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Exergaming, blending exercise and gaming, improves the physical and mental health of older adults. We currently do not fully know the factors that drive older adults to either engage in or abstain from exergaming. Large-scale studies investigating this ...

This paper explores whether and in what situation the smiling face emoji will influence the interpretation of an utterance in a virtual context. The researchers drew examples from daily WeChat communication and posted them to participants in the ...

The present study investigated the type of influence teachers' technological knowledge, technological pedagogical knowledge, anxiety, age, and years of experience have on their time spent on the MS Teams platform. 171 high-school EFL teachers from the ...

Chatbot-mediated job interviews raise questions about applicant perception of justice, which in turn affects organisational attractiveness. This study uses experimental data to assess applicants' perceptions of procedural, interactional, and ...

In recent times, the landscape of financial literacy has been evolving to accommodate new trends driven by the growing prominence of digital finance. This shift has underscored the vital need for developing digital financial literacy (DFL). ...

The objective of this research was to test, analyze, and visualize the effects of sleep deprivation and aging on performance. The present study aimed to determine how age affects the impact of sleep deprivation on the spatial learning capabilities of ...

Background and Context. Increasing gender diversity in the field of Computer Science (CS) benefits the economy as well as gender equality. However, several obstacles - including underdeveloped CS interests, lack of programming experience, and a misfit ...

The Internet offers low-cost ways to participate in political life, which reduces the motivation required to participate and thus potentially reduces inequalities in participation. I examine online and offline contacting of elected officials using ...

This study examines variation in rhythm metrics in a multilingual setting by focusing on between-speaker differences. The investigation analyzes speech rhythm patterns of segmental durations in the speech of 77 Algerian speakers belonging to three ...

The intersection of ageism and sexism can create a hostile environment for veteran software developers belonging to marginalized genders. In this study, we conducted 14 interviews to examine the experiences of people at this intersection, primarily ...

Moving beyond examining overall social networking site (SNS) use, this study examined the influence of three types of WeChat activities on loneliness, considering the moderating roles of age and perceived network supportiveness on WeChat. Results of a ...

This study examines factors that influence campus riders' intention to use the mobile bus app which can estimate bus arrival time and track bus location in real-time. Individual difference variables namely gender, age and experience were examined. The ...

In order to extend ambient assisted living technologies for semi-autonomous people from smart homes to smart cities, it is necessary to recognize vulnerable people in the city. Gait-based approaches have been used to perform soft biometrics recognition,...

Finger vein recognition deals with the identification of subjects based on their venous pattern within the fingers. It was shown in previous work that biometric data can include more than only identity related information like e.g. age, gender and ...

From business to politics and academia, the economic effects of gender quotas are under scrutiny. We provide new causal evidence based on the introduction of mandatory gender quotas for boards of directors of Italian listed companies. Exploiting staggered ...

In this paper we explore children’s perception of technology by looking at the drawings and descriptive texts submitted to the Design and Research Challenge run for the International Conference on Interaction Design and Children 2022 by 166 children ...

In this one-day workshop we are going to make access. We aim to counteract the phenomenon that access to making (e.g., in makerspaces, fablabs, etc.) is not equally distributed, with certain groups of people being underrepresented (e.g., women*1). ...

Research has recognized the importance of individual differences of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) that require interventions to meet their heterogeneous needs. This relatively large-scale study investigates a robot-assisted autism therapy (...

Quantitative measures of the finger tapping task is important for objective assessment of bradykinesia. However, age-related changes in quantitative measures are still unclear.

Recently, data breaches, especially insider data breaches, have become increasingly common. However, there is a limited amount of research on the factors associated with the decrease in users' trust in response to these events. In this study, social ...