Exploration in emotion and visual information uncertainty of websites in culture relations

International Journal of Design

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 55-66

  Tsai, Tzu Wei ^a   Chang, Tien Chun ^a   Chuang, Ming Chuen ^a   Wang, Ding Ming ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b HSUAN CHUANG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Emotion; Information uncertainty; Uncertainty avoidance; Website

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950711533     PISSN: 19913761     EISSN: 1994036X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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