The objective of this chapter is to introduce the element of trust and risk under alternative environments, and to analyse the electronic grocery and the virtual retail environments. Therefore, we provide the key findings from an empirical survey of UK grocery retail consumers purchasing from the Internet.

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Reference: Bourlakis, M., Papagiannidis, S., & Fox, H. (Forthcoming). Trusting the Avatar: An examination of trust and risk factors in electronic and virtual retailing. In T. Kautonen & H. Karjaluoto (Eds.), Trust and New Technologies. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing.

The aim of The International Journal of Role-Playing is to act as a hybrid knowledge network, and bring together the varied interests in role-playing and the associated knowledge networks, e.g. academic research, the games and creative industries, the arts and the strong role-playing communities.

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E-BUSINESS AND E-GOVERNMENT TRACK

British Academy of Management Annual Conference (BAM2008)
Majestic Hotel, Harrogate, UK
9-11 September 2008
http://bam.ac.uk/conference2008/

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A software bot that masquerades as an ill-mannered human user within Second Life is being used by UK researchers to investigate the psychology of its inhabitants, by starting a conversation with users and deliberately invading their personal space to see how they will react. The “SL-bot” was created by Doron Friedman, Anthony Steed and Mel Slater at University College London who are interested in comparing the way people act inside a virtual world with real-life human behaviour. Read more here.

Boston’s largest hospital system has grabbed some real estate in Second Life to study certain treatment options for real people through experiments in the virtual world. The trial is expected to show whether patients can learn stress-reduction techniques during sessions in the virtual world. For more information click here.

22 November 2007 - 5.15 - 8.30pm