If you build it will they come? An empirical investigation of facilitators and inhibitors of hedonic virtual world acceptance

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Goh, Samuel ^a   Yoon, Tom ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE AT CHATTANOOGA   (United States)

^b METROPOLITAN STATE UNIVERSITY OF DENVER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

, INHIBITOR; CRITICAL MASS; DIFFUSION OF TECHNOLOGY; EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION; INTEGRATIVE FRAMEWORK; MIXED METHOD; PREDICTIVE POWER; TECHNOLOGY ACCEPTANCE MODEL; THEORETICAL MODELS; UNIFIED THEORY OF ACCEPTANCE AND USE OF TECHNOLOGY; USER INTENTION; VIRTUAL WORLDS;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); SYSTEMS SCIENCE;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 79952946702     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2011.233     Document Type: Conference Paper

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