Library Hi Tech: Volume 40 Issue 5

Guest editorial: Technological advancement and pioneering methods for smart cities – recent advances and future trends

Victor Chang, Mohamed Abdel-Basset

Effects of social robots on depressive symptoms in older adults: a scoping review

Bruno Sanchez de Araujo, Marcelo Fantinato, Sarajane Marques Peres, Ruth Caldeira de Melo, Samila Sathler Tavares Batistoni, Meire Cachioni, Patrick C.K. Hung

This review scopes evidence on the use of social robots for older adults with depressive symptoms, in the scenario of smart cities, analyzing the age-related depression…

A new product development of the iOS-based ordering systems for smart cities

Victor Chang, James Liddle, Qianwen Ariel Xu, Ben S. Liu

This paper describes the process of creating a retail ordering application and aims to see how to achieve this through an IDE (integrated development environment) and back-end…

Research of influence mechanism of corporate social responsibility for smart cities on consumers' purchasing intention

Meier Zhuang, Wenzhong Zhu, Lihui Huang, Wen-Tsao Pan

The main purpose of this paper is to explore the influence mechanism of corporate social responsibility (CSR) for smart cities on consumers' purchase intention. The authors aim to…

A deep neural network based context-aware smart epidemic surveillance in smart cities

Harsuminder Kaur Gill, Vivek Kumar Sehgal, Anil Kumar Verma

Epidemics not only affect the public health but also are a threat to a nation's growth and economy as well. Early prediction of epidemic can be beneficial to take preventive…

Cybersecurity attacks on CAN bus based vehicles: a review and open challenges

Faten Fakhfakh, Mohamed Tounsi, Mohamed Mosbah

Nowadays, connected vehicles are becoming quite complex systems which are made up of different devices. In such a vehicle, there are several electronic control units (ECUs) that…

Editorial: Special selection on contemporary digital culture and reading

Dickson K.W. Chiu, Kevin K.W. Ho

The structural relationships among spatial presence, situational interest and behavioral attitudes toward online virtual museum navigation: a PLS-SEM analysis

Kun-Hung Cheng

This study proposed a research model for verifying the structural relationships among users' perceived spatial presence (VR affordance), situational interest (affective factor…

Museum engagement visits with a universal game-based blended museum learning service for different age groups

Tien-Yu Hsu, Hsin-Yi Liang

This study develops a universal game-based blended museum learning service (UGBMLS) to engage museum visitors of different ages and promote their return visits. This study aims to…

Why low-income people have difficulty accessing to obtain public cultural services? Evidence from an empirical study on representative small and medium-sized cities

Dengdeng Wanyan, Zijian Wang

This article aims to provide reference for government departments and public cultural institutions in strengthening the provision of public cultural services for low-income…

User churn behavior model of rural public digital cultural services: an empirical study in China

Meng Wang, Yuwen Hua, Honglei Lia Sun, Ya Chen, Linping Jiang

This study aims to reveal the influencing factors of user churn behavior and explore how these factors influence user churn behavior of rural public digital cultural services…

E-book or print book: parents' current view in Hong Kong

Yan Yu Cora Sung, Dickson K.W. Chiu

This study aims to examine the perception and preference of parents for their children using mobile devices to read. The pros and cons of electronic books and print books are…

Readers' engagement through digital social reading on Twitter: the TwLetteratura case study

Federico Pianzola, Maurizio Toccu, Marco Viviani

The purpose of this article is to explore how participants with different motivations (educational or leisure), familiarity with the medium (newbies and active Twitter users), and…

Changes in habits of electronic news usage on mobile devices in university students: a comparative survey

Hoi Yin Yu, Yan Yung Tsoi, Anthony Hae Ryong Rhim, Dickson K.W. Chiu, Mavis Man-Wai Lung

A rising trend has been observed to minimize extraneous cognitive load when reading by enhancing secondary knowledge through technology. For the readers to comprehend information…

Quantifying global digital journalism research: a bibliometric landscape

Sumit Kumar Banshal, Manoj Kumar Verma, Mayank Yuvaraj

The purpose of this paper is to present a comprehensive analysis of the current status and development of the digital journalism field from 1987 to 2021 using the Dimensions…

The role of news title for linking during preservation process in digital archives

Muzammil Khan, Sarwar Shah Khan, Arshad Ahmad, Arif Ur Rahman

The World Wide Web has become an essential platform for a news publication, and it has become one of the primary sources of information dissemination in the past few years…

Identifying features of health misinformation on social media sites: an exploratory analysis

Shuai Zhang, Feicheng Ma, Yunmei Liu, Wenjing Pian

The purpose of this paper is to explore the features of health misinformation on social media sites (SMSs). The primary goal of the study is to investigate the salient features of…

Impact analysis of e-Databases' job relevance, output quality and result demonstrability on faculty research motivation

Roland Izuagbe, Olajumoke Rebecca Olawoyin, Christopher Nkiko, Promise Ifeoma Ilo, Felicia Yusuf, Mercy Iroaganachi, Julie Ilogho, Goodluck Israel Ifijeh

The purpose of the study is to ascertain whether or not faculty members would be motivated to use e-Databases for research considering the impact of the Technology Acceptance…

Social network analysis and data visualization of MIS international collaboration in Taiwan

Yung-Ting Chuang, Yi-Hsi Chen

The purpose of this paper is to apply social network analysis (SNA) to study faculty research productivity, to identify key leaders, to study publication keywords and research…

Factors influencing the behavior of multi-modal information search

Zhiyi Li, Jiayu Zhu, Xiaolin Li

With the increasing abundance of network resources and big data, multi-modal information search (MMIS) has been paid more and more attention, but the research results of MMIS are…

Motivations of choosing archival studies as major in the iSchools: viewpoint between two universities across the Pacific Ocean

Tracy Chui Wan Ng, Dickson K.W. Chiu, KIng Kwan Li

This study explores the learning and career motivation of the students who have chosen archival studies as their major in their master's degree programs, which has scant prior…

A worldwide quantitative review of the iSchools' archival education

King Kwan Li, Dickson K.W. Chiu

Archival studies have long been a critical part of information education around the world. This paper attempts to provide a worldwide overview of archival education among main…

Book review: Conversations with leading academic and research library directors: international perspectives on library management

Perry Pangelinan