Purpose – This paper aims to understand the perceptions and practices of small accommodation providers regarding the growing area of user‐generated content (UGC) web sites. Design/methodology/approach – A total of eight small hospitality enterprise cases of four classifications were...

Purpose – This paper aims to review of the use of robots in two healthcare applications: surgery and prosthetics. Design/methodology/approach – Following a brief introduction, this paper first considers robotic surgery and discusses a selection of commercial products, applications and recent...

Purpose – The main purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of relevance ranking on Google by comparing the system's assessment of relevance with the users' views. The research aims to find out whether the presumably objective relevance ranking of Google based on the PageRank and...

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to develop a methodology for assessing search results retrieved from different sources. Design/methodology/approach – This is a two phase method, where in the first stage users select and rank the ten best search results from a randomly ordered set. In the...

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to develop an evaluation criteria system for search engines using the Delphi method and the analytic hierarchy process, and to conduct an empirical study on Chinese search engines to verify it. This is because the evaluation criteria in current research...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyze the adoption of IP Television (IPTV) as a distribution channel. The authors test the effects of its features, such as personalization and interactivity, on users' perceived control and satisfaction with their purchase experience. The authors...

Ergebnis der Arbeit ist ein wissensbasierter Ansatz zum Aufbau elektronischer Marktsysteme und die Beschreibung seiner Umsetzung in ein in der Praxis erprobtes und mehrfach erfolgreich eingesetztes System. Zielgruppe der Entwicklung sind kleine und mittlere Unternehmen (KMU), die mit diesem...

Most of web-based systems use a fashion-driven graphical user interface design which does not necessarily provide the readers with high reading performance of colour variations of text and background. Many studies addressed this problem but none of them succeeded in offering complete and...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to resolve a gap in the knowledge of how people with dyslexia interact with information retrieval (IR) systems, specifically an understanding of their information‐searching behaviour. Design/methodology/approach – The dyslexia cognitive profile is...