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  • Article
  • Open Access
47 Citations
7,725 Views
18 Pages

9 July 2021

Whereas the pivotal role of trust in the adoption of e-government was highlighted in prior research, attention was rarely paid thus far to investigate the role of post-use trust and its impact on citizens’ continuous-use intention of e-government. Th...

(This article belongs to the Collection Digitalization and Sustainable Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
141 Views
24 Pages

3 November 2026

Beijing’s protected heritage resources create a strong need for digitally mediated access that does not increase physical pressure on heritage sites. Drawing on the Information Systems Success Model and the experience economy perspective, this...

(This article belongs to the Section Digital Heritage)
  • Article
  • Open Access
473 Views
32 Pages

Generative artificial intelligence services combine functional performance with humanlike interaction, yet it remains unclear whether perceived humanlikeness contributes directly to post-use satisfaction or is associated primarily with more proximal...

(This article belongs to the Section Digital Marketing and the Evolving Consumer Experience)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
11,431 Views
21 Pages

20 November 2019

The present study addresses the issue of mobile banking customer retention by developing and empirically testing a theoretical model that describes the way mobile banking success is achieved. The data collection process was conducted via a web-based...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,113 Views
17 Pages

30 October 2021

Eating congregate/community meals with friends promotes a balanced and healthy diet among older adults. It is helpful for postponing aging, preventing chronic diseases, and improving their quality of life. However, little research has examined the co...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Food-Evoked Emotion, Product Acceptance, Food Preference, Food Choice and Consumption: The New Perspective on Developing Novel and Healthier Products)
  • Article
  • Open Access
669 Views
27 Pages

Intelligent customer service is increasingly used to reduce service costs and improve efficiency, yet users often experience divergent outcomes, ranging from value co-creation to value co-destruction. Using task–technology fit theory as the pri...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
864 Views
36 Pages

11 June 2026

Distributed photovoltaic (PV) power stations are core enablers for dual-carbon goals in modern power systems, with IoT-based monitoring systems serving as their nerve center for real-time data collection and grid dispatch. However, PV monitoring node...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Security and Privacy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,036 Views
21 Pages

7 May 2026

This study examines public acceptance of autonomous shuttle services in a real-world urban context by integrating expectation–experience dynamics, system characteristics, and configurational analysis. Based on survey data collected from users o...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Resilient Infrastructure for Climate Action: The Nexus of Technology, Management, and Innovation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,342 Views
32 Pages

2 June 2026

This study examines how learning input quality shapes students’ trust, perceived learning value, and post-exposure behavioural intentions, and whether AI-supported instructional content contributes to conceptual learning. Grounded in the Techno...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Generative AI Transformation in Education: Current Issues and Challenges)
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
5,439 Views
20 Pages

There is a paucity of literature on the roles of media exposure, general trust, and their interactions in long-term post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms after a natural disaster. Trying to address this knowledge gap, our study aimed to (a)...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Adult Psychiatry)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,218 Views
23 Pages

This study investigates how AI-driven personalization shapes traveler satisfaction in a post-adoption tourism context, with particular attention to the mechanisms and boundary conditions through which personalization is associated with experiential o...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cultural Tourism in the Digital Age: Evolving Trends in Marketing and Consumer Behavior)
  • Brief Report
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,452 Views
10 Pages

Does a Consumer-Targeted Deprescribing Intervention Compromise Patient-Healthcare Provider Trust?

  • Yi Zhi Zhang,
  • Justin P. Turner,
  • Philippe Martin and
  • Cara Tannenbaum

One in four community-dwelling older adults is prescribed an inappropriate medication. Educational interventions aimed at patients to reduce inappropriate medications may cause patients to question their prescriber’s judgment. The objective of...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Deprescribing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,380 Views
13 Pages

3 October 2021

The widespread use of social networks has brought to the foreground a very important issue, the veracity of the information circulating within them. Many natural language processing methods have been proposed in the past to assess a post’s content wi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Information Spreading on Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,220 Views
11 Pages

An Experimental Investigation of Trusting Behaviour

  • Clelia Mazzoni and
  • Patrizia Sbriglia

22 November 2022

In this paper, we present the results of an experiment conducted in Italy on trusting behaviour. Our subjects participated in a trust game and filled in a questionnaire on trust and trustworthiness based on the attitudinal questions reported in the E...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue A Yin and Yang Perspective on the Trust Game: Trust and Reciprocity)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,221 Views
21 Pages

A Study of Trust and Cooperation in the Nzoia River Basin Using a Water Policy Game

  • Abby Muricho Onencan,
  • Bert Enserink and
  • Bartel Van de Walle

8 December 2018

Nzoia river basin county governments barely cooperate in water resources management to jointly increase the basin’s food and energy productivity levels, due to limited trust. In this paper, we propose a game-based approach that can be replicate...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Trust Management: Key Factor of the Sustainable Organizations Embedded in Network)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,641 Views
21 Pages

This study aims to understand the post-adoption behaviors of mobile health (m-Health) service users during the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on the stimulus-organism-response framework, we examined the effects of user personality traits, doctor characte...

