Quality of Goals - a key to the human-oriented technology

<body> <table width="100%"> <tr> <td align="center"> This page requires frames. <a href="http://dl.acs.org.au/index.php/ajis/article/viewPDFInterstitial/201/175">Click here</a> for the non-frames version. <p>Non-frames version <a href="http://dl.acs.org.au/index.php/ajis/article/viewPDFInterstitial/201/175">available</a>.</p> </td> </tr> </table> <h1>Quality of Goals - a key to the human-oriented technology</h1> <h2><i>Barbara Begier</i></h2> <h3>Australasian Journal of Information Systems</h3> <h4>Abstract</h4> <div>A kind of an essay on some social and ethical impact of new technologies has been given in the first five sections. The next two sections bring a study on quality referred to the software process. Then some ethical issues are presented in the context of IT development and computer applications. The need for a quality of goals has been emphasized. Human objectives should gain the top position, especially in a coming post-computer era. Some conceptual research in the topic of quality of goals has been suggested to safe humanistic values.</div> </body>