Examining Question-Answering Technology from the Task Technology Fit Perspective

Examining Question-Answering Technology from the Task Technology Fit Perspective

Examining Multiple Dimensions of Task Technology Fit

Investigating the fit of an information technology to a user’s task, known as task-technology fit (TTF), is a frequent focus of HCI/MIS research. In such research, “fit as moderation”, one of Venkatraman’s (1989) six conceptualizations of fit, is common. This conceptualization assumes two variables, e.g., task and technology, and an outcome variable. Task and technology, however, have multiple ...

Enterprise Systems and Intraorganizational Interdependence: A Task-Technology Fit Perspective

Enterprise systems have the potential to bring immense benefits to organizations, but are often seen as falling short of that promise. This paper reports an on-going research project that relates the fit between enterprise systems and the nature of intraorganizational workflow interdependencies. Using task-technology fit theory, we propose that enterprise systems are best suited to organization...

Extending the technology acceptance model with task-technology fit constructs

During the past decade, two signi®cant models of information technology (IT) utilization behavior have emerged in the MIS literature. These two models, the technology acceptance model (TAM) and the task±technology ®t model (TTF), provide a much needed theoretical basis for exploring the factors that explain software utilization and its link with user performance. These models offer different, t...

Analyses for elucidating current question answering technology

In this paper, we take a detailed look at the performance of components of an idealized question answering system on two different tasks: the TREC Question Answering task and a set of reading comprehension exams. We carry out three types of analysis: inherent properties of the data, feature analysis, and performance bounds. Based on these analyses we explain some of the performance results of t...