Understanding the impact of Web personalization on user information processing and decision outcomes

MIS Quarterly: Management Information Systems

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 865-890

  Tam, Kar Yan ^a   Ho, Shuk Ying ^b  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Content relevance; Human computer interface; Processing goal; Self reference; Web personalization

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

CUSTOMERS; SOCIAL COGNITION; WEB PERSONALIZATION;

INFORMATION SERVICES;

EID: 33845987742     PISSN: 02767783     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/25148757     Document Type: Article

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