Shirley Becker

Shirley Becker is a Professor of Computer Information Systems at Northern Arizona University, USA, and the recipient of the Mark Layton Award for Research Excellence. Formerly she was at the Florida Institute of Technology and American University in Washington, D.C. Dr. Becker has published more than 50 articles in the areas of Web usability, Web accessibility, database and Web technologies, software engineering and process management. Dr. Becker is an Associate and Section Editor for the Journal of Database Management and Journal of Informing Science, respectively, and she serves on several editorial review boards. She has received awards to fund research from Texas Instruments, IBM, NSF and NASA JPL.

Publications

Mobile Web Accessibility and Government Compliance
Mobile Web Accessibility and Government Compliance
Christian Sonnenberg, Shirley Ann Becker. © 2015. 8 pages.
Emerging Technologies for Aging in Place
Emerging Technologies for Aging in Place
Shirley Ann Becker, Frank Webbe. © 2011. 7 pages.
Similar to other nations, the United States faces a critical challenge in dealing with an aging population that has unprecedented life expectancies. Emerging technologies offer...
Web Access by Older Adult Users
Web Access by Older Adult Users
Shirley Ann Becker. © 2009. 6 pages.
The older adult population in the U.S. continues to increase at a rapid pace due to aging baby boomers and increased life expectancy. Older Americans, 60 years and older, will...
Web Accessibility and Compliance Issues
Web Accessibility and Compliance Issues
Shirley Ann Becker. © 2009. 6 pages.
The impetus for accessible electronic and information technology was driven by federal initiatives with the objective of “bridging the digital divide” (U. S. Department of...
Web Usability
Web Usability
Shirley Ann Becker. © 2009. 5 pages.
The study of computing technology and user interfaces was initiated during the 1970s when industrial research laboratories began to focus on human-computer interaction (HCI)...
PDA Usability for Telemedicine Support
PDA Usability for Telemedicine Support
Shirley Ann Becker. © 2009. 7 pages.
Telemedicine is broadly defined as the use of information and communications technology to provide medical information and services (Perednia & Allen, 1995). Telemedicine offers...
Emerging Technologies for Aging in Place
Emerging Technologies for Aging in Place
Shirley Ann Becker, Frank Webbe. © 2008. 6 pages.
Similar to other nations, the United States faces a critical challenge in dealing with an aging population that has unprecedented life expectancies. Emerging technologies offer...
A Case Study on a Security Maturity Assessment of a Business-to-Business Electronic Commerce Organization
A Case Study on a Security Maturity Assessment of a Business-to-Business Electronic Commerce Organization
Shirley Ann Becker, Anthony Berkemeyer. © 2008. 17 pages.
GlobalUBid.com is a B2B (business-to-business) e-commerce company offering excess and obsolete inventory to online customers. GlobalUBid is rapidly expanding into the global...
PDA Usability for Telemedicine Support
PDA Usability for Telemedicine Support
Shirley Ann Becker. © 2006. 6 pages.
Telemedicine is broadly defined as the use of information and communications technology to provide medical information and services (Perednia & Allen, 1995). Telemedicine offers...
Managing Security Vulnerabilities in a Business-to-Business Electronic Commerce Organization
Managing Security Vulnerabilities in a Business-to-Business Electronic Commerce Organization
Shirley Ann Becker, Anthony Berkemeyer. © 2005. 25 pages.
GlobalUBid.com is a B2B (business-to-business) e-commerce company offering excess and obsolete inventory to online customers. GlobalUBid is rapidly expanding into the global...
Web Access by Older Adult Users
Web Access by Older Adult Users
Shirley Ann Becker. © 2005. 6 pages.
The older adult population in the U.S. continues to increase at a rapid pace due to aging baby boomers and increased life expectancy. Older Americans, 60 years and older, will...
Web Usability
Web Usability
Shirley Ann Becker. © 2005. 5 pages.
The study of computing technology and user interfaces was initiated during the 1970s when industrial research laboratories began to focus on human-computer interaction (HCI)...
A Case Study on a Security Maturity Assessment of a Business-to-Business Electronic Commerce Organization
A Case Study on a Security Maturity Assessment of a Business-to-Business Electronic Commerce Organization
Shirley A. Becker, Anthony Berkemeyer. © 2004. 19 pages.
