Recommending or persuading? the impact of a shopping agent's algorithm on user behavior

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 163-170

  Häubl, Gerald ^a   Murray, Kyle B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Consumer behavior; Human decision making; Influence; Online shopping; Personalization; Persuasion; Product choice; Recommendation systems; Shopping agents; User preferences

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; DATA PROCESSING; DECISION MAKING; ECONOMICS; HUMAN ENGINEERING; MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS; MANAGEMENT; USER INTERFACES;

ELECTRONIC SHOPPING AGENTS; HUMAN INFORMATION PROCESSING; ONLINE SHOPPING; PERSONALIZATION; PERSUASION; PRODUCT CHOICE; RECOMMENDATION SYSTEMS; USER PREFERENCES;

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE;

EID: 4243623032     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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