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B. Division of the Caregivers Time Regarding the time spent with personalized attention to users, a total of 862 segments were annotated by the two annotators. Their annotation were in agreement only in 491 cases (∼57% of the sample). In order to deal with conflicting classification of segments between the two observers, a set of rules was defined. In the cases that the two classes for a segment were User and Activity, the segment was…

1. Distraction: The user of the Google Glass would be distracted by the Google glass which would be a disadvantage to the user. If notifications or calls or weather updates are constantly popping up on the screen and lens of the glasses it would make it difficult for the user to do his job. Even simple things like talking to someone and having a conversation would become difficult if they were suddenly getting ads and emails in the middle of a conversation. The Google Glass could be making like…

issue being is that no one ever reads these terms. Declining the terms equals refusal of service, therefore to follow the crowd the user must ignore their curiosity and just accept the risks. Giving up on privacy allows companies to share personal identities and information as a profit to allow users to access their services for “free”. Social Networking allows users to create an online identity and gives them the ability to control their lives as Theodor Adorno best put it by…

the internet and certain corporations are gathering data on its users. When a user…

2. Analyzing consumers a. Right from its initial launch, Zoosk focused on worldwide users. Because Zoosk had two Iranian-American founders and a French Vice President of Marketing, the Zoosk team believed that the company was able to celebrate cultural differences. Since love is everywhere, the Zoosk team wanted to be present wherever there is romance. With this international focus in mind, by 2012, Zoosk users were 50% from the United States and 50% international. Although Zoosk targets…

social media platform. Users become so consumed by their fictional twitter status that it becomes a part of them. Once taken away it feels as though they are losing a tangible aspect of their being. This is the narcissus as narcosis effect. Twitter is designed to feed our narcissistic needs. The app allows users to post pictures of themselves in order to obtain likes and retweets from their followers. The positive feedback feeds into the user’s ego like a drug persuading the user to continue to…

concerns and issues noted in the article are still quite prevalent today. All the bad password practices are still prevalent, and the use of passwords has done nothing but increase. It is interesting to note a study cited by the author where 12% of users at that time were accessing 10 or more systems. The author surmised if individual websites were factored into the analysis the percentage would grow substantially. He even related personal information to indicate that his number of passwords…

Both apps allow the user to customize their workouts; from beginners to experts there are workout routines and workout programs that challenge everybody. Freeletics, like many other apps, allow the user to choose workouts from a set number of options so the user can customize their workout to their needs but cannot go outside of those options. Unlike all other apps, the Know Your Health app allows the user to customize a workout with almost infinite options. One…

Facebook let users post their relationship status, birthdates, hometown and current location, the school they went to and even where they worked. On the other hand, Twitter only lets user share their location, birthdates, and a biography of anything else they wish to let others know. People can make…

tightly-integrated relationships tie extended families and others into in-groups. These in-groups are laced with undoubted loyalty and support each other when a conflict arises with another in-group (Hofstede, 2011). The implication of this is that when users have strong individualistic attitude (i.e. high individualism index), they would not care so much about people within their immediate social circle. Therefore, we posit that they would barely feel…