Wearable fitness devices are equipped with internet connectivity and capable of tracking, storing, transmitting health data. A research model is proposed tested, which shows how cognitive, affective, social, motivational consumer factors affect the intention to adopt wearables, respectively. The antecedents these also studied, including perceived usefulness, ease use, effectiveness for cognitiv...

Due to the increasing life expectancy in the world, the number of elderly people is also augmenting. Thus, society will have to offer more and more products and services that meet the specific needs and desires of these people, who seek alternatives for entertainment, social interaction and learning. Serious games are an option to provide them learning combined with entertainment. In Brazil, it...

0747-5632/$ see front matter 2010 Elsevier Ltd. A doi:10.1016/j.chb.2010.06.011 * Corresponding author. Tel.: +34 959 21 78 93; fax E-mail addresses: [email protected], r Sánchez), [email protected] (A.D. Hueros). Moodle and other virtual teaching platforms have bolstered the ability and motivation of universities to support distance learning. The aim of our study is to improve understandin...

This study aims to investigate the factors that motivate dental students to choose dentistry as a career. A questionnaire-based survey involving 752 dental students from the only two Moroccan dental schools was conducted between April and May 2011. The questionnaire was designed in terms of financial factors, human factors and working conditions factors. The students were asked to rank the care...

this study is conducted in universities located in ilam provinceto identify the factors affecting creative organization. the research methodis mixed, in that, statistic sample in qualitative section consists of expertsand in quantitative section consists of employees, professors, and top andmiddle managers in universities (payam-e-noor university, medicalsciences university, azad university and...

administrative corruption is one of the problems with which most societies are tackling with. nowadays, the approaches are emphasized most that try to prevent such phenomenon rather those exerting punishment to offenders. current research investigates the role of organizational culture as one of preventing factors in decreasing administrative corruption. current research is a practical research...

The present study probed 409 Iranian English as foreign language (EFL) learners' motivation and attitude toward English as an International Language (EIL) by investigating the causal relationships of their facets via Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). To do so, the Persian version of the ‘attitudes toward EIL’ scale was designed and validated. It measures five constructs of: cultural realism, ...

The purpose of this paper is to examine what motivational factors influence frequency of participation on the social news website Reddit.com, which has evolved from a news aggregator into a thriving virtual community. This study takes the uses and gratifications approach to examine why people participate in this community. A survey was posted to Reddit.com and was completed by 549 users. Multip...

In Ghana, as in many other developing countries, most science reporting is done by general reporters. However, few studies have investigated science reporting in such a situation. To understand better the dynamics of science reporting in such context, we surveyed 151 general reporters in Ghana. Respondents' demographic characteristics resembled those found in studies elsewhere. Respondents perc...