This paper investigates the factors influencing the adoption of mobile phone technology among farmers in Bangladesh. Electronic services are one important measure for rural development and mobile phones is the dominating cellular technology; hence understanding the adoption of this technology is important to development. The paper uses interpretive philosophy grounded on a mix of qualitative an...

This study examines a sample (N=239) of pre-service teachers’ self-reported intention to use technology. The Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) was used as a research framework in which findings contribute to technology acceptance research by demonstrating the suitability of the TAM to explain the intention to use technology among educational users. Using the structural equation modelling for da...

this article proposes a revised technology acceptance model to measure customers ‘acceptance of internet banking, in iran. this study uses the technology acceptance model, theory of planned behavior and theory of perceived risk to build a comprehensive model. we designed a questionnaire and used it to survey a randomly selected sample of customers of internet banking, and in june 2010, a sample...

PURPOSE To provide an overview of factors influencing the acceptance of electronic technologies that support aging in place by community-dwelling older adults. Since technology acceptance factors fluctuate over time, a distinction was made between factors in the pre-implementation stage and factors in the post-implementation stage. METHODS A systematic review of mixed studies. Seven major sci...

Acceptance of information technology by targeted users has been examined considerably by previous information systems (IS) research. A review of extant literature suggests a focus on the effects of important individual differences, such as attitidinal beliefs, perceptions, basic computer skills, gender, and age. Several theoretical models or frameworks prevail and have been empirically tested u...

Virtual Worlds enable new ways of communication, collaboration, and cooperation over the Internet by applying 3D environments and voice over IP technologies. This papers aims at assessing user acceptance of Virtual Worlds by applying the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM). Based on literature review, an extended TAM has been constructed. Based on empirical data from an online-survey with 249 par...

Alina Huldtgren Media Department, University of Applied Sciences Düsseldorf Josef-Gockeln-Str.9 40474 Düsseldorf, Germany [email protected] Gabriela Ascencio San Pedro Concordiastraat 31 3551EL Utrecht [email protected] Anna E. Pohlmeyer, Natalia A. Romero Herrara Industrial Design Department, Delft University of Technology Landbergstraat 15 2628CE Delft, The Netherlands {a.e.po...