Successful negotiators look beyond a purely utilitarian view. We propose a new agent architecture that integrates the utilitarian, information, and semantic views allowing the definition of strategies that take these three dimensions into account. Information-based agency values the information in dialogues in the context of a communication language based on a structured ontology and on the not...

Identifying the onset of symbolic or non-utilitarian behavior remains one of the most important issues in the modern human origins debate, and as such, early evidence requires careful scrutiny. ‘Exotic minerals’ dating to >350 ka are one of several possible indications of hominin non-utilitarian behavior from Wonderwerk Cave, South Africa. Ecological data suggest an alternate hypothesis that th...

Prior research suggests the need to incorporate the information technology (IT) artifact within extant theories of IT usage, yet little progress has been made to that end. This study addresses this gap by incorporating the nature and purpose of the IT artifact in terms of four characteristics: utilitarian value, hedonic value, communication value, and technical complexity. The moderating effect...

For Augmented Reality to reach beyond novelty (the simple “wow” factor) and become utilitarian and enjoyable regardless of where the user works or plays, there will need to be: • a nearly infinite amount of content, just as there is today on other digital platforms (e.g., the Web), • an easy system for the owners of content to build or find complementary digital data and have their content be v...

Belgium legalised voluntary euthanasia in 2002, thus ending the long isolation of the Netherlands as the only country in which doctors could openly give lethal injections to patients who have requested help in dying. Meanwhile in Oregon, in the United States, doctors may prescribe drugs for terminally ill patients, who can use them to end their life--if they are able to swallow and digest them....

This study aims at explaining the factors affecting the adoption intention of mobile data services from the perspective of consumers as users. In this study we focus on the value users can potentially gain from using these services. We hypothesize that if we can examine users' utilitarian, hedonic, uniqueness, epistemic and economic value, then we can explain and predict their intentions to use...