Title of Document: USER ACCEPTANCE OF COMMUNITY EMERGENCY ALERT TECHNOLOGY: MOTIVATIONS AND BARRIERS Fei Wu, Doctor of Philosophy, 2009 Directed By: Professor Jennifer J. Preece, College of Information Studies; Assistant Professor Yan Qu, College of Information Studies The purpose of the study is to investigate the factors that motivate the acceptance of emergency alert technologies that are de...

With rapid advances in information technology, information systems and software have become more versatile and multifunctional. However, users may have varying degrees of preferences to different functions and tasks that can be accomplished using a single technology. In order to investigate this phenomenon, this study adopts a previous study by Gefen and Straub (2000) as a reference point and u...

Technology policy analysis and implementation relies on knowledge and understanding of the " adoption gap " in information technologies among different groups of consumers. Factors that explain the residential " digital divide " also need to be identified and quantified. Through the application of survey data we provide an enhanced understanding of the key factors involved in the choice of resi...

Theoretical and empirical research in technology acceptance, while acknowledging the importance of individual beliefs about the compatibility of a technology, has produced equivo 1 Debbie Compeau was the accepting senior editor for this paper. James Thong was the associate editor. Darren Meister served as a reviewer. Two other reviewers chose to remain anonymous. cal results. This study focuses...

The paper examines the applicability and sufficiency of the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) in the context of social software and newer generation knowledge management systems (KMS). A reinterpretation of the two TAM constructs “Perceived Usefulness” and “Perceived Ease of Use” in light of expectancy-valence theory reveals that the TAM predominantly focuses on performance expectations on diff...

This paper presents a novel acceptance model for scenarios in which people make use of mobile devices for leisure purposes. The use of mobile devices has such a dominant leisure component that user attitudes towards mobile adoption are strongly determined. Since hedonic aspects play a key role in mobile adoption, they are introduced through the constructs in the proposed Technology Acceptance M...

The technology acceptance model (TAM) proposes that perceived ease of use and perceived usefulness predict applications usage. The study-in-progress investigated TAM for work-related tasks with the e-learning, and used TAM as a basis for hypothesizing the effects of such variables on the use of e-learning as the application. Elearning has become an increasingly popular learning approach in high...