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  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,053 Views
28 Pages

User Needs Analysis for the Definition of Operational Coastal Services

  • Serena Geraldini,
  • Antonello Bruschi,
  • Giorgio Bellotti and
  • Andrea Taramelli

4 January 2021

According to the global growth of the “Blue economy”, coastal zones are under pressure from both land and marine side economic activities. The fragmentation of sectorial interests and legislation along the coasts has led to the need for b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,139 Views
20 Pages

10 September 2022

Energy transition deals with and starts from data and information, which are relevant for decision making and strategy implementation. Several stakeholders who deal with planning, energy management, and policy-making processes need findable, accessib...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,681 Views
19 Pages

Automated Classification of User Needs for Beginner User Experience Designers: A Kano Model and Text Analysis Approach Using Deep Learning

  • Zhejun Zhang,
  • Huiying Chen,
  • Ruonan Huang,
  • Lihong Zhu,
  • Shengling Ma,
  • Larry Leifer and
  • Wei Liu

2 February 2024

This study introduces a novel tool for classifying user needs in user experience (UX) design, specifically tailored for beginners, with potential applications in education. The tool employs the Kano model, text analysis, and deep learning to classify...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,820 Views
20 Pages

In higher education, a wealth of data is available to advisors, recruiters, marketers, and program directors. These large datasets can be accessed using an array of data analysis tools that may lead users to assume that data sources conflict with one...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
11,029 Views
16 Pages

Sustainable Community Gardens Require Social Engagement and Training: A Users’ Needs Analysis in Europe

  • Jesus Ochoa,
  • Esther Sanyé-Mengual,
  • Kathrin Specht,
  • Juan A. Fernández,
  • Sebastián Bañón,
  • Francesco Orsini,
  • Francesca Magrefi,
  • Giovanni Bazzocchi,
  • Severin Halder and
  • Giorgio Gianquinto
  • + 2 authors

23 July 2019

Urban gardens are spreading in many cities across Europe, with community gardening being a fundamental form of urban agriculture. While the literature reveals the essential role that community gardens can play in terms of learning and education, no s...

  • Review
  • Open Access
4 Citations
7,967 Views
12 Pages

Since 2012, several national and international projects on ambient assisted living (AAL) active and healthy ageing gave insight into the different steps of development processes where the requirements of the target group were not met or just failed t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
217 Views
29 Pages

Characterizing User Needs for GenAI Incorporation in Educational Games

  • Maria Goldshtein,
  • Ishrat Ahmed,
  • Fan Yu,
  • Vipin Verma,
  • Danielle McNamara and
  • Tracy Arner

12 February 2026

This work explores user needs for educational games and gamification that incorporates Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI). As GenAI is increasingly incorporated in educational settings, we must consider both the wide-spanning literature on ga...

  • Article
  • Open Access
52 Citations
6,526 Views
26 Pages

9 June 2021

With highly developed social media, English learning Applications have become a new type of mobile learning resources, and online comments posted by users after using them have not only become an important source of intellectual competition for enter...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
6,682 Views
32 Pages

5 March 2025

Digital technologies represented by AR (Augmented Reality), VR (Virtual Reality), and digital twins, along with the expansion of metaverse platforms and digital marketing concepts, have attracted the attention of numerous sports fashion product consu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,430 Views
20 Pages

Forestry Scenario Modelling: Qualitative Analysis of User Needs in Lithuania

  • Daiva Juknelienė,
  • Michailas Palicinas,
  • Jolanta Valčiukienė and
  • Gintautas Mozgeris

21 February 2024

This paper aims to demonstrate the use of qualitative research methods, specifically in-depth interviews, to explore the intangible and often difficult-to-quantify needs for forestry scenario modelling in Lithuania, which are frequently not adequatel...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
6,865 Views
24 Pages

Empirical Analysis of the User Needs and the Business Models in the Norwegian Charging Infrastructure Ecosystem

