Lifestyle Of Users Research Articles

Applying User-Centered Design Principles to the Development of Wearable Technology in Fashion Design

This paper explores the integration of user-centered design (UCD) principles into the development of wearable technology within the fashion industry. As wearable devices become more prevalent, the necessity for these products to not only serve functional purposes but also align with fashion aesthetics and user preferences becomes increasingly critical. This study provides an extensive overview of the historical development of wearable technology, highlighting key shifts from basic functional devices to advanced systems that merge seamlessly with user lifestyles and fashion choices. Through detailed case studies of products such as the Apple Watch and Fitbit, the paper illustrates the successful application of UCD principles, emphasizing customization, health monitoring, and interactive user engagement. It also discusses various design methodologies, including Human-Centered Design, Agile Development, and Sustainable Design, and their roles in addressing both user needs and rapid technological changes. Furthermore, the paper examines the challenges faced by designers, such as device miniaturization, aesthetic integration, and privacy concerns, alongside opportunities for innovation in health monitoring, sustainable practices, and augmented reality. The study underscores the critical importance of UCD in enhancing user acceptance and market success, advocating for continued research and cross-disciplinary collaboration to foster innovation in wearable technology.

Architecture and Development Framework for a Web-Based Risk Assessment and Management Platform Developed on WordPress to Address Opioid Overdose.

The number of overdose-related fatalities continues to reach historic levels across Canada, despite ongoing efforts by authorities. To reduce mortality, a clinical trajectory ranging from preventative measures to crisis intervention, skill training to treatment, and risk assessment to risk management needs to be supported. The web-based Risk Assessment and Management Platform (RAMP) was developed to realize this concept and to empower people who use drugs through an integrated tool that allows them to better understand and manage their risk of overdose. This paper outlines the architecture and development of RAMP, which is built on the WordPress platform. WordPress components are mapped onto a 3-tier architecture that consists of presentation, application, and database layers. The architecture facilitates the development of a modular software that includes several features that are independent in functionality but interact with each other in an integrated platform. The relatively low coupling and high coherence of the features may reduce the cost of maintenance and increase flexibility of future developments. RAMP's architecture comprises a user interface, conceptual framework, and backend layers. The RAMP front end effectively uses some of the WordPress' features such as HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript to create a mobile, friendly, and scalable user interface. The RAMP backend uses several standard and custom WordPress plug-ins to support risk assessment and monitoring, with the goal of mitigating the impacts and eliminating risks together. A rule-based decision support system has been hard-coded to suggest relevant modules and goals to complement each user's lifestyle and goals based on their risk assessment. Finally, the backend uses the MySQL database management system and communicates with the RAMP framework layer via the data access layer to facilitate a timely and secure handling of information. Overall, RAMP is a modular system developed to identify and manage the risk of opioid overdose in the population of people who use drugs. Its modular design uses the WordPress architecture to efficiently communicate between layers and provide a base for external plug-ins. There is potential for the current system to adopt and address other related fields such as suicide, anxiety, and trauma. Broader implementation will support this concept and lead to the next level of functionality.

READERS’ PERCEPTION ABOUT THE ANDISHA SCIENTIFIC MAGAZINE OF HERAT UNIVERSITY OF AFGHANISTAN

Information and communication revolution has brought radical changes in the life style of users. Print media has broken the geographical barriers and also have become more so common with them. During the last few decades, the educational world has begun to appreciate the enormous potential of information and communication technology, which influences our future lives. Improved communication and information access is related to social and economic development. Print media provides an opportunity to bridge the gap between information rich and information poor. Audience research beside the media research is one of the stages which the study was undertaken, under this stage the data were collected from a sample of 80 subscribers from Herat University campus, using personal interview method with the help of well-structured pre-tested interview schedule. The study revealed that most of the readers rated the magazine as moderately effective. Ease in reading, attractiveness of the title and design of the cover page, among cover page components; readability, accuracy, clarity, usefulness, relevancy and adequacy of information among content components and letter size and number of pages per article and magazine among format components received the highest perception score.

