Cosmopolitan Acceptance: A Model for Understanding Views of Acceptance Towards Asylum Seekers

Understanding the needs of young asylum seekers.

Armed conflicts and political violence around the globe are forcing increasing numbers to flee their homes and seek refuge in European countries and elsewhere. In this country recent legislation will change the way in which subsistence allowance and accommodation are to be provided, eroding asylum seekers’ former rights, including those intended by national and international law to safeguard th...

Towards Model-based Acceptance Testing for Scrum

In agile processes like Scrum, strong customer involvement requires techniques to support requirements analysis and acceptance testing. Additionally, test automation is crucial, as incremental development and continuous integration need high efforts for testing. To cope with these challenges, we propose a model-based technique for documenting customer’s requirements using test models. These can...

Towards an Augmented Technology Acceptance Model

The paper examines the applicability and sufficiency of the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) in the context of social software and newer generation knowledge management systems (KMS). A reinterpretation of the two TAM constructs “Perceived Usefulness” and “Perceived Ease of Use” in light of expectancy-valence theory reveals that the TAM predominantly focuses on performance expectations on diff...

Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) As a Predictor Model for Explaining Agricultural Experts Behavior in Acceptance of ICT

This study aimed to develop TAM model to explain adoption of information technologies process .Descriptive – correlation study was conducted and data were collected through a survey. Statistical population was West Azerbaijan Agricultural extension agents who 120 of them were selected randomly using the krejcie and Morgan table. A questionnaire was employed to measure the variables in the model...

Understanding the Intrinsic Motivations of User Acceptance of Hedonic Information Systems: Towards a Unified Research Model