Title
Effects of product learning aids on the breadth and depth of recall
Abstract
Product learning aid, which helps consumers to gain product knowledge for subsequent procurement, has fast become an indispensable Information Technology (IT) feature in online shopping website. Contemporary product learning aids differ in the types of the information cues they afford. For instance, some product learning aids, which are of interest to this study, present static product images with text description (text and image-based) while others present animated product images with voice narration (narration and video-based). Anchoring on the cognitive information processing paradigm, we posit that different type of product learning aids (i.e., text and image-based versus narration and video-based) could exert dissimilar impacts on a consumer's recall capacity. Recall capacity is manifested in two aspects, namely the breadth (i.e., the quantity of attributes recallable) and the depth (i.e., the articulation of the comparison of the product attributes during the decision-making process). Through a laboratory experiment, we observed a differentiated impact of a product learning aid on the breadth and depth of a consumer's recall capacity. More elaborately, while a narration and video-based product learning aid could increase the recall breadth, it yields the lowest in recall depth. Implications for research and practice are discussed.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1016/j.dss.2012.05.016
Decision Support Systems
Keywords
Field
DocType
present static product image,recall breadth,voice narration,recall capacity,contemporary product,product knowledge,product attribute,video-based product,recall depth,present animated product image,depth,product,recall
Cognitive Information Processing,Information technology,Computer science,Laboratory experiment,Knowledge management,Narrative,Human–computer interaction,Procurement,Recall,Multimedia
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
53
4
0167-9236
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
4
0.39
18
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mengxiang Li121424.48
Chuan-Hoo Tan245142.18
Hock-hai Teo3129986.90
Kwok Kee Wei44103195.60