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Genderstudysais2016finalversubmit.Pdf, Dishi Shrivastava, Karthikeyan Umapathy, Haiyan Huang, Ching-Hua Chuan, Lakshmi Goel Mar 2016

Genderstudysais2016finalversubmit.Pdf, Dishi Shrivastava, Karthikeyan Umapathy, Haiyan Huang, Ching-Hua Chuan, Lakshmi Goel

Karthikeyan Umapathy

With the increase in Internet-based sales, attracting and retaining online customers has become the most important part of running a successful business. In order to maintain customer loyalty, website designers should consider providing gender sensitized user experience as men and women have been known to have different perceptions of online shopping.  Women tend to prefer shopping experience that creates connection with other humans. Online shopping experience, in general, can be perceived as lacking human warmth and sociability as it is devoid of interactions with other humans. However, to date, influence of social presence (interpreting human warmth and contact electronically) on …