Home Computer User Security Behavioral Intention: A Replication Study from Guam

This replication study is a methodological replication of Study 1 of Anderson and Agarwal (2010) (A&A) using data collected from Guam to investigate information security (InfoSec) behavioral intention. This study also extended the A&A Model by examining the effect of gender on each construct of the model. Our findings are very similar to those reported by A&A, and indicate that the model is generalizable to the population on Guam. We also observed the effect of gender on several constructs of the model. As this study cannot confirm whether the slight differences between the result of A&A and this study are related to cultural differences, we suggest future replication studies be conducted to examine how culture would affect our security behavior intention. We also suggest practitioners consider gender as an important factor when designing mechanisms to encourage people to practice information security behavior

The Use of Social Media for Engaging People with Environmentally Friendly Lifestyle: A Conceptual Model

Some recent research has investigated factors affecting household recycling and waste reduction behavior (Ho and So, 2017; Nishio and Takeuchi, 2005) in traditional media platforms like newspaper, radio, and television, but scant related to social media. In this study, we develop a conceptual model for comparing how traditional media and social media can be used as platforms for promoting and engaging young people in adopting an environmentally friendly lifestyle. We are particularly interested in the impact of social media on the engaging young people because: (i) there is huge population of young and active users on social media; and (ii) prior research reports that social media may contribute for value co-creation (See-To and Ho, 2014) in a marketing campaign through the interactions among the users and the owner of the social media, thus affecting the users’ behavior accordingly

Educational Usage of Mobile Devices: Differences Between Postgraduate and Undergraduate Students

The rapid increase of smartphone usage in recent years has provided students the opportunity to participate in mobile learning (m-learning) anywhere, anytime. Academic institutions are also following this trend to launch many m-learning services. This article investigates the differences of the user needs between undergraduate (UG) and postgraduate (PG) students though an online survey with 140 Library Information Systems (LIS) subjects in a Japanese university in order to provide solid foundations for future m-learning studies. We find that UG and PG students do not show significant differences in adopting m-learning by smartphones despite the fact that they have different learning patterns. The m-learning frequencies of smartphones generally range from weekly to monthly, where using search engines is the most frequent, and reading academic resources is the least frequent. They tend to use these services for handling their daily routines (such as search engine, social networks) rather than their academic activities (such as using online databases to search for academic materials). Further, the results also show that content displaying issues (e.g., small display screen, text unable to enlarge) are barriers for most subjects in using these m-learning services

How Ontologies Can Help in an eMarketplace

Recently, ontologies have been developed in various business domains with the recent maturing of the Semantic Web technologies. However, ontology-related researches have largely focused on the facilitation of successful matchmaking but not much on traders’ requirement elicitation and potential negotiations in e-marketplaces. Because ontology provides the key knowledge about the inter-relationships among the issues and alternatives of the traders’ requirements, we show how to elicit trade requirements, alternatives, and tradeoff from an agreed ontology. This facilitates the whole business process of the e-marketplace, from matchmaking, recommendation, to negotiation. We further propose a novel methodology for the elicitation of dependencies among traders’ requirements for the formulation of an effective decision plan. As a result, traders can have a better cognition of their requirements and the overall operations of the e-marketplace can be streamlined

Investigation into the Promotion and Instruction of Chinese Traditional Music in Liaocheng Peiwen School of Peking University

This research investigates the promotion and instruction of Chinese Traditional music in Liaocheng Peiwen School of Peking University. The first author, an alum with a decade of pedagogical experience, examined the challenges faced by private schools in providing tailored regulatory frameworks for Chinese Traditional music education. We share practical experience, drawing on the successful establishment of the school-based course "Chinese Folk Music and Geography." As the course is offered each year during the geography exam for students in their second year of junior high school, singing folk songs while learning geography enables students to explore China's beautiful landscapes while broadening their horizons. Students can understand the connection between folk music and geography, assisting their preparation for the exam

A Meta Modeling Approach to Workflow Management Systems Supporting Exception Handling

Workflow Management Systems (WFMSs) facilitate the definition of structure and decomposition of business processes and assists in management of coordinating, scheduling, executing and monitoring of such activities. Most of the current WFMSs are built on traditional relational database systems and/or using an objectoriented database system for storing the definition and run time data about the workflows. However, a WFMS requires advanced modeling functionalities to support adaptive features, such as on-line exception handling. This article describes our advanced meta-modeling approach using various enabling technologies (such as object orientation, roles, rules, active capabilities) supported by an integrated environment, the ADOME, as a solid basis for a flexible WFMS involving dynamic match making, migrating workflows and exception handling. Copyright 1999 Elsevier Science Ltd Key words: Meta-modeling, Object-Orientation, Workflow Management, Match-Making, Exception Handling, Workflo..