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This paper contributes to the discussion on health behavior change support systems by examining one of the persuasive software features, social support. The paper studies the influence of structural social support on functional social support types in the online environment. Specifically, the paper examines the frequency of using two different kinds of online social platforms (online forums and Facebook...
While gamification has been studied, applied, and sometimes contested within a variety of contexts (especially education and business), the concept of avatarification -- the utilization of virtual self-representations within a mediated environment -- is relatively new and has great potential for enhancing learning contexts. Building on previous work which suggests that people behave consistently with...
Reputation management plays a key role in improving brand awareness and mastering the impact of harmful events. Aware of its importance, companies invest a lot in acquiring powerful social media monitoring tools (SMM). Several SMM tools are available today in the market, they help marketers and firms' managers follow relevant insights that inform them about what people think about their brand, who...
The social media is gaining a lot of importance among businesshouses, academicians, medical practitioners, politicians, among others, due to its role in creating awareness about products, services, and socio-political views. The end users of these products, services, and views provide their feedbacks in the form of comments. An accurate determination of the sentiments of end users is crucial in designing...
In the past years, the World Wide Web (WWW) has become a huge source of user-generated content and opinionative data. Using social media, such as Twitter, Facebook, etc. user share their views, feelings in a convenient way. Social media, such as Twitter, Facebook, etc, where millions of people express their views in their daily interaction, which can be their sentiments and opinions about particular...
Social media platforms facilitate the emergence of citizen communities that discuss real-world events. Their content reflects a variety of intent ranging from social good (e.g., volunteering to help) to commercial interest (e.g., criticizing product features). Hence, mining intent from social data can aid in filtering social media to support organizations, such as an emergency management unit for...
This paper introduces a concept for the classification of social media posts using twitter as an example. Thereby tweets are classified solely based on their metadata. We hereby use findings of network analysis and determine the strategic position, activity and reputation of a twitter user in order to classify his tweets into SPAM or HAM. Furthermore the next step of development for this concept,...
Research problem: Deciding whether to accept or reject contract clauses in software purchasing contracts is a complex communication-related task, which is likely faced daily by a multitude of software purchasing professionals in a variety of organizations. Research question: What are the effects of viewing contract clauses as video clips, compared to viewing clauses as text only, in terms of cognitive...
Social Network Services (SNS) have been recently commonly used for collecting and inferring user-related information. As SNS users leave multiple traces of their activities and thoughts, it has become possible to predict their future actions, e.g., a trip to a far-away destination or a purchase of a certain product. In this paper, we approach the latter problem and attempt to predict purchasing actions...
Game based learning is still not widely accepted for work based learning purposes. Though game based learning has been integrated into formal education in school and university, corporate human resource departments still rely on more traditional learning approaches, since computer games are often seen as more of an opposite to work processes.
The rapid development of the Internet and e-commerce has accumulated numerous data about products, services and customers, which contains meaningful information that recommender system can utilize to realize a more accurate recommendation. In daily life, it is nature for users to seek suggestion from a friend and the more professional and intimated the friend is, the more impact the suggestion has...
From ancient to modern world stories are used to build meaning and to communicate. The use of new technology in education system has increased worldwide. Along with technology advancement children of this century have various mode of interaction for learning, listening, interpreting and thinking. Storytelling in class room has seen development by unifying ancient art of telling stories with multimedia...
The number of documents on the web increases rapidly and often there is an enormous information overlap between different sources covering the same topic. Since it is impractical to read through all posts regarding a subject, there is a need for summaries combining the most relevant facts. In this context combining information from different sources in form of stories is an important method to provide...
Social media (SM) has seen an exponential growth since its inception on the web, making it an interesting and unexplored area of research. The positives and the novelty of the SM sites have resulted in its integration to our daily lives. Unfortunately, there are repercussions to its adoption, including but not limited to uncontrollable daily dedicated hours; loneliness creating the need to use it...
In our current context, the Social Web is fostering the creation of a wide range of new textual genres (e.g., review sites, blogs, fora, social networks or microblogs). These new textual genres are becoming more and more important for both users and also for the business sector. Their effective analysis and exploitation may offer an added-value for the decision-making processes of customers but also...
Mobile technologies can be used to enhance learning experiences of students in different ways, supporting the CILP, the creative and innovative learning process. In this study was analyzed how the combination of the flipped classroom approach and mobile devices used as educational tools in higher education could support innovative learning in a university in Turkey. The results of the study revealed...
Contemporary human behaviours using the Internet and social media are an extension of behaviours seen long before the knowledge society. In particular, online identities and avatars, and the behaviours associated with these, have strong precedents in literature, in philosophy and in medieval carnival. The philosopher Mikhail Bakhtin has described these phenomena in detail. The growth in scale of such...
With the emergence of Web 2.0, large amounts of multimedia enriched data have deluged the cyberspace rendering the process for the selection and recommendation of relevant content increasingly difficult for the end-user. This overabundance of audio-visual material needs to be handled if one wishes to provide quality services related to content delivery, syndication, recommendations etc. In this work,...
Discovering contexts of user's expertise can be achallenging task, especially if there is no explicit attributionprovided. With more professionals adopting social networks as amean of communicating with their colleagues and broadcastingupdates on the area of their competence, it is crucial to detectsuch individuals automatically. This would not only allow forbetter follower recommendation, but would...
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