The effect of multimedia on perceived equivocality and perceived usefulness of information systems

MIS Quarterly: Management Information Systems

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 449-466

  Lim, Kai H ^a,b   Benbasat, Izak ^c  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Information presentation; Multimedia; Perceived equivocality; Task analyzability; Taskmedia fit

Indexed keywords

ANIMATION; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DATA ACQUISITION; DECISION MAKING; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INTERNET;

INFORMATION PRESENTATION; PERCEIVED EQUIVOCALITY; TASK ANALYZABILITY; TASK-MEDIA FIT;

MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS;

EID: 0000697955     PISSN: 02767783     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3250969     Document Type: Article

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