Design and Implementation of a Collaborative Virtual Shopping System

Ye, Lu; Xu, Bing; Ji, Qingge; Pan, Zhigeng; Yang, Hongwei

doi:10.1007/11568421_31

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“…The creation of virtual shopping centres allows customers to have real-time interactions, with three-dimensional (3D) models of items of interests in the virtual shop. With this technology application, the customers are allowed to simulate a real-life shopping experience by means of an avatar [17], [18]. Finally, the "newsletter" was selected as technological feature.…”

Section: Science and Information Conference 2015mentioning

confidence: 99%

Social commerce: A literature review

Salvatori

Marcantoni

2015

2015 Science and Information Conference (SAI)

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The increasing popularity of social networking is providing new opportunities for businesses in electronic commerce. It is evolving in order to adopt Web 2.0 capabilities to support online customer interactions and achieve greater economic value. This trend is referred to as social commerce. This study offers the result of a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) to explain the concept of social commerce. In order to elaborate this article, 64 papers were considered from the main digital libraries that index computer science conferences and journals. Applying a systematic analysis to these papers, it was possible to summarize the existing evidence concerning the social commerce and outline some open challenges.

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Section: Science and Information Conference 2015mentioning

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Social commerce: A literature review

Salvatori

Marcantoni

2015

2015 Science and Information Conference (SAI)

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“…In the literature, Virtual Reality (VR) is often associated with social commerce environments, due to the possibility of simulating a real shopping experience (Ye, et al 2005). Ye et al (2005) present a prototype for the design and implementation of an online store through which the communication between consumers and collaborative shopping activities is established in a virtual shopping mall environment.…”

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confidence: 99%

Social commerce: Looking back and forward

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Ping

2011

Proc. Am. Soc. Info. Sci. Tech.

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Social commerce can be briefly described as commerce activities mediated by social media. In social commerce, people do commerce or intentionally explore commerce opportunities by participating and/or engaging in a collaborative online environment. As a relatively new phenomenon first widely acknowledged in 2005, social commerce presents new opportunities to examine issues related to information/content, business strategies, management, technologies, and people's behavior. This article presents a qualitative longitudinal study which systematically examines technological features and tools in social commerce websites to illustrate their evolution and impacts on the formation of social commerce practice today and its potential future. Using captures crawled by the Wayback Machine, fifteen websites are analyzed from the year they were "born" to the year of 2010. The analyses are guided by a semi-structured checklist of expected and desired tools and features based on a literature review in social commerce. The study finds that social commerce activities appeared as early as the late 90s and that there are different approaches to incorporating social channels and social networks. In addition, the findings support a preliminary classification of social commerce websites, a realignment of the term's conceptualization and the anticipation of possible new directions for this market segment.

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“…Many different mall types are being developed, from fully integrated sites, as already described, to completely independent sites only offering links to other sites (Ye et al, 2005). The challenge for virtual malls these days is to show how they can provide various features in a secure and efficient manner rather than simply mirroring real-world malls.…”

Section: Literature Review: Definition and Current Trends Of Virtual mentioning

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“…Currently, there are about 7 million users, and forecasts project more than 25 million users by 2010 (Fetscherin & Lattemann, 2007). There are a wide variety of virtual reality applications, such as virtual malls (virtual commerce: Papadopoulou, 2007; collaborative virtual shopping: Ye et al, 2005; web2.0: Shin & Kim, 2008), digital cities (ubiquitous computing: Shin, 2005), and egovernment (government-to-citizen: Shin, 2007;government-to-government: Shin & Bartolacci, 2005), among others. Despite the increasing popularity of virtual reality, user behavior toward it using the technology acceptance model (TAM) has been assessed in only a couple of studies (Chung, 2005;Papadopoulou, 2007).…”

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Consumers' Trust in Virtual Mall Shopping: The Role of Social Presence and Perceived Security

Shin

2011

International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction

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This study analyzes the impact of social presence on perceived security and intention in virtual shopping malls. Following the conceptual model of social presence proposed by Hassanein and Head (2007), this study discusses social presence in a virtual environment as a complex multidimensional construct characterized by directed relationships among a set of uni-dimensional constructs. Given the rising importance of security, this study investigates the influence of social presence on perceived security in virtual activities. A prototype of the virtual shopping mall is designed as an experimental medium for which the user interface consists of both 3D graphics and an avatar. Valid questionnaires were gathered from student samples, and hypotheses were then tested to measure this set of constructs and fit a series of structural equation models that test Hassanein and Head's (2007) theory. The proposed model is strongly supported, and it provides additional insight into the effect and consequences of social presence. The results of the model show that social presence is a key behavioral antecedent to using virtual malls and user perception of security is a focal feature of user attitude. The results further suggest that perceived social presence can be a key factor of the virtual shopping activities by enhancing user perception of security and behavioral attitude in virtual malls. This study provides a more intensive view of virtual reality users and is an important step toward a better understanding of user behaviors in virtual environments.

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Design and Implementation of a Collaborative Virtual Shopping System

Cited by 7 publications

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Social commerce: A literature review

Social commerce: A literature review

Social commerce: Looking back and forward

Consumers' Trust in Virtual Mall Shopping: The Role of Social Presence and Perceived Security

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