Information technology-enabled markets enhance retailers’ ability to collect, aggregate, and transfer consumer information. These technological capabilities have raised concerns that this information could be used in ways the consumer would not anticipate or authorize. These concerns have been met with a variety of proposals including approaches placing the onus for protection on consumers, ind...

by Jana Sanchez Consumer advocate R a l p h Nader spoke to a gathering of Harris County political activists, which included students f rom area colleges, at the Tidelands II Motor Inn on Tuesday, August 21. The visit was one part of Nader's present effort to launch a statewide voter education and registration project. Nader has a long history of outspokenness in politics and has been a pioneer ...

The literature has highlighted the importance of product review information to a consumer, but limited knowledge exists on the provision of such information in a shopping website. This research uses information foraging theory (IFT) to determine how to provide product reviews. Product reviews differ according to whether the content is mainly on product attributes (i.e., attribute-oriented produ...

iran home appliances producers are challenged by the many foreign competitors. these companies can employ information and communication technology for improvement of the competitiveness. so in this paper, the identification of internet marketing strategies and the consumer behavior have been analyzed by grounded theory. the research shows that, internet marketing strategy (ims) can be classifie...

Consumer fraud on the Internet is slowly mounting, resulting in appreciable monetary losses, and growing distrust of e-commerce websites. Information assurance has been proposed to be one solution to counter this, to which consumers have also been favorably receptive. We explore here the extent of adoption of such assurance among Business-to-Consumer (B2C) information goods/services websites. T...

Users of digital self-tracking devices benefit from information about themselves. Thereby, the explanatory power of this information heavily depends on post-adoption continued usage of these devices. Thus, the aim of our research is to empirically analyze the factors that lead to continuous use of self-tracking devices. So far, research has largely focused on phases until IS adoption in a work ...

A consumer life­cycle demand system is constructed to investigate the presence of ra­ tional habits and effects of food safety information on U.S. meat consumption. Based on previous studies, information on meat recalls and media coverage of food safety events is used to measure consumer perception of meat quality. At quarterly frequen­ cies, U.S. meat demand is found to be intertemporally nons...

Trust issue is developing into an important topic as the Internet becomes increasingly ubiquitous within everyday life. Although a lot of studies focus on salient factors that persuade consumer trust towards online vendors, few studies address the issue that online trust could be affected by consumers using cognitive information processes or simple cues to build their trust toward online vendor...

Currently, the casual consumer has few available resources on product security and privacy with which to inform purchasing decisions. This absence of coherent information becomes increasingly important as we incorporate an increasing level of sensors, actuators, and connectivity into the technologies in our homes. We wish to initiate a discussion on the potential utility of an organized entity ...

It is a truism that, for innovative eHealth systems to have true value and impact, they must first and foremost be usable and accessible by clinicians, consumers, and other stakeholders. In this paper, current trends and future challenges in the usability and accessibility of consumer health informatics will be described. Consumer expectations of their healthcare providers and healthcare record...