Willingness to pay and experienced utility as measures of affective value of information objects: Users' accounts

Information Processing and Management

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 92-104

  Lopatovska, Irene ^a   Mokros, Hartmut B ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Evaluation measures; Experienced utility; Experimental study; Human information behavior; Information retrieval systems; Willingness to pay

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION ANALYSIS; ONLINE SEARCHING; STATISTICAL METHODS; USER INTERFACES;

EVALUATION MEASURES; EXPERIENCED UTILITY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HUMAN INFORMATION BEHAVIOR; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 35548982567     PISSN: 03064573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ipm.2007.01.020     Document Type: Article

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