Online shopping is gradually becoming popular in the developing countries like India. The online bookstores have emerged as a new destination which attracts millions of shoppers every day. The impulse buying in the offline stores has been a major area of interest for the researchers. But with the boom in online shopping, there is a scope to study the different aspects of impulse buying in onlin...

P studies investigating business-to-consumer e-commerce have focused predominantly on online shopping by individuals on their own, although consumers often desire to conduct their shopping activities with others. This study explores the important, but seldom studied, topic of collaborative online shopping. It investigates two design components that are pertinent to collaborative online shopping...

The rise of online shopping has gradually changed consumer behavior. Not only does it offer convenient shopping with a variety of products, but also allows quick price comparisons and fast access to product information. Though it has developed rapidly in recent years, it is still perceived immature due to risks. This study is to explore the differences between the perceived risks and risk reduc...

We present research on the development and evaluation of a collaborative search and shopping system for online retail tasks based on domain specific product requirements. We describe the design rationale for the system development and inclusion of collaborative features, including search, chat, clip-board, product suggestions, shared views, and shopping cart with a focus on how these features a...

This paper reports initial research findings from on-going longitudinal participatory design studies within a national (Danish) funded project to realize a gesture-controlled ‘Online shopping-for-apparel’ system – A Virtual Dressing Room (VDR). A product that reduces customer purchase returns, reportedly up to 40%, which is a huge burden to the clothing industries as shopping percentile of sale...

In this study, we explore how user characteristics, such as trust, persistence and consumer perceptions of the benefits and impediments of online travel shopping, influence user likelihood to complete a specific travel shopping task. Through an uncontrolled experiment with a multi-step travel search task, we test the difference in user characteristics between those that completed and those that...

The invention of the internet has created a new pattern of the traditional way people shop. Today, online shopping is ideal for many of people with disabilities, people with children, people with hectic schedules, and others who just may not have the time or the energy to spend all day walking around the mall. The purpose of this paper is to review and study the factors affecting the consumer’s...

The aim of this research is to consider the possible effect of an emerging technology platform on the uptake of online shopping: interactive (digital) Television (iTV), which enables viewers to select a variety of viewing options, publicity materials, games, entertainment and more recently shopping. An augmented version of the original TAM is applied to this study. Two new constructs are consid...

The aim of this research is to consider the possible effect of an emerging technology platform on the uptake of online shopping: interactive (digital) Television (iTV), which enables viewers to select a variety of viewing options, publicity materials, games, entertainment and more recently shopping. An augmented version of the original TAM is applied to this study. Two new constructs are consid...