Intentions to use virtual worlds: An exploratory study

14th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2008

Volumn 5, Issue , 2008, Pages 2992-2998

  Eder, Lauren ^a   Shen, Jia ^a  

^a RIDER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Second life; Tam; Virtual world

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL INTENTION; BUSINESS SCHOOLS; COLLABORATIVE ACTIVITIES; EXPLORATORY STUDIES; PERCEIVED EASE OF USE; PERCEIVED ENJOYMENT; PERCEIVED USEFULNESS; RESEARCH MODELS; SECOND LIFE; TAM; TECHNOLOGY ACCEPTANCE MODEL; VIRTUAL WORLDS;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 84870273317     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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