(This article belongs to the Section Health Care Sciences & Services)
  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
2,070 Views
15 Pages

Yelp is a popular online consumer review website. The limited scholarly literature on Yelp indicates that under certain conditions consumers will value the review and recommend the reviewed vendor to others. We study a number of variables to determin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
625 Views
27 Pages

Digital visual marketing increasingly relies on aesthetically modified social media content to attract consumers, yet such practices may also create authenticity risks when online representations are compared with actual experiences. This study exami...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Innovation in Digital Marketing to Enhance Consumer Experience)
  • Article
  • Open Access
82 Views
64 Pages

Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) leverage fog computing to process high-frequency vehicular data locally, but securing these continuous data streams against future quantum computers remains a critical challenge. A systematic review using the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI-Enabled Sustainable and Resilient Intelligent Transportation Systems for Smart Cities)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,022 Views
22 Pages

12 November 2025

The rapid expansion of satellite networks for advanced communication and space exploration has ensured that robust cybersecurity for inter-satellite links has become a critical challenge. Traditional security models rely on centralized trust authorit...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Edge-Cloud Computing and Federated-Split Learning in Internet of Things—Second Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,864 Views
19 Pages

New Strategies of Canine Post-Adoption Support: Methods for a Prospective Longitudinal Cohort Study

  • Emma L. Buckland,
  • Kassandra Giragosian,
  • Eleanor J. Jordan,
  • Rosa E. P. Da Costa and ,
  • Joshua L. Woodward and
  • Rachel A. Casey
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

27 April 2025

In 2018, Dogs Trust (UK) launched the Post Adoption Support project, the largest known prospective cohort study investigating behavioural and health problems post-rehoming of dogs. Individuals adopting a dog from any UK Dogs Trust Rehoming Centre are...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Second Edition: Research on the Human–Companion Animal Relationship)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,108 Views
16 Pages

14 September 2021

Despite the emerging contribution of machine automation, artificial intelligence and information systems, humans remain yet the most fragile ring of any organization. Decision support systems are widespread, supporting us to decide among uncertaintie...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,798 Views
21 Pages

8 January 2026

Research on users’ switching intentions in peer-to-peer (P2P) mobile payment systems, particularly in developing markets, remains limited. This study examines how two satisfaction dimensions, transaction-based satisfaction and experience-based...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Modeling Behavioral and Cognitive Drivers of FinTech Adoption: Trust, Emotion and Digital Decision-Making)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,334 Views
21 Pages

8 June 2023

With the decisive results of poverty alleviation in China, figuring out how to consolidate the results and transform them into the driving force of rural revitalization is an important adjustment for rural revitalization and high-quality development....

  • Article
  • Open Access
67 Citations
15,857 Views
14 Pages

Rising COVID-19 cases in Canada in early 2021, coupled with pervasive mis- and disinformation, demonstrate the critical relationship between effective crisis communication, trust, and risk protective measure adherence by the public. Trust in crisis c...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Public Health and Digital Technologies during Pandemic: A Multidisciplinary Perspective)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,235 Views
22 Pages

Active Learning on Trust and Reciprocity for Undergraduates

  • Amalia Rodrigo-González,
  • María Caballer-Tarazona and
  • Aurora García-Gallego

14 August 2019

We propose a teaching activity aimed at promoting social values, such as trust and reciprocity, among undergraduate students in economics and related degrees. We present our pilot experience of what we call RED–‘Reading–Experiment&n...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Reflective Learning in Higher Education)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,175 Views
17 Pages

In today’s competitive environment of online service industries, particularly e-commerce, meeting consumer expectations is essential for service providers to ensure service quality. However, service failures are unavoidable, leading to unfavora...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Emerging Trends and Innovations in Electronic and Mobile Business: Navigating New Frontiers in E-commerce and Beyond)
  • Article
  • Open Access
87 Citations
14,448 Views
20 Pages

Driving Style: How Should an Automated Vehicle Behave?

