Showing papers in "Telematics and Informatics in 2015"

TL;DR: The findings indicate that the m-banking adoption literature is fragmented, though it commonly relies on the technology acceptance model and its modifications, revealing that compatibility, perceived usefulness, and attitude are the most significant drivers of intentions to adopt m-Banking services in developed and developing countries.

TL;DR: Both the theoretical and practical implications of VAM in the context of social media on the subject of tourism are discussed, especially for travel information searches using social media as a new search behavior from a value perspective.

TL;DR: It is concluded that while ICT investment could ceteris paribus contribute to a moderate reduction in energy consumption, but not to an increase in GDP, the results reveal the presence of a long-run stable relationship.

TL;DR: Senior managers of six organizations that are using social media are interviewed and it is found that social media is used for various purposes in organizations, such as advertising and promotion, branding, information search, building customer relations and many more.

TL;DR: Results from ARDL estimates indicate that the Internet use and economic growth stimulate electricity consumption in Australia and imply that Australia is yet to achieve electricity efficiency gains from ICT expansion and that it may pursue energy conservation policy without any adverse effect on its economy.

TL;DR: Hedonic, integrative, and mobile convenience were found to affect attitude, and an exploratory comparison between Facebook and KakaoTalk in Korea was performed, and academic and managerial implications were discussed.

TL;DR: The Internet seems to provide increasingly more capital-enhancing opportunities for those with higher education and income, which would accordingly reinforce their already strong positions in society.

TL;DR: The learning theory of constructionism is used as a theoretical framework in creating an experimental educational scenario focused on 3D design and printing that aims to send the products to blind children inaugurating a novel way of communication and collaboration amongst blind and non-blind students.

TL;DR: The study explores factors that influence consumers' behavioral intention (BI) to use m-advertising by proposing an extension of UTAUT, FC and PEJ model with personal innovativeness in information technology, perceived enjoyment (PEJ) and mobile skillfulness (MS).

TL;DR: A model to examine how distinct contextual factors influence Web knowledge exchange in SMEs is developed and suggests that IT expertise and commitment-based human resource practices positively affect Web knowledge Exchange, with the latter being the strongest factor in the proposed model.

TL;DR: The results of this survey confirm that perceived information transparency of the ERP system has significant direct effects on perceived usefulness, ease of use, and indirect effects on attitude and adoption.

TL;DR: It was concluded that smartphone use was likely to aggravate the gaps of demographics, access, and skills in the seamlessly connected media environment and create an overlapping effect on the established divide.

TL;DR: It is found that the laggard position Brussels is currently in could be an opportunity to leapfrog in the field of mobile services, but that a focused vision and clear mobile strategy, while thinking of the city as a local innovation platform built on open data is quintessential to achieving this.

TL;DR: The more favourable young people evaluated the prototype of a person engaging in sexting and the higher they assessed their similarity with this prototype, the more they were willing to send sexted messages.

TL;DR: The results show that techno-overload was more of an “enhancer” to one’s productivity, rather than what was found in some other studies.

TL;DR: The development of big data is examined by reviewing this theory, identifying key components of the big data ecosystem, and explaining how these components are likely to evolve over time.

TL;DR: Analysis of antecedents and consequences towards mobile advertisings reveals that attitudes exert positive influences on intentions to receive advertising, especially among those who already have access to the Internet on their mobile phones.

TL;DR: A novel implementation framework for E-Government 2.0 is proposed that integrates the processes, resources, back offices, and front offices of online systems to carry out the stakeholder-oriented participatory E- government 2.

TL;DR: A critical review of educationally advanced countries suggests that adoption of M- learning is influenced by country specific as well as individual constraints, and five important lessons have been drawn from these countries, national level initiatives, public and private partnership, characteristics of learners and cultural norms, M-Learning infrastructure, and awareness.

TL;DR: The automatic monitoring of cyberbullying on social networking sites has potential for signalling harmful messages, preventing these messages from remaining online and providing timely responses, and appropriate follow-up strategies should be determined according to severity, and be tested for effectiveness.

TL;DR: The analysis show that use of Facebook as virtual classroom has a goal for students, improving the quality of the education process and widening quantum of knowledge.

TL;DR: Survey of Korean college students who engaged in social TV experiences during the 2012 London Olympic Games showed that information and excitement motives of social TV positively related to social presence, while convenience and information motives positively predicted sports channel commitment.

TL;DR: Findings of the study suggest that the most preferred value that determines consumer's preference by mobile subscribers is network parameters, followed by low tariff scheme, which is the main factors of resources allocation of Indian telecom industry.

TL;DR: This study suggested that the smartphone users' continuance intention to use a service can be different according to their smartphones' operating systems, and found that the users may exhibit noticeable differences in post adoption behavior.

TL;DR: The results indicate that the formation of citizen trust in the government can be expanded into patronage intention toward social media and actual behavior, and factors related institutional-based trust, characteristic- based trust, and process based trust contribute to improving trust through government social media services.

TL;DR: The Smartphone-Supported Collaborative Learning System (SSCLS), which includes the MyResponse mobile app and the Delphi method, is designed and it is concluded that SSCLS can support collaborative learning.

TL;DR: There seems to be more parental rules for computer use than for mobile and tablet devices, the most common rules being not to play games until completion of homework, and health concerns such as having enough rest and not to strain the eyes.

TL;DR: An integrated model of TAM and IS success model was examined to explore the effects of quality features, perceived ease of use, perceived usefulness on users’ intentions and satisfaction and their effects on e-learning outcomes such as actual use and perceived learning assistance, alongside the mediating effect of usability towards use of e- learning in Iran.

TL;DR: The findings from this study reveal that the Internet shoppers respond positively towards the motivational and attitude aspects of online shopping.

TL;DR: Using a structural equation model on an Internet social networking site data, this study finds that the personal activity status of key members is highly correlated with their structural centrality measures.