Technology tracking: Understanding decisions to adopt, not to adopt, and dis-adopt household greywater filtration systems

Examining Teachers' Decisions To Adopt New Technology

This study examined teachers’ beliefs about technology adoption as a reasoned, deliberate, intentional decision-making process, as reflected in Ajzen’s (1985) Theory of Planned Behavior. Qualitative and quantitative data were collected from teachers in four schools located in the southeastern region of the United States. Overall results indicated that technology adoption decisions were influenc...

To Adopt or Not to Adopt - That is the Question

The area of adoption and diffusion has had a strong pro-innovation bias (Brancheau and Wetherbe 1990; Parthasarathy and Bhattacherjee 1998; Ram 1987; Venkatesh and Brown 2001). This bias has resulted in somewhat of a neglect of the area of non-adoption. Existing theories including TAM (Davis 1989) and the innovation diffusion theory (Rogers 1983) provide critical insights into technology usage....

To Adopt or Not to Adopt Computer-Based School Management Systems? - An ITEM Research Agenda

Generalizing ADOPT and BnB-ADOPT

ADOPT and BnB-ADOPT are two optimal DCOP search algorithms that are similar except for their search strategies: the former uses best-first search and the latter uses depth-first branch-and-bound search. In this paper, we present a new algorithm, called ADOPT(k), that generalizes them. Its behavior depends on the k parameter. It behaves like ADOPT when k = 1, like BnB-ADOPT when k = ∞ and like a...

Engaging physicians to adopt healthcare information technology.

Kenneth H. Cohn, MD, FACS, Chief Executive Officer, HealthcareCollaboration.com, Natick, Massachusetts; Joel Berman, MD, Chief Medical Information Officer, Concord Hospital, Concord, New Hampshire; Barry Chaiken, MD, founder, DocsNetwork.com, Boston; David Green, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Concord Hospital; Michael Green, FACHE, Chief Executive Officer, Concord Hospital; Deane Morrison, RPh, Ch...