Zdenek Smutny

Prague University of Economics and Business | VŠE · Faculty of Informatics and Statistics

Along with the development of new assistive technologies, including ambient intelligence (AmI) environments, new job opportunities are created for people with blindness or visual impairment. Whereas research on software development for people with blindness has been conducted since the 1960s, the design and development of electrotechnical equipment...

A comprehensive review of 1985-2019 trends related to the (English) term social informatics was conducted for scholarly literature, research and educational institutions, conferences, journals, blogs, and presentations at the International Conference on Social Informatics. The bibliographic search yielded 275 scientific documents with the term soci...

Scholars from the health and medical sciences have recently proposed the term social informatics (SI) as a new scientific subfield of health informatics (HI). However, SI is not a new academic concept; in fact, it has been continuously used in the social sciences and informatics since the 1970s. Although the dominant understanding of SI was establi...

Background During the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic crisis, the role of digital contact tracing (DCT) intensified. However, the uptake of this technology expectedly differed among age cohorts and national cultures. Various conceptual tools were introduced to strengthen DCT research from a theoretical perspective. However, little has been done to comp...

Background The massive expansion of the Internet of medical things (IoMT) technology brings many opportunities for improving healthcare. At the same time, their use increases security risks, brings security and privacy concerns, and threatens the functioning of healthcare facilities or healthcare provision. Purpose This scoping review aims to iden...

Social Informatics (SI), in its broadest sense, is an approach for understanding interactions between various societal systems and information-communication technologies. SI is an established and internationally recognized scholarly field, with roots stretching back to the 1970s. However, it is not a conceptually or methodologically coherent field...

BACKGROUND During the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic crisis, the role of digital contact tracing (DCT) intensified. However, the uptake of this technology expectedly differed among age cohorts and national cultures. Various conceptual tools were introduced to strengthen DCT research from a theoretical perspective. However, little has been done to comp...

The editorial summarizes the development of the Acta Informatica Pragensia journal over the last four years (2019–2022). Thanks to the indexing of the journal in the Scopus citation database since 2019, the journal has not only consolidated its position in Central Europe but also began to build its position in the international community of informa...

This editorial aims to summarise the special issue entitled “Perspectives of Social Informatics” that builds on the current international view of social informatics. The special issue consists of eight scientific articles and one book review.

The cryptocurrency market is very young, volatile, and highly risky. By the end of 2020, a new bull run started, and the prices of several cryptocurrencies reached record-breaking highs. The factors affecting this rise of cryptocurrencies include the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, the economic crisis and the global increase in the inflation rate...

Various mHealth/eHealth services play an increasingly important role in healthcare systems and personal lifestyle management. Yet, the relative popularity of these services among the young population of the Czech Republic was not known. Therefore, we carried out an on-line survey with a convenience sample (n = 299) of young adults aged 18–29 and li...

The COVID-19 pandemic crisis has impacted numerous areas of people’s work and free-time activities. This article aims to present the main impacts of the COVID-19 movement restrictions on the road traffic in the Czech Republic, measured during the first epidemic wave, i.e., from 12 March to 17 May 2020. The state of emergency was imposed by the Czec...

An opportunity to resolve disputes as an out-of-court settlement through computer-mediated communication is usually easier, faster, and cheaper than filing an action in court. Artificial intelligence and law (AI & Law) research has gained importance in this area. The article presents a design of the E-NeGotiAtion method for assisted negotiation in...

Traffic speed prediction for a selected road segment from a short-term and long-term perspective is among the fundamental issues of intelligent transportation systems (ITS). During the course of the past two decades, many artefacts (e.g., models) have been designed dealing with traffic speed prediction. However, no satisfactory solution has been fo...

There is a need to innovate current solutions in the field of fleet management and control systems in connection with the continuous growth of retail sales via the Internet and the associated delivery services. This is also supported by the development of the Logistics 4.0 concept, which refers to the massive digital transformation and deployment o...

As was stated in one of the current review articles on social informatics: Research activities related to social informatics are expanding, even as community fragmentation, topical dispersion, and methodological diversity continue to increase. Specifically, the different understandings of social informatics in regional communities have strong impac...

Although the World Wide Web (or web) is a decentralized network of interconnected documents, highly centralized ecosystem dominated by a few supranational companies has developed on top of these foundations. These companies create their own platforms and offer web-powered services that are used by people and organizations around the world. Many of...

