Book Review: Mark Petticrew and Helen Roberts. Systematic Reviews in the                 Social Sciences: A Practical Guide. Oxford: Blackwell, 2006, £29.99 hbk                 (ISBN: 1 4051 2110 6), xii+336 pp

Auger, Jean‐François

doi:10.1177/00380385080420051403

Sociology

2008

DOI: 10.1177/00380385080420051403

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Book Review: Mark Petticrew and Helen Roberts. Systematic Reviews in the Social Sciences: A Practical Guide. Oxford: Blackwell, 2006, £29.99 hbk (ISBN: 1 4051 2110 6), xii+336 pp

Jean‐François Auger

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At a cost: A review of the public accountability risks of Social Impact Bonds

Demuynck,

Van Dooren

2023

Aust J Public Adm

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Social Impact Bonds (SIBs) have gained popularity as an alternative financing method for public services. SIBs promise to have lower risks for public budgets than traditional approaches. However, integrating private finance instruments into established public accountability procedures is notoriously difficult. Through a systematic review of the empirical research on implemented SIBs, this article examines those public accountability concerns. The results indicate that narratives of a new, more horizontal way of holding organisations accountable should not be accepted too easily. Risks are identified in the literature in four public accountability dimensions: transparency, controllability, responsiveness, and liability. Accountability safeguards will need to centre on establishing detailed procedures that precisely delineate the role of each actor, building effective platforms for both gathering and sharing information, and adequately transferring risks. At the same time, these safeguards could come at the cost of the attractiveness of the instrument for investors, creating a catch‐22 in which making the SIB a sustainable model of service delivery at the same time may undermine its viability.Points for practitioners To address public accountability risks, practitioners can focus on establishing procedures that clearly define the roles of each actor involved in the SIB, creating effective platforms for gathering and sharing information between partners and making sure that financial risks are adequately transferred to private partners. At the same time, implementing safeguards for public accountability may prove challenging, as it increases transaction costs and undermines the attractiveness of SIBs for all actors. Administrations should use SIBs sparingly and transition from multiplex SIBs to two‐party contracts once programmes prove effective.

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At a cost: A review of the public accountability risks of Social Impact Bonds

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Van Dooren

2023

Aust J Public Adm

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Understanding usability evaluation setup for VR products in industry

Karre

Mathur

Reddy

2020

SIGAPP Appl. Comput. Rev.

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VR development practices have a diverse set of practices compared to traditional software development. Tasks like scene design, acoustic design, vergence manipulation, image depth, etc. are specific to VR apps and hence require evaluation processes that may be different from the traditional means. Usability Evaluation is one such process which is being executed in an unconventional way by Industrial Practitioners today. In this paper, the researchers detail a Systematic Literature Review of the Usability Evaluation Methods practised by Industrial researchers while building VR Products. The researchers found that VR Product teams follow unique methods to improve usability in their products. Further, the researchers consolidate these methods and provide insights into choosing the best to build a real-world VR Product based on the defined product constraints

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RE Methods for Virtual Reality Software Product Development: A Mapping Study

Karre,

Reddy,

Mittal

2024

ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol.

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Software practitioners use various methods in Requirements Engineering (RE) to elicit, analyze and specify the requirements of a enterprise products. The methods impact the final product characteristics and influence product delivery. Ad-hoc usage of the methods by software practitioners can lead to inconsistency and ambiguity in the product. With the notable rise in enterprise products, games, etc. across various domains, Virtual Reality (VR) has become an essential technology for the future. The methods adopted for requirement engineering for developing VR products requires a detailed study. This paper presents a mapping study on requirement engineering methods prescribed and used for developing VR applications including requirements elicitation, requirements analysis, and requirements specification. Our study provides insights into the use of such methods in the VR community and suggests using specific requirement engineering methods in various fields of interest. We also discuss future directions in requirement engineering for VR products.

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Book Review: Mark Petticrew and Helen Roberts. Systematic Reviews in the Social Sciences: A Practical Guide. Oxford: Blackwell, 2006, £29.99 hbk (ISBN: 1 4051 2110 6), xii+336 pp

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At a cost: A review of the public accountability risks of Social Impact Bonds

At a cost: A review of the public accountability risks of Social Impact Bonds

Understanding usability evaluation setup for VR products in industry

RE Methods for Virtual Reality Software Product Development: A Mapping Study

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