End-user adoption of animated interface agentsin everyday work applications

Behaviour and Information Technology

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 119-132

  Serenko, Alexander ^a   Bontis, Nick ^b   Detlor, Brian ^b  

^a LAKEHEAD UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Computer interfaces; End user adoption; Interface agents; PLS

Indexed keywords

ANIMATION; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; USER INTERFACES;

ANIMATION PREDISPOSITION; END USER ADOPTION; INTERFACE AGENTS; PARTIAL LEAST SQUARES (PLS) ANALYSIS;

SOFTWARE AGENTS;

EID: 33947546337     PISSN: 0144929X     EISSN: 13623001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01449290500260538     Document Type: Article

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