Modern mobile phones are equipped with many sensors, which can increasingly be used to sense various environmental phenomena. In particular, mobile sensing has enabled crowdsourced data collection at an unprecedented scale. However, as laypersons are involved in this, concerns regarding the data quality arise. This work explores the gamification of smartphone-based measurement processes in practice

ABSTRACT Life-changing events (or LCEs) can alter a person's status quo and threaten well-being. Previous research investigated distinct LCEs, where participants already used technology routinely. This paper reports the results of two field studies through which we compared supports people refer to when experiencing different LCEs. Together with users of technology, our sampling included participants

Personal Intelligent Agents (PIAs) like Siri and Alexa are becoming more popular among users. In this paper, we investigate the effect of humour and voice of personal intelligent agents, their impact on users’ perceptions of intelligence and anthropomorphism, and the relationship of these perceptions with cognitive- and emotion-based trust. The results from an online experiment show that humour and

ABSTRACT This article takes frequent online collective behaviour in the context of the outbreak of the 2019 Novel Coronavirus as its research background. Under the perspective of game theory, based on the Evolutionary Game Model and with the improvement of the model’s original parameter as well as the introduction of a new parameter, i.e. the degree of psychological identity netizens have on opinion

Smartphone-based Social networking sites (SNS) use changed the ways that individuals are increasingly becoming free and flexible to engage in social media wherever and whenever they like. However, there have been few studies that ask possible adverse effects of the late-night usage of Smartphone-based SNS. The current aims to explore the effects of late-night extreme social, cognitive, and hedonic

While mobile payment services have been flourishing in China, users have continually questioned the security of these transactions. Although customization has been proposed as a vital factor for mobile commerce, minimal knowledge exists regarding how it affects users’ perceived security in mobile payment transactions. A quantitative diary study was therefore conducted to provide insight into the personality

In this study, 89 college students were selected as research participants and the eye-tracking method was used to explore their browsing patterns and cognitive processing mechanisms for microblogging pages of celebrities and non-celebrities. Results showed that participants were more interested in the microblogging pages of celebrities than non-celebrities. Different types of participants had different

Eye-tracking research is beneficial for better understanding user behaviour in search engines. The present paper presents a comprehensive narrative literature review of eye-tracking studies examining factors influencing users’ viewing behaviour on results pages of search engines. Discipline-specific databases from Psychology, Computer Science, and Library and Information Science, as well as one multidisciplinary

Conversational case-based reasoning (CCBR) systems retrieve past cases that are similar to a current problem by eliciting situation descriptions in interactive dialogues with their users. To find out how such human-machine cooperation is put into practice, the present article reviews the CCBR literature and extracts a list of dialogue principles – interaction techniques by means of which CCBR systems

This study develops a self-construal framework containing both individual- and social-level variables to explain bloggers’ inner motivations to create contents voluntarily. With the aim of bridging the gaps in previous blogger-related studies, this research explores intrinsic and psychological benefits behind voluntary bloggers’ sharing behaviour via social network sites or weblogs. The proposed structural

(2020). Smart Cities at Play: Technology and Emerging forms of playfulness. Behaviour & Information Technology: Vol. 39, Smart Cities at Play: Technology and Emerging Forms of Playfulness, pp. 607-609.

Research in both Organizational Behavior and Organizational Psychology has found that incivility via mobile phone technology has reached pandemic proportions in our contemporary society with significant negative impacts including poor physical and mental health. Porath and Pearson’s incivility spiral theory posits that the low intensity nature of incivility does not exclude it from becoming a precursors

Online reviews have become one of the most influential persuasive messages concerning decisions making. Researchers have explored different aspects of online reviews and the characteristics of reviewers using various methods; however, few studies have focused on consumers who do not post online reviews after purchasing, resulting in a gap in the research. This study aims to identify consumers’ characteristics

Two characteristics of millennial behaviour motivate the present study – an increasing concern for various life issues, and an increasing level of social media usage. In the present study, we focused on millennials’ societal concerns, financial concerns and social exclusion concerns and examined how these concerns influence social media behaviour. Adopting the compensatory consumer behaviour framework

In this paper, we present ArmMenu, a command input approach for distant displays. ArmMenu has a circular interface like pie menus and menu selection is performed by proprioception-based lateral arm movements. We implemented ArmMenu with an off-the-shelf body tracking device (Kinect) and conducted two experiments to validate its efficacy. In the first experiment, we explored the design space of ArmMenu

