Designing electronic feedback - Analyzing the effects of social presence on perceived feedback usefulness

International Journal of Human Computer Studies

Volumn 76, Issue , 2015, Pages 1-11

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SIEGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Automated feedback; Electronic feedback; Perceived usefulness; Social presence theory

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; DESIGN; DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS; NETWORK SECURITY;

AUTOMATED FEEDBACK; COMMUNICATION MEDIA; ELECTRONIC FEEDBACK; FEEDBACK INTERVENTIONS; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; PERCEIVED USEFULNESS; SOCIAL PRESENCE; STRUCTURED EVALUATION;

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS;

EID: 84920772393     PISSN: 10715819     EISSN: 10959300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhcs.2014.12.001     Document Type: Article

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