Agent toolkit satisfaction and use in higher education

Journal of Computing in Higher Education

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 65-88

  Serenko, Alexander ^a   Detlor, Brian ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

agent toolkits; higher education; intelligent agents; satisfaction; technology acceptance model

Indexed keywords

EID: 24944438200     PISSN: 10421726     EISSN: 18671233     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02940853     Document Type: Article

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