Real experience in a virtual store: Designing for presence in online shopping

PACIS 2006 - 10th Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems: ICT and Innovation Economy

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 1150-1158

  Qiu, Lingyun ^a   Jiang, Zhenhui ^b   Benbasat, Izak ^c  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Interface design; Online shopping; Social presence; Telepresence

Indexed keywords

INTERACTIVE MULTIMEDIA TECHNOLOGIES; INTERFACE DESIGNS; ONLINE SHOPPING; ONLINE STORE; PRESENCE OF PRODUCT; SALES REPRESENTATIVES; SOCIAL PRESENCE; TELEPRESENCE;

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INNOVATION; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; USER INTERFACES; VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

ONLINE SYSTEMS;

EID: 80053464438     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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