The effect of visual complexity when playing a slot-machine simulation: the role of computer experience, computer anxiety, and optimism

Computers in Human Behavior

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1072-1079

  Christopherson, Kimberly M ^a   Weatherly, Jeffrey N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer simulation; Gambling; Internet; Visual complexity

Indexed keywords

ANIMATION; EDUCATION; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INTERNET; PROBLEM SOLVING;

COMPUTER ANXIETY; GAMBLING; SLOT-MACHINE SIMULATION; VISUAL COMPLEXITY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 33646156187     PISSN: 07475632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2004.03.031     Document Type: Article

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