  • Erik Figenbaum,
  • Paal Brevik Wangsness,
  • Astrid Helene Amundsen and
  • Vibeke Milch

The Norwegian charging infrastructure ecosystem was investigated from a user perspective by (1) developing knowledge of end-user experiences with public charging, (2) mapping BEV owners and future owner’s user-friendliness needs and the extent...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
5,553 Views
15 Pages

Mapping of Soils and Land-Related Environmental Attributes in France: Analysis of End-Users’ Needs

  • Anne C. Richer-de-Forges,
  • Dominique Arrouays,
  • Marion Bardy,
  • Antonio Bispo,
  • Philippe Lagacherie,
  • Bertrand Laroche,
  • Blandine Lemercier,
  • Joëlle Sauter and
  • Marc Voltz

23 May 2019

The 1:250,000 soil mapping program of France is nearly complete. Although mapping has been conducted using conventional methods, there is a discernible need to obtain more precise soil data using other methods, and this is attracting considerable att...

  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,460 Views
25 Pages

17 December 2024

The 2023 Global Sustainable Development Report identified sustainable cities and communities as a critical area for in-depth review, emphasizing the need for systematically examining theoretical knowledge and guidance on the direction of development...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,246 Views
38 Pages

User Perceptions and Needs Analysis of a Virtual Coach for Active and Healthy Ageing—An International Qualitative Study

  • Johanna Möller,
  • Roberta Bevilacqua,
  • Ryan Browne,
  • Takamitsu Shinada,
  • Sébastien Dacunha,
  • Cecilia Palmier,
  • Vera Stara,
  • Elvira Maranesi,
  • Arianna Margaritini and
  • Toshimi Ogawa
  • + 5 authors

Virtual coaching systems show great potential for meeting the challenges of demographic change. However, the proportion of older users in the field of digital technologies is far behind that of younger people. As part of the e-VITA project, semi-stru...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,096 Views
19 Pages

8 January 2020

Brazil has some of the world’s most important forest and natural ecosystem resources and their sustainability is of global importance. The expansion of agriculture for livestock, the extractive industries, illegal logging, land conflicts, fire...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,225 Views
13 Pages

22 November 2021

The number of consumers playing virtual reality games is booming. To speed up product iteration, the user experience team needs to collect and analyze unsatisfying experiences in time. In this paper, we aim to detect the unsatisfying experiences hidd...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,104 Views
22 Pages

11 March 2025

As the automotive industry advances rapidly, user needs are in a constant state of evolution. Driven by advancements in big data, artificial intelligence, and natural language processing, mining user requirements from user-generated content (UGC) on...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,185 Views
21 Pages

9 September 2025

In the context of the high development of mobile internet and social media, the social clocking and photographing function of tourism applications has become a key factor to enhance user experience and enhance product competitiveness. Citywalk, as a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,377 Views
22 Pages

(1) Background: In the current competitive market environment, accurately forecasting user needs is crucial for business success. By analyzing user-generated content (UGC) on social network platforms, enterprises can mine potential user needs and dis...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,094 Views
24 Pages

22 August 2025

To improve the user perception of design decisions for living spaces in rural tourism-based elderly housing scientifically, a design approach is proposed from the perspective of user needs. This approach establishes an innovative model for the design...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,136 Views
24 Pages

Modeling Extended Service Quality for Public Transportation in the Post-Pandemic Period: Differentiating between Urban and Rural Areas: A Case Study of Intercity Railway, Thailand

  • Panuwat Wisutwattanasak,
  • Thanapong Champahom,
  • Sajjakaj Jomnonkwao,
  • Manlika Seefong,
  • Kestsirin Theerathitichaipa,
  • Rattanaporn Kasemsri and
  • Vatanavongs Ratanavaraha

5 December 2023

Background: Scholars have indicated differences in the attitudes of urban and non-urban populations, especially after the COVID-19 outbreak, which extend to their needs and expectations regarding rail transport development. The aim of this study is t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,075 Views
18 Pages

