NeuroIS—alternative or complement to existing methods? illustrating the holistic effects of neuroscience and self-reported data in the context of technostress research

Journal of the Association for Information Systems

Volumn 15, Issue , 2014, Pages 723-753

  Tams, Stefan ^a   Thatcher, Jason ^b   Hill, Kevin ^a   Grover, Varun ^b   De Guinea, Ana Ortiz ^a  

^a HEC MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Correlation; NeuroIS; Neuroscience; Self reports; Technostress; Triangulation

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION USE; NEUROLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; TAPS;

COMPUTER-BASED TASKS; CORRELATION; NEUROIS; NEUROSCIENCE; PERFORMANCE; PHYSIOLOGICAL MEASURES; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; RECENT RESEARCHES; SELF-REPORT; TECHNOSTRESS;

TRIANGULATION;

EID: 84908459015     PISSN: 15583457     EISSN: 15369323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17705/1jais.00374     Document Type: Article

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