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bejan853

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Yeah well my teacher is a dick and doesn't teach and just gives us assignments to answer.
Well the question is, "
Describe in detail how the following information processes are undertaken by both
users and participants in your system.
a. Processing
b. Storage and retrieval
c. Collecting
".
The system being used is CityRail for the whole class. Any help would be extremely helpful and if u wanna write me a full 6 mark answer that would be actually beautiful. :) cheers
 

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lol we don't do your work.

Your teacher is like mine, my teacher gives us lots of assignments to do the syllabus.
 

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Find out the difference between a user & a participant & then go over the 7 information processes again & then try & put it in context of the information system you were given. It's a very simple question.

As Powlmao said, we don't do your homework for you.
 

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My advice, you define in your mind the difference between users and participants (they are really annoying because it is so easy to mix them up)
 

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My advice, you define in your mind the difference between users and participants (they are really annoying because it is so easy to mix them up)
Are participants ones who add the data (eg: commuters of cityrail) and users the ones who use the data (system admins and stuff)?
 

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Are participants ones who add the data (eg: commuters of cityrail) and users the ones who use the data (system admins and stuff)?
Commuters of CityFail are users & the CityFail staff such as the system admins would be the participants.
 

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Can you explain this a bit more...I have no idea what it means...

Users of the information
Participants in the information ?
More specific to TPS:
The user of the information system is the person belonging to the organisation that owns the transaction system.

Participants are the people who conduct the information processing.
From http://hsc.csu.edu.au/ipt/trans_systems/4-1/tps.htm

More general:
Participants are the people who carry out the information processes within the information system. They interact with, and are in control of the information technology.
Users are the people who use the information system.
 
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More specific to TPS:
The user of the information system is the person belonging to the organisation that owns the transaction system.

Participants are the people who conduct the information processing.
From http://hsc.csu.edu.au/ipt/trans_systems/4-1/tps.htm

More general:
Participants are the people who carry out the information processes within the information system. They interact with, and are in control of the information technology.
Users are the people who use the information system.
So say the information system is a speed camera.

Participants are speeding cars and users are the people who analyse and use the information?
 

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poor example - speed camera is collection device for an information system

In most cases, you (student) are the user of the school library catalogue database
the librarian is a participant of the that information system
 

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poor example - speed camera is collection device for an information system

In most cases, you (student) are the user of the school library catalogue database
the librarian is a participant of the that information system
What about if the system records all queries to find the most requested book...am I then the participant?
 

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