Characteristics Of Ubiquity Research Articles

THE RELATIONSHIP AMONG U-CONSTRUCTS, TRUST AND SATISFACTION: EVIDENCE FROM MOBILE BANKING USERS

The last few decades have witnessed a drastic change in the nature of commerce due to the development of ubiquitous computingtechnologies. E-commerce has evolved to an ultimate stage that is called u-commerce. This study seeks to provide an understandingof consumer satisfaction and trust in u-commerce characteristics. Thus, the research examined how u-constructs affect satisfaction and trust from the mobile banking perspective. Ubiquity, uniqueness, universality, and unison comprise the characteristic featuresrepresented as u-constructs. In this study, a total of 1012 samples were analysed using Structural Equation Modelling (SEM). The results showed that characteristics of ubiquity and universality have positive effects on customer satisfaction, yet they do not have any effect on trust. It was also found that uniqueness and unison have positive effects on trust and that trust has a positive effect on satisfaction. This study contains some theoretical and practical implications for researchers and practitioners who are interested in u-commerce and improving customer satisfaction.

The technological system 2.0: Suggested amendments and revisions under digital assumptions

Abstract When Jacques Ellul wrote Technological System in 1980, he understood it as an update to his earlier observations. By and large, these updates were analogous to the metastasizing of cancer cells; what Ellul saw was that there was ‘more’ technology everywhere, yet its assumptions were largely dependent on the nature of technologies he had analysed in his earlier work, The Technological Society in 1954. In this article, I update the previous insights of Ellul to take into account the critical mass of Internet and cell phone technologies. The ‘digital technological system’ has several more defining characteristics that need to be incorporated in order to fully assess and comprehend the technological system through Ellul’s original lens. By demonstrating that now too ‘that stage has passed’, this article nevertheless shows a continuity with Ellul’s thought in demonstrating that the digital technological system still contains the previous characteristics of autonomy, unity, universality and totalization but that the new digital stage also adds the characteristics of ubiquity, atemporality and disincarnation. What problems this presents for ‘man’ in the digital technological system is the key concern of the resulting analysis.

Evaluating Characteristics Adherence Level to Design Framework for Pervasive Projects

The proliferation of wireless communications and mobile computing is producing a revolutionary change in information society. Ubiquitous Computing is a recent paradigm whose objective is to support users in accomplishing their tasks, accessing information, or communicating with other users anytime, anywhere. In this paper, the authors present novel characteristics of pervasive projects; they display different levels of adherence to the ubiquity characteristics. They suppose this can be considered an important step towards to provide the core elements of an architecture for intelligent environment. This framework can be used to support the characterization of ubiquitous projects according to their ubiquity adherence level from different application domains (smart house, pervasive healthcare, U-learning and urban space).

A Recommendation System for Ubiquitous Learning in the Context of Formal and Informal Education

Distance learning has facilitated access to information and training, gaining quality and hence credibility. On the other hand, informal education is becoming a great ally to the formation not only academic but also social. For reach these benefits was modeled and developed the MobiLE system, which consists in a solution for accessing and sharing content for mobile devices. The Recommendation System of the MobiLE system, the focus of this paper, is based on the characteristics of ubiquity and mobility, being provided with a subsystem that considers the semantic enrichment and provides customization of content to the user.

An Ambient Intelligence Based Multi-Agent System for Alzheimer Health Care

This article describes ALZ-MAS; an Ambient Intelligence based multi-agent system aimed at enhancing the assistance and health care for Alzheimer patients. The system makes use of several context-aware technologies that allow it to automatically obtain information from users and the environment in an evenly distributed way, focusing on the characteristics of ubiquity, awareness, intelligence, mobility, etc., all of which are concepts defined by Ambient Intelligence.

Customisation for ubiquitous web applications: a comparison of approaches

Ubiquitous web applications adhering to the anytime/anywhere/anymedia paradigm are required to be customisable meaning the adaptation of their services towards a certain context. Several approaches for customising ubiquitous Web applications have been already proposed, each of them having different origins and pursuing different goals for dealing with the unique characteristics of ubiquity. This paper compares some of these proposals, trying to identify their strengths and shortcomings. As a prerequisite, an evaluation framework is suggested which categorises the major characteristics of customisation into different dimensions. On the basis of this framework, customisation approaches are surveyed and compared to each other, pointing the way to next-generation customisation approaches.