Third-Party Recommendation in Online Recommendation Agents : The Think Aloud Method and Verbal Protocol Analysis

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Original languageEnglish
Pages58-62
Publication statusPublished - 15 Dec 2013

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Title2013 SIGBPS Workshop on Business Processes and Service
PlaceItaly
CityMilan
Period15 December 2013

Abstract

Online product recommendation is viewed as an important way to facilitate online shoppers' decision-making. A recommendation is deemed to be successful if it persuades a consumer to accept the suggested product. To this end, it is of great importance to understand a consumer's cognitive process during online shopping in the presence of product recommendation agent. This study employs think-aloud method and performs verbal protocol analysis to examine the impact of third-party (other consumers and/or domain experts) recommendations on consumer decision-making process. The findings of the impact of third-party recommendation on this cognitive process contribute to both recommendation agent literature and practice.

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Third-Party Recommendation in Online Recommendation Agents : The Think Aloud Method and Verbal Protocol Analysis. / Shi, Yani; Tan, Chuan Hoo; SIA, Choon Ling.

2013. 58-62 Paper presented at 2013 SIGBPS Workshop on Business Processes and Service, Milan, Italy.

Research output: Conference Papers (RGC: 31A, 31B, 32, 33)32_Refereed conference paper (no ISBN/ISSN)peer-review