17 February 2024

Business intelligence (BI), as a system for business data integration, processing, and analysis, is receiving increasing attention from enterprises. Data visualization is an important feature of BI, which allows users to visually observe the distribu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
14,065 Views
14 Pages

Study on the Design of a Water Dispenser for Visually Impaired Families

  • Qiong Shen,
  • Feng Zhou,
  • Yichen Wang,
  • Shiyuan Tang and
  • Pengyu Zhang

11 February 2022

In visually impaired families, there are different needs in terms of the access to drinking water, and the existing research on the design of water dispensers is insufficient. In order to solve this problem, a diverse analysis, based on the inclusive...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
7,540 Views
21 Pages

User Story Quality in Practice: A Case Study

  • Mohammad Amin Kuhail and
  • Soren Lauesen

28 June 2022

(1) Background: User stories are widely used in Agile development as requirements. However, few studies have assessed the quality of user stories in practice. (2) Methods: What is the quality of user stories in practice? To answer the research questi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
4,620 Views
18 Pages

1 February 2023

Despite the powerful potentials of digital twins as regards achieving sustainable operations and supply chain management, there is currently very little research on using digital twins for industrial symbiosis, and even less research investigating us...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,741 Views
20 Pages

12 July 2023

Augmented reality (AR) is transforming users’ multisensory experiences and heightening the level of engagement with multimodal learning. Scholarly attention is urgently needed to conceptualise and examine user–app interactivity in educati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
11,533 Views
14 Pages

17 August 2007

User-driven requirements for remote sensing data are difficult to define,especially details on geometric, spectral and radiometric parameters. Even more difficult isa decent assessment of the required degrees of processing and corresponding data qual...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,202 Views
25 Pages

IoT (Internet of Things)-enabled products are increasingly used by consumers and continuously propagate in daily life. Billions of networked objects not only increase the complexity of development but also raise user interaction and adaptation to ind...

  • Opinion
  • Open Access
2,074 Views
3 Pages

16 August 2022

Health care and other human services such as education are diverse in many substantive aspects. However, arguably, they all use the skills training of service users to accomplish at least some of their key aims. This brief article uses a selective li...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,493 Views
23 Pages

Based on the theory of user needs and the product development mode and framework of mobile Internet interactive innovation, a new “reality → virtual → reality” interactive innovation product development mode is constructed. It d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,864 Views
20 Pages

9 December 2024

With the development of smart technology and the increasing variety of everyday products, factors influencing product service touchpoint design have become more diverse and complex. Existing service touchpoint design methods and models often focus na...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,047 Views
20 Pages

Navigating Carbon Offsetting: How User Expertise Influences Digital Platform Engagement

  • Albert Armisen,
  • Clara-Eugènia de-Uribe-Gil and
  • Núria Arimany-Serrat

6 March 2024

Exploring the nexus of technology and sustainability, this research delves into user engagement patterns on digital carbon offsetting platforms such as KlimaDAO. Drawing from the digital platform and storytelling literature, a set of hypotheses is pu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,918 Views
16 Pages

Engaging Users in Resource Ecosystem Building for Local Heritage-Led Knowledge

  • Rosa Tamborrino,
  • Mesut Dinler,
  • Edoardo Patti,
  • Alessandro Aliberti,
  • Matteo Orlando,
  • Claudia De Luca,
  • Simona Tondelli,
  • Zahra Amirzada and
  • Irina Pavlova

12 April 2022

The aim of this paper is to form an analytical and critical framework to consider the uses of digital platforms in heritage field and practices and to provide methodologies for user profiling based on the identification of local stakeholders and thei...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
3,842 Views
14 Pages

2 November 2022

In order to better serve the users of wood desks in open-plan offices, the Kano model is used to analyze the problems encountered by users in the office. Combined with quality function deployment (QFD), this study conducted an analysis of the weighte...

