Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments - Premier issue
Musings on telepresence and virtual presence
Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments - Premier issue
Defining virtual reality: dimensions determining telepresence
Communication in the age of virtual reality
Some problems with the notion of context-aware computing
Communications of the ACM - Ontology: different ways of representing the same concept
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
Maximizing the spread of influence through a social network
Proceedings of the ninth ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining
Social influence process in the acceptance of a virtual community service
Information Systems Frontiers
Relationship between the level of intimacy and lurking in online social network services
Computers in Human Behavior
Exploring continued online service usage behavior: The roles of self-image congruity and regret
Computers in Human Behavior
Information Resources Management Journal
Experiencing flow with instant messaging and its facilitating role on creative behaviors
Computers in Human Behavior
Identifying social capital in the facebook interface
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Digital libraries and Web 3.0. The CallimachusDL approach
Computers in Human Behavior
Computers in Human Behavior
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Traits, Predictors, and Consequences of Facebook Self-Presentation
Social Science Computer Review
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Topic map based management system for social network service
FGIT'12 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Future Generation Information Technology
A Preliminary Classification of Usage Measures in Information System Acceptance: A Q-Sort Approach
International Journal of Technology Diffusion
Computers in Human Behavior
Disclosure Intention of Location-Related Information in Location-Based Social Network Services
International Journal of Electronic Commerce
Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research
Computers in Human Behavior
Driving Forces Behind Participation and Satisfaction with Social Networking Sites
International Journal of Virtual Communities and Social Networking
Ubiquitous use of mobile social network services
Telematics and Informatics
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Social network services are emerging as a promising IT-based business, with some services already being provided commercially such as Facebook, Cyworld and Xiaonei. However, it is not yet clear which potential audience groups will be key social network service participants. Moreover, the process showing how an individual actually decides to start using a social network service may be somewhat different from current web-based community services. Hence, the aims of this paper are twofold. First, we empirically examine how individual characteristics affect actual user acceptance of social network services. To examine these individual characteristics, we apply a Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) to construct an amended model that focuses on three individual differences: social identity, altruism and telepresence, and one perceived construct: the perceived encouragement, imported from psychology-based research. Next, we examine if the users' perception to see a target social network service as human relationship-oriented service or as a task-oriented service could be a moderator between perceived constructs and actual use. As a result, we discover that the perceived encouragement and perceived orientation are significant constructs that affect actual use of social network services.