We aimed to assess the relative importance of different settings for SARS-CoV-2 transmission in a large community cohort based on perceived location infection self-reported confirmed SARS-COV-2 cases. We demonstrate home, work and education as venues transmission. In children, was most important older adults essential shopping high importance. Our findings support public health messaging...

Having a computer and Internet connection at home is becoming increasingly common. In order to get a richer and fuller understanding of the impact of IT on life in the information society, the use and interpretations of computers need to be studied also outside the world of work and organizations. The paper reports on how a group of 50 families (183 people) live with information technology in t...

Activity duration is an important component of the activity participation behavior of individuals, and therefore, an important determinant of individual travel behavior. In this paper, we examine the factors affecting shopping activity duration during the return home from work and develop a comprehensive methodological framework to estimate a stochastic hazard-based duration model from grouped ...

Social commerce connects people’s shopping activities with their social communities. Much work has leveraged social network data to promote sales of products and services. However, less is known about the impact of shopping activities on people’s social relationships. This paper serves as foundational work in the field and addresses this gap by exploring people’s preferences in sharing products...

The emerging retail culture is characterized by the extensive use of mobile technologies, high connectivity, ubiquitous computing and contactless technologies, which enable consumers to experience shopping differently. In fact, innovative mobile technologies provide new tools (apps) which are able to separate the moment of purchase from the moment of effective consumption, by allowing consumers...

e-commerce has made life simple and innovative of individuals and groups consumer behavior in online shopping is different from the physical market where he has access to see the product. the purpose of the research was to study the consumer behavior in online shopping of electronics especially in iran. primary data was collected through the questionnaire survey and by emails from personal cont...

this paper classifies the amount and mechanisms in which the quality and desirability of walking experience in the urban shopping malls and centres. thus, a literature review can classify the cases in 6 categories of social spatial factor, attraction, convenience and comfort, a sense of security, access and permeability, wayfinding and legibility and social interactions. collecting data was car...