  • Study Protocol
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,345 Views
11 Pages

Continuous profession-specific training is necessary to provide high-quality care for people with dementia. Research shows the need for more educational programmes that are personalized and responsive to the learning needs and preferences of staff. D...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
6,563 Views
15 Pages

26 September 2022

Machine learning has been proven to provide good performances on stress detection tasks using multi-modal sensor data from a smartwatch. Generally, machine learning techniques need a sufficient amount of data to train a robust model. Thus, we need to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,010 Views
33 Pages

9 July 2025

In the context of the rapid digital transformation of the catering industry, the design of ordering interfaces—key hubs of human–computer interaction—has become critical to user service quality and brand competitiveness, especially...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,750 Views
21 Pages

To scientifically enhance user perception in decision-making for designing interactive spaces in schools for children with intellectual disabilities, we propose an innovative design model that integrates the Kano model, Analytic Hierarchy Process (AH...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
7,420 Views
20 Pages

16 July 2023

In this work we combine sentiment analysis with graph theory to analyze user posts, likes/dislikes on a variety of social media to provide recommendations for YouTube videos. We focus on the topic of climate change/global warming, which has caused mu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,851 Views
36 Pages

Research on Sustainable Design of Smart Charging Pile Based on Machine Learning

  • Zongming Liu,
  • Xinan Liang,
  • Linwei Li,
  • Xinyu Li and
  • Wenwen Ou

27 November 2024

With the rapid growth of the electric vehicle market, the importance of the user experience and product sustainability requirements for intelligent charging stations has become increasingly significant. However, accurately capturing the complex assoc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
7,123 Views
14 Pages

25 August 2016

Mobile devices can be exploited for enabling people to interact with Internet of Things (IoT) services. The MicroApp Generator [1] is a service-composition tool for supporting the generation of mobile applications directly on the mobile device. The u...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,855 Views
28 Pages

With the current trend of social aging, the travel needs of the elderly are increasingly prominent. As a means of urban transportation, low-speed new energy vehicles (NEVs) are widely used among the elderly. Many studies are devoted to exploring the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,855 Views
21 Pages

Transport policymakers need to have an in-depth understanding of public transport (PT) customers in order to effectively manage transport systems and maintain the attractiveness of these systems to potential users. This research aims to compare the p...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,205 Views
19 Pages

Quantitative Analysis of Propofol Dosage in Cannabis Users: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

  • Maxwell B. Baker,
  • Dhanesh D. Binda,
  • Ala Nozari,
  • Joseph M. Kennedy,
  • Erin Dienes and
  • William E. Baker

28 January 2025

Background: Rising cannabis use poses significant challenges in the administration of general anesthetics, particularly propofol, due to potential alterations in pharmacodynamics caused by tetrahydrocannabinol and its interactions with central nervou...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,862 Views
18 Pages

Generative AI needs to collect user data to provide more accurate answers. This may raise users’ privacy concern and undermine their disclosure intention. The purpose of this research is to examine generative AI user disclosure intention from t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,314 Views
31 Pages

Integrated Digital Nudge in Gamification for Public Transportation Applications

  • Dyah Wahyu Sukmaningsih,
  • Edi Abdurachman,
  • Agung Trisetyarso and
  • Betty Purwandari

24 June 2025

A shift from private to mass transportation is one of the main goals of many governments. In this context, integrating digital nudges into gamification on digital platforms is a promising approach to influencing and changing user behavior. This study...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,941 Views
25 Pages

Investigation of the Expression Method of Theme-Typhoon Disaster Information

  • Cong Xiao,
  • Xiaodong Zhang,
  • Ziyao Xing,
  • Keke Han,
  • Zhe Liu and
  • Junming Liu

Typhoon disaster information is characterized by multiple sources, complexity and diversity, and different users of this content have different individual concerns. The expression methods of typhoon disaster information considered in previous researc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,630 Views
26 Pages

This paper systematically discusses the impact of kitchen environment design on users’ well-being. Based on the user-centered design concept, this paper focuses on the theoretical framework of positive psychology and combines quantitative and q...

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