Past studies on system effectiveness capture the underlying factors (top management support, communication effectiveness, firm size, and user training) as well as different dimensions (system quality, information quality, use, user satisfaction, individual impact, and organizational impact) necessary to evaluate the effectiveness of a system. Although the framework of system effectiveness from ...

This study examines the dimensions of web service quality based on e-customer’s expectations and perceptions. We develop operationalized web service quality constructs, and analyze their relationships with customer satisfaction and behavioral intentions in an e-business environment. The three identified dimensions of web service quality are perceived risk, web content and service convenience. A...

The World Wide Web has become one of the prime mechanisms for information dissemination and has experienced tremendous growth resulting in an information explosion. This information overload is exaggerated by the quantity of information that is available as well as the quality and format of that information. This paper highlights the positive impact that personalization may have in alleviating ...

User-generated content (UGC) is one of the most promising services. Most UGC items are currently being distributed for free due to the lack of a suitable compensation system. This inability to compensate the creators stands in the way of UGC becoming a mature service with sustainable and sound growth. The current schemes used to charge for (professional) digital content are inadequate for UGC, ...

Northeastern University’s Education Technology Advisory Committee (ETAC) consists of faculty who are specialists in bridging the gap between content development and instructional design. “Why does the note ‘A’ sound different on a flute compared to a violin?” is an interactive learning module that tackles the elusive concept of musical timbre. This is an example of an Embedded Learning Module (...

Since the introduction of social software and Web 2.0 technologies, discussion about the influence and importance of a broad range of new tools for various fields has followed (Safran, Gütl, & Helic, 2007; Boulos & Wheeler, 2007). Considerable potential for Web 2.0-based applications is seen in supporting information retrieval and classification of online resources. The Internet offers a huge a...

This paper addresses the issue of reliable satisfaction of customer demand by unreliable production systems. Using a simple Production-StorageCustomer model, we show that this can be accomplished by filtering out production randomness. The filtering of randomness is ensured by finished goods buffers (filtering in space) and shipping periods (filtering in time). The following question is conside...

BACKGROUND Electronic cigarette awareness and use has been increasing rapidly. E-cigarette brands have utilized social networking sites to promote their products, as the growth of the e-cigarette industry has paralleled that of Web 2.0. These online platforms are cost-effective and have unique technological features and user demographics that can be attractive for selective marketing. The popul...

background: cooperative and collaborative learning approach with online programs is useful in response to rising demand for university educational system. this study evaluates the use of internet and computer in collaborative teaching and learning process for post graduate nursing students. method: this is a correlation descriptive study. the population in the study is based on census sampling ...

Person re-identification consists of searching for an individual of interest in video sequences acquired by a camera network, using an image of that individual as a query. Here we consider a related task, named people search with textual queries, which consists of searching images of individuals that match a textual description of clothing appearance, given by a Boolean combination of predefine...