  • Luis Oliveira,
  • Karl Proctor,
  • Christopher G. Burns and
  • Stewart Birrell

25 June 2019

This article reports on a study to investigate how the driving behaviour of autonomous vehicles influences trust and acceptance. Two different designs were presented to two groups of participants (n = 22/21), using actual autonomously driving vehicle...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Automotive User Interfaces and Interactions in Automated Driving)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
10,756 Views
20 Pages

Leveraging Customer Green Behavior Toward Green Marketing Mix and Electronic Word-of-Mouth

  • Songbo Cai,
  • Yaoping Liu,
  • Sukhon Aduldecha and
  • Junaidi Junaidi

7 March 2025

This study explores how the green marketing mix affects customer green brand trust, customer green buying behavior, and electronic word-of-mouth (eWOM). A total of 990 fast-food customers participated in this study. Structural equation modelling (SEM...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Business Model Innovation and Corporate Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
9,478 Views
26 Pages

17 December 2024

With the rapid popularization of digital technology, e-government has become an essential tool for modern governments to improve governance capacity and enhance public trust. Especially in the post-pandemic era, the continued use of e-government play...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
8,824 Views
22 Pages

Understanding the Dynamics of Brand Love in the Automobile Industry

  • Mohamad Hashem,
  • Carla Ruiz and
  • Rafael Curras-Perez

Given the increasing competition and the impact of digital media in the automobile industry, dealerships need to understand the antecedents of customer happiness and brand love. The goals of the study are to analyse the combined influence of the cogn...

  • Article
  • Open Access
Systems2026, 14(11), 1460;https://doi.org/10.3390/systems14111460 
(registering DOI)

13 November 2026

Integrating proactive agents into domestic settings requires understanding how people evaluate assistance that begins without an explicit request. Drawing on cognitive appraisal theory and the Artificial Intelligence Device Use Acceptance framework,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Human–Systems Integration)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
909 Views
22 Pages

Consumer Internet of Things (IoT) devices are increasingly central to Industry 4.0 commercialisation, but repeat demand depends on more than technical connectivity. This study examines how product design, ease of use, product quality and social statu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
787 Views
17 Pages

8 May 2026

American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) communities experienced disproportionate COVID-19 morbidity and mortality, particularly in rural areas with limited public health infrastructure. This study examined primary COVID-19 information sources among...

(This article belongs to the Section COVID Public Health and Epidemiology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
835 Views
35 Pages

The rapid proliferation of Internet of Things (IoT) devices in cloud-based e-learning platforms has posed significant security risks, particularly in protecting learner information, authentication of devices, and safe communication in the highly hete...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
  • Review
  • Open Access
21 Citations
8,787 Views
19 Pages

Turning to ‘Trusted Others’: A Narrative Review of Providing Social Support to First Responders

  • Anna Tjin,
  • Angeline Traynor,
  • Brian Doyle,
  • Claire Mulhall and ,
  • Walter Eppich and
  • Michelle O’Toole
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

First responders, such as paramedics and firefighters, encounter duty-related traumatic exposures, which can lead to post-traumatic stress (PTS). Although social support protects against PTS, we know little about how first responders’ families,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Innovative Approaches to Real-World Health and Rehabilitation Services)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,821 Views
30 Pages

A Trust-Centered Explainable Deep-Learning Framework for Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Detection Using Multi-Model Fusion and Interpretability Scoring

  • Khadija Parwez,
  • Syed Irfan Sohail,
  • Muhammad Bilal,
  • Wesam Shishah and ,
  • Ali Raza and
  • Mubeen Javed
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

19 February 2026

Currently, advances in healthcare technologies are transforming medical diagnostics, particularly for data-driven disease detection. Acute lymphoblastic leukemia is a common and life-threatening blood cancer, especially prevalent in children. Althoug...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,424 Views
33 Pages

Digitalizing Gratitude and Building Trust through Technology in a Post-COVID-19 World—Report of a Case from Japan

  • Jun-ichi Yamamoto,
  • Tomohiro Fukui,
  • Kazutomo Nishii,
  • Ichiro Kato and
  • Quang Thahn Pham

Employee engagement has become a critical issue in Japanese companies. One way to develop it is to improve the relationship among employees through gratitude expressions. In the post-COVID-19 remote work environment, digital devices are essential. Th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Open Innovation and Business Model in the Global Economic Crisis Which is Triggered by the Pandemic of COVID-19)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,034 Views
15 Pages

Recently, a number of cultural institutions such as museums, galleries, art auctions, events, and performance centers have been utilizing social network sites (SNS) for promoting and marketing their culture, art content, and events. The online social...