Many Q&A sites initially run only in English, and then gradually release their multi-lingual variants to serve users who speak other languages. The launch of such multi-lingual sites always lead to an intense dispute about the pros and cons of multi-lingual sites. Although all arguments and concerns sound reasonable, people can rarely provide solid evidence to convince each other. In this paper, from

Avatars are known to influence behaviour through their individual identity cues (Proteus effect) and through their shared identity cues (Social identity effect). The aim of this study was to investigate these two processes in a crossed design, in order to examine their interaction in the context of a brainstorming task. To activate the Proteus effect, we used creative avatars resembling inventors,

We investigated the similarities and differences among four addiction groups in Korean adolescents: Non-Addiction (NONE), Smartphone Addiction (SA), Internet Addiction (IA), and Internet-Smartphone Addiction (BOTH). For the dependent variables, we examined 12 addiction-risk factors related to psychology, family, and school environment that can influence the adolescents’ normative developmental path

In this article, we report on the lack of reliability of explicit user feedback and its interpretation in the light of system evaluation. It is known, that given feedback strongly depends on the situational context. But also when many contextual factors are held constant, user feedback still proves to be unreliable. This impacts the evaluation of predictive algorithms since it is not clear whether

Microblogs are revolutionising the way users produce, consume and distribute short content. The continuous content contributions of users are crucial for the sustainable development of microblogs. Knowledge regarding this user behaviour is scarce. Based on the uses and gratifications theory (U&G) and the social influence theory (SIT), this paper proposes an integrated research model with the aim of

Bystander behaviour and self-efficacy beliefs play an important role in cyberbullying incidence. This study tested the relationship between the Bystander Intervention Model phases and the mediating role of adolescents’ self-efficacy beliefs. Children from the fifth to twelfth grade (N = 676) participated in this study by responding to questionnaires concerning the various phases of the Bystander Intervention

Shortly after fixating on webpages, users form initial impressions. These initial impressions influence how much users will use and return to websites. Researchers have understudied how objective design features (e.g. visual complexity) influence subjective perceptions of website content and the favorability of initial user impressions. In the present study, the influence of two dimensions of visual

Virtual Reality applications have the goal of transporting their users to a given virtual environment (VE). Thus, Presence is a consensual metric for evaluating the VEs' effectiveness. The present study adapts the Presence Questionnaire (PQ) for the Portuguese-speaking population, maintaining the validity of the contents and concepts, to ascertain the psychometric properties of the instrument.The adaptation

Learning approaches enhanced by digital technologies have gained considerable attention in higher education. Prior research has mainly focused on digital technology adoption in formal learning settings of higher education. Yet, empirical research into discerning what influences a student’s digital informal learning has not been well investigated. This paper proposes that individuals’ digital competence

In most developed countries, the population is gradually ageing. Due to this, there is an increasing demand for technologies whose design is specifically oriented towards meeting the needs of the elderly. In this paper, we describe a web-based cognitive training tool for elderly people, called VIRTRAEL, which comprises 18 exercises presented in 13 working sessions. In order to reach a high degree of

Frequency of Internet use is usually emphasised, in systematic reviews and meta-analyses, as a risk factor in problematic Internet use (PIU). Likewise, studies that focus on the analysis of online activities associated to PIU offer confounding results, although they coincide in pointing out the relevance of motivations associated to online activities. The Internet Addiction Model (IAM) offers a comprehensive

Technological innovations, especially smart fitness wearables, are playing a critical role in the future of fitness and overall well-being. Extant research has examined the adoption of smart fitness wearables, with limited attention paid to continuance intention. The current study attempts to investigate users’ continuance intentions of using smart fitness wearables by combining expectation confirmation

With the rapid development of smart devices, the application range of human behaviour recognition has been expanding. Due to the problems of low efficiency and low accuracy of traditional artificial feature extraction behaviour recognition, human behaviour recognition based on deep learning has become a new direction of research. This paper proposes an adaptive feature recalibration residual network-AFRRNet

Nowadays, chatbots is one of the fast rising artificial intelligence (AI) trend relates to the utilisation of applications that interact with users in a conversational format and mimic human conversation. Chatbots allow business to enhance customer experiences and fulfil expectations through real-time interactions in e-commerce environment. Therefore, factors influence consumer’s trust in chatbots

Creativity’s importance to organisations and businesses is now recognised to be a precondition for both design and innovation. One strategy is to introduce new forms of information system that support human creative thinking by their employees. Most successful uses have been in professional disciplines in the creative industries such as design and theatre. This paper reports the design and evaluation

