Consumer acceptance of edible insects and design interventions as adoption strategy

Edible Insects as a Source of Food Allergens

Consumer acceptance

The development of genetically modified (GM) food has been a matter of considerable interest and worldwide public controversy. As a result ‘uncertainties’, ‘risks’ and ‘benefits’ that such new technologies portray to the food industry and consumers have been widely disseminated. However, there is limited understanding of what lies behind “demand side effects” to the introduction of these ‘poten...

Analysis and Calibration of Social Factors in a Consumer Acceptance and Adoption

While large scale diffusion of alternative fuel vehicles (AFVs) is widely anticipated, the mechanisms that determine their success or failure are ill understood. Analysis of an AFV transition model developed at MIT has revealed that AFV diffusion dynamics are particularly sensitive to consumer consideration as influenced by social exposure to AFVs. While some empirical research in this area exi...

Consumer Adoption of Future MyData-Based Preventive eHealth Services: An Acceptance Model and Survey Study

BACKGROUND Constantly increasing health care costs have led countries and health care providers to the point where health care systems must be reinvented. Consequently, electronic health (eHealth) has recently received a great deal of attention in social sciences in the domain of Internet studies. However, only a fraction of these studies focuses on the acceptability of eHealth, making consumer...

Acceptance of a Web OS as a Commercial Consumer Service

The web is fundamentally changing. The many facets of this change are usually abstracted as Web 2.0. The core of Web 2.0 consists of the evolutionary step that interoperation and content-creating applications are provided via the web in addition to traditional static documents. Ahead of this evolution are web operating systems (WebOS) like g.ho.st that enable the consumer to migrate their compl...