Decision-making in-socio and in-situ: Facilitation in virtual worlds

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 342-352

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b ACCENTURE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Context facilitation; Decision making; Focused immersion; Situated cognition; Social cognition; Social facilitation; Virtual worlds

Indexed keywords

CONTEXT FACILITATION; FOCUSED IMMERSION; SITUATED COGNITION; SOCIAL COGNITION; SOCIAL FACILITATION; VIRTUAL WORLDS;

DECISION MAKING; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 82255192560     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dss.2011.09.001     Document Type: Article

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