This article attempts to explicate importance and value of knowledge in the context of informatization, while focusing on the problem of fragmentation of human knowledge in connection with the application of ICT in the process of education (or the process of learning). The illustrative research uses quantitative research method. A questionnaire sur...

In connection with the development of mobile devices and more frequent computer-mediated communication, most often in the form of text messages, there is a need to simply communicate the emotions associated with the communicated messages. Therefore, text messages are enriched with more information, most often in the form of emoticons, emojis or sti...

The presented conceptual monograph introduces social informatics primarily as a distinctive discipline. It focuses on the relations between seven regional schools of thought (British, Japanese, German, Norwegian, Russian, North American, Slovenian), between applied methodological approaches and between the different concepts that exist across the w...

Research activities related to social informatics (SI) are expanding, even as community fragmentation, topical dispersion, and methodological diversity continue to increase. Specifically, the different understandings of SI in regional communities have strong impacts, and each has a different history, methodological grounding, and often a different...

The article contributes to the knowledge of customer lifetime value (CLV) models, where extensive empirical analyses on large datasets from online stores are missing. Based on this knowledge, practitioners can decide about the deployment of a particular model in their business and academics can design or enhance CLV models. The article presents pre...

Information and communication technology (ICT) has an important position in the area of sharing economy because it mediates distance communication between people. The development of various sharing economy services is dependent on ICT acceptance in the society. The paper presents exploratory pre-research focused on the three selected aspects. The a...

Drawing upon archival evidence from the Czechoslovak government and its ministries from the 1970s, this paper presents a preliminary snapshot of the institutional processes that drove the emergence of computing disciplines separate from the rubric of Soviet cybernetics in Communist Czechoslovakia (nowadays, the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republi...

The current trend in the European Union (EU) is to support the development of online dispute resolution (ODR) that saves financial and human resources. Therefore, research articles mainly deal with the design of new ODR solutions, without researching the social aspects of using different kinds of ODR solutions. For this reason, the main aim of the...

The selection of a suitable customer lifetime value (CLV) model is a key issue for companies that are introducing a CLV managerial approach in their online B2C relationship stores. The online retail environment places CLV models on several specific assumptions, e.g. non-contractual relationship, continuous purchase anytime, variable-spending enviro...

Following various information and communications technology (ICT) or information system design efforts, the issue of ICT acceptance and use by a selected social category is an important theme for a number of academic fields dealing with sociotechnical interaction. One of these areas is social informatics (SI), which connects the social sciences and...

Human subjectivity is deeply affected by the environment as mediated by the Internet. As users within this environment, people are not only affected by their entrance into it, but their subjectivity evolves along with the trends of online networking. The subjectivity of people is affected by (their networking with) human and artificial users of the...

Reprint of the chapter from 2017 by the Information Resources Management Association (DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-0559-4.ch006) Abstract: This chapter addresses the issue of privacy settings with a focus on Generation Y from a technological, social, generational, cultural and philosophical point of view. After introducing the issue of Internet privacy...

Blind people are cognitively restricted in the perception of physical and social environment, which results in several negative consequences. For example, such restrictions can create following situations in household: the people cannot react to eye contact with another person or they cannot see social interactions happening around. These problems...

Sexuality influences a number of the motives of people’s behavior, e.g. at work, at school, or in free time, and it affects their values and everyday needs. The paper presents exploratory pre-research focused on the sociotechnical aspects connected with pornography consumption, carried out on a sample of Generation Y members from the Czech and the...

Research in Business Informatics or Management Information Systems in the Czech Republic has been increasingly influenced by the design science methodology adopted from Western Europe and the USA during the past decade. This methodology offers a portfolio of methods that can be used in design science research (DSR) projects. Having engineering root...

The article summarizes the development of Acta Informatica Pragensia journal which focuses on social and business aspects of informatics. The journal has built an important position in the past six years among informatics oriented journals in the Czech Republic and in the Slovak Republic. To even strengthen this position, structural changes were ma...

This article provides an empirical statistical analysis and discussion of the predictive abilities of selected customer lifetime value (CLV) models that could be used in online shopping within e-commerce business settings. The comparison of CLV predictive abilities, using selected evaluation metrics, is made on selected CLV models: Extended Pareto/...

Cultural localization of websites is at present a relevant topic that has a potential to increase the commercial use of the websites of companies that operate or want to operate in multiple countries or regions. This chapter presents a basic survey of websites as culturally sensitive media. It is based on an extensive research of available literatu...

