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The most practical solution for over 70% of the world’s unelectrified population is decentralized electrification, usually with renewable energy integration. The sustainability of these systems has been a central issue with studies looking at its mul...

Online health communities (OHCs) face the same problem as other social media platforms in terms of decreasing activity and user attrition. Drawing upon organizational support theory, this study explores how perceived community support affects user in...

With the rapid development of short-form videos, more and more people have gained a deep understanding of the functional value of short-form videos. Based on structuration theory, this paper explores the reasons why users use short-form videos. The a...

With the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence, the deployment of social robots has significantly broadened, extending into diverse fields such as education, medical services, and business. Despite this expansive growth, there remains a notabl...

With the development and innovation of artificial intelligence (AI) technology, users can regulate their social lives and personal emotions through continuous interaction with AI voice assistants or chatbots. Based on the value-based adoption model (...

Point-of-sale (POS) technology is central to the digital transformation of small retail businesses, yet little is known about the beliefs that keep current users committed to these systems. This study extends the Technology Acceptance Model with perc...

In the post-sharing era, the evolution of the shared micro-mobility industry has transitioned from expanding market share to providing precise services. The focus on user satisfaction has shifted from a singular emphasis on functional utility to dive...

Amid the rapid growth of social media and live streaming platforms, streamers, who serve as a crucial link between products and users, have garnered significant attention from both academia and industry. This study explores the impact of the streamer...

Emerging technologies have made tremendous changes in people’s daily lives, and they have profoundly influenced their economic and consumption activities. Recently, the COVID-19 pandemic has also drastically increased individuals’ usage o...

Social networks introduce new potential for people to share knowledge with others. However, it is not clear what factors influence user willingness toward knowledge sharing in social networks. Aiming to answer these questions, in this paper we analyz...

Recently, artificial intelligence speakers have been used a lot in homes and offices. However, users say that it is an automated speaker, not an artificial intelligence speaker. Regression analysis was performed by applying the Value-Based Acceptance...

With the rapid development of public-private-partnership (PPP) urban rail transit (URT) projects in China, their social responsibility (SR) is considered to provide a useful way of guaranteeing passengers’ rights and to help urban sustainable d...

The aim of this study is to investigate how consumers’ cognitive and affective responses to web-based augmented reality affect their intention to continue to use augmented reality. The novelty of this study is the integration of the Stimulus&nd...

Future promotional strategies for electric vehicles (EVs) need to be tailored to the initial users’ perceptions regarding these vehicles. This study aims to evaluate EV users’ perceived value in terms of the following five key dimensions:...

The use of TikTok is more widespread now than ever, and it has a big impact on users’ daily lives, with self-perceived identity and personal values being topics of interest in light of the algorithmically curated content. This mini-review summa...

This study examines how dual appraisals of value and risk jointly shape purchase intention in live-streaming commerce, refining the Stimulus–Organism–Response (S-O-R) framework for an understudied market context. Drawing on data from Indo...

Lower limb exoskeletons and orthoses have been increasingly used to assist the user during gait rehabilitation through torque transmission and motor stability. However, the physical human-robot interface (HRi) has not been properly addressed. Current...

This research explores how the partitioned pricing strategy of premium subscriptions affects user willingness to purchase with two studies. Study 1 finds that all-inclusive pricing is more effective than traditional partitioned pricing (i.e., partiti...

Graphic map load is a property of a map quantifying the amount of map content. It indicates the visual complexity of the map and helps cartographers to adapt maps and other geospatial visualizations to accomplish their purpose. Generally, map design...

As AI-powered e-commerce platforms grow more capable of predicting customer wants, a critical question remains unexplored: what makes customers perceive these experiences positively? The rapid integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into e-commer...

As urban housing becomes increasingly compact and companion animals become more deeply integrated into domestic life, human–cat cohabitation presents design challenges related to spatial efficiency, furniture wear, maintenance, and everyday coe...

With the acceleration of modernization, historical residences are facing increasingly prominent conflicts between cultural inheritance and contemporary visitor experiences. However, existing research on the revitalization of architectural heritage pr...

A surge of interest in data-intensive computing has led to a drastic increase in the demand for data centers. Given this growing popularity, data centers are becoming a primary contributor to the increased consumption of energy worldwide. To mitigate...

This study aims to examine the mechanisms fostering users’ intention to follow generative artificial intelligence (GenAI)-assisted travel destination recommendations (ATDRs) in the context of digital transformation. A research framework was dev...

