THE EFFECTS OF INTERACTIVITY AND VIVIDNESS OF FUNCTIONAL CONTROL IN CHANGING WEB CONSUMERS’ ATTITUDES

Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 960-967

  Jiang, Zhenhui ^a   Benbasat, Izak ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

attitude change; Functional control; interactivity; perceived diagnosticity; vividness

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE CHANGE; ATTITUDE FORMATION; CONSUMER ATTITUDES; FUNCTIONAL CONTROL; INTERACTIVITY; ONLINE CONSUMERS; ONLINE PRODUCTS; PERCEIVED DIAGNOSTICITY; PRODUCT PRESENTATIONS; VIVIDNESS;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 77953827329     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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