This chapter addresses the issue of privacy settings with a focus on Generation Y from a technological, social, generational, cultural and philosophical point of view. After introducing the issue of Internet privacy and other relevant areas—generational and cultural differences, the philosophical framework, the postinternet condition, the possibili...

This article presents an overview that compares the historical tendencies in defining informatics as a new discipline, subject area or field of study focused on the design and application of computer technology. Apart from computer construction, the focus is on two major areas: computational processes and information processes. The article first co...

The article introduces an ambient intelligence system for blind people which besides providing assistance in home environment also helps with various situations and roles in which blind people may find themselves involved. RUDO, the designed system, comprises several modules that mainly support or ensure recognition of approaching people, alerting...

Paper deals with a comparison of two methods of online dispute resolution the first is previously proposed e-NeGotiAtion method and the second method is using e-mail communication for negotiation. For this purpose , it was carried out multiple case study. In this paper is presented the first part of the multiple case study focused on selected chara...

A shift from mass to personalized marketing, and thus also to personalized offers, brings firms an advantage for building customer relationships. The article introduces an artefact in the form of a method for creating personalized offers, focused on companies engaged in e-commerce. This method is based on mining association rules using the GUHA met...

This chapter addresses the issue of privacy settings with a focus on Generation Y from a technological, social, generational, cultural and philosophical point of view. After introducing the issue of Internet privacy and other relevant areas—generational and cultural differences, the philosophical framework, the postinternet condition, the possibili...

This contribution examines the different concepts known as social informatics that have historically been separate. The paradigm that is preferred worldwide (based on Kling) is well described and often promoted, with a strong base both in the USA and Europe. This article, however, introduces lesser-known paradigms (based on Sokolov and later Ursul)...

B2B electronic markets represent for companies a huge number of potential partners in e-procurement. It brings great possibilities to the modern commercial world, but also disputes from these relationships. Online dispute resolution (ODR) not only settles disputes but also builds trust among participants. Developing a successful ODR process has bec...

In the last five years, substantial reduction occurred in the number of people at the university age. The demographic turning point can be found around the year 2012 when students born in the mid 90s, a low birth-rate period, reached the university age. This situation caused decrease in the number of students studying for a bachelor degree at unive...

The paper addresses the issue of online advertising efficiency in the context of the “banner blindness” phenomenon. We extend the traditional exposure metric of banner efficiency by allowing the effect of a banner display (exposure effect, EE) to vary depending on the sequence of pages that lead to the display. Within a user session on the given we...

The paper responds to observed absurd impacts associated with predatory journals, both at the personal and institutional level. There is mentioned the basic procedure to identify predatory journal and how to find it in Beall’s list. Briefly are commented the consequences associated with the first study in the Czech Republic dealing with the number...

The article presents the views of the Czech Generation Y on the use of enterprise social networks and their expectations and ideas about the use of communication methods or tools in the context of communication and collaboration in an organization. Emphasis is placed on the possibility of using enterprise social networks in the organizational conte...

The aim of this paper is to introduce a summary and current state of the issue of predatory open access publishers and to critically discuss general predatory behaviour and related topics in the Czech and international context. The article summarizes outputs of the first foreign studies dealing with predatory publishers and journals. We find that a...

Digital forensics investigation undergone a great transformation in the past two decades. This is due to technological progress and already quite common use of ICT in society. This article deals with the standardization of the procedures for collecting potential digital evidence in connection with the ISO/IEC 27037:2012. This article presents some...

The main goal of this paper is to present an explorative research which focused on the approach companies from a sample set to integrated online marketing communication. The paper follows various aspects of the application (instrumental approach) of selected tools – Facebook, Twitter, company website – as well as the linking and sharing of informat...

Collection of digital evidence in criminal investigation is gaining in importance. It is an outgrowth of the development and penetration of ICT into society (informatization). After a brief introduction of ISO/IEC 27037:2012, this paper compares the suggested practices with those that are currently used by investigators (criminal police) and analys...

In the last five years, a substantial reduction occurred in the number of people of university age. The demographic turning point can be found in the year 2012 when the students born in mid 90s, a low birth‑rate period, reached university age. This situation has caused a decrease in the number of bachelor students applying for admission to universi...

Background and Purpose: Doing business over the Internet has become increasingly competitive for many companies. The aim of this study is to analyse the current state of utilizing online tools, approaches of Czech companies to the management of online marketing activities and to identify weaknesses and opportunities of these activities. Methodology...

