An Avatar a Day Keeps the Stress Away : The Implementation of Avatars as Technostress Relievers on Online Shopping Websites




Faculty/Professorship: Sales and Marketing  
Author(s): Feste, Jasmin ; Peters, Leonore  ; Schirmer, Michael
Year of publication: 2023
Pages: 4391-4400
Source/Other editions: Proceedings of the 56th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. Maui, Hawaii: University of Hawaii, 2023, S. 4391-4400 - ISBN: 978-0-9981331-6-4
Year of first publication: 2023
Language(s): English
Licence: Creative Commons - CC BY-NC-ND - Attribution - NonCommercial - NoDerivatives 4.0 International 
URN: urn:nbn:de:bvb:473-irb-579833
Abstract: 
In contrast to stationary retail, online shopping websites are characterized by the fact that no human salesperson is available to buyers as a reference and supporting function for the purchase. With increasing technological penetration and thus online shoppers facing the challenges of technologically induced stress (technostress), it becomes crucial for e-commerce operators to reduce this impersonality of online stores to avoid negative consequences of technostress. Our study proposes the means of an avatar as a technostress reliever. We empirically assess the indirect effect of technostress on purchase intention mediated by online store quality and moderated by avatar presence on the online store website. Our 2x2-factorial between-subjects experimental study reveals a negative indirect effect of technostress on purchase intention of respondents. Further, our findings show that independently of perceived online store quality the total level of the purchase intention is higher for the presence of an avatar than for the absence of an avatar.
GND Keywords: Electronic Shopping; Avatar <Informatik>; Technischer Fortschritt; Stress
Keywords: online shopping, avatars, technostress, social presence, online store quality
DDC Classification: 650 Management & public relations  
RVK Classification: QR 760   
Type: Conferenceobject
URI: https://fis.uni-bamberg.de/handle/uniba/57983
Release Date: 2. February 2023

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