Valuing virtual worlds: The role of categorization in technology assessment

Journal of the Association for Information Systems

Volumn 13, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 772-796

  Nardon, Luciara ^a   Aten, Kathryn ^b  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Categorization; Cognition; Technology acceptance; Technology adoption; Virtual collaboration; Virtual work; Virtual worlds

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868334916     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15369323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17705/1jais.00311     Document Type: Article

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