Increasing diversity is becoming crucial in recommender systems to address the “filter bubble” issue caused by accuracy-based algorithms. Diversity-oriented algorithms have been developed to solve this problem. However, this diversificati...
As chatbot technology becomes increasingly prevalent across a wide range of industries, it is crucial to explore the factors that shape user satisfaction with this AI-driven innovation. This research provides insights into how age and gender impact u...
13 August 2021
Due to health concerns related to COVID-19, shoppers have learned to minimise social contact by adopting various contactless self-service technologies to fulfil their consumption needs. This study explores shoppers’ behavioural changes in relation to...
Background: Unlike other financial services, technology-driven changes in the insurance industry have not been a vastly explored topic in scholarly literature. Incumbent insurance companies have hitherto been holding their positions using the complex...
The increasing use of technologies, particularly computing and communication paradigms, has significantly influenced our daily lives. Interconnecting devices and networks provides convenient platforms for information exchange and facilitates pervasiv...
Composing coherent and structured music is one of the main challenges in symbolic music generation. Our research aims to propose a user-centric framework design that promotes a collaborative environment between users and knowledge agents. The primary...
This paper explores the use of driver-in-the-loop simulations to detect personalized driving styles in autonomous vehicles. The driving simulator used in this study is modular and adaptable, allowing for the testing and validation of control and data...
Living Labs have become key instruments for fostering sustainable and user-driven innovation, yet their conceptual ambiguity and fragmented evaluation practices limit their effectiveness. This paper synthesises academic and policy literature to devel...
At present, sustainable design is experiencing energy consumption and cost-effectiveness challenges in the building industry. A recent body of literature argues that the development of emerging smart digital technologies, such as Building Information...
This work proposes a lightweight biometric key-binding scheme that adapts a PUF-style challenge–response mechanism to face geometry: a two-factor password and session nonce generate random challenge points, Gray-coded Euclidean distances to fac...
Consumer satisfaction and preference can be integral in influencing and solidifying change in user-driven industries such as tourism. High satisfaction rates are imperative to the continual success of a venue as satisfaction determines the likelihood...
This research explores the concept of open building (OB) in the context of low-cost housing, focusing on its historical applications in Egypt during the 1980s. By evaluating past experiences, the study aims to extract key lessons that can inform the...
Maintaining quality of life through functional autonomy is crucial for supporting aging in place. While assistive technologies and architectural adaptations have received significant attention, there is limited knowledge on how older adults independe...
Snow is a critical component of the climate system, provides fresh water for millions of people globally, and affects forest and wildlife ecology. Snowy regions are typically data sparse, especially in mountain environments. Remotely-sensed snow cove...
The textile and apparel (fashion) industry has been influenced by developments in societal socio-cultural and economic structures. Due to a change in people’s preferences from economic functionality to supra-functionality beyond economic value,...
This manuscript provides actionable recommendations to enhance user satisfaction and address existing barriers regarding pooled rideshare (PR) in the United States. Despite PR’s intended benefits, such as reduced traffic congestion and cost sav...
The aging population in Europe and other developed regions is accelerating the demand for adaptable domestic environments that support independent living and care at home. In this context, ontologies offer a promising approach to represent and manage...
The Pilot-Mission Exploitation Platform (Pi-MEP) for salinity is an ESA initiative originally meant to support and widen the uptake of Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission data over the ocean. Starting in 2017, the project aims at setting...
Methodological experts suggest that psychological and educational researchers should employ appropriate methods for data-driven model exploration, such as Bayesian Model Averaging and regularized regression, instead of conventional hypothesis-driven...
This study investigates user experience (UX) sharing behaviors in the context of smartphone user interface (UI) design, emphasizing their significance for UI enhancement and effective marketing strategies. Grounded in the Stimulus–Organism&ndas...
Intelligence is the ability to learn from experience and use domain experts’ knowledge to adapt to new situations. In this context, an intelligent Recommender System should be able to learn from domain experts’ knowledge and experience, a...
Despite the shift to private sector-driven affordable housing in Nigeria for decades, the housing deficit has continued to increase to the disadvantage of low-income families. This paper explores the enabling strategies for stimulating private-driven...
Virtual museums powered by virtual reality (VR) technology serve as innovative platforms for cultural preservation and education, combining accessibility with immersive user experiences. While gamification has been widely explored in educational and...
Subjective understanding is a complex process that involves the interplay of feelings and cognition. This paper explores how computers can monitor a user’s sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system activity in real-time to detect the natur...
E-commerce applications have emerged as key drivers of digital transformation, reshaping consumer behavior and driving demand for seamless online transactions. Despite the growth of smart mobile technologies, existing methods rely on fixed UI content...
This study explores the architectural framework of a value-driven token economy on a blockchain content platform and critically evaluates the relationship between blockchain’s decentralization and sustainable economic practices. The existing li...
