Microcomputer Playfulness: Stable or Dynamic Trait?

Data Base for Advances in Information Systems

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 43-52

  Yager, Susan E ^a   Kappelman, Leon A ^a   Maples, Glenn A ^a   Prybutok, Victor R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

cognitive playfulness; cognitive spontaneity; computer playfulness scale; longitudinal study; playfulness; traits

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002732618     PISSN: 00950033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/264701.264704     Document Type: Article

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