Sharing “happy” information

Sharing happy information: responses and self-portrayal

Introduction. This study examines the information behaviour of individuals when sharing ‘happy’ information. Method. 30 semi-structured interviews were conducted with frequent Internet users who share happy information. Analysis. Content analysis of the interviews explored the factors impacting upon the importance of responses, emotional experience of sharing happy information and how people us...

Information Sharing

Happy Chatbot, Happy User

We compare our own embodied conversational agent (ECA) scheme, BotCom, with seven other complex Internet-based ECAs according to recentlypublished information about them, and highlight some important attributes that have received little attention in the construction of realistic ECAs. BotCom incorporates the use of emotions, humor and complex information services. We cover issues that are likel...

Information asymmetry and information sharing

Although much digital divide research focuses on access to technology, another cause of the divide is the lack of information awareness that we call information asymmetry. Information asymmetry often stems from inadequate information sharing and can result in negative consequences for both the information poor and the information rich. Information asymmetry has been insufficiently studied as a ...

Sharing @ The Edge: Secure Information Sharing

Peer-to-peer (P2P) computing promises to return the World Wide Web to an environment where the edge of the network is as important as the Web servers that have dominated its early years. This paper describes issues associated with P2P computing that must be solved before widespread deployment is possible. The paper presents a P2P solution where services and content are equally secured and can b...