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This research aims to mitigate the inhibiting factors that prevent faculty and students from excelling in their roles in engineering education. The approach focuses on the identification and subsequent usage of “prior knowledge” one accumulates perpetually with the passage of time. The approach is expected to help students and faculty alike to share their under-utilized knowledge bank in a structured...
Online advertising is a $26 billion industry in the US. While this represents significant income for Web sites hosting such ads, sites need to balance the income against the needs of their audience. Inasmuch as advertisements dissuade users from returning to a site and cause delays and decreases in task performance, their presence extracts a "cost" from users. This proposal discusses exploring...
Online information search is often seen as a highly utilitarian task but consumers' diverse ways of using the web have brought forth more hedonic information search patterns. At the same time, the impact of electronic word-of-mouth (eWOM) on consumer purchase decisions is increasing. The purpose of this study is to investigate the differences between hedonic and utilitarian eWOM search in the light...
Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) can be used as a way to modernize Legacy Applications (LAs), in particular to provide users with an innovative, state-of-the-art interactive experience. RIAs have the same richness in term of interaction grammar as Client-Server Applications (CSAs) and Desktop Applications (DAs), giving designers the opportunity to exploit the Web infrastructure also in domains where...
Web sites are often a mixture of static sites and programs that integrate relational databases as a back-end. As they evolve to meet ever-changing user needs, new versions of programs, interactions and functionalities may be added and existing ones may be removed or modified. Web sites require configuration and programming attention to assure security, confidentiality, and trust of the published information...
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...
The rapid growth of internet usage for acquiring health information has received a great deal of attention. Thus, by empirically investigating the official website of National Cancer Center of South Korea, this study adopted the concept of Elaboration Likelihood Model to examine the integration effects of website quality and perceived credibility on user satisfaction and the intention to use under...
Individuals are turning increasingly toward web-based information sources as input for complex decisions. Gathering and evaluating decision criteria in an online context is enticing because of information availability and increased control over the process, but how do these factors impact performance? This study shows how an interaction effect between Social Comparison and Social Facilitation predicts...
Internet has gained huge popularity over the last decade. It offers its users reliable, efficient and exciting online services. However, the users reveal a lot of their personal information by using these services. Websites that collect information state their practices with data in their privacy policies. However, it is difficult to ensure if the policies are enforced properly in their practices...
Sales on the Internet have increased significantly during the last decade, and so, it is crucial for companies to retain customers on their web site. Among all strategies towards this goal, providing customers with a flexible search tool is a crucial issue. In this paper, we propose an approach, called TIGER, for handling such flexibility automatically. More precisely, if the search criteria of a...
Website Personalization is one of strategic technique in delivering services in online applications. A part of process for building personalization applications is to collect particular information from the user which involves information sharing. However, the awareness about privacy concerns and security threats have caused to non-sharing behavior among the Internet Users. This situation have caused...
In the past, many researches have examined and addressed the notion of trust multidimensional in concepts within the areas of e-commerce ranging from business to business (B2B), business to consumer (B2C) and consumer to consumer (C2C). Indeed, the element of trust is vital in ensuring the success of e-commerce. However, the web evolution has moved the interpersonal and inter-organizational transactions...
Microblogging is a communication paradigm in which users post bits of information (brief text updates or micro media such as photos, video or audio clips) that are visible by their communities. When a user finds a “meme” of another user interesting, she can eventually repost it, thus allowing memes to propagate virally trough a social network. In this paper we introduce the meme ranking problem, as...
Recently, many messages are submitted and read using microblog Web services, such as twitter, face book, and others. These messages are written by unspecified users, these messages consists of unreliable contents. Therefore, to specify which contents are reliable or not, we should analyze messages. However, these messages are too short, we are hard extract meaningful, useful features from these messages...
Most recently, the use of collaboration element within information behavior research namely Collaborative Information Behavior (CIB) has been increasing. In addition, the success of wiki-based, large-scale, open collaborative content creation systems such as Wikipedia has aroused increasing interests of studies on their collaborative model. In contrast to previous related work, this paper focuses...
Web log files store data related to the use of a website. Analyzing these data in detail is therefore crucial for improving the user browsing experience. However, usually Web log data are stored in flat files in different formats which hinders their analysis, thus obliging to use specific Web log analysis tools. In this context, approaches for structuring Web log data to better analyze them are highly...
Based on the recognition of context for physics teaching in current middle schools, this paper reports a web-based virtual lab (IWVL) for junior high schools' physics experimental teaching. The theoretical foundations for system design, system architecture, functional characteristics, experimental platforms, and four usage scenarios of IWVL are highlighted in the discussions.
With XML becoming the de facto standard for representing and exchanging data on the Internet, the problem of validation of XML data when updated has attracted more and more attentions. The traditional brute-force validation processes the entire updated XML document from scratch, which is less efficient. This paper presents a method for XML incremental validation based on simplified XML element sequence...
The E-commerce website credibility has become a deciding factor in network marketing. The website credibility is a sense of trust and its intensity towards the E-commerce website is produced by the customer. According to the factors affecting the customer's assessment of the E-commerce website credibility, the evaluation indicator framework is divided into three level indicators, respectively: the...
In order to talk to each other meaningfully, conversational partners utilize different types of conversational knowledge. Due to the fact that speakers often use grammatically incomplete and incorrect sentences in spontaneous language, knowledge about conversational and terminological context turns out to be as much important in language understanding as traditional linguistic analysis. In the context...
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