BACKGROUND Advances in healthcare such as virtual dental implant planning have the capacity to result in greater accuracy, speed, and efficiencies leading to improvement in patient care. It has been suggested that the acceptance of new technology is influenced by a variety of factors including individual differences, social and situational influences, user beliefs, and user attitudes. Despite t...

This research examines the adoption of Use Case Narratives within the Unified Modeling Language (UML).Using the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) as a framework, practitioners with UML experience were asked questions to measure their Perceived Ease of Use and Perceived Usefulness of Use Case Narratives and their Intentions to Adopt them. We extend Perceived Usefulness in the context of UML adop...

Seafarers’ doubting about the electronic chart display and information system is a widespread problem. To better explain, predict, and increase user acceptance, this research focused on the impact of navigational risks to address and predict shipmates' computer acceptance by a measure of their intentions, attitudes, perceived usefulness, and perceived ease of use. Thus a hypothesized model was ...

The usefulness of an information system depends on the goal that the user is trying to achieve with the system. Yet current user acceptance models treat user goals as static and not changeable. If different users have different goals for the same system, this may lead to inconsistent and unreliable assessments of perceived usefulness and information system acceptance. In our research, we demons...

This paper explores the relationship between the three beliefs about online shopping ie. perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use and perceived enjoyment and intention to shop online. A sample of 150 respondents was selected using a purposive sampling method whereby the respondents have to be Internet users to be included in the survey. A structured, self-administered questionnaire was used ...

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to analyse factors influencing subscribers’ usage of 3G mobile services in Taiwan. Design/methodology/approach – The research model, based on a technology acceptance model (TAM) and added perceived enjoyment, was tested by means of a two-stage structure equation modelling approach. Data were collected from 532 respondents via a web questionnaire survey. Fi...

This paper explains physicians’ acceptance, in terms of usage intentions, of one of the most relevant eHealth services or applications: Electronic Health Care Records (EHCR). For this purpose, the original structure of the Technology Acceptance Model (Davis et al. 1989: 985), which included perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, attitude, and usage intention, is extended with trust and ri...