Showing papers in "Telematics and Informatics in 2016"

TL;DR: This qualitative study explores the factors responsible for creating economic barriers for 245 women in India, which prevent them from owning a mobile phone, to broaden the understanding of the gender digital divide in India.

TL;DR: The results indicate that the continuance usage of social Apps is driven by users' satisfaction, tight connection with others, and hedonic motivation to use the Apps.

TL;DR: A research model for analyzing customers' perceived value of wearable devices is developed and perceived benefit-including perceived usefulness, enjoyment, and social image-seems to have a greater impact on perceived value than perceived risk.

TL;DR: The results showed that perceived service quality and perceived usability significantly affect user satisfaction and continuance intention to use MIM, and the effect of perceived security on user satisfaction is not significant.

TL;DR: Gender differences were identified among habit and disclosure gratifications; number of photos shared was negatively correlated with habit and information sharing gratifications'; the study's implications can be utilized to refine existing and develop new features and services bridging digital photos and social networking services.

TL;DR: The empirical findings established the significant contribution of task (TAC) and technology characteristics (TEC) in facilitating task technology fit (TTF), initial trust (IT) and facilitating condition (FC) with intention to adopt m-banking.

TL;DR: Interpersonal relationships and online social support were found to be positively related to Facebook addiction; however, some personality traits, such as agreeableness, conscientiousness, and neuroticism, were negatively associated with Facebook addiction.

TL;DR: This study explored the factors affecting students' intentions to use social media for learning based on their learning styles, using the social media acceptance model, and revealed the significant effect of Self and Performance on students' intention of using social media regardless of their learning style.

TL;DR: The Granger causality test reveals that both Internet usage and financial development Granger-cause economic growth in South Africa is found to be robust from the application of impulse response and variance decomposition analysis.

TL;DR: The partial least square analysis results indicate that tie strength and innovativeness directly influence eWOM in virtual social networks, and trust, shared language, and voluntary self-disclosure do not exhibit a significant influence.

TL;DR: The findings suggest that perceived compatibility moderates the relationship between e-learning system use and academic performance, however, it did not moderate the other two relationships, i.e. the relationship Between e- learning system Use and perceived learning assistance and perceived community building assistance.

TL;DR: The website continuance intention was found to be depended on CEO's innovativeness, CEO's IT attitude, relative advantage, and cost in Malaysian SMEs, while the moderator effect of web adoption level is revealed to have an insignificant role in this study.

TL;DR: The findings suggest that ICT literacy education is important, and one should not be optimistic about the mobile Internet's prospects for narrowing the digital divide in developing countries.

TL;DR: Loneliness and self-control were significant predictors of mobile social game addiction, whereas leisure boredom was linked to the intensity of game use.

TL;DR: Investigating social networking communities users' social capital elements and information sharing behaviors indicated that social capital element factors significantly affect the attachment, and identity-based attachment showed much stronger impact on information sharing.

TL;DR: The results show that customer satisfaction and switching barriers (alternative attractiveness and switching cost) have significant impacts on customer loyalty.

TL;DR: The results show that argument quality, source credibility, and tie strength positively influence purchase decision through product usefulness evaluation between the context of consumers communicating with real and virtual relationships.

TL;DR: The statistical testing results indicate that an ensemble classifier performs better than an individual classifier within an ensemble, however, the solo classifier does not perform worse than the ensemble classifiers built with the same size training dataset.

TL;DR: It is found that PO has a larger effect on customer loyalty than the main constructs of TAM do, and a new finding is generated for the PO literature by proposing social influence as a critical driver.

TL;DR: The study presented in this article will serve as a basis for the development of a suitable methodology whose purpose is to evaluate the quality of local e-Government online services, and is comprised by thirty dimensions for an Electronic Local Government Quality Model based on a literature review.

TL;DR: The results show that the impact of online word-of-mouth communication, received from a trustworthy and experienced source, on receiver's purchase intentions is mediated by attitude.

TL;DR: A research model based on a literature review is proposed to study the usage intention of the Taiwan Medical Travel App (TMT App) to explore the factors that influence Chinese patients' intention to use the TMT App.

TL;DR: Results show that both blog and SNS use are positively related to online political participation and exposure to like-minded perspectives mediates the relationship between individuals' blog use and online politicalparticipation while exposure to cross-cutting perspectives mediating the relationships between S NS use and participation.

TL;DR: It is observed that the winning party's electoral success is significantly associated with their use of Twitter for engaging voters, the large population of first-time voters and levels of internet accessibility.

TL;DR: The results show that satisfaction has a positive impact on continuance intention, while emotional exhaustion has a negative effect, and escapism, exhibitionism, voyeurism, voluntarism, and mobility gratifications determine satisfaction.

TL;DR: Empirical results demonstrate the value of using the ELM to understand dual-route communication processes at work among mobile shoppers for tourism products, as markets become increasingly competitive.

TL;DR: The roles of SDT, CET, VLE content design and interactivity together with the trust-in-website, attitude toward knowledge sharing and school support are being examined, providing theoretical and practical implications while contributing to the VLE literature.

TL;DR: This study found that organizations tend to use social media applications with two-way communication capabilities, compared to other studies which have found that companies use only one social media application for consumer relationship management.

TL;DR: A conceptualization of interpolated web personalization to be tested as a potential complement to current (extrapolated) approaches is proposed and suggested as the primary area suitable for future research and building evidence for attaining business goals as a secondary topic.

TL;DR: The result indicates that the Korean market was significantly different from the case of America, in that competition between traditional pay TV and OTT was not severe.