The virtual supermarket: An innovative research tool to study consumer food purchasing behaviour

BMC Public Health

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Waterlander, Wilma E ^a   Scarpa, Michael ^b   Lentz, Daisy ^a   Steenhuis, Ingrid H M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b Aardman Studios   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONSUMER; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FOOD; FOOD INDUSTRY; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; PILOT STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CONSUMER SATISFACTION; FEMALE; FOOD; FOOD INDUSTRY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; PILOT PROJECTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESEARCH DESIGN; SOFTWARE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79960614163     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-11-589     Document Type: Article

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