Beliefs about the social roles and capabilities of computing technology: Development of the computing technology continuum of perspective

Behaviour and Information Technology

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 169-181

  Johnson, Richard D ^a   Marakas, George M ^b   Palmer, Jonathan W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^c Dept of Economics and Thomas Jefferson Program in Public Policy at the College of William and Mary   (United States)

Author keywords

Anthropomorphism; Continuum of perspective; Core self evaluations; Human computer interaction; Measures; Validity

Indexed keywords

CONTINUUM MECHANICS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

ANTHROPOMORPHISM; COMPUTING TECHNOLOGY; CONTINUUM OF PERSPECTIVE (CP); CORE SELF-EVALUATIONS;

SOCIAL SCIENCES COMPUTING;

EID: 40549137480     PISSN: 0144929X     EISSN: 13623001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01449290600959104     Document Type: Article

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