As the use and value of social networks continues to expand and creatively grow, the question of how to attract people to the various sites becomes an important question. This research focuses on interactivity and its role in user satisfaction with a social network site. A model is put forth that focuses on factors that help answer these questions. A survey was conducted with 164 users of socia...

In the last decade Recommender Systems have become useful tools helping users to find “what they need” from considerable amount of data. One of the more obvious applications of such systems in the Cultural Heritage domain is to assist users when visiting cultural environments (such as museums, archaeological sites, old town centers and so on), providing a multimedia guide that is able to dynami...

The relationship between work and leisure, with regard to various aspects of work and its meaning, was examined in two groups of people: leisure-oriented and work-oriented. Leisure-to-work spillover characterized the relations between leisure orientation and the following variables: absolute work centrality, interpersonal contacts, intrinsic orientation, obligation norm, and weekly work hours. ...

Information is considered as an all-encompassing element that weaves connections and facilitates continued use in social networking. This study provides a new perspective by delineating the nature of information in social networking into hedonic and utilitarian information quality as well as information providers’ characteristics such as their reputation and intentions (altruism). Extending DeL...

in this research work, the impact of user’s behavior on search engine results is discussed. it aims to improvement of search results which leads to the higher satisfaction of users. in other words, we are trying to present a personalized search engine for each user, based on his/her activity and search history. we base our hypothesis that the search history of each user in a specific time frame...