Tablet as human: How intensity and stability of the user-tablet relationship influences users' impression formation of tablet computers

Computers in Human Behavior

Volumn 37, Issue , 2014, Pages 81-93

  Wang, Zongyuan ^a   Nelson, Michelle R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Human computer relationship; Impression formation; Personification; Relationship intensity; Relationship stability

Indexed keywords

STABILITY;

ASSOCIATION PROCESS; FORMATION PROCESS; HUMAN-COMPUTER RELATIONSHIP; IMPRESSION FORMATION; IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS; PERSONIFICATION; RELATIONSHIP INTENSITY; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

COMPUTER SCIENCE;

EID: 84901027706     PISSN: 07475632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2014.04.041     Document Type: Article

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