An effective management of a company’s marketing activities in the online environment is very difficult to achieve. This is mainly due to the complexity of the environment and the interactions of human and artificial actors across internet-based services (e.g. social networks, forums). This article presents a methodological concept which would supp...

Interview with Jan Egem, director of KBMG CEE (part of a global group WPP), that deals with corporate marketing solution that is based on the knowledge gained from the data. Other activities include web analytics, optimization and monetization. Jan Egem graduated from the University of Economics in Prague and also worked for several years in a simi...

Article deals with Manovichs account of space. The author herald its prospective ability to become universal form of information representation in new media. Our aim is to review such claims from perspective of contemporary online practices. We try to show that although the space as a category lies in the center of some fields of new media, typical...

Companies implement different frameworks and best practices with the objective to improve the project management success rate and improve the business adaptability to the changing business environment. Project management framework (PRINCE2) and agile development framework (Scrum) proved in many cases that they can meet these objectives. However, bo...

Social media are important tools for marketing activities in the environment of services on the internet. In the introductory section of this contribution, we aggregate and compare the outcomes of previous surveys focused on the use of social media by Czech companies. The following part presents original research on a sample of 4,584 Czech companie...

The paper presents the design and implementation of a web-based system for knowledge management in the form of knowledge objects that are stored as semantic records. The innovation of the presented approach lies in interactive presentation of stored knowledge in the form of knowledge networks. Stored knowledge is made available to users in a form t...

This paper aims to examine the difference in the approach to the privacy of the young generation in the Czech Republic and France. We investigate the profiles of 531 Facebook users. The visibility of each profile was recorded in two ways – from the perspective of a friend and from the perspective of a random Facebook user. The main aim is to find i...

In the paper we have presented and further analysed the results of the entrance proceedings for full-time and combined forms of study for a Bachelor’s Degree at the Faculty of Management, University of Economics, Prague. For this purpose we used files of anonymous results from the years 2010-2013. We analysed the results of entrance tests in Englis...

Increasing globalization, competition, but also the economic situation in our country and in the world, a powerful development of technology and rapid changes in organizations are just a few of the important factors why an innovative ideas and approaches become increasingly important for the universities. The aim of this paper is to contribute to t...

The aim of this paper is to compare the number of tweets from Vodafone Company against a group of user, who speak about Vodafone in order to determine whether there is a link between the number of tweets published by Vodafone and communication volume (buzz) on Vodafone via Twitter – online social networking and microblogging service. After the init...

Informatization of society allows (technically) new possibilities for knowledge sharing between individuals. With the support of new information and communication technology, it leads to "objectification" of knowledge; i.e. its objectification or separation from the individual, which allows to share and to manage the "knowledge". The paper combines...

The prime goal of process and enterprise maturity models in contemporary business organizations is to achieve a sound and effective business structure that can satisfy the requirements of involved internal and external actors. As a socio-technical system that the business organization is, the means of achieving a coordinated action is by the mechan...

After introductory presentation of the problem and research in the field of interest (using social media in marketing management) this paper is focused on two important objectives for the company's marketing management in the internet environment. The first one is an application of social media in the marketing management; so that company will be a...

The paper is focused on the issue of evaluation the effects of communication through social media; in this case, it is Twitter service. Its aim is to compare the number of tweets from Vodafone Czech Republic with a group of users, who "talk" about Vodafone. The aim of authors is to determine whether there is a significant correlation between the nu...

This article is review of book of J. O. Gasset: "Reflection on technics", which was published by Oikoymenh in 2011. The book is a set of twelve lectures from 1933, preface from 1939 and introductory chapter "What is technics?" found in Gasset's unreleased estate. The reader is also offered to consider parallel reflection toward to the information s...

The paper describes a series of successive European ITS (Intelligent Transport Systems) projects on multimodal navigation with the goal to reduce energy consumption in urban areas across the different modes of transport by changing the mobility behaviour of travellers. After the initial presentation of basic facts about the projects, we present the...

The contribution points to the current position (role) of transdisciplinary approach in science, which highlights the need, importance and reason for inter- and transdisciplinary collaboration across the humanities and natural sciences. The interpretation is based on fundamental ideological foundations of philosophy and methodology of science and p...

The contribution points to the current position (role) of transdisciplinary approach in science, which highlights the need, importance and reason for inter-and transdisciplinary collaboration across the humanities and natural sciences. The interpretation is based on fundamental ideological foundations of philosophy and methodology of science and pu...