User Acceptance of Virtual Worlds: The Hedonic Framework

Data Base for Advances in Information Systems

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 86-89

  Holsapple, Clyde W ^a   Wu, Jiming ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Emotional Responses; Entertainment Oriented IT; Hedonic Theory; Imaginal Responses; IT Adoption; Productivity Oriented IT; Virtual Worlds

Indexed keywords

EID: 85024265170     PISSN: 00950033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1314234.1314250     Document Type: Article

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