This qualitative, exploratory study investigated the design strengths and concerns of OpenCourseware (OCW) for higher education based on user experience, using the translated Chinese website of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology OCW as a venue for exploration (http://www.myoops.org/twocw/mit/index.htm). Fortytwo college students, professors, and e-learning experts in Taiwan were recruite...

To implement a phishing scam, attackers must create a fake website and send spam to attract visitors. To date, empirical research into phishing’s impact has studied either the spam being sent or the website lifetimes. In this paper, we examine both phishing websites and the associated spam to gauge the overall effectiveness of phishing attack and defense. We find that while the bulk of spam is ...

Li Yang, Kansas State University This study explored the effectiveness of a self-access website as a tool to teach expressions of gratitude to learners of Mandarin Chinese. The web-based instruction included explicit instruction on how to express gratitude appropriately in Mandarin and various consciousness-raising exercises/activities. Two groups of learners who differed in their proficiency i...

Search and recommendation systems must include contextual information to effectively model users’ interests. In this paper, we present a systematic study of the effectiveness of five variant sources of contextual information for user interest modeling. Postquery navigation and general browsing behaviors far outweigh direct search engine interaction as an information-gathering activity. Therefor...

This paper discusses the effects the localisation of cultural values on tourism destination websites on user’s willingness to travel. First, a preliminary research was conducted in order to test and propose adaptations to Singh’s et al. (2005) framework of cultural values localisation on websites. Secondly, the authors conducted an experiment to test the localisation of cultural values on a web...

Backup or preservation of websites is often not considered until after a catastrophic event has occurred. In the face of complete website loss, webmasters or concerned third parties may be able to recover some of their website from the Internet Archive. Other pages may also be salvaged from commercial search engine (SE) caches if caught in time. We introduce the concept of “lazy preservation”di...

Alumni Information System is a system that facilitates data collection process and obtains information about alumni. Based on results of interviews with several alumni who just graduated in 2020 at State Polytechnic Malang, were obtained, they had problems accessing website, such as updating data, searching for registration graduation ceremony. online survey to founded content organizing, ease ...

This research was conducted to find out how optimize the website in aqiqah services Nurul Hayat Surabaya. is because, now digital marketing, and e-commerce become one of demands technological advancements.In this study, researchers used qualitative descriptive methods. method depth optimization activities Researchers use data collection techniques by conducting interviews, observations, documen...

This study proposes a new recommender system based on the collaborative folksonomy. The purpose of the proposed system is to recommend Internet resources (such as books, articles, documents, pictures, audio and video) to users. The proposed method includes four steps: creating the user profile based on the tags, grouping the similar users into clusters using an agglomerative hierarchical cluste...