Analysis Of The Influence Of Product Quality, Lifestyle And Promotional Strategy On The Decision To Purchase Samsung Smartphone Products

Today's smartphones are not just a means to fulfill communication needs; they have now become part of the user's lifestyle. Currently, almost every activity and time is spent using a smartphone, such as working, playing, socializing, or carrying out other daily activities. This study intends to examine how lifestyle, marketing, and product quality affect consumers' purchase choices. The basic data used in this study was collected from questionnaires. Using the judgment sampling method, a total of 100 respondents made up the sample. The method of data analysis employs numerous linear regressions. The findings of the study demonstrate that lifestyle significantly affects purchase choices. The high level of lifestyle can be used to explain this influence. Purchase decisions are significantly influenced by promotions. The effect of the significant amount of promotion of 0.000 can be explained. Purchase decisions are significantly influenced by product quality. The impact of the significant degree of product quality of 0.06 can be discussed. The combination of lifestyle, incentives, and product quality has a big impact on buying choices. The substantial level of lifestyle, promotion, and product quality can be used to explain this influence.

Unmasking the Behavioural Intention of Social Commerce in Developing Countries: Integrating Technology Acceptance Model

Despite the fact that lifestyle of consumers is radically changing, which has a significant impact on business, little attention has been given to the lifestyle of users, which can influence social commerce (S-commerce). To bridge the gap, this study focused on investigating how assorted measures change the behavioural adoption of social commerce in a developing country by integrating the extension of the technology acceptance model (TAM). Data were gleaned using personal-administered structured questionnaires from Bangladesh participants who used social commerce. The developed hypotheses were tested using partial least square structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM). Results revealed that perceived ease of use, perceived usefulness, perceived trust and perceived lifestyle have a positive influence on attitudes towards social commerce. In addition, attitudes towards social commerce have a positive relationship with the intention to adopt social commerce. Furthermore, perceived efficiency and perceived risk have an insignificant positive effect on changing attitudes towards adopting social commerce. Finally, these results’ theoretical and practical implications are discussed at the end. This study first contributes to extending the TAM by incorporating a new construct of perceiving lifestyle.

Factors Influencing Purchase Intention Against Marketplace Users in Gen Z

purpose- The weakness of the marketplace is that it cannot physically present products that can be touched by potential customers, for this reason information liaison is needed including influencers and product features to increase consumer purchase intentions. The marketplace itself has become a lifestyle, especially for the Z generation (Gen Z) in buying a product. Design/methodology/approach -This study used a quantitative method by distributing 100 questionnaires, especially to the current Z generation, which is estimated to be in the age range of 20 to 40 years, who have certainly purchased products through marketplaces that have been determined by the researcher. By using the SPSS 25 analysis tool and the purposive sampling method. The results and techniques will describe several factors such as influencers, product features and lifestyle in influencing purchase intention. Findings and Discussions -From the results of calculations using the analytical tools applied to this study, it proves that influencers have a significant influence on purchase intention because consumers not only need the benefits of product features, but those that are closest to their satisfaction and needs that are deemed appropriate to support their lifestyle. Therefore, how important it is for companies to select influencers who can influence consumer buying interest by looking at the elements of good interaction between prospective consumers and their educators. With the aim of increasing more buying interest. For marketplace providers and their users, including producers who work together, they must always provide feature products that are always innovating where feature products are required to approach consumer satisfaction and needs. Conclusion- Marketplace is one of the most popular services for generation z at this time. Not only providing services anytime and anywhere regarding information on a product being traded, but also providing some interesting promotions. However, the marketplace also has several drawbacks because the service is only listed on the internet screen so consumers cannot see or physically touch the product to be purchased. For this reason, influencers are needed as a liaison and to increase consumer confidence by educating how to use and practice these products. There is interaction between influencers and consumers so that it influences the lifestyle of marketplace users as well as wanting to be recognized as part of an idol in using the same product.

Digital Marketing: Determinant of E-Wallet Intention for Retail Buyers

Background: Practically, cell phones not only function as a means of communication and entertainment media but also as a means of payment through various mobile banking and e-wallet applications installed on cell phones. Not only that, but cashless payments can also save time and decrease the time for waiting for change when making transactions. Aim: This study aims to determine the suitability and security received by users of the application of funds and how these two aspects affect the attitudes and behavior of users in the future. Method: The research method used in this study was a survey conducted by distributing questionnaires through online and offline media. The demographics examined in this study are the first users of the E-Wallet Fund application who are domiciled in Samarinda. Both users are classified as having used or are currently using the app. The data the researchers received were 200 respondents, which obtained a total sample data of 160 respondents after sorting. Findings: This study found that attitudes can be influenced by the level of suitability of application users with the lifestyle and habits of users, and behavioral intentions are influenced by how high the level of suitability and also the level of security received and the attitude that arises from the whole process of using it. However, it turns out that this research found that the level of security received did not influence attitudes.

