Dr William Smart BAppSci(InfoSys)(SCU), BAppSci(Comp)(Hons)(SCU), GradCertHE(L&T)(SCU), PhD (SCU) I am a lecturer of Information Technology for the Southern Cross Business School at the Gold Coast Campus of Southern Cross University. Currently the main focus of my teaching is in the areas of Digital Enterprise, Web Development and Scripting/Programming. My research interests include (but are not limited to) the following: Information Success Modelling, e-Health, Web Navigation, Web Development, Wireless Technology, National Broadband Network, Online Learning, Telecommunications, Programming in multiple languages and much more.
Journal articles
Bring on the broadband: regional Australia, AQ: Australian Quarterly (2012)
The overwhelming majority of Australian businesses now have some form of internet access, but the...
Bring on the broadband: a case for regional centres in Australasia (with George Coles), IBS Journal of Business (2011)
The need and processes of implementing a broadband network into isolated communities and its economic,...
Theses
Information system success: evaluation of a carbon accounting and sequestration system, PhD thesis, Southern Cross University, Lismore, NSW (2009)
The primary aim of the research conducted for this thesis was to develop a predictive...
Conference publications
Building trust in online customers (with George Coles), Proceedings of the 12th ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering: artificial intelligence, networking and parallel/distributed computing (2011)
Although significant progress has been made towards securing the Internet environment, many consumers remain reluctant...
User satisfaction: an evaluation of a carbon credit information system (with Bruce Armstrong and Jerome K. Vanclay), 18th Australasian Conference on Information Systems (2007)
This paper presents the analysis of user satisfaction with a web-based system that enables users...
Distance education a proactive approach, Beyond delivery: Online Learning and Teaching conference (2005)
This paper focuses on the introduction of a proactive approach using electronic technologies to address...