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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...
Because the phenomenon about unreasonable arrangement of college students' class hour is relatively common, the system designed a public colleges and universities ordering system based on WeChat. This system took use of convenience and openness of WeChat, which can tremendously simplify the development and promotion. At the same time, online ordering for the students provided a convenient way of eating,...
This paper compares the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) infrastructure between Saudi Arabia and Gulf States universities, the latter consisting of Qatar, Oman, United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Bahrain. A questionnaire, expert-reviewed and pilot-tested, was used to collect data from ten universities in Saudi Arabia and five in the Gulf States. It covered the perspectives offered by faculty...
With the rapid development of technology, Internet has changed people's lives and online community has become a comprehensive platform for exchanging ideas and shopping. This study develops and tests an environmental psychology model of online impulse purchase. The model captures the moderating effect of search and experience product type on the relationship between the online impulse buying intention...
Today internet has become easily accessible which allows the user to perform multiple tasks such as access information, do study, make friends, online shopping, search for anything they want and many more. Similarly people do use internet to know the better options and find out relevant alternatives of product, services, places like wise. But searching for better choices may become frustrating and...
Nowadays, more and more people are using Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in order to accommodate their daily needs. E-Government (e-Gov) adopts these technologies in an effort to provide prompt and secure services to citizens. However, the intention to use e-Government services has not yet been fully examined by the international literature. The present research attempts to bridge...
The paper examines the important factors responsible for the adoption of Internet Banking Services in India. Exploratory and quantitative research forms the basis of this study. All internet banking services have been categorized into 7 types. Through a survey instrument, primary data has been collected from 27 banks' managers, as they are middle layer (between provider and actual customer) in internet...
This paper mainly focuses on the technical factors of the website targeted at shopping mall websites in Korea and China. There are a total of six technical factors, and we conducted an empirical study on how those six factors are different based on the shopping mall websites of two different countries. Statistical data for an empirical study targeted at undergraduate students in Korea and China, and...
With big data technology and predictive analytics techniques, organizations can now register, combine, process and analyze data to answer questions that were unsolvable a few years ago. This paper introduces a solution reference that gives guidance to organizations that want to innovate using big data technology and predictive analytics techniques for improving their performance. The reference architecture...
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...
High schools have rapidly adapted computers in their administration, management and academy. School management uses papers and computers as tools to store the administrative and management data. However computers are not used to analyze data and output information. Therefore, e-School Management System (e-SMS) is developed to facilitate teaching and administration staffs to manage school activities...
Image annotation still remains the method of preference in multimedia search despite the development of many content-based multimedia retrieval platforms. Manual annotation is an extremely labour-intensive and time consuming task while the annotation expresses the view of a particular annotator at a specific context and time. Although the semantic gap has attracted large amount of research interest,...
The purpose of this study is to investigate the difference between students with more experience and students with less experience on the confidence in using technology for learning in Hong Kong higher education. A survey methodology was employed and 211 questionnaires were collected in a Hong Kong university. The finding shows that students with more experience are found to have more confidence in...
This paper discusses the unique challenges of regulating identity crime. Identity crime involves the use of personal identification information to perpetrate crimes of fraud. As such, the identity crime involves using personal and private information to perpetrate crime. This article considers the two significant issues that obstruct responses to this crime; firstly, the reporting of crime. Secondly...
The Internet of Things has shown its unique advantages for medical services in the recent years. In this paper, we present a new idea of remote pain assessment system based on the Internet of Things. The system detects the pain feelings for infants through facial expression sensing. It tunnels a comprehensive and indispensable medical service via internet to any location. The system featuring ubiquitous...
With the Internet of Things, a new times of mobile machine control will come. Meanwhile,some new problems will come too. Speak ordinarily, a mobile machine control system should have the properties of realtimeness, stability, reliability, and control precision. But in the environment of the Internet of Things, the transmission of wireless signal is unstable, that may affect the performance of a mobile...
As the rapid development of Internet, the statistical survey methods are deeply under the influence. Internet survey methods based on the Internet are drawing increasing attention by their particular advantages. This paper has succeeded in discussing the theory of the survey error analysis. According to the own attributes of Internet, we discuss the error origin and the countermeasure analysis of...
There have been many studies for knowledge sharing within the organizational communities, yet very few research has been done on the factor of internet self-efficacy affecting the individuals' knowledge sharing behavior. Drawing from the theory of planned behavior (TPB), this paper examines the relationships between the internet self-efficacy, attitude towards knowledge sharing, subjective norm, perceived...
The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between ICT integration into English as a foreign language (EFL) classes in Iran and EFL teachers' personal characteristics (age, gender, and teaching experience) and technology-related characteristics (frequency of computer and internet use, level of IT literacy, and attitude). Data were collected from 254 Iranian EFL teachers using ICT integration...
With the rise of industrial IOT and development of sensor technology, this paper proposes hoist perception system based on IOT technology. The hoist perception system is analyzed from the hardware architecture, LAN configuration, elevator operation signal acquisition, software design, remote diagnostic center and system safety. The perception system mentioned in this paper is being used to the scene,...
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