Active involvement, familiarity, framing, and the illusion of control during decision support system use

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 133-148

  Kahai, Surinder S ^a   Solieri, Steven A ^a,b   Felo, Andrew J ^a  

^a BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision support systems; End user computing; Illusion of control; Interactive problem solving

Indexed keywords

CONTROL; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PSYCHOLOGY COMPUTING;

ILLUSION OF CONTROL;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS;

EID: 0032094087     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-9236(98)00043-8     Document Type: Article

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