Abstract: With rights to access becoming basic human rights, a tool for building disability inclusiveness assessment is necessary to tell how far we have gone to include people with disabilities in buildings. This article proposes a Building Inclusiveness Assessment Score (BIAS) framework which is made up of two hierarchies of inclusion attributes, namely the Physical Disability Inclusion Sub-score (PDIS) and the Visual Impairment Inclusion Sub-score (VIIS). The tool allows simple, quantitative and more objective assessments of buildings. Using the tool, forty-eight university buildings from four universities in Hong Kong were assessed for illustrating its real-life application.

• Publication Date: 09-Mar-2014
• DOI: 10.15224/978-1-63248-003-3-100
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Abstract: Feedback mechanism is one way for the website administrator to evaluate the usage of the website. Higher usage of the website indicates that the website is meeting the users’ needs. For the purpose of this research, knowledge transfer (KT) is defined as a process that includes any exchange of knowledge between or among individuals, teams, groups or organizations. It is the process by which knowledge is transmitted to, and absorbed by, users. Knowledge in this research is scoped to include education knowledge resources (information and services) made explicit and available to users via education websites. This paper illustrates feedback mechanisms used by the website administrator to evaluate the performance of Australian government education-based website that supports KT. This is an interpretive case study which applies qualitative data capture and analysis methods. A total of nine interviews were conducted at a government agency in Australia, known as AUSED which is an education-base

• Publication Date: 09-Mar-2014
• DOI: 10.15224/978-1-63248-003-3-101
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