This study was designed to verify whether an analogy to Herzberg’s hygiene-motivational theory about workplace could be used in the web environment. According to this analogy, the presence of hygiene factors would provide the basic functionality of a website, while their absence would create user dissatisfaction. Motivating factors are those that contribute to user satisfaction. They add additi...

The concept of rural tourism has become one of the vital issues of economic and social benefits to society. This present study identifies different motivational factors that may directly or indirectly influence the tourists’ motivation. The primary objectives of this study include the growth, development, and emergence of rural tourism potentials at Kamarpukur as well as to analyze the tourists...

Background. With the variety of language norms in Ukrainian, school faces a challenging task teaching students how to master effective text creation. The skill is built when schoolchildren are already aware motives actions and operations they carry out with text: comprehension, oral written production, transformation, editing. However, curriculum Ukrainian envisages editing as an additional act...

Ongoing product design has been defined as a complex problem solving task that is central for the development of new products. Despite its importance, existing work mostly focused on studying how designers' creativity at initial stages influences radical innovations. However, role non-creativity related mechanisms later still not well understood. Our contribution to analyze motivational factors...

As seen in literature, about 70% of the improvement initiatives fail, and a significant number do not even get started. This paper analyses the problem of failing initiatives on Software Process Improvement (SPI), and proposes good practices supported by motivational tools that can help minimizing failures. It elaborates on the hypothesis that human factors are poorly addressed by deployers, es...

Web-based electronic stores have become more and more popular. However, there are not many guidelines, nor theories, showing what features of a store would work and why. This paper develops a set of functional guidelines for designing electronic stores and classifies them into three categories: motivational, hygiene, and media richness factors. An empirical study was conducted to evaluate the r...

The delay discounting paradigm was used to examine its utility in understanding motivational factors among socially anxious individuals. Participants (n=88) who reported high and low levels of social anxiety were randomly assigned to either a social threat or non-threat condition and their subsequent rates of discounting were examined. A significant difference in rates of discounting was found ...