The development of internet technology enables mobile medical health (mHealth) applications (Apps) to provide users with health services. The content presentation of apps is an important factor affecting users’ adoption of mHealth Apps. This st...

With today’s rapid technological developments, many have applied artificial intelligence and robot technology to the tourism and hotel industries, with hotel service robots (HSRs) being gradually developed. At present, more technology developme...

The dissemination and preservation of cultural heritage has attracted much attention globally, and serious games play an important role in cultural heritage dissemination and preservation; however, it is not clear which experiences of serious games a...

This study dives into what drives people to use AR filters in the catering industry, focusing on the Hong Kong market. The main idea is to determine how “perceived value” shapes users’ intentions to engage with these filters. To do...

The utilization of user privacy data in the health data tracking system (HDTS) offers numerous benefits for businesses and public services, contingent upon users’ privacy sharing intentions. However, previous research neglected users’ pre...

The constant evolution in mobile communications networks have led operators to seek new techniques to optimize their mobile networks with the objective of satisfying the expectations of the users. In this way, traditional optimization techniques base...

Smartwatches are commonly used IoT wearable devices, which contain sensors that can support the data management process of smartwatch data. This process is essential for providing data-based insights that can motivate users to achieve their physical...

Although research on hotel service robots has been continuously increasing, the existing literature still lacks a systematic exploration of the multiple concurrent mechanisms involved in the formation of user experience. Based on the theory of value...

With the rapid development of Internet information technology, Internet medical platforms are gradually entering daily life. Especially after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, it becomes very difficult for patients to go out for medical treatmen...

This study aimed to make an empirical analysis of the effects that the selection attributes of subscription services have on purchase intentions and continuous use intentions, based on the perceived value of digital platform-based subscription servic...

In contrast to the extensive research on the impact of green buildings on character, property values, energy efficiency, and environmental quality, less emphasis has been placed on understanding the factors driving users’ selection of green rea...

User entrepreneurs rely on regular consumers when starting their business, for example, when raising creative and financial support. This research examines regular consumers’ opinions with regard to the future business performance of green vs. non-gr...

The main purpose of this study is to examine how use and gratification and social presence might influence the purchase intention of the products presented in the short videos, mediated by perceived value, attitude, and digital dependency. The resear...

The electric bicycle-sharing system (EBSS) is the fourth-generation urban shared bicycle travel system, which effectively improves the travel efficiency of urban residents and solve the problem of urban congestion. This study attempts to use an exten...

Serious games (SGs) have been widely employed in the digital preservation and transmission of architectural heritage. However, the key determinants and underlying mechanisms driving users’ continuance intentions toward ancient-architecture cult...

This study investigates how perceived value influences user satisfaction and usage intention toward AI Digital Human Advisors in digital finance, drawing on the Stimulus–Organism–Response (S–O–R) framework. Perceived value is...

This study explores the intricate relationships between perceived value, customer satisfaction, trust, and loyalty in the context of the dynamic online entertainment platform industry. As the entertainment landscape has evolved from traditional forma...

Retaining bus users is a practical condition for sustainable urban mobility, but transport agencies need defensible passenger-centered measures to judge whether service experience is credible enough to support continued use. This study tests an explo...

With the development of social networks and the Internet-based sharing economy, shared short-term rentals are emerging as a new kind of service that provides a convenient way for people to buy short-term rental services in cities through social-netwo...

This study analyzes how learning costs for technologies that lack de facto standards, such as mobile payment, affect user intentions. In addition, we evaluate how the negative effect of learning costs is mediated by perceived functional value and fac...

As user-centric innovation has recently emerged as a successful way of developing new products, services, and concepts, it is worth considering the perspectives of potential technology users during R&D project selection processes. Nevertheless, l...

During a survey related to acoustic and visual perception of users of urban areas, 614 people have been interviewed in Pisa (Italy). The work aims to identify and quantify the effects of parameters influencing the perception of tranquillity in order...

This study investigated the factors influencing user acceptance of the Navigate on Autopilot (NOA) functionality in new energy vehicles in China. An extended Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) was developed, incorporating additional factors such as so...

Whilst a growing body of evidence demonstrates people derive a range of health and wellbeing benefits from visiting parks, only a limited number of attempts have been made to provide a complementary economic assessment of parks. The aim of this explo...

Cultural heritage virtual tourism offers users a novel digital heritage experience, becoming an essential channel for cultural dissemination and preservation. However, how to stimulate users’ continuous behavioral intention remains unresolved....

In order to determine how sustainable online grocery shopping is as a practice, it is crucial to have an in-depth understanding of its drivers. This paper therefore validates the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT2) in the cont...