From space to place: Predicting users' intentions to return to virtual worlds

MIS Quarterly: Management Information Systems

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 749-771

  Goel, Lakshmi ^a   Johnson, Norman A ^b   Junglas, Iris ^c   Ives, Blake ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^c Centure Institute for High Performance   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive absorption; Intention to return; Location awareness; Place attachment; Sense of place; Social awareness; Task awareness; Virtual worlds

Indexed keywords

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

COGNITIVE ABSORPTIONS; INTENTION TO RETURN; LOCATION AWARENESS; PLACE ATTACHMENT; SENSE OF PLACE; SOCIAL AWARENESS; TASK AWARENESS; VIRTUAL WORLDS;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 80051751978     PISSN: 02767783     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/23042807     Document Type: Article

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