Saudi Cultural Missions Theses & Dissertations
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Item Restricted A Socio-Technical System to Understand and Mitigate The Negative Impacts of Planned Disruptions on People’s Well-being(ProQuest, 2023) Hammad, Omar; Mishra, ShivakantPlanned disruption events such as highway construction typically span a relatively longer period of time and hence have negative impact on the health and wellbeing of people living in the surrounding communities. Further, these communities tend to have low socio-economic status with high unemployment rate and limited resources (Environmental Justice Communities). The goal of this dissertation is to understand and mitigate the negative impacts of planned disruption projects via a socio-technical system linking data from smartphone apps integrated with existing air quality and transportation APIs. Our focus in this project is on a highway expansion construction project in North Denver, USA (the C70 Project) and its surrounding communities. We started by designing an developing a smartphone app called PureMotion in a three-round usability study with community members from the affected area. After that we deployed PureMotion over two cohorts spanning for four months in total (two month each) and reported results from the analysis done on the data collected. Finally we designed, developed and deployed two intervention apps, PureNav and PureConnect, that contributed in helping community members mitigate the top issues that we have learned from the first two studies, transportation and lack of information11 0Item Restricted Using TPB to Understand Saudi Consumers’ Intention to Purchase via Fashion Shopping Applications: A Qualitative Study(2023) Alwehaibi, Fatimah Mohammed; McAlinden, ThomasConsumers are progressively performing electronic purchases and accessing mobile services via their mobile devices. Due to its utility, several companies have taken this opportunity to reach their consumers and are making ongoing efforts to understand the factors that impact consumers' purchase intentions or adoption of m-apps. This study aims to understand the factors in the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) that influence Saudi consumers’ intentions to purchase fashion products via fashion shopping applications (FSAs): attitude, subjective norms and perceived behavioural control. A qualitative research method was employed, in which semi-structured interviews with seven Saudi females were conducted. Then a thematic narrative analysis was performed, and fifteen themes were identified in the interviewees’ narratives. The study results indicated that Saudi consumers have positive attitudes towards m-commerce and FSAs, and the three determinants of intention (attitude, subjective norms and perceived behavioural control) have an influence on Saudi consumers’ intentions to purchase fashion products via FSAs.22 0