Modeling Antecedents of User Engagement

Systematic Improvement of User Engagement with Academic Titles Using Computational Linguistics

“…The UE Process Model and the UES have been tested for reliability, validity, and generalizability in various domains (online news, shopping, digital games, social media). These studies corroborate the UE process model and the feasibility of a universal measure of UE (O'Brien & Cairns, 2016;O'Brien & McKay, 2018). The studies also demonstrated that UE is consistent across diverse types of applications.…”

“…The studies also demonstrated that UE is consistent across diverse types of applications. The UES has been adopted by more than 50 international research teams, who have used it to examine UE with educational technologies, search systems, haptic technologies, health and consumer applications (O'Brien & Cairns, 2016;O'Brien & McKay, 2018). However, the model has a few gaps: first, engagement with information at a theoretical and conceptual level is still limited .…”

“…For example, usability attributes such as effectiveness, efficiency, and satisfaction are intricately woven into the experience of engagement; while an application may be usable, it may not be engaging, but engaging applications do appear to have an inherent baseline of usability (O'Brien & Toms, 2008). This also includes ease-of-use and flow, as the perceived effort is suggested to be a barrier to engagement (O'Brien & McKay, 2018).…”

Genre, authorship and authenticity in the petitions of Civil War veterans and widows from north Wales and the Marches

“…While Dolan's work is a timely reminder that we cannot recapture some kind of originary and unmediated evidence of historical reality, it is fair to say that historians have long recognised the problems of working with narrative legal evidence and have adapted and modified their methodologies and conclusions accordingly. 6 For decades the historiography of this area has been cognisant of the complex and constructed nature of such evidence, and most historians dealing with this material are not as methodologically naive as Dolan seems to suggest. 7 While they might invoke the 'voices' of historical subjects, they rarely claim to have heard the authentic personalities of historical actors.…”

User Engagement Using an Etextbook

“…In the context of human-computer interaction, O'Brien et al 9 define user engagement as “A quality of user experience characterized by the depth of an actor's investment when interacting with a digital system.” (p28) O'Brien and McLean 10 identified six attributes of engagement: esthetic appeal, novelty, focused attention, felt involvement, perceived usability, and endurability or the willingness to use an application again or recommend it to others. A consideration for educators designing online learning activities in the digital environment is how to sustain engagement from beginning to end, as sustained engagement differs from one-time use 9 …”