With the increased popularity of mobile learning, there is a growing demand on the understanding of how the scalable technology, such as mobile devices, influences individual learning behaviours as well as their learning outcome. A theoretical model was built based on the adaptive structuration theory (AST) and the knowledge spiral theory. Using this model, we examined the relationship between structural

Urban–rural divide becomes an obstacle to the development of e-government in China. This research devotes to promoting the adoption of e-government in China. It investigates the attitudes of urban residents versus rural residents toward e-government use in Chongqing, one of most important municipalities of China which is fraught with a serious urban–rural divide. A research model is created to assess

Despite the promotion of equal access to education, the proportion of persons with disabilities decreases drastically from primary school to higher education, resulting in a lower level of education. This lack of qualification represents an additional obstacle to employment opportunities, reinforcing their exclusion from the social sphere. In recent years, computer-based approaches to education have

While voice communication of emotion has been researched for decades, the accuracy of automatic voice emotion recognition (AVER) is yet to improve. In particular, the intergenerational communication has been under-researched, as indicated by the lack of an emotion corpus on child–parent conversations. In this paper, we presented our work of applying Support-Vector Machines (SVMs), established machine

Although research has identified a range of opportunities, risks, and harms related to online social networking, the public debate on online risks follows a set pattern by which members of older age groups (parents, regulators) hold a picture of members of younger age groups (teenagers, digital natives) at a uniformly high level of risk. Perceptions of online risk, however, are prone to third-person

Digital transformation is currently one of the most prominent topics in information systems research. Existing work in this context mainly focuses on the digitalisation of business models and impacts on economy or society. However, with the transformation of business models also come significant IT-induced changes of workplace environments. In this paper, success factors of digital workplace transformation

ABSTRACT Anti-malware software must be frequently updated in order to protect the system and the user from attack. Makers of this software must choose between interrupting the user to update immediately or allowing them to update later. In either case, assessing the content of the interruption may still require cognitive investment. However, by allowing the user to negotiate a delayed response to these

Social networking site (SNS) providers and information system (IS) researchers are becoming increasingly interested in the factors that cause individuals to quit SNS. This study integrates the psychological and neurocognitive perspectives to examine the effects of poor sleep quality on the intention to quit. We utilise stress–strain–outcome, guilt, and ego depletion theories to argue that the excessive

The use of biometric data (BD) records promises to advance the software engineering field. The rapid adoption of wearable computing technology has widely increased the amount of BD records available. Several aspects about the use of BD records in software engineering field are unknown, such as body measurements used to support daily tasks, and empirical methods that are used to evaluate their benefits

This study examines how website specific factors promote prosocial behaviours in website visitors. After reviewing the literature, we hypothesise a structural model involving seven perceptions (ease of use, trust, negative affect, positive affect, aesthetics, information quality, and argument strength) and an interaction between positive and negative affect. We test our model by recording participants’

Public-facing social media platforms, such as Facebook and WeChat, are increasingly being embedded into corporate processes and routines. The use of public social media by employees has aroused widespread interest among scholars in recent years. This study summarises published theories and models and proposes a causal-chain framework for research exploration into employee usage of public social media

Gamification can be an effective mechanism of engaging individual users (i.e. solvers) in task solving on competitive crowdsourcing platforms. However, past literature lacks a nuanced understanding of how gamification elements can affect solvers’ crowdsourcing behaviour via intrinsic and extrinsic motivations. We conceptualised two typical gamification elements (points and immediate performance feedback)

In the era of big data, information resources have grown geometrically, and a large amount of unprocessed massive information has caused some troubles for users to effectively obtain information. Big data brings innovation to mobile library information services, mainly as follows: the restructuring and proliferation of mobile library user groups, the structured construction and deep mining of mobile

Online gaming is part of contemporary life, with a range of influences on gamer’s behaviour. The convergence and alignment of an individual’s attitude and behaviour with features and characteristics of their in-game representation (i.e. their avatar), is conceptualised as the ‘Proteus effect’ (PE). In the massively multiplayer online role-playing game World of Warcraft (WoW), the Draenei (‘exiled ones’)

Although the effects of spatial abilities on behaviour have recently been a hot topic, wayfinding has received little attentions. Here, the reasons for route selection differences during wayfinding were studied from the perspective of individual competence. The mental rotation (A-MR), abstract reasoning (A-AR), visual short-term memory (A-VSTM), spatial perception (A-SP) and spatial orientation (A-SO)