AN ANALYSIS OF THE FACTORS THAT IMPACT THE CUSTOMERS’ SATISFACTION ON ONLINE FOOD DELIVERY SERVICES IN PETALING JAYA, SELANGOR, MALAYSIA

Gender equality in education has been an issue of interest in developing strategies for This research focuses on customer satisfaction with Malaysia's online food delivery (OFD) services. In this decade, the number of individuals who frequently purchased meals online climbed dramatically. People nowadays prefer their meals to be delivered instead of dining in a restaurant. Hence, it is crucial to understand the customers' expectations to manage a successful meal delivery business. People used to have to dine at restaurants or order takeout, but today OFD businesses provide convenience and have transformed customer behavior. This study also investigates the intrinsic and extrinsic factors influencing Malaysian's meal delivery satisfaction. Questionnaires were distributed to consumers in Petaling Jaya metropolitan area to collect and analyze data for this study. 384 respondents contributed to this study's findings, discussion, and conclusion. This study tested three independent variables that influence customers' satisfaction: hedonic motivation, price-saving orientation, and time-saving orientation. As a result, this study's three independent variables were statistically significant in satisfying customers. In conclusion, this study can be used to increase the usage of OFD services in the future. However, there are many factors to consider, as it was proven that the three independent factors positively contribute to customer satisfaction. Thus, the OFD service developers must create a solid impression that using OFD services is engaging and intriguing. Additionally, marketers must foster the idea that OFD services are integral to the user's lifestyle.<p> </p><p><strong> Article visualizations:</strong></p><p><img src="/-counters-/edu_01/0098/a.php" alt="Hit counter" /></p>

The Effect of Healthy Mental Lifestyle Package On Sleep Quality, Mental Health, and Lifestyle of Substance Users.

The aim of this study was to assess the effect of a training package based on the lived experience of substance abusers on sleep problems and mental health. The current study was performed on 70 subjects equally distributed into two groups of control and intervention, Data collection tools included the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI), the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ), and the Basic Adlerian Scales for Interpersonal Success-Adult Form (BASIS-A) Inventory. Data analysis was administered using the independent t-test, paired t-test, and MANCOVA. Statistical significance was considered when the P value < 0.05. A total of 70 subjects participated in this study; 7 (10.6%) were females and 59 (89.4%) were males, with a mean age of 36.29 ± 8.588 years. The total score of PSQI was 12.48 (±4.206) and 13.16 (±3.397) for control and intervention groups, respectively, and declined to 12.33 (±4.442) and 9.56 (±4.45) after the intervention. The intervention resulted in an improved score for scales of belonging, going along, taking charge, harshness, being liked by all, and striving for perfection. Whereas the total score of the GHQ is reduced for both groups, that in the intervention group showed a higher decrease, which was also statistically significant. The developed training package successfully improved participants' sleep quality, mental health, and lifestyle.

An Empirical Evaluation of Internet of Things (IoT) Implementations in the Libraries

Internet of Things (IoT) innovation has significantly influenced the role and responsibilities of libraries in educational institutions, societies, and business organizations. In libraries, IoT will be used to evaluate user activities, feedback, and service efficiency, among other things. It is also beneficial in information management and evaluation. The present study aims to investigate the role of the IoT as a new technology in libraries. Library professionals should always be familiar with the various elements of IoT in library resources and services, even as technological advances have improved users' expectations of library resources and services. They also need to be educated on IoT, cyber security in libraries, and user lifestyle. The Internet of Things will continue to impact libraries and their services through creation, archive management, instruction, data protection, and information literacy. The study also is a novel attempt to propose readers to new-age IoT-related technologies that can help libraries improve external services and increase user satisfaction.

