Discussing Emerging Topics in The DIY Design of Healthcare Devices by Massimo Menichinelli, Jose Gomez-Marquez

“…The semi-structured interview was then analysed, resulting in a short non-alphabetically ordered dictionary of the main elements of DIY design in healthcare devices: 1) Open Science & Open Design; 2) Documentation; 3) Protocols; 4) Lead Users; 5) DIY & Current Systems; 6) Knowledge Transfer.…”
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L’impatto dei ritiri estivi delle squadre di calcio in Trentino-Alto Adige tra vantaggi oggettivi e prospettive by Simona Castellano

“…The widespread of a social network like Instagram, combined with the passion for sports, can increase a new grassroots promotion mode, that leads users, with their own storytelling, to become the spokesperson of a territorial promotion that starts from the bottom.…”
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How Does Multi-Platform Social Media Use Lead to Biased News Engagement? Examining the Role of Counter-Attitudinal Incidental Exposure, Cognitive Elaboration, and Network Homogenei... by Jing Guo, Hsuan-Ting Chen

“…Although studies have pointed to the democratic prospects of multi-platform social media use as it leads to cross-cutting exposure, our results suggest that it could lead users to engage with news in ways that confirm their pre-existing attitudes and disconfirm counter-attitudinal ones.…”
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Tokenization of social media engagements increases the sharing of false (and other) news but penalization moderates it by Meysam Alizadeh, Emma Hoes, Fabrizio Gilardi

“…This would bring financial and reputational incentives for engagement, which might lead users to post more objectionable content. Previous research showed that financial or reputational incentives for accuracy decrease the willingness to share misinformation. …”
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Troubling the Border: Global Poetic Trans* Dislocations by Bonnie Reid

“…The Tool was designed to aid migrants crossing the US-Mexico border as a “last mile safety device,” by leading users to water caches in the desert and playing audio files of desert survival poetry. …”
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Digital Disobedience and the Limits of Persuasion: Social Media Activism in Hong Kong’s 2014 Umbrella Movement by Colin Agur, Nicholas Frisch

“…It makes use of in-depth interviews, in English, Mandarin, and Cantonese, with 40 of the leading users of social media during the protests. These included, first and foremost, student activists, as well as opposition figures and journalists who reported on the protests. …”
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Health networks care: the perception of family health unit users by Adrielle Chermont da Silva, Maria Denise Schimiht, Taís Falcão Gomes, Teresinha Heck Weiller, Gabriela Fávero Alberti, Bruna Sodré Simon

“…Results: it was identified that there is a long waiting time for specialized services, which leads users to searching for different means of accessing the network. …”
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End-User Needs of Fragmented Databases in Higher Education Data Analysis and Decision Making by Amanda Briggs, Francesco Cafaro

“…These large datasets can be accessed using an array of data analysis tools that may lead users to assume that data sources conflict with one another. …”
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A Philosophy Research Database to Share Data Resources by Jili Cheng

“…Nevertheless, this is the first academic database for philosophy research, so its orientation is towards resource-sharing, leading users to data, and serving large number of demands from other provinces and departments.…”
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Russian Proposals on the Polar Code: Contributing to Common Rules or Furthering State Interests? by Dorottya Bognar

“…While the latter frames Russia as a leading user of Arctic waters, the role that Russia played in the Polar Code negotiations indicates that Russia has more than shipping interests to protect in the Arctic.…”
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Situating Liquid Media Use: Challenges for Media Ethnography by Ike Picone

“…In this article, we draw on our experience with a semi-experimental digital ethnography on interactive news practices among non-lead users to pinpoint and reflect upon the challenges this ‘liquefied’ environment poses for media ethnographies, both on a conceptual and a methodological level. …”
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Trust of information on social media : an elaboration likelihood model by Pee, Loo Geok

“…However, false information exists on social media and trusting false information not only leads users to make wrong decisions but can also have dire impact on the society. …”
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Modifying Texture Perception With Pseudo-Haptic Feedback for a Projected Virtual Hand Interface by Yushi Sato, Takefumi Hiraki, Naruki Tanabe, Haruka Matsukura, Daisuke Iwai, Kosuke Sato

“…The experimental results indicate that the proposed visual effects can lead users to feel the intended tactile sensation. Furthermore, the visual effects provide users with tactile sensations with three to five levels of intensity without producing a strange feeling.…”
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THE IMPACTS OF OUTDOOR GYMS ON LEISURE PHYSICAL ACTIVITY IN CAMPO GRANDE/MS by Vitor Avila Alexandre Anjos, Junior Vagner Pereira da Silva

“…Specifically, it aimed to: diagnose the profile of users; investigate the spaces used; evaluate the reasons that lead users to attend; identify the factors which act as barriers. …”
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Regionale Innovationspotentiale in Südostasien : empirische Ergebnisse aus Singapur, Penang (Malaysia) und Thailand by M. Kiese, J. Revilla Diez

“…Kooperationen sind für die Innovationsprozesse der Unternehmen praktisch unverzichtbar;die wichtigsten Partner finden sich für multinationale Unternehmen im Konzernverbund, während einheimische Unternehmen meist mit Kunden (<i>lead users</i>) in hochentwickelten Technologieregionen kooperieren. …”
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Is true friendship possible on Facebook? A study from the psychological perspective of Laín Entralgo by Juan-Gabriel García-Huertas, Pablo Garrido-Pintado, Jose António Moreira

“…In calling this different type of relationship friendship Facebook benefits from an attractive hook which leads users to generate contacts as a form of currency which benefits the business model of the social media platform. …”
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Online Field Inspection Manager (OFIM) Grid Inspection Web Service by C. Mannebeck

“…The early involvement of lead users in the development process provided to be a valuable measure to tailor the system to practical requirements in the best possible way. …”
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Transparency Enhances Positive Perceptions of Social Artificial Intelligence by Ying Xu, Nora Bradford, Radhika Garg

“…Analyses of participants’ responses to the postobservation survey indicated that transparency positively affected perceptions of social chatbots by leading users to (1) find the chatbot less creepy, (2) feel greater affinity to the chatbot, and (3) perceive the chatbot as more socially intelligent, though these effects were small. …”
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Predicting individual differences to cyber attacks: Knowledge, arousal, emotional and trust responses by Aryn Pyke, Ericka Rovira, Savannah Murray, Joseph Pritts, Charlotte L. Carp, Robert Thomson

“…The objective of this research was to understand the factors that might lead users to fail to recognize red flags and succumb to cyber events. …”
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Endogenizing Blockchain Windows of Opportunity in Iran’s Banking Industry through Applying Technological Innovation System (TIS) Approach by Masoud Hashemi, Mostafa Safdari Ranjbar, Asgar Noorbakhsh, Elham Faham

“…Findings of this study indicate that mechanisms such as internal project research by banks (knowledge creation function), increasing the diversity of actors and their interactions (knowledge diffusion function), using international platforms instead of local platforms (market orientation function), internal operational and research projects (technological entrepreneurship function), the need to determine the orientation of blockchain development by obtaining the views and needs of leading users by the Central Bank as a key player (search orientation function), removing business barriers (shaping market function), the entry of fintech companies into business development (legitimation function) are important for endogenizing blockchain windows of opportunity in Iran's banking industry.…”
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