful. I'm afraid that the paper in its current format will not read well unless the reader has the Wand et al 99 paper in hand. I'm especially troubled by our differing interpretations of Bunge's work. How can we keep this from becoming a he said/she said argument?

Multivalued Attribues

I wrote fro three hours today.

I spent my time mostly editing text and cleaning up figures. I'm struggling with issues surrounding how Bunge represents intrinsic properties.

Composite Mutual Properties

I wrote for 2 hours today

Wand , Storey and Weber acknowledge that attributes can be multivalued. However, when they implement a mutual property as a relationship, they deny that the representation can have more than a single value. They use the name of the relationship to indicate the value (see figure 3). However, Bunge clearly allows mutual properties to have multiple inputs to the function that determines the value. However, it is a functional representation, as such it can only have a single value as its output. What is the difference between specifying a predicate as having three inputs (one child, one male and one female) that map a single value (true iff the male and female are the parents of the child) and asserting that the "parents" attribute has two values?

Does this hold true for any higher order relationship?

Classification of concrete objects

I wrote for 2 hours today.

According to Bunge's ontology, classes are a way to group things (concrete objects). To be a class, things must have a common property. Because a property is a observer independent, subject to scrutiny, etc., the function of an thing cannot be used for classification. Function is either a use to which an individual puts an item (single-person function) or if it is generally used in a way by society, it could have a socially accepted function. Is a Louisville Slugger sports equipment, a weapon, or fuel?