Users’ affective evaluation of websites upon mere exposure hasn’t been studied extensively despite its essential influence on attitude and use decision. Based on psychological and information systems (IS) literature, this paper investigates three affect-related concepts and their effects: affective cues, perception of positive affective quality (PPAQ), and perception of negative affective quali...

China, a fast-growing developing country, is one of the world’s most popular tourism destinations because of its large number of historical and natural scenic attractions. With the development of the Internet, tourism and travel electronic commerce (ecommerce) have flourished in China, and the travel industry has experienced significant structural changes since 1999. This study examines how tou...

The impact of culture on consumer behaviour has been an important research area for decades. The rise of e-commerce prompted the importance of culturally-bound differences between websites. Web designers are compelled to adjust website development to the cultural characteristics of the target audience and to reflect local perspectives. The actual target users are often invited to provide valuab...

Social commerce can be briefly described as commerce activities mediated by social media. In social commerce, people do commerce or intentionally explore commerce opportunities by participating and/or engaging in a collaborative online environment. As a relatively new phenomenon first widely acknowledged in 2005, social commerce presents new opportunities to examine issues related to informatio...

This paper presents an ongoing research to determine the most popular skills of the e-commerce workforce based on e-commerce skills requirements present in online job locator websites. A large number of online job ads for e-commerce related positions have been already identified representing different geographical areas of the United States. Data is being collected and analyzed regarding types ...

Comparison websites have become a particularly prominent feature of e-commerce. In 2007 it was estimated that 20% of car insurance policies in the UK were obtained through such websites. Whilst some see this as a positive trend which enables greater competition, others, in contrast, question how impartial such sites actually are. However, in spite of this high profile there is no real academic ...

This research aims to suggest key design characteristics that are necessary for developing usable e-commerce websites in the Arab world. A comprehensive usability evaluation of four leading Arab e-commerce websites was conducted using the heuristic evaluation method. The results identified major and minor usability problems and major and minor good design characteristics on the selected website...

E-commerce is considered an excellent alternative for companies to reach new customers. However, many e-commerce websites have a short life because they don’t meet the minimal software quality requirements. To help the development of quality e-commerce websites, this work identifies and ranks the main quality attributes to this application domain. The survey of the attributes was based on the s...

Executive Summary Web interface usability is the measure of ease with which the users can perform desired tasks on a website. Usability is an important consideration for any website since it determines the usefulness of a website. However, the web interface usability for e-commerce websites is absolutely crucial due to the nature of these websites. Since the e-commerce websites are designed to ...