This study aims to advance understanding of Internet interactions by considering the impact of Web site design and self-monitoring style on consumer preference. Four quasi-commercial Web sites were constructed containing identical information presented via a context-based (animated) or content-based (unanimated) design, and 2 advertisements of either imageor information-oriented style. Using a ...

Current electronic commerce recommendation system is designed for single electronic commerce website and current recommendation technologies have obvious deficiencies Centralized recommendation systems can not resolve the contradiction between high recommendation quality and timely response, as well as that between limited recommendation range and ever rich information on the web. Distributed r...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether the associations between visceral adipose tissue (VAT), abdominal subcutaneous adipose tissue (ASAT), and the metabolic syndrome are altered depending on measurement site for VAT and ASAT and the definition used to identify the metabolic syndrome. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Total VAT and ASAT volume was derived using approximately 37 contiguous computed tomogra...

The purpose of this paper was to examine the critical factors that affect consumer trust in online shopping environment in Taiwan. Based on the implications derived from the previous literature review, the factors affecting online trust are presented, which provide a basis for the further development model of trust in this study. The study suggests that if there are more perceived trust in onli...

Comparisons of webs spun in the field when both sticky and non-sticky silk supplies were complete, when both were recently depleted, and when only non-sticky supplies were depleted show that Leucauge mariana and Micrathena sexspinosa vary design features of their orbs such as numbers of radii and sticky spiral loops, web area and proportion covered with sticky spiral, sticky spiral symmetry, an...

We describe stochastic models of user-contributory web sites, where users create, rate and share the content. These models describe how aggregate measures of activity arise from simple models of individual users. This approach provides a tractable, approximate method to understand user activity on the web site and how this activity depends on web site design choices, such as what information on...

We suggest that diversity and changes in the visual design of web pages exhibit trend-like characteristics. We begin with a survey of the fashion and trends literature to clarify these terms and to relate them to the domain of web design. Based on freely available online archival data we assembled a website design trend library that includes 42 trends encompassing the period from the mid-1990s ...

I have implemented ink and voice annotations in DENIM, a sketch-based web site design and prototyping tool. I also performed an informal evaluation of the annotation feature with four participants, one of whom was a professional web designer. The evaluation focused on how people use ink and audio annotations to review existing designs of web sites. The participants in the experiment tended to u...