Mobile wallets in cash-based economies during COVID-19

PurposeThe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic altered business and personal activities globally especially stimulating contactless financial transactions. However, despite the similar national lockdowns in cash-based economies, the adoption of contactless transactions through the widely available mechanism, mobile wallets, remained low. This research aimed to identify the factors surrounding this peculiarity.Design/methodology/approachThe study was investigated using a composite model based on the diffusion of innovation theory (DIT), technology acceptance model (TAM) and information systems success model (ISSM). Data were collected from 621 Cameroonian mobile wallet users and analyzed using partial least squares structural equation (PLS-SEM) modeling.FindingsThe key findings revealed that the usage of mobile wallets, in the current form, were not affected by the perceived ease of use and did not match the existing lifestyle of users in Cameroon (no compatibility). The branding of mobile wallets (image) which was based on global messaging did not appeal to Cameroonians; in fact, the branding gave mobile wallets a negative image.Originality/valueThese key findings reveal the dangers of assuming that global strategies which have been effective in dealing with the pandemic will be effective in low-income or cash-based economies. The findings suggest that considering essential contextual dispositions is critical.

Recommendation System on Questions and Answers on Social Issues with Lifestyle in the Cloud

Abstract: Social Questions and Answers are a relatively recent feature on social media sites. It presents unique obstacles as well as potential for referral. In this project, we will examine the user's lifestyle. We will compute based on the results of the search. In this, we search any question, and the system reads these things and identifies the user's character. Based on this, we recommend the query to a user with a similar character. We show via trials with actual social networking sites, that social network and appears information may greatly improve the accuracy of popularity-based voting recommendations, but also that social media site information dominates corresponds information in NN-based methods. voting traces. We also discovered that chilly users value social and group information far more than heavy users. (Abstract) Keywords: Life-Style,, Aws services,

Changes in Blood Lipid Levels After a Digitally Enabled Cardiometabolic Preventive Health Program: Pre-Post Study in an Adult Dutch General Population Cohort.

BackgroundDespite widespread education, many individuals fail to follow basic health behaviors such as consuming a healthy diet and exercising. Positive changes in lifestyle habits are associated with improvements in multiple cardiometabolic health risk factors, including lipid levels. Digital lifestyle interventions have been suggested as a viable complement or potential alternative to conventional health behavior change strategies. However, the benefit of digital preventive interventions for lipid levels in a preventive health context remains unclear.ObjectiveThis observational study aimed to determine how the levels of lipids, namely total cholesterol, high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol, low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, non-HDL cholesterol, and triglycerides, changed over time in a Dutch general population cohort undergoing a digital preventive health program. Moreover, we looked to establish associations between lifestyle factors at baseline and lipid levels.MethodsWe included 348 adults from the Dutch general population who underwent a digitally enabled preventive health program at Ancora Health between January 2020 and October 2021. Upon enrollment, participants underwent a baseline assessment involving a comprehensive lifestyle questionnaire, a blood biochemistry panel, physical measurements, and cardiopulmonary fitness measurements. Thereafter, users underwent a lifestyle coaching program and could access the digital application to register and track health behaviors, weight, and anthropometric data at any time. Lipid levels were categorized as normal, elevated, high, and clinical dyslipidemia according to accepted international standards. If at least one lipid marker was high or HDL was low, participants received specific coaching and advice for cardiometabolic health. We retrospectively analyzed the mean and percentage changes in lipid markers in users who were remeasured after a cardiometabolic health–focused intervention, and studied the association between baseline user lifestyle characteristics and having normal lipid levels.ResultsIn our cohort, 199 (57.2%) participants had dyslipidemia at baseline, of which 104 participants were advised to follow a cardiometabolic health–focused intervention. Eating more amounts of favorable food groups and being more active were associated with normal lipid profiles. Among the participants who underwent remeasurement 9 months after intervention completion, 57% (17/30), 61% (19/31), 56% (15/27), 82% (9/11), and 100% (8/8) showed improvements at remeasurement for total, LDL, HDL, and non-HDL cholesterol, and triglycerides, respectively. Moreover, between 35.3% and 77.8% showed a return to normal levels. In those with high lipid levels at baseline, total cholesterol decreased by 0.5 mmol/L (7.5%), LDL cholesterol decreased by 0.39 mmol/L (10.0%), non-HDL cholesterol decreased by 0.44 mmol/L (8.3%), triglycerides decreased by 0.97 mmol/L (32.0%), and HDL increased by 0.17 mmol/L (15.6%), after the intervention.ConclusionsA cardiometabolic screening program in a general population cohort identified a significant portion of individuals with subclinical and clinical lipid levels. Individuals who, after screening, actively engaged in a cardiometabolic health–focused lifestyle program improved their lipid levels.

