web information usability is a new issue, which has attracted many specialists in these days. it has been of great importance regarding the increasing growth of web sites requiring quality monitoring. web quality measurement has intrinsic difficulties and complexities, pushing specialists to devise automatic ways to measure its different aspects, among them usability and accessibility. this stu...

INTRODUCTION Research on park use among Asians and Pacific Islanders is limited. This study examined use and conditions of 6 urban parks, varying in size, location, and neighborhood income level, in predominantly Asian and Pacific Islander communities in Honolulu, Hawaii. Sociodemographic predictors of park use were also identified. METHODS Observations were conducted from June through Octobe...

Sound gardens rely on location tracking technology to situate audio landmarks in public spaces, typically urban parks. These landmarks are surrounded by a proximity zone, and content relating to them is displayed to users within this region. In densely populated sound gardens, overlap between zones is inevitable and will result in simultaneous playback of multiple audio sources – a potentially ...

Urban parks are important recreational spaces of environmental interest for citizens and city visitors. Targeted attractive promotion these areas can help develop alternative forms “green tourism” increase awareness among citizens, which is particularly vital the future planet. New technologies a key tool improving experience touring urban parks, as they make tour much more by highlighting inte...

Uses and gratifications and domestication research suggest that the gratifications obtained from mobile services go far beyond the instrumentality of flexibility and availability. On the other hand, ICT-adoption research focuses instrumentality by relying on concepts of usefulness and ease of use to explain the adoption of information and communication services of all kinds. Mobile parking serv...

The majority of Europeans live in cities, where parks as components Urban Green Spaces (UGSs) play an important role well-being and the provision ecosystem services (ES). UGSs are especially relevant for implementation United Nations (UN) Agenda 2030 Sustainable Development Goals “Good health wellbeing” (Goal 3) “Sustainable cities communities” 11). This study focused on ES use users’ motives, ...

purpose: this study aimed at evaluating the usability of central libraries’ websites of universities subordinated to the ministry of science, research and technology (msrt) from the students’ point of view. method: 30 universities had independent pages for their central library website. after making use of a two-stage cluster sampling method, 5 universities and 92 students from each university ...