Building upon the persuasion theory in the social psychology literature, this study investigates how companies can use microblogging services to influence consumers’ participation and brand loyalty. We develop and empirically test our research model using an online survey in China. Our findings show that persuasion factors, including information quality, perceived similarity, and source credibi...

Over the last years information quality has gained increasingly importance in practice as well as academia. Recently aspects of information quality are included in many Information Systems’ curricula. However, teaching aspects of information quality to students is challenging and often emphasizes merely theoretical aspects. As a consequence many graduates have a limited understanding of informa...

Introduction: More and more patients are using the Internet to achieve information these days. Most patients (85%) use search engines to look for information about health. The quality of this information that patients encounter is highly different. This study aimed to assess the quality of information that an ear, nose, and throat patient would encounter when searching for information abo...

The quality of the information provided by information services deployed in the EGEE production testbed differs from one system to another. Under the same conditions, the answers provided for the same query by different information services can be different. Developers of these services and of other services that are based on them must be aware of this fact and understand the capabilities and l...

Object-oriented design is becoming very popular in today's software development. An object-oriented information system is decomposed into subjects, each subject is decomposed into classes of objects. Good object-oriented system design should exhibit high cohesion inside subjects and low coupling among subjects. Yet, few quantitative studies of the actual use of cohesion and coupling have been c...