scholarly journals Understanding the Design Elements Affecting User Acceptance of Intelligent Agents: Past, Present and Future

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edona Elshan ◽  
Naim Zierau ◽  
Christian Engel ◽  
Andreas Janson ◽  
Jan Marco Leimeister
Keyword(s):  
Intelligent Agents ◽  
User Interaction ◽  
User Acceptance ◽  
Human Computer Interface ◽  
Empirical Knowledge ◽  
Business And Society ◽  
Design Elements ◽  
The Past ◽  
Dependent Variables ◽  
Technological Limitations

AbstractIntelligent agents (IAs) are permeating both business and society. However, interacting with IAs poses challenges moving beyond technological limitations towards the human-computer interface. Thus, the knowledgebase related to interaction with IAs has grown exponentially but remains segregated and impedes the advancement of the field. Therefore, we conduct a systematic literature review to integrate empirical knowledge on user interaction with IAs. This is the first paper to examine 107 Information Systems and Human-Computer Interaction papers and identified 389 relationships between design elements and user acceptance of IAs. Along the independent and dependent variables of these relationships, we span a research space model encompassing empirical research on designing for IA user acceptance. Further we contribute to theory, by presenting a research agenda along the dimensions of the research space, which shall be useful to both researchers and practitioners. This complements the past and present knowledge on designing for IA user acceptance with potential pathways into the future of IAs.

scholarly journals The Long-Term and Geographically Constrained Effects of Campaign Advertising on Political Polarization and Sorting

2017 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Travis N. Ridout ◽  
Erika Franklin Fowler ◽  
Michael M. Franz ◽  
Kenneth Goldstein
Keyword(s):  
Political Advertising ◽  
Political Polarization ◽  
Political Elites ◽  
The Past ◽  
Mass Public ◽  
Dependent Variables ◽  
Media Markets ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Campaign Advertising

Scholars agree that there has been an increase in polarization among political elites, though there continues to be debate on the extent to which polarization exists among the mass public. Still, there is general agreement that the American public has become more sorted over the past two decades, a time during which political ad volumes have increased and ads have become more negative. In this research, we explore whether there is a link between the two. We take advantage of variation in the volume and tone of political advertising across media markets to examine the link between advertising and three dependent variables: issue polarization, affective polarization, and sorting. We focus on the impact of both recent ad exposure and cumulative ad exposure across several election cycles. Ultimately, we find little impact of advertising on polarization or sorting, both overall and among subgroups of the population.

Analysis of Global Stability, Anchor Spacing, and Support Cable Loads in Wire Mesh and Cable Net Slope Protection Systems

2005 ◽  
Vol 1913 (1) ◽  
pp. 205-213 ◽  
Author(s):  
Navaratnarajah Sasiharan ◽  
Balasingam Muhunthan ◽  
Shanzhi Shu ◽  
Thomas C. Badger
Keyword(s):  
Numerical Models ◽  
Wire Mesh ◽  
System Failures ◽  
Design Elements ◽  
The Past ◽  
Protection Systems ◽  
Vertical Support ◽  
Stability Of Slope ◽  
The Stability ◽  
Horizontal Support

Wire mesh and cable net slope protection have been in use for more than 50 years along North American highways to control rockfall on actively eroding slopes. The basic design of these systems is comparatively similar throughout North America. It consists of a top horizontal cable suspended by regularly spaced anchors, typically a perimeter or widely spaced grid of horizontal and vertical support cables, and double-twisted, hexagonal wire mesh laced to the support ropes. To date, the design of the slope protection systems has been based primarily on empirical methods, engineering judgment, and experience. Although these systems generally perform well, there is some consensus among geotechnical specialists that some elements in the system may be overdesigned or even unnecessary. In addition, system failures under a variety of loading conditions within the past few decades indicate that certain design elements may in fact be underdesigned for their desired application. Analytical and numerical models to evaluate the stability of slope protection systems are presented. The inclusion of interior horizontal support ropes in addition to the top horizontal rope does not reduce the stress within the mesh and accordingly provides no mechanical benefit. Results also show that the stresses on the vertical support rope are much smaller than the top horizontal support rope. Therefore, the vertical ropes do not need to be as strong as the top horizontal rope. Further, some useful design charts for the design of slope protection system are presented.

