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Internet addiction also called as "internet dependency" is a disorder related to excessive or poorly controlled preoccupations regarding computer use and internet access. Although the advantages of internet are undeniable, however, from the pathological perspective its excessive usage is creating disturbances not only in family and relationships but also in health, academics and memory recall...
The purpose of this paper is to explore the key factors affecting consumer's use behavior on financial products similar to Yu'e Bao. Considering the financial market and policy environment in China, theoretical model is founded based on extending Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) and the hypotheses are put forward. Then, to test the model and hypotheses, 199 valid data is...
In this paper we evaluate online audio Qur'an capability as a new media tool. The fact that the number of audio Qur'an on the Internet is increasing, raised a question on whether it could be used as a new media tool to incorporate both Islamic teaching and civilization. Audio Qur'an is a resource that will impact people in many ways. In the circumstances where people that cannot be able to read text...
Customers extend robust trust to a business when they believe the business puts their interests first. Good experience of banking services and recommendations of other customers can increase trust. Loyalty and Word of mouth (WOM) is accepted as key factors successes of marketing. This paper seeks to discover the affecting factors on positive word of mouth and loyalty based on trust enhancement that...
Liaw's attitude questionnaire towards computers and the World Wide Web (WWW), first published in 2002, has revealed good internal consistency but factorial problems over time. “Attitudes” can predict people's behavior in certain situations, although the relationship between attitude and behavior is complex and multidimensional. Having reliable and valid instruments to measure variables is an essential...
Long-term monitoring of systems installed in the field is the ultimate standard for evaluating photovoltaic components and systems. This study, which involves the long-term outdoor exposure in a hot and humid climate, intends to address the performance degradation and failure mechanisms which are difficult or impossible to simulate in the lab during time constrained accelerated tests. Experimental...
The aim of this paper is to provide a theoretical framework to analyze obstacles, challenges, and incentives which lead non-professional developers to design websites and produce information that are accessible to people with disabilities, and to describe the development of a reliable and validated instrument designed to test it. Results show that intrinsic motivation, self-efficacy, influence of...
This paper proposed a method for assessing the service quality of e-government public service. The measurement of service quality is of great importance to service provider, particularly government institutions. E-government has become an explicit component of public sector reform and the aim of e-government is improving the performance of public service. In this paper the public service quality of...
The objective of this study is web-sites, and the purpose of which is to revalidate End-User Computing Satisfaction (EUCS) instrument to measure user's satisfaction with web-sites. This study is especially important given that the increased significance of the web-sites and its uniqueness in computing application field. A total of 38 persons participated in the survey via e-mail. Fit indices analysis...
The service of website is becoming so important that people pay more attention to the quality of service than that of systems and information. And there are many instruments to assess the service quality of Websites (WebSQ) which include different items from 6 to 156. However, the managers usually only need key aspects when they give proposal to improve the WebSQ effectively and efficiently. Traditionally,...
By comparing the content of Chinese and American B2C Home furniture web sites, this paper tries to use the Chi-square test of independence to determine whether there are significant differences between them and take charge of a set of index system to compare the content of these web sites. The data for this study comes from 25 Chinese and 25 American Home furniture web sites. In fact, this paper finds...
Web-based technology is increasingly being used for decision support system (DSS) applications. However, evaluation on Web-based DSS is still lack of general consensus about what constitutes decision quality that makes the evaluation of DSS difficult. Web-based survey was conducted to gather opinions, comments and suggestions from the experienced respondents in construction tendering processes. The...
With the increasing popularity of online shopping, e-commerce is becoming more and more important for enterprises to obtain superior performance. The purpose of this study is to identify some key determinants impacting customer purchase intention in e-commerce context. Building on the relevant literature, this article proposed e-commerce serive quality (ESQ) as a primary construct to predict purchase...
The measurement of Information Systems (IS) effectiveness has been prominent on the research agenda since the 1980s. Consequently various approaches for measuring IS effectiveness have been produced including that of service quality. This approach has its roots in the marketing discipline where service quality is primarily used to measure business success via a customer satisfaction set of dimensions...
Service quality has been a construct of interest in strategic management and marketing research for many years. Nevertheless, the phenomenon of e-commerce service has only been recently introduced. The purpose of this paper is to develop an instrument for measuring service quality in an e-commerce context. In the current study, e-commerce service quality (ESQ) was conceptualized as a multi-dimensional...
Virtual Community and E-commerce are both new research area which is becoming popular in IS academia. In most of research papers, virtual community and e-commerce are talked separately in different stream. Since many e-commerce websites contain a virtual community, we combine these two together to consider whether discussions in virtual communities can influence people's online shopping behaviors...
Research addressing the conceptualization and measurement of learning management systems (LMS) within educational organizations as both a web-based learning system for e-learning and as a supportive tool for blended learning environments is receiving attention, and this research study proposes a conceptual e-learning assessment model, HELAM (Hexagonal e-Learning Assessment Model), suggesting a multi-dimensional...
In this paper we design three programs, the first one is an automatic network RF signal measurement (ANRSM), the second one is automatic RF module and baseband hardware device self-diagnosis SmartMobileTest, and the last one is RF remote control test program (RRCTP). The greatest advantages of our ANRSM and our SmartMobileTest are that they are of a small size with portability, and that they reduce...
In the United States, congress has set goals for the diffusion of e-government initiatives. One of congress' goals for 2007 was for 80% of tax and informational returns to be filed electronically. However, to date that goal has not been achieved. This paper proposes a model of e-file adoption integrating the UTAUT model, online trust, perceived risk, and optimism bias into a comprehensive model of...
There are several factors restricting the development of online-shopping in China, the imperfect privacy protection law and consumers' distrust are the main barriers. By using a sample of 759 Chinese students, our study examined the IUIPC instrument and analyzed the relationship between Internet users' information privacy concerns and their intention to transact online. Consistent with prior findings,...
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