This paper describes our work in performing a Factor Analysis (FA) to measure engagement attributes in Facebook and performing a Discriminant Analysis (DA) to determine the relationship between engagement levels and Facebook activities. We adapted the measuring user engagement scales from previous works that were performed in an online shopping environment. By using factor analysis, we discover...

s conclusions: “Having better provider-patient communication, having social support, and having higher self-efficacy was associated with performing diabetes self-care behaviors; and these behaviors were directly linked to glycemic control. So longitudinal studies are needed to explore the effect of self-efficacy, social support and PPC on changes in diabetes self-care behaviors and glycemic con...

Abstract Although the potential of arts to promote social inclusion is recognised, barriers for disabled people in under-researched. Based on 34 semi-structured interviews with and those without disability from four organisations Australia, paper identifies within performing across dimensions: access; participation; representation empowerment. Findings highlight are societal, being created litt...

This paper describes a decentralised approach to social filtering based on trust between agents in a multiagent system. The social filtering in the proposed approach is built on the interactions between collaborative software agents performing content-based filtering. This means that it uses a mixture of content-based and social filtering and thereby, it takes advantage of both methods.

Parents and teachers often express concern about the extensive use of social media by youngsters. Some of them see emoticons, undecipherable initialisms and loose grammar typical for social media as evidence of language degradation. In this paper, we use a simple measure of text complexity to investigate how the complexity of public posts on a popular social networking site changes over time. W...

This paper describes a methodology for performing longitudinal evaluations when a social robotic telepresence system is deployed in realistic environments. This work is the core of an Ambient Assisted Living Project called ExCITE, Enabling Social Interaction Through Telepresence. The ExCITE project is geared towards an elderly audience and has as aim to increase social interaction among elderly...