Prior research has shown that the use of Information Communication Technology (ICT) outside work hours blurs work and nonwork boundaries, exacerbates work-life conflict, and negatively impacts employees’ satisfaction. Conversely, personal ICT-use at work, or cyberloafing, has become an increasing concern among employers given its putative impact on individual and organisational performance. We use

Millions of people use mobile map applications like Google Maps on a regular basis. However, despite these applications' ubiquity, the literature contains very little information about how these applications are used in the real world. As such, many researchers and practitioners seeking to improve mobile map applications may not be able to identify important challenges and may miss major opportunities

This paper presents a novel approach and a method of learning analytics to study student agency in higher education. Agency is a concept that holistically depicts important constituents of intentional, purposeful, and meaningful learning. Within workplace learning research, agency is seen at the core of expertise. However, in the higher education field, agency is an empirically less studied phenomenon

Research on addictive media use has often concentrated on only one specific form of problematic usage behaviour, making it impossible to systematically examine how different types of disordered use are related to each other and whether they have similar or different correlational characteristics. The present study focused on the co-occurrence of problematic social media use and problematic digital

China's economic transformation and modernisation promote the formation of China's risk society. In the risk society, the stratification mechanism based on risk allocation has become an important standard mechanism of social stratification. However, with the accumulation of risks in the process of global economic recovery, China's economy is moving towards a stage of high-quality development, which

ABSTRACT This paper presents a study that tests whether the similarity-attraction paradigm applies to persuasive technology. That is, the notion that similarity leads to more positive evaluations and persuasion of an interactive system was tested in an online study in which participants were provided with automated persuasive messages that had either a dominant or a submissive interaction style. The

Mobile technologies offer new opportunities for the creation and development of systems for crisis communication and management. Vital to the success of using smartphone-based technology for volunteers is to determine whether privacy issues affect user participation. Thus, an online experiment (N = 217) addressing volunteers or people interested in volunteering as well as people with medical qualifications

Wearable technology has become extremely prevalent; however, adoption and sustained long-term use are still issues. Understanding behaviours associated with the use and adoption of a wearable device is important to understand if the usage of the device promotes health and wellness. This study investigated the influence that extrinsic and intrinsic exercise motives have on the sustained use of wearable

Through theoretical research and empirical analysis, we explore the application path of deep learning in the stock market investment theory. Based on the summarised theoretical results, we establish a relatively complete theoretical framework for stock investment strategies through tools such as deep learning, reinforcement learning, and intensity deepening learning, and uses the theoretical framework

The purpose of this study was to test the indirect effect of Facebook addiction on performance through physical and social health. Furthermore, the moderating effect of psychological well-being on the relationships between personality traits and Facebook addiction was investigated. Data were collected from 301 Malaysians via an online survey. The data were analysed using the partial least squares technique

This study examined the relationship between smartphones and ego integrity of older adults in South Korea. Retiree and older adult smartphone users were recruited from senior centres and community centres in the Seoul megalopolitan area and 264 of them completed a cross-sectional survey that contained questions assessing their smartphone proficiency, smartphone use, loneliness, and ego integrity. Smartphone

This paper introduces a descriptive global index for eye-tracking data called heatmap entropy, or visual attention entropy (VAE), and discerns its predictive value for webpage aesthetics. VAE represents the chaos, or uncertainty, in the allocation of visual attention. In the experiment, we tracked and recorded 30 observers' initial landings on 40 web pages displayed for 3 seconds each. The results

While previous research suggests that smartphone overuse relates to users’ adverse health issues such as insomnia, nomophobia, and poor eyesight, few studies have explored the mediating role of such health issues in the relationship between smartphone overuse and academic performance. Guided by the Stimulus-Organism-Response (S-O-R) framework, this study develops a model to understand the relationships

Research indicates that how individuals utilise language to express themselves reflects individual-level differences regarding psychosocial characteristics, including perceived Quality of Life (QoL). In this study, we apply a language modelling technique to the natural user-generated language from Facebook to examine associations between language expressed on Facebook and self-reported QoL. Specifically

In this study, an eye-tracking experiment was conducted on an actual website to explore information acquisition, emotion experience and behaviour intention on two information displays (attribute-oriented versus product-oriented) in two contexts of online shopping task (browsing versus searching). Results show that the chosen computer product received more eye fixations than other non-chosen products