The purpose of this article is to show how to design persuasive and successful web shops. An approach to commercial site design that draws on theories of visual persuasion is proposed. In this paper, we will focus on the role of emotion. lmages in an ad are typically meant to create some emotional disposition toward the product, or social cause. The importance of emotions in the on-line shoppin...

Shopping on the Internet spares customers the discomfort of carrying around heavy and bulky baskets of goods, since the service usually includes home delivery. This makes e-commerce a technology well suited to helping consumers to buy in bulk or to stockpile items on discount. I use grocery scanner data provided by a supermarket chain selling both online and through traditional stores to show t...

Electronic Commerce has rapidly grown with the expansion of the Interact. E-commerce has also become a promising field for applying agent and Artificial Intelligence technologies. Software agents help to automate a variety of tasks including those involved in buying and selling products over the Internet. In this paper, we describe a multimodal intelligent Shopping Assistant developed in the EM...

Electronic commerce typically lacks human warmth and sociability, since it is more impersonal, anonymous and automated than traditional face-to-face commerce. This paper explores how human warmth and sociability can be integrated through the web interface to positively impact consumer attitudes towards online shopping. An empirical study was undertaken to investigate the impact of various level...

The Semantic Web and Web Services provide many opportunities in various applications such as product search and comparison in electronic commerce. We implemented an intelligent meta-search and comparison system for products through multiple attributes by using ontology mapping and Web Services. Under the assumption that each shopping mall offers product ontology and product search service with ...

Software agents help automate a variety of tasks including those involved in buying and selling products over the Internet. Although shopping agents provide convenience for consumers and yield more efficient markets, today’s first-generation shopping agents are limited to comparing merchant offerings only on price instead of their full range of value. As such, they do a disservice to both consu...

Online shopping is no doubt the future trend. Online shopping on sectors such as fashion and accessories, electronic/electrical goods and books are growing in Malaysia. Many researches claimed that online shopping is still at the early stage of development in Malaysia and the potential for growth is inevitable. However, little is known about the acceptance of online shopping on localized produc...

This study investigates the relationship between five consumer values (i.e., functional, social, hedonic, epistemic, and security) and their impact on the Intention to use Internet as a shopping channel within introductory Qatari online market. A modified version of Sheth et al.’s (1991) perceived value model was tested within an early stage Qatari online market and a questionnaire based survey...

Ontology is an essential element for the agent system. The agent can share its knowledge and communicate with each other with it. As the agent system is more widely applied, the importance of ontology is increasing. Though there were some approaches to construct ontology, it was too far to satisfy practical needs. In this paper we have constructed an Ontology Server, which provides ontology ada...