Computers in Human Behavior

To study video gamers' in-game morality, personality traits and social tendencies.Evilness in video games correlated with low empathy, high physical aggression.Evilness in video games correlated with low extraversion, low agreeableness.Evilness in video ...

Consumers have built up trust first as an antecedent of their perceived risks.The perceived total risk is negatively related to trust.The perceived risks can be classified as system dependent risk and transactional risk. The uncertainties of transaction ...

Individuals display themselves authentically in their professional network profiles.Professional networks are comparable to social networks in terms of self-presentation.Observers can accurately judge profile owners' personality ...

Survey conducted in America and Taiwan explored antecedents of media multitasking.Media ownership, polychronicity, motivations positively predicted multitasking.Four media multitasking motivations mediated the effect of media ownership.Americans scored ...

Robot navigation and obstacle avoidance using fuzzy logic controller is presented.Soft computing techniques are used to optimize the performance of fuzzy logic.The automatic tuning was done by using three soft computing techniques: GA, PSO, and NN.The ...

The continued use of internal blogs is driven by habituation.The use is also adapted by network externalities and managerial incentives.Actual usage data are collected from an in-practice system to test the model.The work provides a behavior pattern ...

Reactions of users to bots can be extremely varied.Some patterns of bot behavior elicit similar types of reactions from users.Bots are surprisingly well accepted by the users.Policing bots elicit more polarized (negative but also positive) reactions.Bot-...

We use Schwartz's model to explore the impact of values on individual internet use.Study 1 uses 49 developed and emerging nations based on World Value Survey data.Study 2 uses 8 nations developed and emerging based on European Social Survey data.From ...

Online sexual self-presentation is highly influenced by peer norms.Girls who present themselves in sexual ways are evaluated more negatively by other girls but more positively by boys.Boys who present themselves in sexual ways are evaluated more ...

Proposing a novel framework for segmentation of fan page users in social networks.Utilizing different methodologies such as data mining, sentiment analysis and CRM.Considering engagement factors such as Polarity for the first time in segmentation.The ...

We present the first study of YouTube's most popular content genre, music videos.Our analysis of popular music videos identified three main types and 12 subtypes.User-appropriated videos emerged as the most important new category of videos.Derivative ...

We investigate factors that impact mobile data service (MDS) continuance intention.A survey was conducted with 196 users of MDS.System service quality, service mobility, and customer experience impact MDS continuance intention.Customer experience ...

University students completed measures of personality and behavior in video games.Dimensions of in-game behavior were Aggressing, Winning, Creating, and Helping.Men reported more Aggressing, Winning, and Helping behaviors than women.Controlling for sex, ...

Cyberbullying is a dynamic relationship between the aggressor and the victim.Establishing the prevalence of cyberbullying is difficult due to the instruments used.The instrument validated integrates the traditional bullying characteristics.Differences ...

Influence of display, motion and gender on smart wearable devices is examined.An experiment with high ecological validity was conducted.Studying display on wearable devices provides an extension to HCI theories.Comparing walking and jogging extends the ...

A direct pathway from PAR to IGA was not evident in the final model.A fully indirect effect of PAR on IGA highlighted the protective role of SC.DPA fully mediated the link between PAR and IGA.A sequential mediation path appeared in the final model.The ...

We test the relationship between self-monitoring and mobile device dependency.Self-monitoring has positive relationship with fashion involvement.Self-monitoring has positive relationship with tendency to experiment with appearance. Retailing industry ...

An interdisciplinary perspective on human-computer interaction in smart environments.A framework for modeling human interaction with mobiquitous services/applications.Main dimensions of natural user interface for smart environments. Mobiquitous is a ...

We surveyed a large crosssectional sample diverse in age and technology experience.Generational differences exist across UTAUT determinants.The most salient gaps are between the oldest and youngest generations.We predicted intention with age and two ...

Sexting coercion related to physical sex coercion.Greater trauma for sexting coercion than sex coercion, especially for women.Sexting coercion positively related to anxiety, depression, and trauma symptoms.Sexting and physical sex coercion both related ...

We evaluated Life Satisfaction and three factors of social influence.Life Satisfaction improves the effects of social influence factors.Results reinforce that psychological needs motivate human behavior.The psychological needs are more important than ...

Online discussion forums have benefits at individual and society level.They are positively linked to well-being for stigmatised group members.Online discussion forum use is linked to offline civic engagement in related areas.Identification with other ...

Latent Class Analysis revealed seven classes of motivations for playing MMORPGs.Five classes of gaming addiction-related experiences were extracted.Three classes of motivations for playing were linked to higher risk of addiction. Massively multiplayer ...

We examined multiple peer influences on adolescents' Internet addiction.Peers' social acceptance was associated with adolescent Internet addition.Normativeness of Internet addition also was a significant predictor.Close peers' social status was a ...

Used the collaborative tagging idea to produce personalized recommendations.Attempted utilization of the power of taxonomies through clustering of annotations.Experimental evaluation of the model using data from public annotation system, citeUlike.The ...

We examined how personal privacy behavior and confidence differ by gender.Gender had no direct effect on data release.However, there was a gender difference on confidence in privacy protection.Significant interactions between gender and age were found. ...

We investigate teenagers' robot representation (ontological and functional status).We observe whether such representation changes with acquaintance to robots.The ontological categorization of robots becomes more nuanced.The functional categorization of ...

Controlled experiment of gender composition on team performance under anonymity.Female-dominated teams are more productive than male-dominated teams.Female students are no more productive than male students.Female students act more collaboratively. It ...

Divergent associations of different positive affects with the amount of new technology, and the intention of new technology.Interest and contentment as positive affects are highly correlated.Association with the intention to adopt new technology was ...