(This article belongs to the Section Tourism, Culture, and Heritage)
  • Article
  • Open Access
159 Citations
6,316 Views
9 Pages

Information Needs and Sources of Information for Patients during Cancer Follow-Up

  • M.A. Shea–Budgell,
  • X. Kostaras,
  • K.P. Myhill and
  • N.A. Hagen

1 August 2014

(1) Background: Now more than ever, cancer patients want health information. Little has been published to characterize the information needs and preferred sources of that information for patients who have completed cancer treatment. (2) Methods: We u...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,659 Views
18 Pages

Dynamics of Trust and Consumption of COVID-19 Information Implicate a Mechanism for COVID-19 Vaccine and Booster Uptake

  • Ruben Juarez,
  • Zheng Kang,
  • May Okihiro,
  • Blane K. Garcia and ,
  • Krit Phankitnirundorn and
  • Alika K. Maunakea
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

31 August 2022

Vaccine hesitancy remains a significant barrier to achieving herd immunity and preventing the further spread of COVID-19. Understanding contributors to vaccine hesitancy and how they change over time may improve COVID-19 mitigation strategies and pub...

(This article belongs to the Section Epidemiology and Vaccination)
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
11,734 Views
28 Pages

Modeling the Enablers of Consumers’ E-Shopping Behavior: A Multi-Analytic Approach

  • Haili Yang,
  • Yueyue Luo,
  • Yunhua Qiu,
  • Jiantao Zou and ,
  • Mohammad Masukujjaman and
  • Abdullah Mohammed Ibrahim
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

12 April 2023

The evolution of e-commerce amid the positive growth forecast of the e-commerce market has sparked scholarly interest in e-shopping antecedents to better understand customer behavior and ensure sustainable e-shopping services. The purpose of this stu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Social Media and Sustainable Consumer Behaviour)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,149 Views
9 Pages

Community Health Representatives as Trusted Sources for Increasing Representation of American Indian Communities in Clinical Research

  • Samantha Sabo,
  • Naomi Lee,
  • Grant Sears,
  • Dulce J. Jiménez and ,
  • Marissa Tutt,
  • Jeffersson Santos,
  • Omar Gomez,
  • Nicolette Teufel-Shone,
  • Marianne Bennet and
  • Julie Baldwin
  • + 7 authors+ 2 authors

Indigenous and American Indian Alaskan Native (AI/AN) community members are systematically underrepresented in clinical trial research. This paper focuses on exploratory steps to partner with Native Nations of Arizona to engage Community Health Repre...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Proceedings of the 2022 Research Centers in Minority Institutions (RCMI) Consortium National Conference)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,079 Views
14 Pages

Trust is an essential ingredient of constructive human relationships, including economic exchanges. Blindspots are harmful omissions in strategy implementation due to reasons such as corporate inertia or management obsession in pursuing a certain vis...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,253 Views
13 Pages

Disrupted Care Continuity: Testing Associations between Social Networks and Transition Success for Children with Autism

  • Elizabeth McGhee Hassrick,
  • Wendy Shih,
  • Heather J. Nuske,
  • Sarah F. Vejnoska and ,
  • Samantha Hochheimer,
  • Deborah E. Linares,
  • Jonas Ventimiglia,
  • Kathleen M. Carley,
  • Aubyn C. Stahmer and
  • Connie Kasari
  • + 7 authors+ 2 authors

28 June 2021

Children with autism situated in lower income families often receive intensive educational interventions as their primary form of treatment, due to financial barriers for community interventions. However, the continuity of care can be disrupted by sc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
28,683 Views
11 Pages

The development of social media has triggered important changes in our society and in the way consumers read and trust online information. The presence of consumers in the online environment exposes them to a greater extent to various instances of fa...

(This article belongs to the Section Electronic Multimedia)
  • Article
  • Open Access
  • Best Paper Award
18 Citations
6,529 Views
21 Pages

Monitoring social discourse about COVID-19 vaccines is key to understanding how large populations perceive vaccination campaigns. This work reconstructs how popular and trending posts framed semantically and emotionally COVID-19 vaccines on Twitter....

(This article belongs to the Collection Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence for Health Applications on Social Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
898 Views
24 Pages

20 July 2026

South Korea has achieved internationally recognized digital government capacity and platform-based service integration, yet recent privacy and cybersecurity incidents reveal growing risks to digital trust. This article examines how national governanc...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Beyond One-Size-Fits-All Approaches: Digital Maturity Models Across Industries, Countries, and Organizational Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
432 Views
19 Pages

20 August 2026

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) can create value through stakeholder responses, but credence-goods settings make it important to distinguish broad reputational evaluations from trust-based reliance on the producer. Integrating signaling and sta...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)

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