This paper introduces Semantic Knowledge Advanced Tool for Extraction Browsing Organisation Annotation Retrieval and Discovery (SKATEBOARD), a tool designed to facilitate knowledge exploration through the application of semantic technologies. The dem...
16 December 2022
Human–computer interaction tends to be intelligent and driven by technological innovation. However, there is a digital divide caused by usage barriers for older users when interacting with complex tasks. To better help elderly users efficiently...
Around the world, the adoption of digital health applications is growing very fast. The use of e-health laboratory systems is increasing while research on the factors that impact users to use e-health laboratory systems in Indonesia has not been done...
Urban mobility systems generate a massive volume of real-time data, providing an exceptional opportunity to understand and optimize transportation networks. To harness this potential, we developed UrbanFlow Milano, an interactive map-based dashboard...
Vehicle-to-grid (V2G) systems play a key role in the integration of electric vehicles (EVs) into smart grids by enabling bidirectional energy flows between EVs and the grid. Optimizing V2G operations poses significant challenges due to the dynamic na...
The surge in e-commerce and the COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically driven the demand for home appliances. However, this surge has also resulted in a proportional increase in electrical accidents. Furthermore, the current product manual does not provi...
Under the development of interdisciplinary fusion, user research has been greatly influenced by technology-driven neuroscience and sensory science, in terms of thinking and methodology. The use of technical methods, such as EEG and eye-tracking, has...
Interaction with mobile platforms changes users’ emotional and cognitive engagements through various stimuli cues that respond to behavioural intentions. Emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and augmented reality (AR) fost...
The provision of information through mobile phone-enabled agricultural information services (m-Agri services) has the potential to revolutionise agriculture and significantly improve smallholder farmers’ livelihoods in Africa. Globally, the ben...
To achieve user retention through multifactor synergy, Internet enterprises must reduce costs and increase efficiency and sustainable development. In response to the dilemma that Internet companies are experiencing increasingly high user acquisition...
To plan a persuasive environmental campaign, it is important to tell consumers environmental messages in an engaging manner, to encourage user participation. To explore the effective approaches to storytelling for environmental innovation, this study...
Manipulating a flexible ureteroscope is difficult, due to its bendable body and hand–eye coordination problems, especially when exploring the lower pole of the kidney. Though robotic interventions have been adopted in various clinical scenarios...
This paper explores the evolving relationship between Digital Twins (DT) and the Metaverse, two foundational yet often conflated digital paradigms in digital architecture. While DTs function as mirrored models of real-world systems—integrating...
Volunteered geographic information (VGI) encourages citizens to contribute geographic data voluntarily that helps to enhance geospatial databases. VGI’s significant limitations are trustworthiness and reliability concerning data quality due to...
The design of the front face of a truck can directly affect the user’s sensory evaluation of the vehicle. Therefore, based on Kansei Engineering theory and deep learning technology, this paper proposes an intelligent design method for the rapid...
This study examines users’ perceptions of Chatbots in China, with a particular focus on the factors influencing their acceptance and usage. Grounded in the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), we analyze data from 542 online responses to explore...
As e-learning platforms gain traction globally, understanding students’ perceptions and intentions towards these platforms is paramount, especially within the context of Saudi universities, where e-learning is rapidly emerging as a transformati...
Modern lifestyle trends, such as sedentary behaviour and unhealthy diets, have been associated with obesity, a major health challenge increasing the risk of multiple pathologies. This has prompted many to reassess their routines and seek expert guida...
7 September 2020
The EPANET 2.0 is a public domain software used to model water distribution networks. The last main release dates to 2000. Recently, the Open Source EPANET Initiative has fixed some bugs and has brought new features to the EPANET solver, such as impr...
Understanding and analyzing the search intent of a user semantically based on their input query has emerged as an intriguing challenge in recent years. It suffers from small-scale human-labeled training data that produce a very poor hypothesis of rar...
Increasing insomnia signals a public health problem, alongside rising zolpidem use. This study investigates the factors behind the disproportionate rise in zolpidem prescriptions in Taiwan. It aims to identify the determinants of high-dose zolpidem u...
31 May 2019
This study adopts the perspective of the Self-Determination Theory to look at the psychological experience of drug users and their decisions to take drugs or not, with particular emphasis on the concept of relatedness. To achieve this objective, a qu...
This article aims to present a bibliometric analysis regarding social media platforms and User-Generated Content (UGC) in hospitality. One hundred fifty-one peer-reviewed articles were analyzed using Webster’s and Watson’s (2002) methodol...
When users interact with mobile platforms in an Augmented Reality (AR) environment, cognitive and emotional engagements change through different stimuli cues that respond to users’ behavioral intentions. Although AR engages more interactions in...
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