GlobalUBid.com is a B2B (business-to-business) e-commerce company offering excess and obsolete inventory to online customers. GlobalUBid is rapidly expanding into the global...
Effective Databases for Text & Document Management
Effective Databases for Text & Document Management
Shirley Becker. © 2003. 386 pages.
Companies and organizations possess a vast amount of data, but in some cases are not able to use the data in an economic and efficient manner. With the increased need for text...
Data Warehousing and Web Engineering
Data Warehousing and Web Engineering
Shirley Becker. © 2002. 334 pages.
Data Warehousing and Web Engineering covers two pertinent topics that are continuously advancing the effective utilization and management of information technology applications....
A Web Usability Assessment Model and Automated Toolset
A Web Usability Assessment Model and Automated Toolset
Shirley A. Becker, Anthony H. Berkemeyer, Natalie A. Roberts. © 2002. 10 pages.
Many organizations are taking advantage of World Wide Web market opportunities through the development of electronic commerce (E-Commerce) web sites. The implementation of an...
A Recursive Approach to Software Development
A Recursive Approach to Software Development
Shirley A. Becker, Alan A. Jorgensen. © 2002. 9 pages.
Researchers and practitioners alike agree that the waterfall approach to software development results in poor quality software systems. Unfortunately, the waterfall approach is...
Developing Quality Complex Database Systems: Practices, Techniques and Technologies
Developing Quality Complex Database Systems: Practices, Techniques and Technologies
Shirley Becker. © 2001. 384 pages.
The objective of Developing Quality Complex Database Systems is to provide opportunities for improving today's database systems using innovative development practices, tools...
A Practical Perspective on Data Quality Issues
A Practical Perspective on Data Quality Issues
Shirley Becker. © 1998. 3 pages.
Approximately 90% of the respondents of an informal survey* on data warehousing opportunities readily identified data quality problems in their database systems. The respondents...
The Expert’s Opinion
The Expert’s Opinion
Shirley Becker. © 1998. 2 pages.
An interview with Mitchell Bostelman,Project Manager American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) and Sanjai Chandra, President Microtek Information Systems, Inc.
INDUSTRY AND PRACTICE: Initiating Change in Documentation Practices
INDUSTRY AND PRACTICE: Initiating Change in Documentation Practices
Shirley Becker. © 1998. 3 pages.
As database systems continue to grow in size and complexity, organizations may find themselves struggling with the burden of poorly documented systems. In many cases, developers...
The Expert’s Opinion: Is the Webmaster Position Becoming Obsolete?
The Expert’s Opinion: Is the Webmaster Position Becoming Obsolete?
Shirley Becker. © 1998. 2 pages.
Jeana Scheirer is currently a consultant in Research and Development for Q-Labs, Inc., an international Software Engineering consulting firm, dedicated to providing...
INDUSTRY AND PRACTICE: The Dissemination of Good Practices in Database Development Work
INDUSTRY AND PRACTICE: The Dissemination of Good Practices in Database Development Work
Shirley Becker. © 1998. 2 pages.
Though the concept of sharing good practices regarding database development is not new, many organizations lack an effective sharing mechanism. A typical problem occurs when a...
The Expert’s Opinion: A Personal Perspective on the Use of Computing Technology
The Expert’s Opinion: A Personal Perspective on the Use of Computing Technology
Shirley Becker. © 1998. 2 pages.
Thomas Ernest Allen was born in Chateauroux, France. He graduated from Wagner High School, Clark Air Base, Philippines. He attended Howard University, Washington D.C. majoring in...
An Information Abstraction Model for End User CASE Support
An Information Abstraction Model for End User CASE Support
Shirley Becker, Rick Gibson. © 1997. 7 pages.
Computer-aided software engineering (CASE) tools have been judged as failures by various, traditional measures of an organization’s success in systems development. We propose to...
A Study of a Generic Schema for Management of Multidatabase Systems
A Study of a Generic Schema for Management of Multidatabase Systems
Shirley A. Becker, Rick Gibson, Nancy L. Leist. © 1996. 7 pages.
Currently, a great deal of effort is being directed toward the development of heterogeneous database concepts in order to achieve system interoperability. This paper presents a...