Purpose – The University of the East Web Portal is an academic, web-based system that provides educational electronic materials and e-learning services. To fully optimize its usage, it is imperative to determine the factors that relate to its usage. Thus, this study, to determine the computer self-efficacy of the faculty members of the University of the East and its relationship with their web ...

Research on online shopping has taken three broad and divergent approaches viz, human-computer interaction, behavioral, and consumerist approaches to examine online consumer behavior. Assimilating these three approaches, this study proposes an integrated model of online shopping behavior, with four major antecedents influencing online purchase intent: Web site quality, customer concerns in onli...

This half-day tutorial will cover how to build and deploy online experiments using jsPsych, psiTurk, and Amazon Mechanical Turk (AMT). jsPsych is an open-source JavaScript library that facilitates building behavioral experiments in a web browser. psiTurk is an open-source Python platform that simplifies the process of running an experiment using AMT. Together, these two software packages reduce...

This article addresses the importance of audio and synchronous communication between instructor and students exhibited in successful online language learning. The authors focus on the Web 2.0 audio technologies emphasizing the variety of available tools that can support online coursework. More specifically, the discussion deals with the instructional value of audio conferencing systems, podcast...

the internet is already the primary source of tourist destination information for travelers. according to world tourism organization, about 95% of web users use the internet to gather travel related information and about 93% indicate that they visited tourism web sites when planning for vacations. the number of people turning to the internet for vacation and travel planning has increased more t...

As the Semantic Web is gaining momentum, more and more semantic data is available online. The second generation of Semantic Web applications already exploit this phenomenon by relying on this huge amount of semantic content. Looking at the requirements of these applications, we show that there is a need for an efficient access point to the Semantic Web, designed to take into account the semanti...

The aim of this study is to improve web log mining and online navigation pattern prediction. Web mining is an active and wide area which incorporates several usages for the web site design, providing personalization server and other business making decisions etc. Efficient web log mining results and online navigational pattern prediction is a tough process due to vast development in web. It inc...

social commerce, a new stream in e-commerce, enables hyper-informed consumers to support the businesses in new product development. hyper-informed consumers are the results of online communication provided by social media. these consumers have been empowered by web 2.0 technologies to have online communication, which drives value for the companies in new product development. trust is one the va...