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Consumer information search has been a focus of research nowadays, especially in the context of online business environments. One of the research questions is to determine how much information to search (i.e., when to stop searching), since extensive literature on behavior science has revealed that consumers often search either “too little” or “too much”, even with the help of existing interact...

This study investigates the quality of course content, behavioural patterns of students and learning performance in teaching of student-generated content (SGC). A total of 49 third-year university students in educational technology participated in this study. By combining the methods of questionnaire, lag sequence analysis and interview, the study found that (1) SGC quality was acceptable, (2) ...

In this paper we present a method for event reminding. Our method is designed for scheduling leaving time from one location to catch the event at different location. We use a mobile device to track user activities and discover patterns in her activities by analyzing locations where she spends time, time when she is travelling, type of transportation she uses and weather conditions. These observ...

Obesity is considered as a gateway to chronic diseases and disabilities effecting all age groups of the population. Profound changes in society, worldwide nutrition transition and behavioural patterns of communities over recent decades reflect the rising epidemic. Prevention and management of obesity has become one of the most important objective of the health care sector.As obesity is a chroni...

In speech rhythm analysis, it is important to localize the perceptual center (P-center) of syllables in order to establish a basis for measuring syllabic duration. P-center research has focused primarily on Germanic languages, for which syllables tend to begin with multiple consonants. In Cantonese, the syllable-initial position contains no more than one consonant, making it less prone to durat...

Clickstream can be a rich source of data for analysing user behaviour, but the volume of these logs makes it difficult to identify and categorise behavioural patterns. In this paper, we introduce the Automatic Pattern Discovery (APD) method, a technique for automated processing of Clickstream data to identify a user's browsing patterns. The paper also includes case study that is used to illustr...

This study addresses the lack of attention in the literature paid to detailed analysis of individuals information behaviour in daily life contexts. In particular, the study characterizes one individual s information behaviour across different daily life situations, to seek behavioural patterns that might be associated with various aspects of each information seeking situation. Data was collecte...

Studies on Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) users discuss the existence of typical profiles and their impact on the learning process of students. One of the concerns when creating a new MOOC is knowing how the users behave when going through the contents. We can identify either quantitative methods that allow you to infer hardly interpretable groups of similar behaviour[1] or hardly context-...

Textual information exchanged among users on online social network platforms provides deep understanding into users’ interest and behavioral patterns. However, unlike traditional text-dominant settings such as offline publishing, one distinct feature for online social network is users’ rich interactions with the textual content, which, unfortunately, has not yet been well incorporated in the ex...