Development of Solar Powered Shredder Machine for Waste Management

Abstract: The scope of the project is to design and develop a focused shredder machine for crushing coconut leaves and betel leaves and making compost for shredded dry worms. The project started with the collection of information and data about the user's lifestyle and the current process of doing their work. The concepts were developed in the context of four different shredder machines and operating systems. Security factor The concept was developed with the customer operation environment and management in mind. A model has been developed keeping in view the needs and affordability of the customers. The machine consists of a single-phase motor, spur gear, bearing, structural frame, cutter and dual shaft. The frame of the machine is made of mild steel and tungsten carbide is used to prepare the cutter tip. The eight cutters are mounted on two shafts which are rotated parallel by a spur gear. The power from the electric motor is transmitted to the cutter shaft via a belt drive. The inside of the cutting house is cut due to the effect of tension, friction and impact during the cutting process. Cut the coconut leaves and collect the powder at the bottom. Keywоrds: Wаste Reсyсling, Shredder Mасhine, Sоlаr Energy, Wаste Mаnаgement etс.

ELAMI—An Innovative Simulated Dataset of Electrical Loads for Advanced Smart Energy Applications

Smart Energy Applications are particularly impacting, especially due to energy resource scarcity and its high associated costs. A smart management of the energy consumption derives both from the user lifestyle, in terms of efficient and responsible behaviors, and from automatic algorithms that control and counteract energy waste and inefficient management. Focusing the attention on the latter, the development of methodologies and well-working techniques to monitor and optimize consumptions often requires an important effort in long measurement campaigns to get raw data to work with. Whenever this should be too much expensive or proper instrumentation unavailable, public datasets could solve the problem. Current literature review on the dataset availability showed a large presence of information, especially related to electrical energy consumptions. Nevertheless, several limitations affect them, from the low number of calculated electrical parameters (i.e. 4-5 in the most of cases), to short analysis periods, passing by the lack of detailed frequency domain information or poor consumption habit transitions analysis. Accordingly, this work aims to overcome current dataset limitations, by proposing a real-measurement based simulated dataset, extracting more than 400 discriminative electrical parameters on 36 different home appliances, discussing preliminary acquisition set-ups, simulation process, extracted electrical parameters and examples of applicability to smart energy applications. To provide a data quality index, a validation procedure has also been carried out, showing how simulated data match real acquisition with a reference measurement instrument. The produced dataset is available for downloading and analysis in public free access and its repository link is provided in the reference section.

Mixed integer smart off-grid home energy management system

Hybrid PV/diesel generator/batteries systems are applied for many off-grid homes overall the world. Most of the existing studies neglect the effect of loading level of diesel generators on the fuel consumption and/or system efficiency. In addition to, the existing experience of smart home load management isn’t considered in such recent off-grid system energy management research. Therefore, a new offline smart isolated home load scheduling scheme is proposed in this paper to suit developing countries homes characteristics. In this work, detailed models of smart homes sources and appliances are presented. Daily load scheduling scheme is proposed that consider users’ weekly and daily plans to satisfy home occupant’s desires. It also extends batteries lifetime by controlling charging/discharging processes. Diesel generator loading levels are optimized to minimize the total fuel consumption. The proposed scheme is applied on the well-known Mixed Integer Linear Programming MILP optimization technique to introduce a simple and cheap load scheduling scheme for such remote unsophisticated communities. The proposed scheme reduces the fuel consumption to 20% with relatively comfortable lifestyle for home users.

An Implantable Umbo Microphone For Fully-Implantable Assistive Hearing Devices.

