This project will assess the effectiveness of emotion visulisation and interaction within a network of friendship. we hope to understand how emotion of friendship can be effectively visualised and interacted with. What are the features and various interaction modes that can be best constructed? and for what objective functions? It is expected that the result will be useful in developing a new interaction interface between friends in SN.

This project will formulate the values based acceptance model for Mobile Islamic Banking. A values based model  is more likely to explain the variant in the adoption of Mobile Islamic Bankingeligious context.

This project enhance our experience of evaluating an e-book device based peer-to-peer collaborative learning system with a 3G-WiFi ad-hoc network configuration. Two evaluations were conducted followed by two focus group interviews. Results show that future design of e-book devices should consider the educational affordance of integrating web browser and Internet chat functionality to accelerate the potential adoption of e-book devices for collaborative e-learning or m-learning environments.

This project will assess various dimensions of emotion features to evaluate the performance of Support Vector Machine in classifying emotion risk in social networking site such as Myspace, Facebook, and Twitter. Various features extraction methods will be used to determine the effectiveness in classifying emotional risk.

One aspect that is specifically lacking in embracing SMS technology towards teaching and learning is the understanding of its value in developing affective learning on Maori students. Unlike cognitive learning which involves mental processes and knowledge manipulation to develop intellectual skill, affective learning deals with emotion attributes such as feeling, attitude, appreciation, motivation, encouragement, immediacy and enthusiasms. Affective learning is an important part of learning which is often being neglected.

Social networking sites have in recent years become an increasingly popular avenue for young people to express and to share their thoughts, views, and emotions. When young people are emotionally distressed for instance, instead of the traditional channel of consulting friends, parents or specialists, social networking blogs may provide a channel to share and release their emotions and intentions. The objective of the research is to explore the use of text mining and data warehousing technologies to identify and monitor bloggers who are depressed and may be at risk of suicide, self harm or harming others.

The internet has vastly increased the ease of communicating across great distances. Due to this improved ease of communication, the idea of the product review, whether in a forum context or on a website such as epinions.com has emerged as a significant source of information for potential consumers of goods and services (Dellarocas, 2006).However, what remains to be established is a coherent model explaining which factors of an online product review shift consumer perception around a product, and how these relate to consumer decision making around a given product.

This research investigates the factors organisations in New Zealand consider in their decision making to either adopt or not adopt Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) technology. Six New Zealand organisations were interviewed.Findingsshow that the main reason for adopting ANPR was the ability for the technology to achieve a specific organisational goal or solve a problem. The perceived costs of the technology and level of usage associated with using ANPR were also linked. The adoption of international organisations and the effect of social systems further explain the reluctance of organisations to adopt ANPR as a new technology.

Social networking (SN) sites have grown tremendously in popularity since its inception. One popular use for this new technology is social networking between businesses and consumers. Companies have found that social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace are great ways to build their brand image. The motivation of this research was to build an automated application for communicating to targeted SN users. 

The case study sets out to describe the role that data plays and examine how MetService is coping with the demands of dealing with the dramatic growth in data and the technologies and practices to support that growth.

 

The purpose of this research is to investigate potential users’ cognitive beliefs and intention to use (IU) a proposed short message service (SMS)-based library catalogue system. The motivation for this research is the growing popularity of mobile information systems and the need to explore if SMS is a technology that libraries could tap into to enhance their services to users.