Dissertation Information for Denise AgostoNAME:
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SCHOOL: ADVISORS: COMMITTEE MEMBERS: MPACT Status: Fully Complete Title: Sound, color, and action: Bounded rationality and satisficing in young people's examination of World Wide Web resources Abstract: This dissertation examined Simon's (1955, 1956) behavioral decision-making theories of bounded rationality and satisficing in relation to young people's decision making in the World Wide Web environment. Specifically, it sought to answer four major questions: How, if at all, do bounded rationality and satisficing relate to young people's decision making in the Web? What are the criteria that young people use to evaluate individual websites? What role does personal preference play in website selection and evaluation? Are any related-based youth website selection and evaluation behaviors identifiable? The dissertation also offered a theoretical model of the criteria young people use to evaluate individual websites. The model combined the concepts of personal preferences, gender schematics, object engagement characteristics, human processing constraints, and contextual constraints to predict a young person's selection or evaluation decision. |
MPACT Scores for Denise AgostoA = 2 Advisors and Advisees Graphgenerating graph, please reload |
Students under Denise Agosto
ADVISEES:
- Andrea Copeland Japzon - Drexel University (2009)
- Robin Amanda Naughton - Drexel University (2012)
COMMITTEESHIPS:
- Kristen A. Johnson - Drexel University (2007)
- Christine Elizabeth Wania - Drexel University (2008)
- Joan Elizabeth Beaudoin - Drexel University (2009)
- Thippaya Chintakovid - Drexel University (2009)
- James L. Goldman - Drexel University (2010)
- Lillian Rozaklis - Drexel University (2012)
- Craig Matthew MacDonald - Drexel University (2012)
- Sidath Deepal Gunawardena - Drexel University (2013)
- S. Joon Park - Drexel University (2013)
- Monica Grace Maceli - Drexel University (2013)