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Events for September 29, 2006
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USC Transfer Day
Fri, Sep 29, 2006 @ 08:30 AM - 02:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Workshops & Infosessions
The program includes a campus tour and special presentations for transfer students about admission, financial aid, transfer credit, and engineering programs. Reservations are required. To make the most of the visit, students are encouraged to bring copies of their college transcripts. Please call (213) 740-6616 for more information and to make a reservation.
Location: USC
Audiences: Prospective Transfer Students
Contact: Undergraduate Admission
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Viterbi Museum Open Today 12:30-2:00
Fri, Sep 29, 2006 @ 12:30 PM - 02:00 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Receptions & Special Events
The Viterbi Museum is located on the 2nd Floor of RTH near the elevators. For more information please visit: http://viterbi.usc.edu/about/viterbimuseum/
Location: 2nd Floor RTH near the elevators
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Jason Dziegielewski
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Natural Gas Geochemistry in the Tarim Basin, China and Its Indication to Gas Filling History
Fri, Sep 29, 2006 @ 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker:Dr. Tongwei Zhang
Power, Environmental, and Energy Research Center
California Institute of TechnologyAbstract:
Natural gases in the Tarim basin, China are primarily composed of methane, whose content is more than 70%, with variable contents of ethane (Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 156
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
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Honors Program Colloquium: Work of the Getty Conservation Institute in LA and in 30 Countries Abroad
Fri, Sep 29, 2006 @ 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Engineering Honors Colloquium lecture given by Mr. Francois LeBlanc, Head of Field Projects at the Getty Conservation Institute.
Location: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) - 122
Audiences: Faculty and Honors Program Students
Contact: Erika Chua
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Recommendation Agents for Electronic Commerce: Effects of Explanation Facilities on Trusting Beliefs
Fri, Sep 29, 2006 @ 01:30 PM - 03:00 PM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
University Calendar
Information and Operations Management Department, Marshall School of Engineering Seminarby Dr. Izak BenbasatDepartment of Information Technology Management, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia, CanadaABSTRACT: We empirically test the effects of explanation facilities on consumers' initial trusting beliefs concerning online recommendation agents (RAs). RAs provide online shopping advice based on user-specified needs and preferences. The characteristics of RAs that may hamper consumers' trust building in the RAs are identified, and the provision of explanation facilities is proposed as a knowledge-based approach to enhance consumers' trusting beliefs by dealing with these obstacles. This study examines the effects of three types of explanations about an RA and its use – how, why, and trade-off explanations – on consumers' trusting belief in an RA's competence, benevolence, and integrity.An RA was built as the experimental platform and a laboratory experiment was conducted. The results confirm the important role of explanation facilities in enhancing consumer' initial trusting beliefs and indicate that consumers' use of different types of explanations enhances different trusting beliefs: the use of how explanations increases their competence and benevolence beliefs, the use of why explanations increases their benevolence beliefs, and the use of trade-off explanations increases their integrity beliefs.KEYWORDS AND PHASES: Trust, Recommendation Agents, Decision Support, Explanations, Decisional Guidance, Electronic Commerce-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Dr. Izak Benbasat, Fellow, Royal Society of Canada, is CANADA Research Chair in Information Technology Management at the Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia, Canada. He received his Ph.D. in Management Information Systems from the University of Minnesota. Dr. Benbasat is the past editor-in-chief of Information Systems Research and currently a Senior Editor of the Journal of the Association for Information Systems. He is a Fellow of the Association for Information Systems. His current research interests include designing and evaluating human-computer interfaces for e-business.Friday, September 29, 2006, Hoffman Hall 302, 1:30 – 3:00 pm
Location: Hoffman Hall 302
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Georgia Lum
