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This paper presents the design of a new social messaging app for family connection called Kin Circle. From the lens of Interaction Ritual Chains Theory, we argue that interactions among family members through social messaging groups can be seen as successful rituals, which give rise to more rituals that strengthen familial bond. Our previous study of WhatsApp usage among extended family members shows...
A well-designed field trip can promote active learning and reinforce classroom materials (Kisiel, 2006). Few studies examine the potential of using social media to enhance IS field trip experiences by promoting active and collaborative learning. One major barrier to the exploitation of this potential is the adoption of social media by students as a learning tool to enhance field trip experiences....
This paper defines a model of a special type of digital forensics tools, known as digital media preparation forensic tools, using the formal refinement language Event-B. The complexity and criticality of many types of computer and Cyber crime nowadays combined with improper or incorrect use of digital forensic tools calls for the evidence produced by such tools to be able to meet the minimum admissibility...
Multimedia recommendation technology has been developed in various fields these days. In order to provide multimedia in addition to dialog, it is essential to select appropriate multimedia associated with a certain situation for more delivery effects of digital storytelling, which enables story telling agents to share their stories with users using digital multimedia in an effective way. For this...
Captions are a central component in image posts that communicate the background story behind photos. Captions can enhance the engagement with audiences and are therefore critical to campaigns or advertisement. Previous studies in image captioning either rely solely on image content or summarize multiple web documents related to image's location; both neglect users' activities. We propose business-aware...
The online media in a context of proximity has experimented in recent years a series of transformations towards new communicative and business models, due to the economic recession and the crisis of the newspapers' traditional model suffered by the media industry. In a global context of crisis in the traditional local media sector, readers express a growing necessity of information about the geographical...
Based upon the theoretical perspective from Uses and Gratifications (U&G) theory, this study develops a nomological model to explain how incentivized gamification, hedonic presence, individual needs and platform synergy affect consumer active participation in the phenomena of online shopping carnival on singles' day in China. Data gathered from online shopping consumers in China through a large-scale...
The rapid adoption of MPEG-DASH is testament to its core design principles that enable the client to make the informed decision relating to media encoding representations, based on network conditions, device type and preferences. Typically, the focus has mostly been on the different video quality representations rather than audio. However, for device types with small screens, the relative bandwidth...
In this paper, a crowdsourcing experiment was conducted involving different panels of participants. The aim of this study is to evaluate how the preference of one image over another one is related with the knowledge of the participant in photography. In previous work the two discriminant evaluation concepts “presence of a main subject” and “exposure” were found to distinguish group participants with...
This paper analyzes the factors technological context that uses Spanish hotels in the e-CRM systems. It is built on the model of Chang, Liao and Hsiao (2005). The data are collected from corporate web and analyzed using Rasch Model (1961). The results indicate that the technological context of e-CRM is based more on the analysis of customer information than in the integration of e-CRM technologies...
The new media became an extension of the traditional media, allowing to the public access information in a wide range of digital devices. In this sense, our qualitative study with empirical descriptive nature focuses on a literature review about Web Radio and its educative strand. This is an innovator and incipient issue on literature when investigating the potentialities of the radiophonic universe...
In Ecuador there is an issue that is particularly important in the media context. In 2007, with the arrival of Rafael Correa to the presidency of the government it leads to the creation of a public television medium, a project that allows citizens have an area of public service. On the other hand, in 2013, a new Organic Law of Communication which is included for the first time the concept of public...
The role of social media may be considered as an important development in aiding crisis, thus the purpose of this study was to determine the factors influencing the use of social media during crises. An online survey of 44 respondents was conducted. The study revealed that there is a need for the use of social media in crises, however there were underlying factors contributing to the use of social...
The author argues that much as ICTs are enablers for democracy, their practices are not always as intended. This paper explores factors that lead to unintended effects and the impact of such unintended effects on democracies. The unintended effects may turn out to be either positive or negative. Online case studies (such as mailing lists, social networks and online newspapers) and document analysis...
Content delivery networks deliver much of the world's web and video content by deploying a large distributed network of servers. We model and analyze a simple paradigm for client-side server selection that is commonly used in practice where each user independently measures the performance of a set of candidate servers and selects the one that performs the best. For web (resp. video) delivery, we propose...
In this paper we explore the process of appropriation attempting to broaden the set of topics considered significant on it. We present a model of appropriation derived from two studies conducted in the UK, Japan, South Korea and China. We describe our model based on a characterisation of elements supportive of appropriation in the context of use (discussed in terms of space/place, social practices...
Development of technology in educational field brings the easier ways through the variety of facilitation for learning process, sharing files, giving assignment and assessment. Automated Essay Scoring (AES) is one of the development systems for determining a score automatically from text document source to facilitate the correction and scoring by utilizing applications that run on the computer. AES...
Analyzing the media channel usage of companies via analytics is an essential skill for managing social media. To acquire this skill, students must have repetitive exercises that invoke higher order thinking. The social media usage comparative case exam uses the framework of a case-based exam to provide both learning and assessment. The pre-exam consists of the time-consuming analysis of social media...
When a crisis or a disaster occurs, first responders, news agencies and the victims often use social media to disseminate situational information. However, authorities involved in disaster management are still not comfortable in using social media data to take decision, since right kind of situational information in a consistent manner is difficult to extract from the unstructured and often unreliable...
Framing or priming a situation can subtly influence how a person reacts to or thinks about the situation. In this paper, we describe a recent study and some preliminary results in which the framing of a robot is manipulated such that it is presented as a social agent or as a machine-like entity. We ask whether framing the robot in these ways influences young children's social behavior during an interaction...
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