Burgeoning marketplace resale, threats posed by traditional retail business, and fashion potential in sustainability foreshadow the importance of second-hand retailing. Drawing on the model of goal-directed behavior, we address these questions: How does shopping for second-hand clothing...

Virtual agents wear many different names according to their use contexts, functionalities, degrees of anthropomorphism. They can also be visible or incarnated, or not (incarnated agents are called Embodied virtual agents or EVAs). They have been widely used since the 2000's and first generated a...