... Digital information systems Retrieval Behaviour Library With the emergence of the internet, online information services have witnessed, and continue to witness, profound change; they should be designed not for a particular group with specified characteristics but any group of potential users...

...Dong‐Hee Shin Purpose The purpose of this study is to investigate users' underlying motivations for engaging in social networking through online social networking services (SNS) compared with their behaviour. It seeks to examine the differences between USA, and Korean users. Design/methodology...

.../methodology/approach This study extends the theory of planned behaviour (TPB) with flow experience, perceived enjoyment, and interaction to propose a theoretical model to explain and predict people's behavioural intention to play online games. This model is examined through an empirical study involving 458...

...I‐Hsien Ting; Rong Gu; Miaoliang Zhu; Liying Zhao; Ningning Zhang Purpose Behaviour in virtual learning environments (VLE), including travel, gaze, manipulate, gesture and conversation, offer considerable information about the user's implicit interest. The purpose of this study is to find...

... be contacted at: jari.salo@oulu.fi © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Trust Online operations User studies Behaviour Electronic commerce To examine how trust elements can affect end‐users' behaviour, McKnight and Chervany (1996) analysed six constructs of trust: 1...

...Seda Ozmutlu; Huseyin C. Ozmutlu; Buket Buyuk Purpose One of the most important dimensions of search engine user information seeking behaviour is content‐based behaviour. One of the main elements in developing a personalised intelligent search engine is new topic identification. The purpose...

...Donna Gardiner; David McMenemy; Gobinda Chowdhury Purpose This paper aims to study information behaviour of academics in the digital age. Compares information behaviour of British university academics in three disciplines – computer and information sciences, business/management, and English...

...Jin Zhang; Iris Jastram Purpose This paper aims to investigate the internet web page metadata usage behavior in terms of their metadata element co‐occurrences. Metadata are designed to facilitate both web publishers/authors to organize their web pages and search engines to index the web pages...