This paper presents an implantable microphone for sensing the displacement of the umbo, the end of the malleus where it attaches to the center tip of the cone-shaped tympanic membrane. The sensor comprises a piezoelectric polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) film with copper-nickel electrodes suspended across a brass cylinder. The cylinder is oriented so that the umbo pushes on the film center, causing a static and acoustically-driven dynamic film displacement. An amplifier filters the resulting piezoelectric charge to produce an output signal. The sensor enables the full implantation of assistive hearing devices, which can restore hearing without inhibiting the user's lifestyle, while enabling better sound localization in noisy environments.

Interest-Free Microfinance Arrangements and Its Impact on the Livelihood of Women in India

This study is based on the impact of interest-free microfinance arrangements on the livelihood of women in India. Studies revealed the existence of interest-free microfinance, as well as its outcome on the livelihood of weaker sections of society (particularly women), improved their well-being. Moreover, the interest-free microfinance model can also offer an alternative paradigm for millions of poor individuals who are currently not accommodated by conventional microfinancing. However, the association to Interest Free Micro Financing may be due to religious constraints, easy documentation &amp; procedure, and low rates of processing fees, or any other motive. Interest-free microfinance products like Zakat, Sadaqah, and Karze Hasna will successfully meet micro financing core objectives of poverty alleviation, women empowerment, gender equality, prosperity, and employment. Interest-free microfinance agencies are working as unorganized institutions and not availing any support from the State. In this study, data was drawn from interest-free microfinance users in the areas of 20 districts in 5 states in India, namely UP, Bihar, Maharashtra, Karnataka, and Kerala. The discussions in the study are mainly concerned with the empirical review of the impacts and influences of interest-free microfinance on the lifestyle of microfinance users before a loan and after a taken loan i.e., their income, expenditure, saving, entrepreneurship, consumption, and women's participation in earning income in India. The analysis showed that the performance of interest-free microfinance consumers is better than conventional microfinance consumers. Keywords: Entrepreneurship, Livelihood, Education Development, Living Standards, Women Empowerment

Development of Multipurpose Biowaste Shredder Machine

Abstract: The scope of this project was to design and develop a Shredder machine with focus on chopping of coconut leaves, areca leaves, this chopped powder to prepare the vermin compost. The project began with collection of information and data on user lifestyle and current process by which they perform their job. Concepts were developed with reference of four different shredder machine and operating processes. Concept was developed considering the safety factor users operating environment and maintenance. Considering the users’ needs and buying capacity, a prototype was fabricated. The machine consists of singlephase motor, bearings, structural frame, cutter and shaft. The machine frame is built using mild steel and CPM REX M4 HC is used for cutter tip preparation. Four cutters are mounted on shafts, which rotates.. The power from the electrical motor is transmitted to cutter shaft through a belt drive. Cut is made inside the chopping house due to the effect of tensile, friction, and impact effect in chopping process. The coconut leaves get chopped and powder is collected. The possible outcomes of this project are:  The working efficiency is set to increase with the reduced power to weight ratio.  Reduced cost with reliable performance output.  People with different physics can be accommodated on this equipment. Keywords: Agro waste; shredding machine; Cutter, Single-Φ motor, shaft.

Human Activity Recognition Using Smartphone Sensors

In today’s digitalized world, smartphones are the devices which have become a basic and fundamental part of our life. Since, these greatest technology’s appearance, an uprising has been created in the industry of mobile communication. These greatest inventions of mankind are not just constricted for calling these days. As the capabilities and the number of smartphone users increase day by day, smartphones are loaded with various types of sensors which captures each and every moment, activities of our daily life. Two of such sensors are Accelerometer and Gyroscope which measures the acceleration and angular velocity respectively. These could be used to identify the human activities performed. Basically, Human Activity Recognition is a classifying activity with so many use cases such as health care, medical, surveillance and anti-crime securities. Smartphones have wide variety of applications in various fields and can be used to excavate different kinds of data which provide accurate insights and knowledge about the user's lifestyle. Nowadays creating lifelogs that is a technology to capture and record a user's life through his or her mobile devices, are becoming very important task. An immense issue in creating a detailed lifelog is the accurate detection of activities performed by human based on the collected data from the sensors. The data in the lifelogs has strong association with physical health variables. These data are motivational and they identify any type of behavioral changes. These data provide us the overall measure of physical activity. In this project, we have analyzed the smartphone sensors produced data and used them to recognize the activities performed by the user.