Objective Considering the status of the Internet as a prominent source of health information,
assessing online health material has become a central issue in patient education. We …

Online gaming continues to grow in popularity enabled by advances in web and mobile
technology. Many players around the world enjoy the competitive atmosphere, mental …

Health literacy rates among American and European adults remain low, with almost half of
adults having only basic levels in 2012. In this digital era, the Internet has been recognized …

This paper explores the recent advances in research concerning the impact of immersive
virtual environments affordances on the expression of users' creativity at individual and team …

Through two experiments, this study examined the impact of user-generated content (UGC)
and online page popularity (eg, number of “likes”) of a pro-breastfeeding community …

In the Digital Era, the authors witness a change in the relationship between the patient and
the care‐giver or Health Maintenance Organization's providing the health services. Another …

In video games, identification with avatars—virtual entities or characters driven by human
behavior—has been shown to serve many interpersonal and intraindividual functions (like …

Purpose The potential for e-commerce is limited by a trust deficit when traders do not interact
in a physical, bricks-and-mortar context. The theory of information richness posits that …

In this paper, we present a methodology for the development of embodied conversational
agents for social virtual worlds. The agents provide multimodal communication with their …

Abstract Introduction Virtual reality environments (VREs) are an emerging modality
consisting of computer-generated worlds. Players in VREs can choose to create …