Studying the influence of e-personalisation on the online experience of consumers with disabilities: Ease of use as a source of pleasure

Abstract

This research studies the online consumer experience and, more specifically, the role of design e-personalisation of e-commerce websites adapted to the needs of consumers with disabilities (perceptual, cognitive or physical). It examines the roles of ease of use and pleasure of use as explanatory mechanisms for the effects of design e-personalisation on e-commerce website reuse and positive word-of-mouth intentions. We propose an online consumer experience model based on perceived design e-personalisation and test it empirically with structural equations on a sample of 117 participants from a panel of French Internet users who are more than 55 years old and have disabilities. The results highlight a serial double mediation of design e-personalisation on reuse and word-of-mouth intentions via ease of use and pleasure of use.