Induction Justified (But Just Barely)

Philosophy ◽  
1983 ◽  
Vol 58 (226) ◽  
pp. 481-488
Author(s):  
Ralph W. Clark
Keyword(s):  
A Priori ◽  
Empirical Knowledge ◽  
The Past ◽  
Empirical World ◽  
Future Events

Hume's sceptical arguments regarding induction have not yet been successfully answered. However, I shall not in this paper discuss the important attempts to answer Hume since that would be too lengthy a task. On the supposition that Hume's sceptical arguments have not been met, the empirical world is a place where, as the popular metaphor goes, all the glue has been removed. For the Humean sceptic, the only empirical knowledge that we can have is given to us in immediate perception. We have no reason to believe that the patterns of future events will in any way resemble patterns of events in the present or past. We have no reason to believe even that present events not observed resemble present events that are observed, or that knowledge of past and present can be any guide in making new discoveries about what took place in the past. What we have is an ideal setting for the calculation of a priori probabilities. We have a field of distinct events having no logical or evidential ties to one another. The attempt to justify induction that I wish to present is an appeal to a priori probability.

scholarly journals At the Click of a Button

2020 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena Azadbakht ◽  
Teresa Schultz
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Research University ◽  
The United States ◽  
Public Research ◽  
Usability Study ◽  
Design Elements ◽  
The Past ◽  
Browser Extension ◽  
Public Research University

A number of browser extension tools have emerged in the past decade aimed at helping information seekers find open versions of scholarly articles when they hit a paywall, including Open Access Button, Lazy Scholar, Kopernio, and Unpaywall. While librarians have written numerous reviews of these products, no one has yet conducted a usability study on these tools. This article details a usability study involving six undergraduate students and six faculty at a large public research university in the United States. Participants were tasked with installing each of the four tools as well as trying them out on three test articles. Both students and faculty tended to favor simple, clean design elements and straightforward functionality that enabled them to use the tools with limited instruction. Participants familiar with other browser extensions gravitated towards tools like Open Access Button, whereas those less experienced with other extensions preferred tools that load automatically, such as Unpaywall.

Towards Acceptance Engineering in ICT for Older Adults

i-com ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Kötteritzsch ◽  
Kathrin Gerling ◽  
Martin Stein
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Technology Acceptance ◽  
User Acceptance ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Older Individuals ◽  
Actual Usage ◽  
The Past ◽  
Novel Technology ◽  
Potential Benefits ◽  
Available Information

AbstractResearch on technology acceptance presents different theories and models to predict the intention to use and actual usage of a system. However, even when applying these concepts to the design of novel technology, there is still a lack of acceptance among many older individuals. In the past years, we gathered experience in developing and evaluating technology for older adults. Throughout multiple engineering cycles, we repeatedly encountered issues impacting user acceptance. Based on our research, we argue that low acceptance can be ascribed to all phases of the engineering process, and thus, should be systematically applied to technology engineering. By considering research on technology acceptance among older adults, and presenting our own experiences in how older adults accept ICT, we introduce 12 lessons learned when designing ICT for older adults (understanding acceptance, evaluating the importance of user acceptance, pursuing the own goals, consulting with the user, considering all available information, connecting potential benefits, balancing different views, considering mediating factors, making use of emerging artifacts, being sensitive to one’s own actions, avoiding misunderstanding, and communicating clearly). We conclude with a proposition on how to implement these lessons into acceptance engineering throughout the engineering lifecycle.

Suborbital probes

1969 ◽  
Vol 308 (1493) ◽  
pp. 243-257
Keyword(s):  
Density Measurement ◽  
Cosmic Ray ◽  
Sounding Rockets ◽  
The Past ◽  
Black Brant ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Technological Limitations ◽  
Rate Of Success ◽  
Further Development

Over the past decade sounding rockets have offered scientists a relatively economical means of carrying useful payloads up to altitudes of 250 km and above. The range of rockets available in the U. S., France, U. K., Japan, for example, is great; names such as Aerobee, Areas, Nike Apache, Centaure, Dragon, Black Brant, Skylark, Petrel, Skua, Kappa will be familiar to all associated with sounding rockets. Further, within this wide range of named varieties almost all have a range of variants ; with the result that it has been possible to carry out many different experiments such as density measurement, cosmic ray investigations and observations of the atmosphere from above. As an indication of the total number of firings, it is possible to cite Skylark with nearly 200 launches to date with an excellent rate of success. It is the purpose of this review to look forward to the next decade, to attempt to indicate to the scientist what forms of vehicles and facilities he can be offered in the future, and also to emphasize the technological limitations from which we cannot escape. It is hoped that by a better understanding of these the scientist will be able to frame his requirements in such a manner that maximum over-all cost effectiveness can be realized and secondly that we in industry should arrive at an appreciation of where further development is required.

scholarly journals Smart Final Year Project Archive System Using Laravel Framework with Email Notification (SFYPAS)

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 41-53
Author(s):  
Abidah MatTaib ◽  
Noor Atirah Mohd Shukri ◽  
Nurul Hidayah Ahmad Zukri ◽  
Norlizawati Ghazali
Keyword(s):  
Technology Acceptance ◽  
User Acceptance ◽  
Ease Of Use ◽  
Perceived Usefulness ◽  
Perceived Ease Of Use ◽  
Web Based ◽  
The Past ◽  
Archive System ◽  
Acceptance Model ◽  
Future Work

