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Objective: the objectives of this article are: (a) to provide an analysis of the key factors of an efficient web strategy with regard to the issue of patient empowerment, (b) to build an index for measuring the degree of empowerment of healthcare providers' web sites, (c) to measure the degree of "patient web empowerment" within the Italian National Health Service (INHS). Methods: a Patient...
Virtual community members' strong interactivity makes community information become an important factor that influence consumer decision-making. Based on the definition and dimensions of virtual community interactive content characteristics, we made an empirical research on the interactive content characteristics of C2C virtual community and its influence on users' network purchasing. The results show...
Social networks have made a significant impact on how today's Internet users communicate, search for and share data. Numerous proposals have been made to improve existing distributed systems by leveraging the inherent trust built into social links. Some researchers believe that augmenting online marketplaces with social networking should improve trust between transaction partners and improve user...
On the basis of extant literature, we built a conceptual model of the relationship among Perceived Quality, Perceived Value, Satisfaction, Sense of Belonging and Usage, and proposed some hypotheses about the influencing factors of continued system usage in SNS. To test the hypotheses, we designed a questionnaire, and conducted a survey in Xidian University. We used SPSS13.0 to analyze the collected...
Based on the research of Henning-Thurau and Mee-Shew Cheung, the authors studied the motives of electronic word-of-mouth (e-WOM) in China. The findings reported here indicate that the motives of Seeking confirmation, Expressing or sharing positive feelings, Helping companies, Web convenience, Negative experiences had significant impact on e-WOM behavior. The different motives of e-WOM on different...
Perceived social presence is considered to be a major design principle in computer-mediated communication and an important determinant of online shopping. In this research, a multidimensional customer-centric modal of social presence that is more specific to people's online shopping experience was developed and the potential of such a conceptualization was investigated to provide a better explanation...
Web automation programs offer a means for users to enhance the usability of the web. These programs can be published on a wiki or other repository, thereby making them available for use by other users. However, in addition to programs of broad usefulness to the community at large, these repositories also contain many programs that are unreliable or highly specialized to the needs of very small sub-...
This paper reports on a study that investigated the question of whether the personality traits of individuals participating in online communities affect the nature and level of their involvement. An online survey gathered data on the level and type of each participant's engagement in their online community forum, as well as data from a 44 item instrument for measuring personality type, based on the...
While many theorists have argued that weak ties facilitate online social support, strong evidence within these communities clearly show that the distinction between weak ties and strong ties should be reexamined. After a short expose on tie strength and online social support, we give an example of how this research has operationalized weak ties only in terms of one of Granovetter's four basic components...
This paper investigates the advantages of using web data to forecast white liquor market demand. The authors constructed the corresponding relationship between web information structure and white liquor market demand, explored the methods of using web data mining techniques to analyze and predict white liquor market demands, and established the principles of constructing knowledge base based on the...
At present, computer science teaching exists critical problems. Emerging technologies of information and communication have been attracting the attention of teachers and researchers in recent years. Constructivism is a learning theory found in psychology which explain how people might acquire knowledge and learn. It therefore has direct application to education. Based on constructivism this paper...
When we are dealing with community structure detecting in the blogosphere, we have come to face some obstacles. The data in a blog may be updated frequently by its owner, making the whole blogosphere become very large during a short period of time. It can be very expensive to deal with such huge amount of data using those traditional methods. Meanwhile, few blogs in the blogosphere can be identified...
Blog and microblog have become one of the most popular applications which individuals could be the message source. Therefore, interactivities between individuals have been largely enhanced in today's world. In terms of message delivery and human behavior, understanding the mechanism behind is of significance. Though human dynamics has become a popular subject, most of relevant studies so far used...
In this paper we present a service learning course offered in Software Engineering Department at Fairfield University, which links two opposite cities together for good reasons. Web Development is a one-semester course required for undergraduate students and part of the Web Applications track for the graduate program. Currently, it operates with the service learning designation in the undergraduate...
In this study we analyse the structure of a particular form of collective decision-making in Wikipedia, i.e. decisions regarding content inclusion and deletion. Wikipedia's official guidelines require that only topics that meet "notability" standards be included with a dedicated article. Decisions as to whether a topic is "notable" are made by groups of self-appointed reviewers,...
Wikipedia, the “free encyclopedia that anyone can edit”, has evolved substantially over the years according to the editors' needs for more coordination and better quality management. In particular, metadata in the form of “templates” added to pages have come to play a critical role, working in a sense like stigmergic “stigmata” or “signals” which editors use to orient the efforts of their colleagues...
Based on our past research work in the Web 2.0 management area, where we introduced a new management technique, we present a case study of the technique in this paper. It takes into account the new trends in the Internet which became a provider of highly available services with many features presented to a user, but in a decent and easy-to-use manner. We try to address the requirements proposed by...
On the web, static pages fade into the past; web sites use server and client-side scripting techniques to improve the user experience. For client-side scripting, JavaScript is by far the most commonly used dynamic language. In these scripts, regular expressions are widely used for several purposes, e.g., for text filtering and form validation. In this paper, we take a closer look at regular expressions...
Encountering unknown sellers is very common in online auction sites. In such a scenario, a buyer can not estimate trustworthiness of the unknown seller based on the seller's past behavior. The buyer is thus exposed to the risks of being cheated. In this paper we describe a stereotypes based mechanism to determine the risk of a potential transaction even if the seller is personally unknown to not only...
The typical task of unsupervised learning is to organize data, for example into clusters, typically disjoint clusters (eg. the K-means algorithm). One would expect (for example) a clustering of books into topics to present overlapping clusters. The situation is even more so in social networks, a source of ever increasing data. Finding the groups or communities in social networks based on interactions...
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