Impact of similarity between avatar and their users on their perceived identifiability: Evidence from virtual teams in Second Life platform

Computers in Human Behavior

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 929-932

  Midha, Vishal ^a   Nandedkar, Ankur ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PAN AMERICAN   (United States)

^b CAMERON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Avatar; Identifiability; Similarity; Virtual team

Indexed keywords

AVATAR; IDENTIFIABILITY; PARTIAL LEAST-SQUARES METHOD; SECOND LIFE; SIMILARITY; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; VIRTUAL TEAM; VIRTUAL WORLDS;

MANAGEMENT; RESEARCH; VIRTUAL REALITY;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 84857369308     PISSN: 07475632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2011.12.013     Document Type: Article

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