Final Year Project (FYP) is a compulsory requirement for graduation of every bachelor programme in Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM). Finding a topic for the final year project is quite challenging. However, being able to access previous FYP thesis helps students to generate some ideas. Supervisors and lecturers can also determine whether the proposed project is already among the previous research project or a new one. Unfortunately, the past FYP thesis is usually kept in a specific thesis room. Hence, this will make going to the thesis room and searching the thesis for references quite burdensome. The lack of electronic management for FYP thesis causes several problems in arrangement and search methods. This project aims to develop Smart Final Year Project Archive System (SFYPAS) using Laravel Framework and evaluate the system in terms of technology acceptance model (TAM). SFYPAS is developed using Laravel framework and the methodology used throughout the project is using Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). The system tested based on its functionality, user acceptance with TAM and heuristic evaluation by an expert. The system was tested on thirty respondents who shared their feedback by answering a set of questionnaires upon completing the testing. The result shows that the mean for user acceptance with TAM in terms of perceived ease of use is 4.27, while perceived usefulness is 4.47. Thus, it shows that the respondents are satisfied with the system in terms of its perceived usefulness. In conclusion, this research has achieved the objectives where it eases the user by providing a web-based smart archive system as a platform to access the past FYP thesis. For future work, the system can be improved by adding a search engine that implements any searching algorithm to yield a better result.

scholarly journals Influence of Design Elements of Mobile Push Notifications on Mobile App User Interactions

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (15) ◽  
pp. 35
Author(s):  
Atilla Wohllebe ◽  
Manuel Rolf Adler ◽  
Szilárd Podruzsik
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Apps ◽  
User Interaction ◽  
Mobile App ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
User Interactions ◽  
Design Elements ◽  
Mobile Shopping ◽  
Chi Square Test ◽  
E Mail ◽  
Positive Effect

<p class="0abstract">With the increasing relevance of mobile apps for companies, push notifications to address app users are also becoming more important. While the acceptance factors of push notifications have already been extensively researched, the effect of the different design elements on user interaction by opening the mobile app is still completely unexplored. Based on existing scientific findings from related fields, especially banner advertising and e-mail marketing, the authors first develop hypotheses on the effect of title, button and image on user interaction with push notifications. In several experiments the hypotheses are tested using the example of a mobile shopping app. The results are evaluated using Chi-square test and Cramer's V. While the use of a title seems to have a positive effect on interaction rates, the hypotheses on the positive effect of buttons and images on interaction rates have to be rejected.</p>

scholarly journals A Survey on Conversational Recommender Systems

2021 ◽  
Vol 54 (5) ◽  
pp. 1-36
Author(s):  
Dietmar Jannach ◽  
Ahtsham Manzoor ◽  
Wanling Cai ◽  
Li Chen
Keyword(s):  
Recommender Systems ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Information Overload ◽  
User Interaction ◽  
Preference Elicitation ◽  
Significant Progress ◽  
Software Applications ◽  
The Past ◽  
Elicitation Process ◽  
Ranked List

Recommender systems are software applications that help users to find items of interest in situations of information overload. Current research often assumes a one-shot interaction paradigm, where the users’ preferences are estimated based on past observed behavior and where the presentation of a ranked list of suggestions is the main, one-directional form of user interaction. Conversational recommender systems (CRS) take a different approach and support a richer set of interactions. These interactions can, for example, help to improve the preference elicitation process or allow the user to ask questions about the recommendations and to give feedback. The interest in CRS has significantly increased in the past few years. This development is mainly due to the significant progress in the area of natural language processing, the emergence of new voice-controlled home assistants, and the increased use of chatbot technology. With this article, we provide a detailed survey of existing approaches to conversational recommendation. We categorize these approaches in various dimensions, e.g., in terms of the supported user intents or the knowledge they use in the background. Moreover, we discuss technological approaches, review how CRS are evaluated, and finally identify a number of gaps that deserve more research in the future.

scholarly journals There Is No Agency Without Attention

AI Magazine ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 27-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Bello ◽  
Will Bridewell
Keyword(s):  
Intelligent Agents ◽  
Autonomous Vehicles ◽  
Moral Agency ◽  
Technological Progress ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Private Industry ◽  
The Past ◽  
Degree Of Control ◽  
Personal Assistants ◽  
Conceptual Progress

For decades AI researchers have built agents that are capable of carrying out tasks that require human-level or human-like intelligence. During this time, questions of how these programs compared in kind to humans have surfaced and led to beneficial interdisciplinary discussions, but conceptual progress has been slower than technological progress. Within the past decade, the term agency has taken on new import as intelligent agents have become a noticeable part of our everyday lives. Research on autonomous vehicles and personal assistants has expanded into private industry with new and increasingly capable products surfacing as a matter of routine. This wider use of AI technologies has raised questions about legal and moral agency at the highest levels of government (National Science and Technology Council 2016) and drawn the interest of other academic disciplines and the general public. Within this context, the notion of an intelligent agent in AI is too coarse and in need of refinement. We suggest that the space of AI agents can be subdivided into classes, where each class is defined by an associated degree of control.

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