This study examined the impacts of perceived ease of use (PEOU), perceived usefulness (PU), and perceived Internet content (PIC) on students' usage of the Internet. Additionally, it investigated the impacts of these variables on usage of the Internet as moderated by gender, educational background, income, computer users' classification, and self-reported measure of computer knowledge. We modifi...

D the widespread adoption of search and recommendation technologies on the Internet, empirical research that examines the effect of these technologies is scarce. How do online consumers use these technologies? Does consumers’ technology usage have an effect on the sales to them or their purchasing patterns? This paper empirically measures consumers’ usage of website technologies by analyzing se...

Software development methods are shifting towards faster deployments and closer to the end users. Their ever tighter engagement of end-users also requires new technologies for gathering feedback from those users. At the same time, widespread Internet connectivity of different application environments is enabling the collection of this post-deployment data also from sources other than traditiona...

BACKGROUND The internet is a relatively new medium of disseminating health information. Studies on Internet usage for health information are mainly done in developed countries and very few studies have been carried out in developing countries. METHODS The Internet usage of patients who were attending specialist clinics in Teaching Hospital Karapitiya and Southern Hospital in Galle, Sri Lanka ...

Although the internet has become one of the most important information resources for university students, excessive internet use can be defined as uncontrolled and harmful use of the internet, in other words, Internet Addiction. Internet addiction (IA) can be described as a maladaptive preoccupation with internet use impairing social, occupational and other areas of a person’s functioning. Rece...

Use of the internet has regarded as an advantageous breakthrough which sometimes has led to over usage so-called "internet addiction". Increased prevalence of internet addiction among students and the necessity of acquiring information to design interventions have compelled us to design the present study on knowledge, attitudes and self-efficacy of students regarding the Internet addi...

In this age of modern era, the use of internet must be maximized. Yeah, internet will help us very much not only for important thing but also for daily activities. Many people now, from any level can use internet. The sources of internet connection can also be enjoyed in many places. As one of the benefits is to get the on-line shaping knowledge complex socio spatial modelling for adaptive orga...

eHealth initiatives are constantly evolving, supporting consumers to take active control of their health and well-being through access to health information and through communication with experts and peers via the internet. Although particularly elderly people could benefit from eHealth, they often feel unable to use the internet. Drawing on social cognitive theory, we seek to understand how in...

In this paper I will describe usage possibilities of two major lexicological resources for the German language on the internet. The two databases in my focus will be the elexiko-project by the IdS (=Institute for the German Language), Mannheim, and the DWDS-project by the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Letters & Sciences. Both items are corpus-based and by self-definition claim to be comprehensi...

The development of science is inevitably affected by social dynamics since more and more scholarly activities are happening online. With the development of Internet and Web 2.0, the evaluation, spread, and discussion of scholarly information and publications are exposed to the whole society, breaking the strict borderline between scientists and amateurs. This paper proposes to model scientific ...