Great to have you here! - Understanding and designing social presence in information systems

ECIS 2013 - Proceedings of the 21st European Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages

  Walter, Nicolai ^a   Ortbach, Kevin ^a   Niehaves, Bjoern ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b HERTIE SCHOOL OF GOVERNANCE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Media Richness; Social Facilitation; Social Presence

Indexed keywords

HARDWARE;

DESIGN DECISIONS; DESIGN DIMENSIONS; DIGITAL WORLD; EMOTIONAL ASPECT; JOURNAL PAPER; MEDIA RICHNESS; SOCIAL FACILITATIONS; SOCIAL PRESENCE;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84905860753     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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