Flexible Mental Models and Collective Wisdom Through Social Media: An Interpretive Structural Modeling Approach

Flexible human collective wisdom.

Group decisions typically outperform individual decisions. But how do groups combine their individual decisions to reach their collective decisions? Previous studies conceptualize collective decision making using static combination rules, be it a majority-voting rule or a weighted-averaging rule. Unknown is whether groups adapt their combination rules to changing information environments. We im...

Interpretive structural modeling of health system financing: Donors participation approach

Background & Aim: Financing of the health system one is one of the four main functions of the health system. It is useful to use the capacity and resources of charities for this purpose. The purpose of this research is to identify and design the financing model of the health system based on the efforts of donors. Methods: This study is a mixed type of research. First the components were identi...

Analyzing Students' Technology Use Motivations: An Interpretive Structural Modeling Approach

Factors Influencing Acceptance of E-health: an Interpretive Structural Modeling

The aim of this study is to analyze the factors affecting the acceptance of electronic health on the basis of the theory of planned behavior. E-health is a growing field of health communication that entails using medical informatics, public health, and trades. As a result, E-health facilitates the provision of health information and services through the internet and related technologies. In thi...

Evaluation of social livability components and their interpretive structural modeling, case study: Qaen city

Introduction In the current century, known as the century of cities, a significant part of the world's population lives in cities and the trend of increasing urbanization continues. In such circumstances, the important question is to what extent cities are suitable places for human life. Hence, the concept of urban livability and livable city has become one of the most widely used concepts in...